Raines urges sentencing reform and more prison space
Kansas Corrections Secretary Robert Raines told newly elected judges that disparities in sentences for similar crimes and overcrowding require action. He cited a 400 inmate rise last year with projections through 1985 and called for new medium security facilities and more bed space while urging lobby support for sentencing guidelines. He warned deterrent punishment alone won’t prevent crime and stressed broader social reforms.
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Robert Raines
Kansas
Raines
Tribune forum letter questions wartime pardons and political timing
A reader writes to Betty in a Tribune Peoples Forum, accusing her of political hypocrisy over wartime pardons. The letter compares presidential actions to pardon AWOLs and draft dodgers, alleging Nixon influenced troop withdrawals to aid election results. The message suggests freeing others might benefit.
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Tribune Peoples Forum
Betty
Nixon
Questioning Nixon Pardon Privileges and Legal Fairness
The speaker contrasts wealth and power with those lacking resources, suggesting two sets of law and wondering if Nixon’s innocence would change views on pardons. They reference Jimmy Carter and John in relation to presidential pardons.
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Nixon
Jimmy Carter
John
Turner
Boulder
Colo
UPI
William Neighbors
Perry Boveno
Neighbors
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Eoveno
Cherryvale Zinc Company’s Rise and Fall in Local History
A Cherryvale remembrance recalls the Cherryvale Zinc Company once the town’s main prosperity engine. From its 1898 start to 1976 closure, the plant shaped Smelter Town with gas lights cottages hospitals a company store payday buggies and a bustling zinc trade that fed galvanizing and steel needs before decline and obsolescence.
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Independence Daily Reporter
Kristie Blues
Cherryvale
Cherryvale Zinc Company
National Zinc Company
Bartlesville
Ohlo
S. C. Edgar
Alfred Clifford
American Wire Company
James Hopkins
Diamond Match
Vasquez
U.S. Steel Corporation
Girard Smelter
American Steel and Wire Company
Wartz
Charles Moon
Ted Moon
Ike Anderson
Neodesh
Cheryvale Zinc Company
Saccharin under fire seeks ban amid cancer fears
FDA scientists warn saccharin may cause cancer in animal tests and delay action despite five million pounds consumed annually. Critics compare FDA delays to Red Dye 2 bans, while aspartame scrutiny and Searle’s data alterations prompt further probes. Pipeline notes report Interior and Congress tensions over oversight.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
General Accounting Office
Howie Kurtz
G. D. Searle and Company
Searle
Legislature prepares for change in Kansas government
Senate Minority Leader Jack Steineger argues the 1977 Kansas Legislature will shift to two party accountability with a minority in the House and a slim Senate majority. He calls for open debate, spending reform, and tax relief while stressing priorities to balance the budget and curb government costs.
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Kansas
Senate
Jack Steineger
United Press International
Republican Party
House of Representatives
General Revenue Fund
Chanute Tribune Publication Details and Rates
The Chanute Tribune lists publication schedule and pricing options including daily except Sunday and six holidays, mail and carrier delivery rates, and UPI republication rights. It notes annual, semiannual, and quarterly mail rates and carrier charges in Chanute.
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N. Evergreen
Chanute
Kansas lawmakers weigh seven percent school budget boosts
Kansas legislators surveyed by UPI show most will not back seven per cent budget increases for local schools or seven per cent faculty pay rises in 1977. Some support reform like zero-based budgeting and formula changes, while others warn against repeating imbalances and rising property taxes.
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UPI
Topeka
Kansas
Board of Regents
Bill Bunten
Kansas National Education Association
Richard Adams
D-Delphos
Joe Warren
Maple City
Tribune Drops World's Greatest Newspaper Masthead Motto
The Chicago Tribune stops proclaiming The World's Greatest Newspaper on its masthead after 65 years. President Robert M. Hunt cites growth and circulation, with reader reaction described as minimal.
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Chicago
UPI
Chicago Tribune
Robert M. Hunt
The
Tribune
Hunt
the Tribune
Chanute Junior College Placed 13th in Kansas Enrollment
A recent report shows Chanute junior college ranking 13th in enrollment among Kansas 21 junior colleges. Fifty years ago Clifford A. Deay becomes manager of the J C Penney store, taking charge this morning.
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Chanute Junior College
Kansas
Clifford A. Deay
J.C. Penney
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Morrison-Knudsen Construction Combine
Rollins
Morrison-Knudsen
Energy and Power
Joe Dingell
D-Mich
Jack Turner
Dingell
Cha
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F. M
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Keith Wright
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