Nixon seeks 8.57 percent dollar devaluation bill
The Nixon administration sent Congress a bill to devalue the dollar by 8.57 percent by raising gold from $35 to $38 an ounce. Officials touted progress with Japan and the Common Market in lowering export barriers while Canada remained unsettled. Multilateral trade talks with the Common Market and Japan are set to begin next year, though Canada talks remain unresolved.
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Washington
Congress
Japan
Treasury
John B. Connally
Capitol Hill
U.S
Canada
Connally
The
United States
Paul A. Volcker
Nixon
Ottawa
Jean-Luc Pepin
Pepin
Eberle
Dole Seeks Joint War Study to Probe Vietnam
Senator Bob Dole introduced a resolution to form a seven senator seven representative joint inquiry. The panel would study U S actions since 1945, foreign policy assumptions, and report two months before election day, with questions including the Diem assassinations and the war's costs and consequences.
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Washington
Bob Dole
R-Kan
Senate House
House
Ngo Dinh Diem
Dole
Republican National Committee
Kansas Republican
Conway salesman pays $200 fine for tax certificate lapse
Larry Dean Rickey 28 of Conway Ark paid a $200 fine in the Douglas County Court for doing business in Kansas without a sales tax certificate and for not collecting sales tax on a retail sale. He was arrested after sheriff’s deputies learned a salesman worked south of Eudora. Installations appeared reasonable to the deputy and the contracting farm owner.
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Conway
Ark
Douglas County
Kansas
Larry Dean Rickey
Sheriff's Department
Eudora
Rickey
Father challenges school hair rule in Johnson County suit
In Olath e Kansas Judge Herbert W Walton sets Monday for trial to decide if a school dress code limiting boys hair length is constitutional. Jerald Davis brings the case for his 7 year old son Jeffrey a second grader at North Oxford Elementary Overland Park. The district defends and appeals on trial stay and injunction issues.
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Olathe
Kan
Herbert W. Walton
Johnson County
Jerald Davis
Jeffrey
North Oxford
Overland Park
Walton
Harley V. Haskin
Park McGeel
Kansas Supreme Court
High Court
McGee
Supreme Court
Haskins
Hair, Dress Code Clash Rocks Liberal Kansas School
In Liberal Kansas a mother sues West Junior High principal Er nest B. Walcher for 11 000 alleging the boy Jefferey Podyma was sent home for hair length and barred from classes until his hair was cut. The suit cites harassment in the hallway and notes the school board faced disruption over a dress code during a crowded meeting.
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Phyllis Kaarbo
Jefferey Podyma
U.S
Ernest B. Walcher
West Junior High School
Jo Ann Sharp
Credit Card Retrieval Firm Quietly Busy in Kansas City
Inter-Continental Services Corp runs All State Credit, a nationwide credit card retrieval division. It handles over 35,000 monthly requests, recovering cards from holders who exceed limits or delay payments, with a 76 percent success rate. The firm, founded in the late 1990s, grew from a collection agency to a leading card recovery operation with offices in Kansas City Los Angeles Toronto and growth plans amid competition.
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Kansas City
Inter-Continental Services Corp
Panks
Sears
Montgomery Ward
J.C. Penney
ICSC
Jim Bell
Bell
Los Angeles
Toronto
Jerry Baker
Baker
Traffic Homicide Charge Refiled in District Court
Marion L. Baugher 32 of Rt. 2 had the traffic homicide charges dismissed in county court and refilled in district court after a jury trial request. The Oct 24 two vehicle collision near the Holiday Inn in Douglas County killed John P. O Reagan 20 of Fort Leavenworth.
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Marion L. Baugher
Rt. 2
Douglas County
District
Baugher
John P. O’reagan
Ft. Leavenworth
City Clerk Vera Mercer Leads Planning for Clerks School
Law rence organizer Mrs. Vera Mercer serves on the program planning committee for the 22nd annual City Clerks and Municipal Finance Officers school starting Wednesday at Kansas University. She is a member of the Kansas Association of City Clerks and Municipal Finance Officers.
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Vera Mercer
Lawrence
City Clerks and Municipal Finance Officers
Kansas University
Mrs
Pat Nixon Buys New Wardrobe in New York Shopping
First Lady Pat Nixon shopped at the Pierre Hotel with New York designers selecting spring and summer outfits. She said the purchases are for U S trips this year and not for the Moscow or Peking trips planned with the President this month as he attends summit meetings.
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New York
Pat Nixon
Pierre Hotel
Peking
United States
Queen Elizabeth II In Thailand For Historic First Visit
The Queen arrives in Bangkok aboard a royal barge, greeted by King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. Silk-clad Thai girls scatter petals as Royal Air Force planes fly overhead and a 21-gun salute echoes. The Queen, with Prince Philip and Princess Anne, will stay five days at the Grand Palace.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Elizabeth II
Bhumibol
Sirkit
Royal Thai Air Force
Prince Philip
Princess Anne
Grand Palace
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O’reagan
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Massachusetts
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Kehler
Regal Specialty, Inc
Mass
Lawrence, Ks
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