Bills would extend civil rights protection with voting act
UPI reports amid Gary Indiana gains for Richard Hatcher as Congress debates extending the Voting Rights Act beyond 1965. Supporters push five to ten year extensions with preclearance and federal observers while debates orbit expanding coverage to Spanish speakers and other minorities.
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Washington
UPI
Richard G. Hatcher
Gary
Ind
South
Congress
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Arthur S. Flemming
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Capitol Hill
Flemming
Texas
Clarence Mitchell
Kansas Gas & Electric Receives 10.1 Million Rate Increase
Kansas Gas & Electric Co. will raise rates by 10.1 million dollars after a 3.8 million increase approved by the Kansas Corporation Commission. The total rise combines a 3.8 million grant and a 6.4 million court-imposed amount, affecting 195,000 customers across 146 communities in south central and southeast Kansas. Dale Saffels, commission chair, noted an 8.8 percent allowed return and pending tariff filings for the new rates.
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Topeka, Kan
UPI
Kansas Gas & Electric Co
Kansas Corporation Commission
KGE
Commission
Neosho County
Wichita
Saffels
Kansas
New birth defects monitoring program tracks US patterns
Kansas City reports on a national Birth Defects Monitoring Program begun at the CDC in Atlanta. It analyzes one in three births to spot geographical and racial trends across 200 defect types using data from about one million births yearly. Findings show a congenital heart defect, patent ductus arteriosus, rising, with blacks at higher risk.
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Kansas City
UPI
United States
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
U.S
National Foundation
March of Dimes
University of Kansas Medical Center
Larry D. Edmonds
Godfrey P. Oakley
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Larry Miller
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