Kansas economy shows healthy growth in revised projections
Kansas fiscal estimates released Thursday project total receipts for fiscal year 1978 at 862.3 million, up 85.8 million from last year and 31.7 million above prior forecast. Budget Director James Bibb and Dick Ryan call the economy strong despite weaker farm income, with tax and corporate revenues leading gains.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
James Bibb
Dick Ryan
Bibb
Amtrak Halts Lone Star Study Amid Budget Tug of War
Joe Vranich of the rail passenger corp said a House Senate conference agreed on a supplemental appropriation to keep several long distance Amtrak routes, including the Lone Star, running. A new comprehensive route study will be prepared for congressional review by March 1. The Lone Star runs Chicago to Houston with a stop in Lawrence at 1:20 a.m. daily.
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Rail Passenger Corporation
House-Senate
Amtrak
House
Senate
Lone Star
Rail Corporation
Vranich
Chicago
Houston
Tex
Lawrence
Magistrate clears police in Biko death ruling
A South African magistrate ruled there is no evidence of criminal responsibility by police in the detention death of Steve Biko. The inquest found brain injuries likely sustained during interrogation on Sept 7. Biko's brother and cousin were arrested hours earlier in Soweto.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Steve Biko
M. J. Prins
Biko
Khaya
Solomon
Johannesburg
Soweto
Correction on Kansas intangibles tax exemption rules
The Journal-World clarifies that persons 60 and older with income $8 100 or less are exempt only from the first $50 of the tax, not from the entire amount. A married couple qualifies only if combined income is $8 100 or less, and if filing separately only one can claim the exemption.
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Journal-World Story
DeSoto appoints city clerk and council seat
The DeSoto City Council named Joann Dinger as city clerk replacing the late Bill Johnson. Harvey Schultz will fill the council seat vacated by Albert Jenks who became mayor last April. A $111,381 bid from McAnany Construction Co. for Second Street asphalt overlay was accepted. The city attorney will draft a lease to use the VFW Hall for city hall during renovation. Fewer than 10 Douglas County farmers sought FmHA drought loans before today’s deadline.
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Desoto
Joann Dinger
Bill Johnson
Harvey Schultz
Albert Jenks
McAnany Construction Co
Kansas City
Kan
Second Street
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Russian Art Songs Set for KU Student Recital
A KU graduate student organizes a recital of Russian art songs sung in Russian by KU students. The event, part of the Student Recital Series, happens at 8 p.m. Saturday in Swarthout Recital Hall Murphy Hall and is free. Performers include Arthur Stewart Marilyn Michael Keith Lynch Elaine Dulin Betsy Weaver Chris Stewart Carl Packard Thomas Harper and Patricia O Mealy.
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Swarthout
Murphy Hall
Olga Dolskaya-Ackerly
New York City
Arthur Stewart
Marilyn Michael
Keith Lynch
Elaine Dulin
Betsy Weaver
Chris Stewart
Carl Packard
Lawrence
Thomas Harper
Oklahoma City
Patricia O’mealy
Ponca City
Okla
Malpractice suit seeks 820000 in KU Med Center case
Kansas Attorney General filed a Shawnee County suit against Marshall and Brown Sidorowicz and four individuals over the KU Medical Center expansion. The state claims cost overruns and defects from late drawings and substandard work. The defendants face prior bribery convictions tied to the initial 1973 contract and 1972 kickback scheme.
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Kansas Attorney General's Office
Shawnee County
Kansas University Medical Center
Marshall and Brown-Sidorowicz
Norbert Sidorowicz
Edwin Korff
Robert Jarvis
William H. Johnson
Kansas City
Sidorowicz
Robert B. Docking
Medical Center
Sidcrowicz
Kansas Court of Appeals
Med Center
Marshall
Brown
Ous
Curt Schneider
Bacteria produce somatostatin via artificial gene breakthrough
City of Hope researchers and colleagues report turning on a manmade somatostatin gene in a bacterium, creating a living factory for the hormone. The advance suggests cheaper purer insulin and hormone medicines, raising hopes and concerns about recombinant DNA research and its safeguards.
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Los Angeles
National Academy of Sciences
City of Hope National Medical Center
Duarte
Senate
Washington
Keiichi Itakura
Tadaaki Hirose
Roberto Crea
Arthur D. Riggs
City of Hope
Herbert L. Heyneker
Francisco Bolivar
Herbert W. Boyer
University of California At
San Francisco
Riggs
SS Conferees Reopen Talks On Social Security Benefits
Washington AP House and Senate negotiators weigh trimming costlier benefit additions amid pressure to limit payroll tax hikes. President Carter urged restraint as talks focus on increasing retirement earnings limits and preserving solvency without widening taxes for workers and employers.
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Washington
House
Senate
Carter
Kansas Board considers modular steam plant with 15.4 million cost
EU officials update a feasibility study for a steam plant to cut natural gas use by 600 million cubic feet annually, enough for about 5 000 homes. Warren Corman says final design awaits regents and legislative approval of a 609 500 budget. the project is estimated at 15.4 million with construction two years away.
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Kansas Board of Regents
Warren Corman
Regents
Kansas
Corman
Vespers at Baker University Marked by Two Performances
Baker University presents Christmas Candlelight Vespers at First United Methodist Church in Baldwin with 110 voice choirs performing at 4 and 8 p.m. The Baker choir is directed by Dr. William C. Rice and University Singers by Douglas Brown. Rice will be honored at a 2 p.m. reception in Holt Art Gallery Parmenter Hall prior to the concerts.
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Baldwin
Baker University
First United Methodist Church
Baker
William C. Rice
University Singers
Rice
Holt
Parmenter Hall
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