Finney County Sees Slight Unemployment Change in January
Kansas figures show Finney County jobless rate at 3.5 percent in January 1984, down from 3.6 percent a year earlier, with 16,650 in the workforce in January 1983 and 625 unemployed. By January this year 17,200 employed and 0 unemployed. Manufacturing jobs rose by 300 in January year over year, plus 250 more across other sectors. December 1983 unemployment was 3.1 percent with 17,300 working and 550 unemployed. The state rate in January was 4.8 percent with 56,300 Kansans unemployed. January 1983 was 6.8 percent.
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Finney County
Kansas Department of Human Resources
Steve McAfee
Topeka
Alan Riedel
Garden City
Credit card surcharges eyed as old ban lapses
Retailers weigh adding charges for plastic payments as a 10 year federal ban expired. Some merchants fear higher costs will drive customers away, while others see limited impact since credit card use now accounts for large shares of sales in certain categories. Store managers in New Jersey California and Kansas note varied experiences and uncertain plans amid the lapse.
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Associated Press
Telegram
Alan Kane
Hahne’s Department Stores
New Jersey
Senate
Busters Drop One to Barton County Head for Playoffs
Page 10 note mentions a basketball game where the Busters lost to Barton County but remain on track for the playoffs. The page also includes items about American troops and a handicapped child transforming his life, plus a promo line for Hoovers.
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Japan
Barton County
Hart gains momentum in New Hampshire polls
In Concord the ABC News Washington Post poll shows Gary Hart tied with Walter Mondale at 30 percent each among likely Democratic voters in New Hampshire. John Glenn 14 percent, Jesse Jackson 8 percent, with Hart surging after Iowa. Reagan leads Republicans in NH. Jackson defends remarks about Jews.
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Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
Gary Hart
Walter F. Mondale
ABC News
Washington Post
Hart
Colorado
John Glenn
Jesse Jackson
ABC News-Washington Post
Mondale
ABC Post
Dixville Notch
Ernest Hollings
South Carolina
Florida
Reubin Askew
Reagan
Hollings
CBS News
New York Times
Jackson
Glenn and
George McGovern
Cranston
Askew
Glenn
Ohio
Iowa
Walker's coast to coast walk under cloud of theft charge
Jeff Pagenstecher 23 of Union Town Pa is jailed in Kearny County on $10 000 bond awaiting a March 6 preliminary hearing on theft allegations. Police say he stole a $500 Canon camera from a family in Lakin after staying two nights amid a cross country pledge to raise funds for cancer research benefiting St Jude. Local residents recall his Christian persona and posters but say he did not solicit and questions linger about the journey and its legitimacy.
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Pagenstecher
Kansas
Fayette Bank and Trust Company
Union Town
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, Tenn
Vera Hammons
Lakin
Lamar
Cole
Hammons
Jim Jarboe
National Crime Information Center
Kearny County
Kansas House okays 20 percent tuition hike in community colleges
The Kansas House approved 114 to 6 a bill allowing 19 community junior colleges to raise tuition next year from 10 15 to 12 18 per credit hour. A separate 69 51 vote sent to the Senate would extend damages for pain and suffering from auto insurance to family members, as for non relatives.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas House Today
Senate
Public education debate draws 50 at Garden City forum
Fifty people met at Garden City Community College for a town meeting on education as part of a Southwest Kansas series conducted by KANZ public radio and the High Plains Humanities Council. The discussion focused on Education: Goals and Responsibilities for Learning and included educators and community members.
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Garden City Community College
Kansas
Kanz Public Radio
High Plains
Hays
Garden City
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George Romney
Manchester
Littleton
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By Pam Zubeck
United States
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Syracuse
Holly
Colo
Rocky Ford
Canon City
Denver
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Hammonses
Cancer Fund
Merle Hill
The
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House
Marvin Barkis
D-Louisburg
Citizens Voice
Mary Jo Gurley
Margaret Meyers
Kansas Committee For the Humanities
National Endowment For the Humanities
GCCC
Meyers
John Exdell
Kansas State University Philosophy Department
National Commission On Excellence In Education
U.S
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