Highways Top Issue Shaping Kansas Legislature in 1968
Topeka AP reports that highways loom as the main task for the 1968 Kansas Legislature led by Gov. Docking. GOP leaders push a highway program while debates over funding, turnpikes, bonds, pay-as-you-go plans, and potential tax increases loom large.
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Kansas
Topeka
Robert Docking
Paul Pendergast
John Conard
Greensburg
House
Conard
Senate
Ile
Docking
Labor Faces 1968 With Bigger Militancy And Fights
The 1967 union surge to over 19 million members and a 5 percent wage rise comes amid rising costs and a 15 year high in strikes. Turmoil includes leadership rifts with Walter Reuther and Hoffa, labor politics fears, and broad walkouts in steel, rail, auto, and public education sectors.
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Congress
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Committee On Political Education
Afi-Ci0
Meaney
House of Labor
Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Meany
Ancient
Men of Labor
Afl-Clo
Federation
Hoffa
Lewisburg
Federal
Frank Fitzsimmons
Teamsters
Pennsylvania
Ravend P. Shafer
Fitzsimmons
William E. Simkin
New York City
Michigan
Florida
Afl-Cio United Federation of Teachers
Deputy’s daring crash foils liquor store robbery in Miami
Off duty deputy Leon Mullis, with his wife and relatives inside, rammed his private car through the glass door of the State Liquor Store to stop four armed bandits. He feared for lives as one robber held a shotgun to a city cop though the clerks were tied up. Mullis later said he knew the danger.
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Miami
Fla
Aps
State
Leon Mullis
Mullis
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Labor Federation
James R. Hoffa
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Foundation
Schiffli
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Crestline
Alabama
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