Five-Man Unit To Negotiate For Highways
A five member conference committee will try to reconcile Senate and House differences on highway funding and bonds. Senate favors up to 300 million in bonds. House proposal caps at 30 million annually with two thirds for freeway construction and one third for other highways.
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Topeka
Kansas Senate
House
Senate
Bob Storey
Dave Owen
Overland Park
Arden Dierdorff
Smith Center
Payne Ratner Jr
Wichita
George Wingert
Ottawa
Shelby Smith
Jack Euler
R-Wathena
Roy Garrett
Derby
Robert Brown
R-Emmett
Raymond Vaughn
Ryates Center
Androse Dempsey
D-Leavenworth
Grove Reservoir
Kansas Department of Economic Development
City asks voters for half cent sales tax to fund cops and firefighters
Election guidance outlines two questions on a proposed half cent city sales tax to finance 26 police and 15 fire personnel and a $400000 budget rise. Primary focus remains city commission and school board races with three of six finalists chosen for four and two year terms.
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City Commission
School Board
Fiveman City
Hendricks to Speak on Eakins Photographic Works
Gordon Hendricks, noted American film scholar and art consultant, will lecture on Thomas Eakins and his photographic works. The talk is set for 30 p.m. Thursday in the Big Eight Room at Kansas Union.
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Gordon Hendricks
Thomas Eakins
Kansas Union
Hendricks
Docking Vetoes Three Bills Signes 23 Into Law
Governor Docking vetoed three bills and signed 23 into law in 1971, bringing the total he has signed to 98. Vetoed measures included pay raise bills lacking a voter vote and a personnel posting requirement deemed administratively unworkable. Signed measures include inmate home leave up to 10 days annually and a plasma pheresis program for inmates with proceeds to a recreational fund.
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Topeka
Robert Docking
Docking
Turnpike crash scene blurs as field fire questions mount
Visibility dropped to near zero as the Kansas Turnpike Authority reported the field burned near the crash site belongs to Francis Wempe while the cause of the fire remained uncertain. Nine people were injured with Anna Powell and Russell Powell among the hospitalized, others treated and released in Topeka and Wichita.
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Kansas Turnpike Authority
Wichita
Francis Wempe
KTA
Turnpikes Endorsed by Senate Unit
The Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee recommended passage of a bill authorizing a Hutchinson to Oklahoma border turnpike with Tulsa links and amended a Kansas City to Galena turnpike. The Galena bill lacks House action. an $80 million bond cap applies to Hutchinson to Oklahoma. A feasibility study delays mileage figures.
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Topeka
Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee
Hutchinson
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Kansas City
Galena
Ted Saar
Pittsburg
House
Oklahoma Road
Humphrey Inches Closer to 1972 Presidential Bid
Hubert H. Humphrey indicates a crowded field may hinge the 1972 primaries and he will decide by year end whether to enter. He cautions against premature moves while surveying polls and public reception as he leads the Democratic Policy Council and weighs future campaigns.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Humphrey
Nixon
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Senate
Democratic Policy Council
South Vietnam
Muskie
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Birch Bayh
Indiana
George McGovern
South Dakota
Henry M. Jackson
D Wash
Education Aid Sparks Nixon Congress Funding Clash
A $728.6 million amendment package aims to widen federal school aid and set up a new clash between President Nixon and Congress. Led by Rep. William D. Hathaway the move would lift the Education appropriation and push for a vote amid past vetoes and overrides involving fiscal 1970 and 1971 funding.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
William D. Hathaway
Maine
Office of Education
House
Free litter bags offered at Kansas City district lakes
Col. R. L. Anderson Jr announced 5000 plastic litter bags will be distributed free at each lake in the Kansas City district Perry and Pomona included. Bags serve for litter and feature boating safety reminders with a bring back what you take out message. Last year lakes drew over 80 million visitors with Perry around 1% million and Pomona about 833000.
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R. L. Anderson Jr
Kansas City
Army Corps of Engineers
Corps Lake
Perry
Pomona Lakes
Lawrence
Pomona
Army defense lawyer doubts clemency report on Calley case
Lt William L Calley Jr defense lawyer Maj Kenneth Raby said reconsideration of Calleys sentence by the court martial is probably impossible The Los Angeles Times reported that at least half of the six officers who convicted Calley may be reconsidering the verdict The junior officer Capt Ronald Salem allegedly inquired about clemency possibilities
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FT. Benning, Ga
William L. Calley Jr
Army Defense
Calley
Kenneth Raby
Los Angeles Times
Army
Ronald Salem
The
Times
My Lai
Henderson defender seeks My Lai transcripts delay possible trial
The military judge granted a defense motion to produce all prior My Lai testimony for Col. Oran K. Henderson, possibly delaying the trial. Defense argues warning to Henderson was legally inadequate and two charges may be dropped. Dorsey cites up to 126 potential witnesses and aims to expedite by using prior transcripts.
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Ft, Meade, Md
My Lai
Col
Oran K. Henderson
Henderson
Frank Dorsey
Dorsey
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Kansas Turnpike
Journal- World
Will Hess
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Anna K. Powell
Pittsburgh
Russell Powell
C. D. Parry
Emporia
Mary I. Parry
Parrys
Santa Fe Hospital
Eileen E. Fitzpatrick
Seattle
Wash
Clark S. Fitzpatrick
John Huffman
Donna Gradert
Jacqueline la Grand
Ken McDonald
Des Moines, Town
Register- Tribune
Kansan
Kansas University Today
McDonald
Chip Crews
Robin Stewart
Dallas
Tex
McDonald Today
Journal-World Photo
HHH
Democratic Study Group
President
Hathaway
Appropriations Committee
Raby
Lai
Henry Rothblatt
New York
Warren Mortuary
New Hampshire
Lawrence, Kansas
Paramount Pictures
Robert B.radnitz
Arthur Knight
Panavision
Unicolor
Paramount Picture
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