Tribune Editorials: Bargain electricity pricing tested in Connecticut
The federal government backs a peak load pricing experiment with Connecticut Light and Power Co. Readers would pay 16 cents per kWh during peak 9 11 a.m. and 5 7 p.m. 3 cents midday and evening and 1 cent after 9 p.m. The plan aims to level demand but may face limited behavioral change and potential waste. The test is to monitor feasibility amid energy crises.
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Connecticut
Connecticut Light and Power Co
Pistol Packin Judges Raise Court Security Questions
North Carolina Superior Court judges who carry handguns on the bench trigger debate over courtroom dignity and security. Advocates urge tighter screening and guards, while critics say armed judges echo Wild West justice and undermine public trust in the judiciary.
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Superior Court
North Carolina
Kansas Echoes From 1875 Cite Quirks and Changes
The Emporia News State News Briefs recount odd and telling items from June 4 1875 notes. A minister raises 60 cents for a church and 3 25 for beer in 10 minutes. Also mentions cheese factories banana machinery and colleges seeking Kansas investments.
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Kansas State Historical Society
Crawford County
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Newspaper Subscription Rates Listed by Delivery Type
Rates shown for mail delivery in area towns with carrier options. One year 18.54. six months 9.79. three months 5.15. one month 1.80. Chanute boxholders pay 27.81 annually or 13.90 semiannually or 6.95 quarterly, with tax. Chanute carrier in-town service 2.25 monthly plus tax in advance.
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Neosho
Alien, Wilson, and Woodson Co
Chanute
Local News Rights Granted to United Press International
The agreement grants United Press International exclusive rights to republication of all locally printed news in the newspaper and to UP news dispatches.
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Slogans USA Sparks National Bicentennial Drive
Readers across the nation submit slogans and letters as a citizen list grows toward a million. Winners prize a 1976 Matador, stay lodgings, and cash from the Copernicus Society while partners like Phillips Petroleum, Pepsico, Gemini Rising, and The American Legion join in. Organizations including the NAACP, Urban League, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Reader’s Digest back the effort.
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Charles Benton's Films, Inc
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Episcopal priest found guilty of disobeying bishop
An ecclesiastical court found Rev. William A. Wendt guilty of disobeying Bishop Creighton by allowing an irregularly ordained woman priest to preside at communion. The five member panel split three to two and urged admonition and a prohibition on future nonconforming ordinations in his parish. Wendt may appeal. sentencing awaits.
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UPI
William A. Wendt
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William Creighton
Philadelphia
Creighton
St. Stephen's
Minnesota
Exiled officers graduate amid uncertain futures at Fort Leavenworth
97 allied officers graduate from the Command and General Staff College. Seven lack countries to defend and will need immigration sponsors by June 30 or face refugee camps. Vietnam and Cambodia officers face family separation and job uncertainty while sponsors and visas determine their fate. In Goodland a felon is bound over for trial on illegal firearm possession, while caffeine sold as amphetamines is dismissed as a drug charge.
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Ul. Appa Creek
Kansas Pacific Railway
Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
UPI
Command and General Staff College
William Pipkin
Guam
Goodland
Kansas City
Kenneth Jackson
Grain swindle hits Far-Mar-Co elevator in Topeka
Far-Mar-Co officials report a phony cashier’s check scheme linked to a 5,000 bushel corn order and a 3,000 bushel pickup worth about 10,000 dollars. A Tulsa bank supplied a 15,000 dollar check to cover the order, which proved fake. Similar incidents have occurred in Colorado Minnesota and Mississippi.
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Topeka
Kan
UPI
Far- Mar-Co
Tulsa
Far-Mar-Co
Colorado
Minnesota
Mississippi
Latvian family moves to C. D. Gibson farm near Thayer
Twenty five years ago new neighbors arrived at the C. D. Gibson farm near Thayer. Adolf Zieden his wife and their 13 year old daughter left Latvia amid unrest and Russians influence. They had stayed in a displaced persons camp before settling in Thayer. Fifty years ago 1925 Mrs Nettie F Jones hosted a dinner announcing the engagement of Fern Marie Jones to Gerald Robinson.
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Thayer
Adolf Zieden
Latvia
C. D. Gibson
Zieden
Europe
Nettie F. Jones
S. Highland
Fern Marie Jones
Gerald Robinson
Rocky Mountain fever cases rise in Kansas
Four cases of Rocky Mountain spotted tick fever were reported to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in the past week. State epidemiologist Donald Wilcox urged physicians to watch for additional cases, noting fever lasting two to three weeks, headache, chills and a rash with a 20 percent fatality rate without treatment. The dog and wood tick transmit the disease, typically via a tick bite after hours of attachment.
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Topeka
Kan
UPI
Rocky Mountain
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Donald Wilcox
Kansas
Wilcox
Psalm 2 1 verse about nations plotting in vain
The verse questions why nations and peoples conspire and why earthly kings and rulers join in counsel against divine plan, highlighting human schemes versus God’s sovereignty.
Keys and Ford clash over energy plan in Congress
Rep. Martha Keys assails President Ford's oil import tariff hike as inflationary and inequitable. She backs the Ways and Means energy bill focusing on higher gasoline taxes and a new tax on gas guzzlers to curb consumption. The debate centers on who bears the burden of conservation and how to reduce imports.
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