Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant Wins Construction License
Kansas City Power & Light Co. and KG&E win NRC board approval to build the Wolf Creek nuclear generating plant near Burlington Kansas clearing a lengthy legal battle. The project with an estimated cost over 1 billion dollars will reach peak construction of about 2300 workers within three years and aim for 1983 completion.
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UPI
Wolf Creek
Burlington
Kan
Kansas
Kansas City Power & Light Co
Kansas Gas & Electric of
Wichita
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Licensing Board
Kansas City
Don Landes
Landes
Foundation
Coffey County
Kg&e
Weather Summary Forecast for Thursday
Partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon with highs in the low to mid 80s. Tonight and Saturday bring increasing clouds and a chance of thundershowers or thunderstorms with lows upper 50s to lower 60s and highs in the lower 80s. Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. precipitation probabilities 20 percent tonight and 50 percent Saturday.
Arson suspected in rural Chanute house fire
Firefighters fought to save outbuildings after a rural Chanute home 4.5 miles north of the city burned to the ground before fire crews arrived. Police and Fire officials say a confession is needed to prove arson, with Nellie H Ray owning the property and Katy Potter renter.
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Chanute
Jim Haines
Nellie H Ray
S. Highland
Katy Potter
Potter
Carter signs $4 billion public works bill for 600000 jobs
President Carter signs a $4 billion public works bill to create 600000 jobs and a $20 billion revenue sharing program. Labor officials say 300000 jobs in construction and 300000 in related industries, with funds to libraries and city halls.
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UPI
Carter
Labor Department
Walter Mondale
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Commerce
Juanita Kreps
Kreps
Congress
Organized Labor
Pot extracts aimed to aid glaucoma patients in Kansas
In Topeka a drive seeks reclassifying marijuana to permit extracts for glaucoma relief. Rep. Mike Glover notes national reform groups pressing the Kansas Board of Pharmacy while eye drops from marijuana are cited as developing treatment options for the disease.
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Topeka
UPI
Kansas Board of Pharmacy
Mike Glover
D-Lawrence
Glover
National Organization For the Reform of Marijuana
Wichita
U.S
Washburn University
House
Senate
Kansas hospital chiefs oppose Carter cost containment act
Frank Gentry, president of the Kansas Hospital Association, says the proposed Hospital Cost Containment Act would force Kansas hospitals to cut services and fail to maintain current patient care levels. He cites limited in patient revenue increases and rising costs from supplies, fuel, insurance, and wages as compounding the impact. The act would cap capital improvements at about 1 percent of the national allowance, with hospitals required to seek state approval for desired upgrades.
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UPI
Carter
The
Kansas Hospital Association
Kansas
Frank Gentry
Gentry
Too good to be true chicken sale leads to arrest
In Fort Lauderdale police charged Ronald Caputo and employee John Napoli Jr with grand larceny after a 10,000 pound shipment of chicken bought for 37 cents a pound appeared illegal. Truck driver Charles Wright was also charged as the shipment was reported stolen. The truck and cargo were later found abandoned.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
UPI
Ronald Caputo
Caputo
Sunrise
John Anthony Napoli Jr
Plantation
Charles Wright
Opa Lock
Wright
Nixon credits detente and firmness for Mideast policy
Nixon says his detente stance and firm approach kept Israel aligned and deterred a Soviet move during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He asserts he ordered a nuclear alert and rejected a joint US Soviet force, arguing strong stance prevented broader conflict in the Mideast. He also credits himself with initiating China relations in 1971.
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UPI
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Soviet Union
David Frost
Henry Kissinger
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Nixon
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Egypt
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Mideast
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Frost
China
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Marilyn Brown
Carolyn Shaw
Alcott
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