Gov Bennett Sees Kansas as Wheat State Not Tourism Destination
After receiving a Kansas Travel and Recreation Council plaque, Gov Robert Bennett argued Kansas is a wheat state and not a tourist state. He noted tourism follows location, not investments, while council members urged developing recreation near 20 federal reservoirs to attract longer stays. He stressed both private or public funding could build a resort complex if demand exists.
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Kansas Travel and Recreation Council
Robert Bennett
Kansas
Bennett
Colorado
Council
Minnesota
Oklahoma
State Senate
Holding the bag as federal aid faces cuts
A study blasts the LEAA for wasteful crime fighting funds while Kansas city officials warn that ending support could leave them holding a 35000 dollar bag. The piece contrasts revenue sharing fights in Congress with local budget pressures as states await federal help.
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Federal
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Kansas
Congress
LEAA
Ottawa Herald
Vonnegut and Kilgore Trout Influence in Science Fiction
A reader discusses Kurt Vonnegut's recurring Kilgore Trout figure across his novels including Breakfast of Champions and the Venus on the Half Shell controversy. The piece notes Trout as a fictional author and questions who wrote Venus on the Half Shell while reflecting on Vonnegut’s surge in popularity among young readers and the College fixation on canon.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Kilgore Trout
Trout
Vonnegut
Venus
Books and era shaping youth culture and reading tastes
Barbara Kihm explores how literature and philosophy influence young people across generations. She questions whether hippies read Kerouac before or because they were on the road and notes Cat's Cradle's resurgence around Watergate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Kerouac
Soviet planes spy on Alaska oil pipeline defense
Soviet MIG-23 or MIG-25 fighters allegedly overflew the Trans Alaska pipeline during Field Training Exercise JACK FROST in 1975, staying inside U S air space for about 12 minutes and photographing army positions. Rep John Murphy raised the incident in a confidential letter to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, while Air Force said no record of the overflights exists.
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Washington
Alaskan
U.S
Alaska
United States
Soviet Union
Bering
Siberia
Murphy
Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
Jack Frost
Air Force
Subscription Rates and News Agency Credit Clause Text
By Mail in Area Towns Having Carrier Delivery. With tax. Year 19.57, 6 Months 10.30, 3 Months 4.18. By Mail to Chanute Post Office Boxholders including applicable sales tax and postage: One year 27.81, Six months 13.90, Three months 6.95. By Carrier in Chanute: 2.0 monthly plus applicable sales tax payable in advance. The United Press International is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in the newspaper as well as all UP news dispatches. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations
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Mali
Chanute
United Press International
Secret talks shape tentative gas price compromise bill
A bipartisan group of senators led by James Pearson Adlai Stevenson and Ernest Hollings plus supportive House members Eckhardt and Dingell forged a secret accord on phased deregulation of interstate gas prices The plan would raise new on shore gas to 160 per 100 and adjust for inflation with seven year expiry for price controls intrastate gas and offshore pricing set at 135 with inflation rules The draft preserves 51 cent pricing for existing on shore gas and imposes a boiler fuel deadline while avoiding a joint conference committee due to political concerns
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Tribune
Washington
James Pearson
R-Kan
Adlai Stevenson
D-Ill
Ernest Hollings
D-S.c
Pearson
Stevenson
Hollings
House
Robert Eckhardt
D-Tex
John Dingell
D-Mich
Senate
Lloyd Bentsen
Neal Smith
D-Iowa
Funds Approved by Subcommittee for Fort Scott Site
The House Interior Appropriations subcommittee approved 275000 for the Fort Scott Historic Site for fiscal 1977. It was not determined if funds target a specific renovation. Final approval awaits full House, Senate, and President action.
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House
Fort Scott
Interior Appropriations Subcommittee
Joe Skubitz
Fort
Senate
Noisy Foe Oppression Evokes Psalm 55 Verse
A lament referencing Psalms 55 3 speaks of distress from a loud enemy and oppression by the wicked, expressing inner tumult and plea for relief.
Civilian spying risk warned by Senate panel report
A 50 page Senate Intelligence Committee staff report warns military surveillance of U S civilians could resume in a crisis like the Vietnam era. It notes self imposed limits could be removed and cites past tactics such as agents posing as reporters to cover protests and events.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Intelligence Committee
United States
Committee
U.S
Department of Defense
Pentagon
Defense Department
Army
America
Chicago
Stokely Carmichael
H. Rap Brown
New York
Southern Christian Leadership
Richard M. Nixon
Suit filed against Bell over demotion and altered records
Norman Jean McLaughlin of Pittsburg claims Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. wrongfully demoted her to operator from manager of operator services after alleged record alterations. She seeks 800000 in damages plus 250000 for slander and a jury trial. Defendants include the company and four officers.
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Pittsburg, Kan
UPI
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Norman Jean McLaughlin
Pittsburg
Crawford County
Pittsburg Bell
Keith R. Jones
McLaughlin
Fort Scott
Walter B. Patterson
Koam Radio
Chanute Doctor Captures Kansas Medical Golf Title
Dr. Glen Ashley of Chanute won the Kansas Medical Golf Association annual tournament in Topeka with a one over par 71 establishing a new champion. Fifty years ago Chanute high school swept a debating contest over Frontenac with Chanute taking the affirmative and Frontenac the negatives.
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Glen Ashley
Chanute
Kansas Medical Golf Association
Topeka
Chanute High School
Frontenac High School
Frontenac
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