Earnings Tax Is Rapped By Forsyth
State Sen. Charles F. Forsyth says an earnings tax is a sleeper issue in the Kansas Republican gubernatorial race. He warns it would affect 600,000 wage earners and opposes it as unfair, favoring alternative funding for school programs. Forsyth also backs Paul Wunsch, who opposes the tax.
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Topeka
Charles F. Forsyth
Erie
Forsyth
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Kansas
Paul Wunsch
Plane Crash Claims Cedar Vale Pilot Bernie Wise
Cedar Vale Kansas AP reports crop spraying plane crash killed 37 year old Bernie Wise Thursday. Wise owned Wise Hardware and Plumbing Co. in Cedar Vale.
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Cedar Vale
Kan
Bernie Wise
Wise Hardware and Plumbing Co
Bookkeeping Public Secretarial Service Ad
Mrs. Carroll H Christmas offers bookkeeping and secretarial services at 211 West Main Chanute. Contact HE 1 3210 or residence HE 1 034 for details.
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Carroll H. Christmas
West Main Chanute
Pittsburg Chamber Debates Sunday Sales Law
Pittsburg Kansas discussions on Sunday sales law were led by Clifford Woods Kansas Retail Council executive secretary. He argued a valid law similar to Missouri and Pennsylvania statutes would promote a uniform six day week across the two state area.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Wiles Opposes Earnings Tax
Wichita AP report: Harry G. Wiles said he opposes any form of gross earnings tax. He argued such a levy reduces a worker’s pay before deductions and exemptions and urged a full review of the tax structure before enacting new levies.
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Wichita
Harry G. Wiles
Wiles
Miss Universe semifinalists named as pageant kneels in tears
Fifteen semifinalists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, England, Finland, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Norway, Paraguay, Republic of China, Sweden, USA, and Venezuela gathered in Miami Beach for the Miss Universe finals. Edna Park of Nigeria sobbed backstage after missing the cut, collapsing and being led away by officials.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Edna Park
Nigeria
Miss Park
Argentina
Maria Amelia Ramirez
Bolivia
Olga del Carpio Oropeza
Brazil
Angela Vasconcellos
England
Brenda Blackler
Finland
Sirpa Wallenius
France
Edith Noel
Greece
Kiriaki Tsopei
Israel
Ronit Rinat
Italy
Emanuela Stramana
Norway
Jorunn Nystedt
Paraguay
Miriam R. Brugada
Republic of China
Lana Yi Yu
Sweden
Ziv Marta Aberg
Bobbi Johnson
Venezuela
Mercedes Revenga
Holland
Henry Deal
Red Cross First Aid Classes Set Dates for Fall
Red Cross first aid courses announced by the highway patrol will run this fall for school bus drivers and others in the local area. Two sessions will be offered in Erie on August 10 12 and 14 at the courthouse and in Chanute on August 24 27 and 31 at the Memorial building. Classes begin at 7 30 p m with Trooper Richard Smith as instructor. An Independence clinic August 18 and a Pittsburg clinic August 19 complete the year’s safety program.
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Red Cross
Highway Patrol
Erie
Chanute
Memorial Building
Richard Smith
Smith
Independence
Pittsburg
White Migrants Find Poverty In Big Cities
CHICAGO AP Thousands of Southern Appalachian whites migrate north seeking relief from poverty but Chicago migrants face expulsion and despair. About 25 000 migrants in Uptown pay high rents for overcrowded flats, with four families sharing one bathroom. Exploitation and high living costs offset higher wages, prompting cycles of moving north then returning south. Dewey W Wood notes 600 annual cash dollars tempt migration but offer little security.
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Chicago
Backwood
Johnson
Uptown
Dewey W. Wood
The
Council of the Southern Mountains
Dewey
Wood
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Boy Drowns at Shawnee Private Pool
An 8 year old boy, David Lynn Morford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph V. Morford, apparently drowned at a swimming party in a private pool in suburban Shawnee Kansas on Thursday. He could not swim and his body was found in the deep end.
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Kansas City
Shawnee
Kan
David Lynn Morford
Ralph V. Morford
Wilson County Unification Plan Decision Sept 8
FREDONIA The Wilson county school unification planning board has received state approval for its modified plan. The board may proceed to complete plans for the Sept 8 election where voters will decide on district unification. The plan keeps a three district structure with boundary changes in the former Dunn area and a three member district plan for each unified district.
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Fredonia
Wilson County School Unification Planning Board
Adel F. Throckmorton
Wilson County
Dunn
Planning Board
Duplicate Work Tom Boone Proposes Shifting Agency
Lawrence Kansas APTom Boone running for governor said the Kansas consumer fraud department duplicates work done by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation He would move the unit to the KBI to save tax dollars The report also notes a separate line about there being no US species that bite humans except in self defense with small teeth.
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Lawrence
Kan
Kansas Attorney General's Office
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Tom Boone
Boone
KBI
United States
Kansas Labor Weekly Changes Ownership
The Kansas labor weekly at Topeka has been purchased by E. E. Skip Reynolds and four other members of the Topeka Typographical Union 121. They plan to incorporate and announce the other owners later. Former owner was Fivde Gilbert, printing instructor at Topeka High School. The 40 year old paper serves subscribers statewide and operates a commercial job printing shop.
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Topeka
Kansas Labor Weekly
E. E
Skip) Reynolds
Topeka Typographical Union 121
Reynolds
Fivde Gilbert
Topeka High School
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