Chanute Tops in PRIDE Community Awards
Chanute won the governors trophy as the all around sweepstakes winner at Kansas PRIDE awards in Wichita. Newton Independence Oberlin Hillsboro Cherry Vale Tribune Burrton Cawker City Potwin Grade Horace also earned prizes and blue ribbons for various population groups.
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Wichita
Kan
Chanute
Holiday Inn Plaza
Kansas Total
PRIDE
Robert Docking
Newton
Independence
Oberlin
Hillsboro
Cherryvale
Tribune
Burrton
Cawker City
Potwin
Grade
Horace
Kansas
Richard Cunningham
League of Kansas
Warren J. Oblinger
Oblinger & Smith
Don Erickson
Kansas State University Extension Division
Kenneth Lunt
Kansas Gas & Electric
Dale Stinson
Emporia Chamber of Commerce
Vern Bienke
Missouri Division of Commerce and Industry
Pittsburg
Docking
Mullendore Trial Halted by 10th Circuit Panel
A special two judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Mullendore insurance case halted and barrow to avoid hearings until notified to resume. Linda Mullendore sues United Family Life Insurance over three policies tied to E C Mullendore III who was slain at the Osage County ranch. Proceedings were temporarily stayed and transcripts requested for six Tulsa days.
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Tulsa
Okla
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Denver
U.S. District Court
Allen E. Barrow
United Family Life Insurance Co
Barrow
Georgia
Linda Vance Mullendore
E.C. Mullendore III
Northern District of Oklahoma
Great Bend gambling case proceeds after restraining order
Atty. Gen. Vern Miller said he will pursue the Great Bend gambling case but will wait for the Barton County judge to dissolve the temporary restraining order. He had been reported as seeking dissolution via the state Supreme Court.
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Topeka
Kan
Vern Miller
Great Bend
Barton County
Miller
State Supreme Court
Wiretap figures and bond votes noted in AP roundup
Attorney General John Mitchell reported about 350 FBI wiretaps since the Nixon era, resulting in over 1,500 arrests and 170 convicted leaders of organized crime. He cited 170 state and local officials indicted or convicted. AP editors won top performance awards. Newton approved a nearly 5 million bond for a new school, while Moundridge rejected a 1.25 million bond for a new building.
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Philadelphia
John N. Mitchell
FBI
Nixon
Ofice
Mitchell
Associated Press Managing Editors Association
John Roderick
Associated Press
China
Holger Jensen
Vietnam
Newton
Moundridge
Joplin sergeant wins back pay in window peeping case
Judge orders Joplin city to pay Robert Mayfield 2879 back pay and provide sick leave vacation pay and a five percent increase during suspension. Mayfield had been dismissed last November and later reinstated after appealing. The city had previously paid 2282 citing a 60 day back pay limit.
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Joplin
Woodson Oldham
Jasper County Circuit Court
Robert Mayfield
Mayfield
City Personnel Board
Cities discuss gas rate increases with Iola officials
City Attorney Robert Pennington and City Manager Kenneth Sanborn will travel to Iola to confer with Iola Garnett and Neodesha officials about recent Cities Service Gas Company rate hikes. They seek options as Chanute faces an increase from 26.37 to 30.85 cents per thousand cubic feet and note no regulation on utility sales to cities.
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Robert Pennington
Kenneth Sanborn
Iola
Iola, Garnett
Neodesha
Cities Service Gas Company
Sanborn
Cities Service
Chanute
City Commission
Tola
Test Measures Drug Knowledge by state education official
Members of the Community Drug Abuse Committee were tested on their factual drug knowledge and attitudes by Carl Haney of the state Department of Education at Neosho County Community Junior College. The program aims to develop a curriculum guide and train center staff across 19 pilot sites including Chanute.
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Carl Haney
Chanute
State Department of Education
Neosho County Community
Haney
Freeport divers emerge from ocean lab after six days
A USC team of two biologists and a nurse surface near Freeport Bahamas after six days in an 8 by 15 foot spherical underwater laboratory. They swam in pairs up to 800 feet from the unit on a concrete platform at 50 feet depth and logged heart, respiration, and body temperature data.
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Freeport
Bahamas
Andy Plimanis
Plimanis
University of Southern California
Robert Given
Fire deaths strike elderly at Geiger Nursing Home
Fifteen residents mostly in their 80s and 90s died in a fast spreading fire at Geiger Nursing Home near Honesdale Pennsylvania. One licensed practical nurse on duty escaped as thick smoke filled the residential wing. Wayne County Coroner planned a state investigation.
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Honesdale
Pennsylvania
Wayne County
Robert Jennings
Geiger Nursing Home
Police Chief Resigns After Johnson County Controversy
Overland Park police chief John O. Kenyan Jr. resigned effective December 31 after a protracted clash with Johnson County Attorney James A. Wheeler. The $16 000 a year post ends amid a city council meeting where Mayor Jack D. Walker announced the move.
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Overland Park, Kan
John O. Kenyan Jr
James A. Wheeler
Johnson County
Kenyan
Wheeler
Jack D. Walker
Antiwar Senators Press New Push to Cut Indochina Funding
Washington AP reports antiwar lawmakers pressed a fresh bid to block war financing after the House blocked a straightforward vote. House-Senate conferees work on a $21 billion weapons bill with a six month deadline, as Hebert warned of a long cold winter before an accord.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Armed Services
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Brandt Wins 1971 Nobel Peace Prize
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, 57, receives the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. The award carries about $88,000 from Alfred Nobel’s endowment. Danish Socialists and German Social Democrats backed Brandt for improving East Europe relations and easing Cold War tensions.
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Oslo
Norway
Willy Brandt
Bonn
Alfred Nobel
Brandt
East Europe
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