Electric rate increase approved in Kansas interim action
Kansas Gas & Electric Co. of Wichita won interim approval from the Kansas Corporation Commission to boost electric rates by 7.9 million dollars, about 1.58 dollars per month for the average home. The interim ruling may change in the final order with more detailed findings.
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Topeka
UPI
Kansas Gas & Electric Co
Wichita
Kansas Corporation Commission
ECC
G.T. van Beeber
Commission
van Beeber
Washington official to visit rural Kansas farmers
Cliff Ouse special assistant to Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland will visit Osborne Great Bend Pratt Ulysses and St. John Kansas June 8 to 10. He will meet farmers farm group officers and bankers to hear grassroots concerns about the rural economy and wheat industry.
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Hutchinson
HNS
Washington
Kansas
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Cliff Ouse
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Osborne
Great Bend
Pratt
Ulysses
St. John
Earl Hayes
Stafford
Midway Co-op Association
Ouse
Hayes
Highland Manor
KAWG
Barton
Pawnee
Rush
Ness
Wichita
Rhodesian Troops Start Pullout From Mozambique
Rhodesian forces announce they have begun withdrawing after overran four guerrilla bases and capturing Mapai, a major town inside Mozambique. Lt. Gen. Peter Walls states the objective of destroying arms dumps is achieved and forces return to Rhodesia, denying Mozambican regular contact.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
UPI
Mozambique
Peter Walls
Mapai
Walls
Maputo
Large shark swarm sighted near Padre Island beaches
About 1,000 sharks swam in a migrating school within 60 feet of Texas shores off Corpus Christi. Coast Guard crews warned swimmers as officials noted some sharks reached eight feet, prompting a daytime swimming ban at Padre Island National Seashore.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
UPI
Texas
Coast Guard
South Texas
Padre Island National Seashore
Boy Discovers Sister's Body in Ditch Near Paola
A 16 year old girl, Cindy Clinton, is found dead under a limestone rock in a ditch along a Miami County road after going missing Tuesday. Officials declare homicide and pursue autopsy results. no arrests yet.
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PAOLA
UPI
Cindy Clinton
Miami County
Charles Light
Light
Clinton
Vada E. Staley
Osawatomie
Largest drug raid in Sedgwick county history shocks Wichita
More than 200 officers including police, sheriff deputies and federal agents conducted raids in northeast Wichita aiming for heroin closets. Authorities held 61 arrest warrants and multiple search warrants with a command post in downtown. Deputies from several counties aided city officers and Sedgwick County personnel.
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Wichita
UPI
Kansasa Bureau of Investigation
Sedgwick County
Vern Miller
Miller
Johnny Carr
Kingman
Butler
Cowley
Harvey
Reno
Shawnee Counties
Wellington
Topeka
Haysville
Derby
Hutchinson
Valley Center
Clearwater
Augusta
Mulvane
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