Migrant children find education in Goodland school
The USD 352 migrant school in Goodland opens for about 100 children with Title funding and aims for a peak summer enrollment near 180. The program covers six grades with 30 staff, offers bilingual support, health records, immunizations, meals, field trips, and strives to stabilize education for transient migrant families despite frequent moves.
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USD 352
Goodland
Free School
Marilyn Linnell
Linnell
State tightens medical assistance rules in Kansas
State Rules and Regulations Board approved new regulations effective July 1 to reduce eligibility for the medical assistance program. The changes aim to save about 10 million dollars in fiscal 1978 and affect more than 4,500 low income Kansas families by lowering the protected income level and treating cohabiting individuals as a family for eligibility. The package also limits covered medical services and shifts some costs to families.
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Topeka
UPI
State Rules and Regulations Board
Kansas
Robert Harder
Social and Rehabilitation Services
Rural housing improves but substandard homes persist
An Agriculture Department study finds rural families still face higher substandard housing rates than urban counterparts. From 1950 to 1975 total substandard rural homes fell 79 percent, yet 8 of 100 nonmetropolitan households remained in substandard housing in 1975, with blacks and the elderly disproportionately affected.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Ronald Bird
Ronald Kampe
Bird and
Kampe
Bird
Germ free clinic at MD Anderson boosts cancer chemo doses
MD Anderson Hospital opens a 20 bed germ free unit to allow higher chemotherapy doses with lower infection risk. Dr. Gerald Bodey says the new design offers complete isolation with 300 air changes per hour and one way airflow. Half the beds are active. the rest await staff.
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Houston
UPI
M.D Anderson Hospital
Gerald Bodey
Anderson's
Clinical Research Center
Bodey
Sandstrom murder case details emerge in Shawnee hearing
WIBW TV executive Paul Winders testified May 3 call from Milda Sandstrom led him to the Sandstrom home where Thad Sandstrom lay dead. Winders described a broken door, a blood pool, and Mrs Sandstrom near Thad with a handgun, saying she regretted pulling the trigger. He noted marital strife, a divorce petition dated May 2, and her claims of change amid financial stress.
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Topeka
UPI
WIBW
Milda Sandstrom
Thad Sandstrom
Paul
Paul Winders
Stauffer Publications
Thad
Winders
Shawnee County
Sandstrom
Sandstroms
Oklahoma
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