Hammans petitions for sheriff nomination invalidated
Arden A. Hammans petitions for the Republican sheriff nomination in Neosho County are invalid for lacking attorney affidavits from qualified electors. Kansas law requires affidavits with every petition. they could not be added after the filing deadline, leaving Hammans unable to refile and possibly forced to consider a write-in run in November.
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Arden A. Hammans
Neosho County
John Martin
Kansas
Hammans
David Kern
Martin
Edwin H. Bideau, III
Wayne Gibson
Neosho
Bideau
Gibson
Kern
Reagan Pursues Face to Face Delegates Sessions
Reagan spends this week in personal sessions with Republicans in Mississippi Minnesota Montana and Wyoming to win delegates for the GOP nomination. Ford plans a White House session with West Virginia delegates before traveling to an economic summit in Puerto Rico. Carter signals potential veep options and urges a morality based foreign policy while weighing a post nomination choice.
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Reagan
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Minnesota
Montana
Wyoming
Ford
White House
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UPI
Caliornia
Jimmy Carter
Washington
Carter
New York
Lou Frey
R-Fla
Florida
Frey
Iowa
Robert Ray
Republican Platform Committee
GOP
Ray
Mild Weather Forecast With Low 80s Highs
Decreasing clouds and mild temperatures with highs in the low 80s. Friday will be clear to partly cloudy with similar high temperatures. Winds expect a west to northwest direction.
Kansas housing drive urged by state official
Kansas Farmers Home Administration state director Morgan Williams told the North Central Kansas Board of Realtors that housing shortages hinder city growth and industrial development. He urged leaders to push positive housing programs and noted the agency funds loans in more than 600 communities.
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Topeka
Kan
Williams
Farmers Home Administration
Kansas
UPI
Barton County
Morgan Williams
Great Bend
Kansas May employment rises to 1.035 million
Total Kansas employment increased by 18 000 in May to 1.035 million with 37 600 more employed than a year earlier. Unemployment stood at 38 600, about 3.6 percent of the labor force.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas gets grant for child abuse and neglect projects
Rep Martha Keys announced that Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services received a 12875 technical assistance grant from the Office of Human Development in HEW for child abuse and neglect projects.
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Topeka
Kan
UPI
Martha Keys
D-Kan
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Office of Human Development
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
KP&L to Raise Natural Gas Rates for Meade Clark Field
Kansas Power & Light will raise average residential gas bills by 85 cents monthly to cover 5.4 million in higher gas costs from a new Meade Clark counties field. The state corporation commission approved the pass-through though the exact gas volume from the wells is unknown. A pipeline gathering system is being built to deliver the fuel and the increase starts when gas is delivered.
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Topeka, Kan
UPI
Kansas Power & Light Co
Kansas Corporation Commission
Kp&l
Meade
Clark
Corporation Commission
Violent winds strike Chanute area during brief storm
Five to ten minutes of violent winds toppled trees and cut power to areas south of Chanute and at 17 and 19 S Highland. A tree at 402 S Lincoln disrupted service to Chanute Recreation and Mills Supply. Wind gusts reached 64 mph at 12 33 a m at Martin Johnson Airport, with damage levels defined by the National Weather Service scale.
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Chanute
S. Highland
Chanute Recreation and Parks
Department of Commerce
National Weather Service
Central Region
Southeast Kansas grants total 140000 for criminal justice programs
The Governor's Committee on Criminal Administration approved 140 325 79 in grants for six criminal justice institutions in nine county southeast Kansas served by the Southeast Kansas Regional Planning Commission. Chanute and Labette County Community Junior College receive specific awards for probation counseling and justice outreach.
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Chanute
Southeast
Kansas
Southeast Kansas
Wichita State University
Kansas State College of Pittsburg
Crawford
Bourbon County
Fort Scott
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