Time to file for local offices in three weeks
It is later than you think if you mull running this spring. The filing deadline for city commission school board and junior college trustees is February 13. Four school board seats three city commission seats and three college board seats are open. Incumbents may run again or not. Commissioners are paid a nominal 50 dollars a month. The work requires sacrifice, time away from family and business, regular and special meetings and long hours. The rewards are service and shaping the community with a rare, shared role. In three weeks interested Garden Citians and Finney Countians can seize the chance to become decision-makers.
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City Commission
School Board
Junior College Board of Trustees
College Board of Trustees
Lawmaker's Time Zone Bill Backfires on DST Confusion
Rep. David Heinemann proposed a measure to keep MST areas on their own time while the rest of the state shifted to Central Daylight Time. The plan would have created a two hour difference. it was withdrawn after the error was spotted. The episode underscores the confusion around daylight saving changes and the need to avoid meddling with clocks.
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David Heinemann
Heineman
Heinemann
Resident’s alley anthem warms a quiet afternoon
A Janice Lane resident recalls hearing a grade school boy singing the Star Spangled Banner in the alley as she did laundry, its bell tones carrying down the block on a sunny late afternoon. In Garden City, Kid Nicklaus hospital illness slows catalog production while students and instructors keep the press running. Journalism students work in the College print shop learning Graphic Arts layouts and newspaper production under acting supervisor Jeanne Lambert. The sentimental Journey crowd notes Marlene Dietrich’s 70th anniversary TV special, praising her enduring stage presence and talent.
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Janice Lane
Garden City Community College
Kid Nicklaus
Raco
Nicklaus
Jeanne Lambert
Open Doors in Senate Banking Committee Clash
Jack Anderson reports a debate over open meetings in the Senate Banking Committee. Proxmire and Packwood push for public access, Tower blocks the move, citing secrecy. Sparksman skeptical, McIntyre jokes, Tower locks doors to voters. Also notes brass boat story about a Pentagon shuttle.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Banking Committee
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Robert Packwood
R-Cre
John Tower
R-Tex
Proxmire
Packwood
Ed Brooke
R-Mass
Housekeeping
Sesson
John Sparkman
Dalla
Reformeers
Sparkman
Tower
MclIotrye
It Was the Same A Century Ago War Greed Inflation Racism
Jim Bishop notes the recurrent threats of inflation war greed and racism echoing 1863 as reporters ignored history and a New York World editorialized on wage protests bankers and industrialists. He contrasts abolitionist voices with profiteering and calls for unions amid suffering tenements Fifth Avenue silks and a looming financial expansion postwar.
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New York
Cooper Union
Buckland
Hatteng Union
Abraham Lincoln
Bankero Ani
New York World
Tn Short
Fifth Avenue
Joseph Medill
The
Chicago Tribune
William
Europe
Canada
Mexico
Union leader backs pay raise for Lawrence firefighters
LAWRENCE Kan AP A union leader from St Louis and Midwest representative of the International Association of Firefighters arrived Friday to aid Lawrence firemen in negotiating a pay increase. He plans to meet City Manager Buford Watson to seek parity between starting salaries for firemen and policemen.
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Lawrence
Kan
Joe McMahon
St. Louis
Midwest
International Association of Firefighters
Buford Watson
Voices of Doom Return in US Political Debate
A 1973 opinion piece by Anthony Harrigan argues that discredited anti American voices from 1972 have resurfaced in Washington. It criticizes radical protesters and liberal intellectuals for their extremist rhetoric and notes voters repudiated McGovernite ideas in November. It calls for moderates in Congress to resist divisive confrontations and emphasizes law and order and fiscal responsibility in cities.
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Anthony Harrigan
America
U. S
Washington
U.S
Ramsey Clark
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Congress
Executive Branch
New York City
Lending Tools Faulty Faults in Family Law Case
A neighbor sued Freddie after an electric drill caused injury, but Freddie was deemed not responsible for its safety since the tool was lent free and he claimed no knowledge of a defect. The piece discusses when lenders must warn borrowers about hazards, noting obvious dangers may not require notice and citing cases with power tools and a welding device.
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Will Bernard
Freddie
Sim
Saturday's Cryptoquip Clue Sparks Winter Wordplay
A cryptogram teaser from January 1918 hints at a humid thaw and a junior's summer ideation. The clue states W equals N, inviting solvers to decode the puzzle.
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Junior
King Features Syndicate, Inc
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