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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1970
Page
1
Kansas legislator Rep. Richard C. Loux says more funding won’t stop pollution while about 300 students challenge the urgency. He cites the feed lots and runoff as issues and questions if profits outweigh lives as youths press for action.
State Auditor Clay Derrick said 1969 reviews showed 56 under reporting instances totaling 8707.55 dollars. Major shortages included 3421.55 at Wellington Municipal Golf Course with 1454.55 recovered from an individual and 1967 from a bonding company. An unexplained 1237.69 loss occurred in Unified School District No. 431 Hoisington.
In Wichita Kansas the Black United Front urged a one day economic boycott of white merchants on Monday tied to a February school boycott if the school board does not submit a desegregation plan for seven Negro elementary schools. About 10 000 children observed a January 15 protest against one way bussing. In Salina Kansas city commissioners moved to a March vote on free downtown parking with a petition drive to repeal meters citing tax shifts and Bond payments.
Kansas City public schools warn they may close next year without funds if Gov. Docking's tax plans pass. Board president Dr. John O. Yulich said no money to open schools, while assistant superintendent Dr. Wayne Frazer noted real estate tax would rise to 1.60 per 100 valuation to keep operations.
Police reported a deadly fire in Semarang Central Java after a crowd gathered around a leaking pipeline for gasoline. Fifty five killed and forty one seriously buried as more than one hundred people crowded the site and the flame spread rapidly aided by a sea breeze. Nineteen individuals died in the initial blast as the crowd fled.
City commissioners approve a preliminary 92 unit low rent housing loan with HUD. The project will cost the city nothing. HUD will cover excess building and maintenance costs. Conventional financing allows local planning input over turn key. Rents scale by ability to pay, from about 20 to 150 dollars monthly.
Labor and civil rights groups oppose Judge G Harrold Carswell nomination to the Supreme Court. They led a effort that defeated Judge Clement Haynsworth in November and hearings on Carswell begin.
Johnson County survey shows auto dealers valuing inventories at 16 percent of actual value and general merchants at 50 percent. The report argues current reporting is widespread and unenforceable, causing inequities and risking many merchants’ viability under existing law. Rep Mil-ton Nitsch notes most merchants would fail under the law.
Tom Griffith of Manhattan, chair of the Kansas Board of Regents, told the Senate committee that state colleges struggle to add space as enrollment climbs from 26 000 in 1960 to 63 000 now. He urged restored funding and authorization to move 150 000 to build six temporary classrooms and 500 000 for planning major campus constructions amid more than 4 million dollars in cuts.
President Nixon used a televised veto to reject the $19.7 billion education and health appropriation. He called the amount inflationary and argued the bill was the wrong amount for the wrong purpose at the wrong time. The move prompts a potential two thirds override fight in Congress.
A bill carrying out Gov. Docking's budget and property tax lid plan was introduced by the House Assessment and Taxation Committee. An identical Senate measure was planned. The bill proposes a 5 percent budget increase cap unless approved by voters, with property tax hikes needing a vote if petitioned. It also allows local revenue through sales or earnings taxes.
The Weather Bureau reports tonight will be partly cloudy and warmer with southerly winds followed by a Wednesday in northern and central areas turning colder with a chance of scattered rain or snow. Highs today range from the 50s in the northeast to the lower 60s in the southwest. tonight lows 30s to 40s. A Pacific cold front crosses the plains bringing cooler temperatures Wednesday especially in the northwest and north central parts.
TOPEKA AP Assistant Attorney General Richard Seaton announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Kansas attorney general. The 32 year old has served as AG for more than six years and is making his second bid after finishing runner-up in 1968 to Kent Frizzell. Despite the primary rivalry, Frizzell kept Seaton as a top assistant.
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