Right to bear arms prompts $12 million suit against state legislators
Four Kansas lawmakers are accused in a civil suit filed Oct. 7 in Topeka federal court of conspiring to infringe Second Amendment rights by introducing 1975 76 gun regulation bills. Plaintiffs seek over $12 million in damages against Sen. John Simpson and Reps. Eugene Anderson Kenneth Althaus and Joseph Hoagland. bills targeted sales of short barreled firearms and required permits and restrictions. The case asserts widespread constitutional violations and demands a jury trial.
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Andrea Groves
Kansas
Kelly Wendeln
S. Highland
Charles Ijams
Phillip Wray
Topeka
U.S. District Court
John Simpson
Salina
Eugene Anderson
Wichita
Kenneth Althaus
Atchison
Joseph Hoagland
Overland Park
U.S
Wendeln
Change of venue ordered in Chowchilla kidnapping case
A Madera County judge ordered the trial of Richard Schoenfeld James Schoenfeld and Fred Woods moved from Chowchilla to a venue outside the farming area where the victims live. The judge kept evidence and documents sealed until a new judge is assigned. The three men face charges for kidnapping 26 children and driver Ed Ray last July 15.
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Madera, Calif
UPI
Chowchilla
Calif
Madera County
Jack Hammerberg
Richard Schoenfeld
James
Fred N. Woods
State Judicial Council
Hammerberg
Herbert Yanowitz
Woods
San Francisco
Central Valley
Ed Ray
Pleasanton
San Francisco Bay
Avenue of Flags in Chanute canceled for Memorial Day
The Avenue of Flags display in Memorial Park Chanute will not run on Veterans Day due to circumstantial reasons. The project began in 1970 after Mildred Anderson started the effort, with 562 flags donated over its history. Volunteers install and store poles and flags, many donated by families, as aging participants raise concerns about ongoing involvement and future planning.
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Jane Blades
Memorial Park Veterans Day
Neva Yahns
Yahns
Avenue of Flags
Mildred Anderson
E. 17Th
Kansas
Avenue of Flags Committee
Anderson
Chanute
the Tribune
City commission to review sewer street projects
The City Commission will meet at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Building to review sewer and street projects for the Ardyn Heights subdivision. Jim Haines will present the fire prevention contract with Tioga Township and Jim Beck will discuss an engineering contract for a Plummer Street road project.
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Ardyn Heights
Memorial Building
Tioga Township
Jim Haines
Jim Beck
Plummer Street
Planning Commission
Jim Youngberg
Weather Area Forecast Today and Weekend
Partly sunny today with highs in the lower 60s. Tonight and Sunday increasingly cooler with lows in the mid 30s and highs in the mid 50s. Northerly winds 10 to 15 mph.
Cities counties may gain tax authority
An interim committee recommended allowing cities and counties to adopt local sales and income taxes to ease local financial problems. The measure would permit a 0.5 percent local sales tax with referendums, and an income tax capped at 10 percent of the state liability, linked to state tax payments.
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Topeka
Kan
UPI
Contiguous
Kansas
Elwaine Pomeroy
Rhodesia Leader Redefines African Majority Rule
Prime Minister Ian Smith stated that African majority rule in Rhodesia would not imply black rule and aligned with his view of responsible majority rule. He cited Kissinger’s five points as not specifying black rule and noted the black to white population ratio of 6.1 million to 275,000.
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Salisbury, Rhodesia
UPI
Ian Smith
Rhodesia
Geneva
Smith
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Mailman Promised More Letters Than Bills, Says Resident
A resident quips that the main wish is for more letters, not bills, highlighting frustrations with mail delivery and consumer mail volumes. The comment frames daily life concerns amid routine postal service expectations.
City mail service rerouted in Chanute changes due to route reappraisal
Frank Stacy of the Chanute post office explains an annual carrier route reappraisal. Inspectors tally deliveries, mail volume, and time over a week plus six prior weeks. This year lower mail volume led the district office to lengthen routes by about 20 minutes and adjust delivery order. a regular carrier became a substitute.
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Louise Moulton
Chanute
Frank Stacy
Stacy
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Denice Ratliff
Chanute High
Chanute-lola
Lola
Althaus
Hoagland
Chanute Veterans Organizations
Bob Bunting
City Commission
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