Auto insurance Rates Jump In Kansas Across Insurers
In Topeka Kansas 26 percent of insured motorists face higher auto insurance rates as 204 companies linked to the Insurance Services Office implement increases based on premium volumes. The changes raise average statewide liability costs 8.7 percent and physical damage costs 14.8 percent with annual losses and expenses cited to justify the hikes.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Fletcher Bell
Commissioner of Insurance
Insurance Services Office
Ron Todd
Bell
Students March To Save Reading Program In KC
About 90 elementary pupils with placards protested at city hall over the possible discontinuance of a three year old reading program called Operation Upgrade funded by Model Cities. Dr Nancy Johnson and Mayor Wheeler met to seek a refund. A government report labeled the program ineffective and suggested dropping it. Mt Sneffles in Colorado was named for its resemblance to Jules Verne’s Mountains of the Moon.
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Kansas City
City Hall
Nancy Johnson
Charles B. Wheeler
Mt. Sneffles
Colorado
Jules Verne
Mountains of the Moon
Western Cattle Co Inc announces cattle sales and contacts
Western Cattle Co Inc lists buy and sell opportunities for stacker and feeder cattle with fat cattle commitments. Contact PETE HUTCHINS in Scott City at TR 2 3518 and JASPER in Garden City at 397 2353. Dighton and Digh ton area numbers include JACK DALY BR 6 7196 and HAROLD Woops 397 5556. Main office Dighton 397 2424.
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Jack Daly
Garden City
Harold Woops
Dighton
May Consider Cut in Taxes
Washington AP Congress may still weigh a tax cut to boost the economy despite President Nixon saying no. Rep. Wilbur Mills says White House stance could shift and a quick-acting revivial investment tax credit is considered, with possible easing of individual taxes. Personal exemption rises from $650 to $700 in 1972 and $750 in 1973.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon Hus
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Aork
House
Ways and Means Committee
White House
Mills
Joint Committee
Internal Revenue Taxation
Neneway
Treasury
Amendment Seen in Strategy Vote
Kansas City AP report notes a day-old constitutional amendment granting 18-year-olds voting rights is shaping campaign strategy. The Kansas City Board of Education, eyeing an August 10 school levy election, plans to target newly enfranchised 18 19 and 20 year olds with an appeal. Chairman Rev. Charles J. Briscoe suggests this group could offset the retired vote.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Board of Education
Charles J. Briscoe
Sheepmen Back Deductions For Wool Promotion
Washington AP reports that about 87 percent of wool producers voting in a referendum favored continuing deductions from Commodity Credit program payments to fund wool promotion. Deductions are authorized at up to one and a half cents per pound on shorn wool and 7.5 cents per hundredweight on unshorn lambs for three years. Wool promotion expenditures totaled 3.4 million dollars last year and are budgeted at 3.2 million for the year ending June 30. A note mentions a 10 percent personal income tax rise in Mbabane Swaziland.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Mbabane
Swaziland
Nixon Announces Turkey Opium Poppy Elimination Plan
President Nixon announced a Turkish plan to end opium poppy production by mid-1972, addressing 60 percent of illegal heroin in the United States. He called it a major breakthrough in stopping the heroin supply, with Rogers and Turkey's ambassador Esenbel present. The plan includes U S aid to help Turkey shift from poppy farming and mitigate economic disruption.
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Washington
Nixon
United States
White House
Turkey
Nihat Erim
William P. Rogers
Mielih Esenbel
Esenbel
Rogers
Miller Oppines on Liquor Licenses in Geary County
The Kansas attorney general told Geary County officials that county commissioners have no discretionary power to grant licenses for off premises cereal malt beverage sales. The issue arose from a Geary County inquiry, with no determination yet on aid amounts.
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Topeka
Kan
Geary County
Board of
Vernmiller
John H. Taylor
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Garden City Telegram
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Miller
Eveready
K.C. Royals
Detroit
the Starlight Theatre
President Hotel
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