Armed Services Enlistments Reach Four Year High
The Pentagon reports a record 50 000 plus recruits in September with 83 percent of new volunteers since July 1. Army Navy Air Force and Marines all beat enlistment goals. quality rises as 69 percent of volunteers are high school graduates. The Air Force leads in re-enlistment with 35 percent extending their duty.
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Washington
Pentagon
Armed Services
Asst. Secretary of Defense
Roger T. Kelley
Kelley
Navy
Army
Air Force
Marines
Civic
Justice Department weighs remedies in Denver school case
The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to fix inferior education through improved schools rather than mass busing. It urges school boards to craft educational remedies, calls for school-by-school analysis of alleged discrimination, and notes higher dropout and lower test scores among Black and Hispanic students.
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Washington
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Denver
Doyle
U.S. Circuit Court
Nixon
Suitcase Found With Cash Near Lawrence
A suitcase containing between $10 000 and $20 000 was found early Friday in a field south of Lawrence. Douglas County Sheriff Rex Johnson would not disclose the exact amount the finder received nor the discoverer’s name or precise location.
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Lawrence, Kan
Lawrence
Douglas County
Rex Johnson
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
A fragmentary note questions life as a game and wonders where to go to forfeit. The lines imply a reflective, cryptic message about choices and endings.
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Cha
Viva Cohen wins in national education game symposium play
In Baltimore the 11th annual National Gaming Council symposium crowned Peter Cohen a winner among 200 participants from academia business planning and government. The event funded by Johns Hopkins and the Education Department showcased simulations like Democracy for classroom roles and EPA’s River Basin Game used to model a U S Canada water treaty.
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Baltimore, Md
Cohen
Peter Cohen
Washington, D.C
Norway
Japan
National Gaming Council
Johns Hopkins’ Center For Social Organization of Schools
U.S. Department of Education
U.S
Federal
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Train Crash Kills 109 in Saltillo Mexico
A derailed and burning train carrying 1600 pilgrims near Saltillo killed 109 and injured 464, with 150 rescuers at the wreck. Survivors said the engine tipped on a hill near Moreno Bridge as the train returned from Catorce. Most victims were from Saltillo and many bodies burned beyond recognition.
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Saltillo
Mexico
Moreno Bridge
Catorce
San Luis Potosi
Mexico City
Mexi
Coahuila
Zacatecas
Nuevo Leon
San Luis l’Otosi
Catoree
City to Set Bids for Sewer Work and Fuel Monday
City Commission will hold a 4 p.m. bid setting session on approved sewer projects and bids on diesel fuel for the power plant. The body will consider a beer license for Top Hat filed by Doris Moore and appoint a non resident within three miles to the Planning Commission. Resolutions on Chanute sewer and paving projects will be acted on.
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Doris Moore
S. Santa Fe
Planning Commission
Chanute
Editor protests dismissal of armed robbery charges
Bartlesville Oklahoma editor says judge erred in dropping armed robbery charges against three Kansas inmates. The men, transferred from Lansing to Oklahoma, faced dismissal after the paper reported only that they were serving time for armed robbery and cited Coffey County records. Judge Doty found venue change to Nowata County futile.
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Bartlesville, Okla
Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
Layton L. Doty
Ralph Dillon Smith
Fred L. Barnes
Dennis Earl Richards
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Smith
Kansas
Coffey County
Doty
Nowata County
Examiner Enterprise
Four Choices Face Humboldt Center in Mental Health Plan
Dan Smith of the Humboldt Center board outlines four options for the center’s future. They range from doing nothing to joining the Southeast Kansas Comprehensive Mental Health Plan, with concerns about identity, service gaps, funding, and inpatient facility location.
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Humboldt Center
Dan Smith
Parsons
Humboldt Mental Health Center
Southeast
Kansas
Smith
Southeast Kansas
Humboldt Board
Pittsburg
Humboldt Center Board
C. H. Benage
Frank Burns
Independence
Paul Thomas
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Ed Smedley
Genaro Gutierrez Davila
Minnie Burton
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