Highway costs rise for remaining Kansas interstates
Kansas Transportation Secretary O D Turner told the Governor's Task Force that construction of the final 31 miles of interstate in Kansas will cost more than the 670 miles already built due to inflation and declining revenues. He warned funding shortfalls could push completion to 1988 unless Congress accelerates funding. He urged new financing policies for the entire 125000 mile state local roadway system.
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Topeka
UPI
Kansas
O.D. Turner
Turner
Governor's Task Force
Kansas Transportation System
Federal Highway Trust Fund
Congress
DOT
Department
Walter Mondale
Robert Burns
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
Douglas LaFollette
Call Tribune carrier if he misses you
Instructions for contacting a Tribune carrier are given with phone numbers and call times: 5:30 to 6 p.m. weekdays and by 9:00 a.m. Saturday. The message instructs readers to phone 431 4100 during those windows if the carrier is unavailable.
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Tribune
Expert urges focusing anti smoking efforts on children
St Louis cancer expert Dr Ray G Cowley head of the Missouri State Chest Hospital says funds should educate children from kindergarten onward about smoking harms. He dismisses stop smoking clinics and ad bans as 15 16 percent effective and backs total prevention as the answer.
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ST. Louis
UPI
Ray G. Cowley
Missouri State Chest Hospital
Cowly
American Cancer Society
Cowley
National Commission On Smoking and Public Policy
Cancer Society
Surgeon General
Society
Frozen coed from Kansas identified after yearlong search
The frozen nude body found under a Wisconsin bridge near Lake Delton in January 1976 is identified as Lisa Christine Staes, 21, a Penn Valley Community College student from Leawood Kansas. Sheriff Shanks says death possibly murder and suspects are not named. investigation involved calls from across the country and tattoos aided the ID.
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Baraboo
Wis
UPI
Lake Delton
Lisa Christine Staes
Kansas
Sauk County
Alan Shanks
Staes
Leawood
Kan
Oak Park
Shanks
Penn Valley Community College Coed
Sheriff's Department
State Justice Department
New York
California
Illinois
States oppose Carter instant voter registration survey shows
A survey of 29 secretaries of state and state election officials finds 29 oppose, 13 support, 8 undecided on Carter’s instant voter registration plan. ACU released details as House Rules Committee prepared to act, with officials voicing concerns about fraud and chaos at polling places.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Philip Crane
R-Ill
American Conservative Union
Crane
ACU
House Rules Committee
House
Nixon offered five billion in postwar aid to North Vietnam in 1973
The State Department released Nixon's February 1 1973 letter to Hanoi proposing a five year reconstruction program of nearly 5 billion dollars. Nixon also argued Hanoi broke the Paris peace accord and urged no aid to the Hanoi government while Carter ruled out reconstruction for communist Vietnam.
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North Vietnam
Washington
UPI
Richard Nixon
State Department
Nixon
Department
Hanoi
Paris
Lester Wolff
D-N.y
Carter
United States
Vietnam
Wolff
Adams orders accessible features on all new federal buses
Transportation Secretary Brock Adams announced a mandatory accessibility rule for all new public buses funded with federal money after September 1979. Buses must have floors no higher than 22 inches, kneel to 18 inches, and include a boarding ramp. He cited past efforts like Transbus and noted manufacturers GM AM General and Flxible Co. are major players.
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Washington
UPI
Transportation
Brock Adams
Adams
Transbus
Urban Mass Transportation Administration
U.S
General Motors
AM General
Flxible Co
Rohr Industries
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