Kansas task force weighs water resource solutions
Governor Bennett and the new Task Force on Water Resources opened a two day session in Topeka as engineer Guy Gibson outlined recommendations to address Kansas dwindling water supplies. The panel may issue interim actions before a final report in two years. The governor warned the issue is human impact across sectors.
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Topeka
Kan
UPI
Guy Gibson
Division of Water Resources
Gibson
Robert Bennett
Bennett
Kansas
Weather snapshot for the area with mild temps and showers
Partly cloudy this afternoon with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. A slight chance of thunderstorms this evening. Clear to partly cloudy and mild tonight with overnight lows around the mid to upper 50s. Partly cloudy Tuesday with highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Rain chance 20 percent tonight.
Carter aims for Middle East peace in Geneva talks
President Carter met Syrian President Hafez Assad in Geneva to press for a lasting Middle East peace. He said 1977 could yield substantial progress and that the U.S. would act as intermediary with trust from involved nations. He pledged to send Cyrus Vance to chair negotiations after a round of meetings with Arab and Israeli leaders.
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UPI
Carter
Hafez Assad
Middle East
Cyrus Vance
United States
Assad
Washington
Anwar Sadat
Hussein
Jordan
Itzhak Rabin
Air Force One
Carter asks Congress to fund Social Security with limited tax relief
President Carter urged Congress to appropriate carefully limited income tax funds to shore up Social Security reserves facing potential depletion in the early 1980s. He proposed six steps, including compensating trust funds from general revenues, removing the employer wage base ceiling over three years, raising the wage base by 600 dollars in select years, shifting Medicare revenues to other Social Security funds, increasing self employed tax from 7 to 7.5 percent, and correcting sex-based provisions in law.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Congress
White House
Secretaries of Health, Education and Welfare
Labor
Treasury
Hostage suspect kills family then turns gun on himself
In Lincoln Kansas a murder suspect who had been holding the Wiebke family hostage was believed to bluff with an unloaded shotgun. Leonard Wiebke, 59, possibly tried to bluff John Earl Stewart, 26, leading to Stewart killing the family and himself after a standoff. Esther Wiebke, 59, and Terry Wiebke, 18, also died.
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Lincoln
UPI
Kansas
Leonard Wiebke
Wiebke
Don Panzer
John Earl Stewart
Wiebkes
Panzer
Stewart
Esther Wiebke
Terry
Fleecing Taxpayers: $2500 Tennis Etiquette Grant
Sen. William Proxmire awards the National Endowment for the Humanities grant to Arlington County Virginia for a study on tennis court manners. He derides the project as a wasteful default, citing 300 players, consulting professors, and public meetings as unnecessary taxpayer expense.
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Washington
UPI
National Endowment For the Humanities
William Proxmire
Wisconsin Democrat
Arlington County
Proxmire
High-speed chase ends in four-car downtown crash
Chanute 24 year old Nick A. Allen arrested after a Sunday pursuit in a 1969 El Camino ended with four cars damaged at Evergreen and 16th streets. Allen faced seven traffic charges including DWI and leaving the scene. three other vehicles were totalled and one pickup sustained $1,000 damage.
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Evergreen
16Th Streets
Nick A. Allen
S. Edith
Santa Fe
Ron Grand
Allen
WE Benson
S. Evergreen
Elmer Thorn
N. Highland
Floyd N. Hanson
Benson and Thorn
Hanson
Chanute City Planner Nn Dobson Resigns
Chanute city planner Nn Cliff Dobson resigned Friday after serving since July 1975. City Manager Bob Bunting said he received the letter late Friday afternoon and Dobson, who has the flu, has not discussed reasons publicly. Dobson previously worked with Albemarle County Virginia and lived in Charlottesville before joining Chanute.
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Cliff Dobson
Chanute
Bob Bunting
Dobson
Bunting
Albemarle County
Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Intercepted Letter Praises Mothers on Their Day
A fragmentary intercept mentions mothers tending children on their special day. The note reads Dear Cha and implies many mothers spent the occasion caring for kids.
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