Southeast Kansas juvenile facility eyed near Parsons
A 24 bed juvenile detention home for nine southeast Kansas counties is recommended by Dale E. Hammons of Fort Scott. The project would be funded partly by federal money and require local contributions, with Parsons as the proposed site and a quota system to ensure bed space for each county.
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Kansas
Parsons
Dale E. Hammons
Fort Scott
William Gudde
Neodesha
County Board of Commissioners
Hammons
Parsons State Hospital
Crawford
Montgomery
See-Kan
State of
District 413 Board Faces Absence Policy Debate
The District 413 Board discussed student absences at Senior High School aiming to avoid turning school into a jail. Superintendent Fisher urged policy development while Principal Rickart cautioned against policing students, noting the need to keep classes engaging.
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District 413 Board of Education
Buford Fisher
Miles Rickart
Fisher
Beverly Rideau
District 413
Improvement Proposals Shape Up For Chanute City
Planning commission chair Harvey Young says capital improvement proposals including gas line replacements from the 1900s jail revamp park improvements and storm drainage work will be sent to the city commission for a July decision. The street survey and sewer plan remain underway with final recommendations to be packaged as a single submission.
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City Commission
Planning Commission
Harvey Young
Chanute
Young
Richard McClanathan
McClanathan
Rain Shifts To Southeast In Kansas Thunderstorms
The AP report notes a shift of thundershower activity across Kansas with heavy rains in the southeast, including four inches near La Cygne and 3.30 near Blue Mound, while the northeast saw only moderate rain and some severe weather the prior night.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
la Cygne
Blue Mound
Colony
Fort Scott
Trading Post
Uniontown
Erie
Moran
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
The fragment recalls a past juvenile detention facility era when the only requirement was a home. The terse line hints at a broader social reflection on reform and custody in earlier times.
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Cha
Edward Cox to work on public interest cases in U S attorney office
Edward F. Cox son in law to be Tricia Nixon says as a Harvard Law trainee he will focus on public interest work such as water pollution and consumer fraud at the U S attorney's office. He is one of 70 summer trainees and starts after the wedding honeymoon earning 60 dollars a week.
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New York
Edward F. Cox
Tricia Nixon
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Harvard Law School
U.S
Tricia
Civil rights probe opened into western Kansas migrant workers
The Kansas Commission on Civil Rights began an inquiry into alleged discrimination against migrant workers and Mexican-American residents in western Kansas. Executive director Troy Scroggins said a three-member team will focus on Goodland Garden City Scon Ulysses Scott City and Johnson.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Commission On Civil Rights
Kansas
Troy Scroggins
Scroggins
Goodland
Garden City
Scon
Ulysses
Scott City
Johnson
Vocational Emphasis Aims to Reorganize Schools in Kansas City
The U S Office of Education plans reorganizing elementary and secondary systems with a focus on vocations. Michael Russo said the program will start in kindergarten and train about 20 000 youths for 15 career clusters across the nation.
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Kansas City
U.S. Office of Education
Michael Russo
Burger admitted for routine physical at Naval Hospital
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger was admitted Monday evening to the U S Naval Hospital in Bethesda Maryland for a routine physical examination per the Supreme Court press office.
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Washington
Warren E. Burger
U.S. Naval Hospital
Bethesda
Supreme Court
Jaguar Still At Large After Circus Truck Crash
Eight big game animals were recaptured near Pagosa Springs Colorado after a circus truck crash Sunday night. Driver Albert H. Lapchak 50 of Cornell California died in the wreck his tractor and flatbed trailer overturning. The circus sponsored by Cardon Johnson International Circus of Willard Missouri was bound from Phillipsburg Kansas to Durango for performances. Shrine officials said the show would go on.
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Pagosa Springs
Colo
State Patrol
Albert H. Lapchak
Cornell
Calif
Lapchak
Phillipsburg
Kan
Durango
San Juan Basin Shrine
Cardon- Johnson International Circus
Willard, Mo
SEC Revokes Key Securities Registration in Wichita
The Securities and Exchange Commission revoked Key Securities Inc. registration and barred president Bill G. Wharton from broker dealer association for one year. Authorities allege control and manipulation of prices for Agricultura & Industrial Development Inc Hi-Plane Enterprise Inc and Hays Land and Cattle Co.
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Washington
Key Securities, Inc
Wichita
Kan
Securities and Exchange Commission
Bill G. Wharton
Whorton
Docking Defends Tax Reform Push At Kansas Chamber
Gov. Robert Docking pledged not to bow to pressure as he supports tax reform aimed at expanding industry and aiding the unemployed. He outlined two proposed changes and praised a chamber study group for broader reform efforts while defending his hold-the-line fiscal policies. Robert J. Fegan was elected president of the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce, succeeding Ham Abrahams.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert Docking
Kansas State Chamber of Commerce
Docking
Kansas
Winton M. Blount
State Chamber
Post Office Department
Robert J. Fegan
Junction City
Kansas State Chamber of Commerce Today
J.H
Russians Describe Space Vehicle and Propose Moon Peace Treaty
Moscow reports detail the space vehicle Salute as three cosmonauts continue orbiting Earth. Officials unveil a treaty proposal to prevent hostile uses of the Moon.
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Moscow
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Wendell Bowyer
N. Grant
Ray Zumalt
Hutton
Alcott
Royster Junior High School
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