Welfare Office Slashes Aid By About Twenty Percent
Kansas social welfare director Dr. Robert Harder says county offices will cut cash assistance about 20 percent starting Sept. 1. Basic standards drop from 78 to 55 for a single person and 196 to 154 for a family of four. Reduction comes after lawmakers held welfare funds to prior year levels, despite rising caseloads.
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Topeka Kas
Robert Harder
Kansas
Harder
Department of Social Welfare
Robert Docking
Menninger Doctors to Train at Southeast Kansas Center
Dr. James Leach and Dr. Joe Cruz of the Menninger School of Psychiatry will work one day weekly at the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center starting July 30. They will also receive inpatient training at Osawatomie State Hospital under clinical supervisor Dr. A G Arnold for a year.
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Humboldt
James Leach
Joe Cruz
Menninger School of Psychiatry
Southeast Kansas
A. G. Arnold
Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center
Leach
Cruz
Osawatomie State Hospital
Menninger School
Topeka
Water Plant Upgrade Plan Submitted by Wilson Engineering
Wilson Engineering of Salina submitted a preliminary report to the city detailing proposed improvements to the water plant to increase production. The plan includes a second filter building a clearwell pre sedimentation basin and secondary clarifier plus a larger primary clarifier a flocculator a new chlorine facility and a new intake line from the Neosho River with more detailed costs and drawings due in three weeks.
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Wilson Engineering
Salina
State Department of Health
Ilc-Conroth
Safari Industrial Park
Health Department
Cooper
Clearwell
Neosho River
Bloodmobile to visit Chanute for emergency blood drive
An emergency blood drive will visit Zion Lutheran Church in Chanute on Wednesday July 21 from 2 to 7 pm as a result of low supply at the Wichita Blood Center serving 130 hospitals. Walk-ins welcome with no appointment and no diet restrictions. Rare-type donors urged. those who gave June 16-17 are ineligible. Contact Mrs Nedra Olin for questions at 431 9670.
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Chanute
Wichita Blood Center
Zion Lutheran Church
W. Main
Wichita
Nedra Olin
Red Cross
Weather Summary for Local Area
Today at 1 p.m. high 82 low 70 yesterday 97 70 year ago 64. Humidity 0.70 barometer 28.89 sunrise 6 12 sunset 8 43. Precipitation today trace. Area forecast partly cloudy cooler tonight with northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Friday generally fair with little temperature change. Low tonight in upper 60s high Friday 90 to 95.
Opposite Sides in New Haven Picket Split Father and Son
In New Haven Conn a picking line around striking communications workers divides John R. Craig a 28 year old telephone installer from his father John H. Craig vice president of engineering for the company. The elder says the son must do what is right and proper while the son says they have no problems and understand each other.
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New Haven
Craig
Whitlam Says Chou Optimistic on UN China Entry
Australian Labor leader Gough Whitlam in Tokyo quoted Premier Chou En Lai as not optimistic about Communist China entering the United Nations this year. Whitlam, who met with Chou during a 12 day China trip, said Chou believes Beijing membership is inevitable soon with the ouster of the Nationalists.
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Tokyo
Chou En-lai
China
United Nations
Australia
Labor
Gough Whitlam
Chou
Whitlam
Peking
Ellsberg Hearing Seeks Disclosure on Wiretaps
In Boston AP report, Daniel Ellsberg’s lawyers asked a U S magistrate to reveal if federal wiretaps were used to obtain evidence leading to his indictment. A scuffle erupted as a protester, Josef Mrot Mroz of Salem, shouted antisemitic placards and lunged toward Ellsberg and his wife Patricia at the federal building.
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Boston
Daniel Ellsberg
U.S
Ellsberg
Josef Mrot-Mroz
Salem
Patricia
Hughes ends undeclared bid for Democratic nomination
Senator Harold Hughes of Iowa ends his undecided campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination and signals support for Senator George McGovern. He will focus on his Senate work without the label of presidential contender.
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Washington
Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
George McGovern
Hughes
Quake Hits Northern Italy Causes Few Dying Effects
An earthquake rattled Italy's industrial north from Genoa to Venice and Florence with two deaths from heart attacks. No broad damage estimates were available, though authorities planned checks on church and museum art treasures.
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Parma
Italy
Genoa
Florence
Venice
Quiet night follows string of arson and gunfire in Junction City
In Junction City two nights of fire bombings and shootings tied to racial tensions caused minor damage with no injuries reported. Local authorities said the area returned to calm Wednesday night after the incidents drew security and community concern.
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Junction City
Kan
Kansas State Reports Widespread T-strain Blight Across Kansas
Plant pathologists Claude King and Dr. Bill Willis say T-strain southern corn leaf blight is spreading through eastern Kansas with detections in 29 counties. Severity varies from scattered lower leaves to heavy upper-leaf infection in the affected fields.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas State University
Kansas
Claude King
Bill Willis
Allen
Anderson
Atchison
Bourbon
Brown
Cherokee
Clay
Coffey
Doniphan
Douglas
Franklin
Jackson
Jefferson
Johnson
Labette
Leavenworth
Linn
Lyon
Miami
Morris
Nemaha
Neosho
Osage
Pottawatomie
Riley
Shawnee
Waubaunsee
Woodson
Wyandotte
Disease of Horses Spreading in Texas
A Texas health official warns that about 1,900 horses may die in Hidalgo and Cameron counties from Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis. The virus, spread by mosquitoes, has sickened humans too, with 34 hospitalized and 3 confirmed cases. Aerial spraying, vaccination, and quarantine measures are underway to curb the outbreak.
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Texas
Harlingen, Tex
Central
South America
Mexico
U.S
Inarian Public Health Service
Latin America
Elusive Ellipses Debate Over Broadcast Truth in Congress
Washington AP reports a House hearing on how to mark missing quotes in broadcasts. Rep Minshall argues for a truth in news bill requiring explicit labeling of edited or staged radio and TV content to protect press freedom and curb distortion.
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Washington
William E. Minshall
Ohio
Columbia Broadcasting System
Frank Stanton
Congress
House Commerce Committee
Stanton
CBS
Minshall
Dr. Standon
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Broadcast Echoes
A cryptic intercepted letter hints at a coded exchange between two correspondents. The text references a media entity that supposedly invented a censoring bleep and suggests challenges with unexplained ellipses.
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Cha
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