Michigan Experts Propose Welfare Recipient Export Plan
An editorial comments on a Michigan group led by Dr. Daniel H. Kruger proposing paying welfare recipients to leave the state. He notes 100,000 more may join rolls soon and argues for placing recipients in jobs with livable wages rather than moving them, criticizing a shotgun approach.
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Michigan
Daniel H. Kruger
Michigan State University
Michigan Manpower Council
Michigan Press Association
Kruger
Three Senate contenders seek leadership after Rogers resigns
Three Kansas senators vie for the post after Richard Rogers steps down to become a U.S. district judge. One is a feisty fiscal conservative, another a liberal maverick, and the third a governor Bennet ally with strong ties to big money. The private caucus vote will determine the state's next powerful officer.
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Senate
Richard Rogers
U. S
Topeka
Bennett
John Marshall
Kansas 2000 Puts Water Woes and Public Sums Under Question
A reader critiques the Kansas 2000 report by the state planning commission, noting broad solutions and dubious forecasts. It warns western Kansas could face groundwater depletion, dust bowl risks, and costly water strategies while population growth and road counts are debated.
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Kansas
Police gadgets push ahead of training at LEAA
Washington officials clash as the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration faces internal purges and a GAO probe. Richard W. Velde pushes police gadgets including a $300,000 Personal Fitness Monitor wristwatch, 300 test shoes, 20 prototype patrol cars, and goat-tested protective gear costing $1.5 million, while critics urge more funding for training.
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Washington
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Richard W. Velde
Justice Department
General Accounting Office
Velde
Dick Tracy
Army
Edgewood
Wheat quality in Kansas crop shows slight drop in 1975
Preliminary samples from 59 Kansas counties indicate the 1975 hard red winter wheat is not as high in quality as 1974. Protein is lower, but average weight per bushel remains near last year, with improvements possible as northern counties report returns.
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Tina May
Tribune
Washington
Kansas
Robert Schulte
State Grain Inspection Office
Schulte
USDA
Gail Jackson
Subscription Rates For Chanute Newspaper By Mail And Carrier
Rates listed for various regions include Kansas sales tax. In trade territory Neosho Alien Wilson Woodson counties one year 15.45 six months 8.24 three months 5. eneed. Outside trade territory one year 21.63 six months 11.33 three months 5.92. Area towns with carrier delivery year 18.54 six months 9.79 three months 5.15. Chanute post boxholders year 27.81 six months 13.90 three months 6.95. Chanute carrier 2.25 monthly plus tax. United Press International retains exclusive republication rights for local news and UP dispatches.
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Alien, Wilson, and Woodson Co
Kansas
PRI
PHN Beso
Chanute
United Press International
Reservists face idle hours as nonmilitary talks dominate drills
Congressional GAO findings from 1973 74 show 1.2 billion dollars yearly spent on nonmilitary lectures and idle tasks within drill time. The study urges relieving many reservists from such training to reallocate funds toward difficult roles like field artillery fire control and enhanced skills.
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John Milne Washington
UPI
Defense Department
General Accounting Office
GAO
Congress
Navy
Reserve forces get priority in equipment and reduced paperwork
John Ahearne deputy assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs says the Small Society by Brickman plan prioritizes reserve units for gear and cuts administration. He notes attempts since the GAO survey include reducing admin burdens and better active reserve training coordination improving readiness and hands on training with available equipment.
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John Ahearne
Legion post to build new club rooms at Walnut and Evergreen
The local American Legion post announces plans to construct new club rooms on Walnut and Evergreen. The existing main quarters will be converted into apartment space by building owner M. J. Casey.
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American Legion Post
Walnut
Evergreen
M. J. Casey
Jim Perry
W. Main
Parsons
Akron
Ohio
Russian mayor downplays pollution in visit to New Orleans
Minsk mayor Mikhail Kovalyev says pollution is not a problem in the Soviet Union and Russians do not fear crime while visiting as guests of Mayor Moon Landrieu. Chumakova calls a joint U S Soviet space mission a major historic event symbolizing peace.
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New Orleans
UPI
Mikhail Kovalyev
Minsk
Soviet Union
Kovalyev
Moon Landrieu
Nadezhda Chumakova
Ryazan
Vasili Isaez
Moscow
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Boston
Landrieu
Washington
Chumakova
Hike in water rates voted by Independence
Independence City Commission, in a split vote, ordered preparation of an ordinance to raise water rates 25 percent on September 1. The increase, applicable to inside and outside city users, will boost revenue by about $120,000 yearly and prevent the water department from running out of money by late 1976.
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Independence
Independence City Commission
Water Department
Safety commission rejects petition banning aerosols
The U S Consumer Product Safety Commission rejected a NRDC petition to ban fluorocarbon containing aerosols 3 to 2 citing insufficient information. Two commissioners favored an immediate first phase suspension while critics warned of increased skin cancer risk if delays continue.
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Washington
UPI
Uconsumer Product Safety Commission
Natural Resources Defense Council
NRDC
National Academy of Sciences
NADC
Commission
Administrative foulups blamed for dismissals
Washington reports a Justice Department study found 42 percent of prosecutions dropped for noncooperation. A follow up interviewed witnesses and found 94 percent of previously charged cases unlikely to deserve the charge, blaming administrative foulups in prosecutors offices for the high dismissal rate.
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Washington
UPI
Justice Department
Beloved LA Teens Follow Good Over Evil
A concise passage notes guidance to choose good over evil, referencing a biblical verse about following what is right. The fragment mentions Los Angeles teens and a moral exhortation drawn from John 11.
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John
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