Pentagon seeks 1.45 billion in bonuses to build all volunteer force
The Pentagon asks Congress for 1.45 billion dollars in five-year bonuses starting with 30 million to recruit doctors, combat-ready reservists, and other specialists. The plan targets Selected Reserve units to address a 50,000-man shortage in National Guard and reserve forces and supports Nixon’s goal of an all-volunteer military by June 30, 1973.
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Snow Covers State Areas With Mix Of Snow And Rain
Areas of Kansas saw snowfall Tuesday night in the southern third of the state and the extreme east with accumulations from traces to four inches. Forecasters expect fair and cold conditions tonight with a little warming Thursday and low 20s to 30s tonight, mid 40s to mid 50s Thursday.
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Garden City
Atlanta
Wichita
Paola
Kansas City
Concordia
Pittsburg
Coffeyville
Kansas Legislature Extends Property Tax Lid and Budgets
The 1972 Kansas Legislature extended the property tax lid to May 31, 1973 and renewed local sales taxes to December 31, 1973. It approved a $10 million omnibus appropriation lifting the 1973 budget near $999 million and enacted an omnibus pay raise bill for officials. The body also ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, making Kansas the seventh state to do so, and set two constitutional amendments for next fall.
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Jack Steineger
D-Muncie
Ross Doyen
Concordia
Clyde Hill
Rates Center
Hill
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State
Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Sen
Easter services and tax debates mark 1972 spring events
Easter observances fill the area with multiple services across churches including First Baptist Grace Episcopal St Patrick and Vilas Bethel Lutheran with sunrise gatherings in Central Park and Vilas Bethel. The week also features tax lid extensions debated by the 1972 legislature, with compromises affecting city sales taxes and state revenue plans.
Mystery Bronze Pocket Piece Solved By Local Boy
A bronze pocket piece inscribed Chanute Chapter No 21 R A M Chartered October 18 1872 was identified after this column described it. Andy Sherman 15 son of Mr and Mrs John Sherman received seven or eight calls naming the piece as a Royal Arch Masons token.
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John Sherman
Andy
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Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
A fragment notes an intercepted letter to Cha and cites a clash where Docking raised the roof as the legislature patched a lid. The scant lines imply political or legislative tensions without detailing events.
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Cha
Docking
Bankers to Meet Bankers in Central Park Dinner
Group 2 of the Kansas Bankers Association will meet at 6 30 p m Monday in the Central Park building. Over 300 people expected. Jim Metzger Topeka bank executive will be principal speaker. Joe Roskob Parsons group chairman. Wayne Umbarger Bank of Commerce EVP handles local arrangements.
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Chanute
Central Park
Bob Watson
Vilas Bethel Lutheran
Kansas Bankers Association
Jim Metzger
Topeka Bank
Joe Roskob
Parsons
Wayne Umbarger
Bank of Commerce
Nader suit dismissed over ITT Hartford merger
In Hartford a Superior Court judge dismissed Ralph Nader and three plaintiffs from challenging the ITT Hartford Fire merger. Judge Walter J. Sider ruled lack of standing and failure to prove injury in the landmark antitrust settlement case.
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Hartford, Conn
Ralph Nader
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Hartford Fire Insurance Co
Justice Department
ITT
Walter J. Sider
Nader
Court ruling limits access to employment records in Hutchinson dispute
District Judge William Gossage ruled the district court lacks jurisdiction in a city suit against Kansas State Employment Service over open employment records. The decision hinders the Hutchinson Human Relations Commission’s efforts to obtain records in an investigation into alleged discrimination involving a 32 year old black woman and five firms. The city may seek state legislation or appeal. city officials consider options.
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Kan
William Gossage
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City
John Robinson
Kansas Supreme Court
Employment Service
Service
In This Week's- 4 County Notes By Dwight Wallingford
District Editor Dwight Wallingford presents four county notes on local happenings. Read highlights from Middlesex, Oakridge, Pinecrest, and Brookvale on community events, school updates, and civic briefings.
Willing Workers 4-H Club Restores Pike Cemetery
A 30 member group from the Willing Workers 4-H Club earned a $50 Citizenship in Action grant to clean and restore Pike Cemetery northwest of Shaw. The overgrown site holds graves from the 1860s and 1870s, a lone pine, and aims to map burials and descendants while bearing on Ester Clark Hill ties.
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Shaw
Ester Clark Hill
Neosho County
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