Welfare audit finds 1.7 billion in improper benefits
A government audit reports 10.2 percent of 3.1 million AFDC families were ineligible and 22.8 percent were overpaid, costing $1.7 billion annually. HEW says states will pursue action plans to cut error rates to 3 percent ineligibility and 5 percent overpayments by June 30, 1975.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
AFDC
Hew
Gallup Organization Inc
Capar W. Weinberger
North Dakota
Pennsylvania
New York
Arkansas
New Hampshire
Robert B. Carleson
Carleson
Students Named To Local Boards
Seventeen Lawrence High School juniors will serve as Youth in Government advisers in 1974. Selected Wednesday, they join city and county boards and commissions, beginning January for one-year terms, with advisory voting rights recorded in minutes.
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Lawrence High School
Noon Kiwanis Club
Tom Reynolds
Kim Wrench
LHS
Max Rife
LHS Division
Lawrence School District
Board of Education
Mary Stalcup
Max Stalcup
W. 20Th
Library Board
Valerie Peasle
Dwayne Peaslee
Ter
Douglas County
David Conrad
Donald Conrad
Crescent
City skate plan as four tennis courts flooded for ice
Skaters may test skills as four of five tennis courts at three junior highs and Lawrence High were flooded to form rinks at 3 p.m. The Central Park dam project aims a 170 by 120 foot rink, to flood Friday for potential freezing within 24 hours if kept off.
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Lawrence
Lawrence High School
Bill Womack
Womack
Central Park
Wayne Bly
Parks and Recreation
Peterson’s
National Guard Armory
Bly
Potter Lake
Kansas University
Wayne Osness
Potter
KU football players OK after knee surgery at hospital
KU defensive starters Dean Baird and Fedro Dillon underwent knee surgeries after the Liberty Bowl game. Baird described ligament repair with no cartilage damage and pain remains high. Dillon’s procedure involved knee fracture and ligament and cartilage damage. Both may stay for Christmas. Wertzberger performed the operations.
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Kansas University
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Dean Baird
Fedro Dillon
John Wertzberger
Baird
Journal-World
Dillon
Wertzberger
Hoisington
New Orleans
Downtown Lawrence to get new cross signals when weather warms
Public works director George Williams said mid block crossings and downtown traffic and pedestrian signals will be fabricated and installed together when temperatures rise. A synchronizer will operate all new signals at once.
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George Wiliams
Public Works
Reynolds to arraignment in Douglas County court
Melvin E. Reynolds age 21 of Haywood California faces felonious damage to property and aggravated assault charges in Douglas County District Court. He is free on bond and arraignment is set for January 11.
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Douglas County
Melvin E. Reynolds
Haywood
Calif
Spanish Premier Carrero Blanco Killed in Bombing
MADRID Spain Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco second to General Franco was killed when an explosion blew his car about 30 feet into the air Officials said a bomb may have caused the blast and police continued to seek the cause The premier chauffeur and a bodyguard also died and two others were wounded as Franco convened an emergency meeting
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Madrin
Spain
Luis Carrero Blanco
Francisco Franco
Carrero Blanco
Franco
Fernandez Miranda
London Crash Kills 10
A Paddington to Oxford express derailed in Ealing West London killing 10 and injuring at least 50 as wreckage and presents lay on the line. An immediate investigation opened amid recent vandalism involving concrete blocks near the crash site.
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London
Paddington
Oxford
Nominations Open for KU Executive Vice Chancellor Post
About 30 candidates were submitted by this morning for Kansas University’s executive vice chancellor vacancy. The search committee led by Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols met to set procedures and will reconvene January 4. Archibe Dykes aims for a January 15 decision and will keep the process within the Lawrence campus.
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Kansas University
Raymond Nichols
Archie Dykes
Lawrence
Nichols
Zoning Change Approved Overturned Near Fourth Street
The Lawrence City Commission approved a zoning shift to office use for a 1.4 acre site north of Fourth Street between Minnesota and Florida, permitting a $1.3 million three story building for 28 doctors. The decision overrides staff opposition amid hospital expansion questions.
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Fourth Street
Minnesota
Florida
Lawrence- Douglas County
Kansas Traffic Deaths Topeka Log 1973 December
Traffic death log for 24 hours to 9 am Thursday lists 27 December 1973 counts for Kansas. Includes statewide totals and comparison with December 27, 1972 period.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
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Gerald Hadl
Lawrence City
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Charles Taylor
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Madrid
Henry A. Kissinger
Lipa
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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School of Business
Ronald Calgaard
Francis Heller
Roy Roberts
Marilyn Stokstad
Alexander Lazzarino
William Argersinger
Theodore G. Alexander
Kansas City
Alexander
Mt. Hope Nursery
Planning Commission
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CMEMA
Eastman
Drurg Store
Massachusetts
LSA
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Warren Yorn
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