Tax Disallowance Target in Kansas Contested
In Topeka representatives from business and industry attacked the 1972 corporate tax disallowance on Kansas returns as discriminatory and urged the Legislature to openly call tax increases. They urged reviewing fiscal needs before extending disallowance and suggested alternative funding or rate actions. Don McRae condemned disallowance as gross discrimination beyond the claimed 3 percent.
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Topeka
Kan
Adde Gough
Gough
Legislative Research Department
General Revenue
Don McRae
Martin Tractor Co
Gale Sayers delayed to start KU athletic director duties
Lawrence reports Gale Sayers will begin as KU athletic director next Monday due to commitments in Chicago. In a separate incident John Higgins was rescued from a Kansas River island after his boat drifted away. he called it a successful fishing trip with a few fish caught.
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Gale Sayers
Kansas University
Chicago
Chicago Bears
Sayers
John Higgins
Walnut
Kansas River
Lawrence Bridge
Higgins
Elby Howey
Topeka
Howey
Lawrence
Kaw
Lawrence sets evening meeting on Citizen Advisory Board
Lawrence city commissioners plan an evening session to discuss creating a broad based Citizen Advisory Board with up to 50 members. The agenda covers area representation for reform, aviation board, street signing, handicapped access, and cemetery rate increases to raise about 3000 annually.
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Lawrence
Director of Parks and Recreation
City Commission Agenda Overview of New Business Items
City commission to discuss handicapped access in public buildings and review a 12 inch fire escape width variance for Jenkins Music Co at 926 Mass for a recital hall. Other items include CBD signing, housing code ceiling heights, a sign-ordinance variance for Miles Motorcycles, parking lot expansion on New Hampshire St, and sidewalk projects.
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Jenkins Music Co
926
Mass
American Institute of Architects
Central Business District
Miles Motorcycles, Inc
West 23Rd St
31St
Iowa Streets
Alvamar
15Th Street
Stormee
Lynn Street
Haskell Avenue
Bullen Street
Underworld Leader Dies Frank Costello dies at 82
New York crime figure Francesco Castiglia known as Frank Costello died Sunday at Doctors Hospital after a heart attack. The famed underworld boss testified before Kefauver in 1951 and spent years in prison for tax evasion and tax cases. He rose from card games to rackets and legitimate investments, later fading from public life.
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New York
Frank Costello
Doctors Hospital
Francesco Castiglia
United States
Naples
East Harlem
Greenwich Village
Costello
Senate Committee
Waldorf-Astoria
Biltmore Hotel
Lawrence Man Earns Top Designer Craftsman Exhibition Award
A Lawrence man, Lewis L. Ridenour, won one of three top Designer-Craftsman Exhibition Awards at the 19th annual Kansas Designer-Craftsman Exhibit opening at Kansas University. Ridenour earned for a necklace Eye to Heaven joining Marilyn Grisham and Roger Jamison as top honorees.
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Lawrence Man
Glen Kaufman
Georgia University
Ridenour
Heaven
Ms. Grisham
Jamison
Tahiti
Vernon Brejcha
Greenville
Tenn
Amy Buckingham
Philadelphia
Allen Dodge
Kansas City
Opal
Tillie
Elinor Evans
Houston
Tex
Lily Mills
Karen A. Godeke
Webster Groves
Hallmark Caross
Rudolph Kovacs
Lawrence
Michael J. Oliver
Endacott
Russell Schmaljohn
Maryville
George Whitten
Wichita
Roeland Park State Bank
Bob M. Willis
Marilyn F. Brown
Carey J. Sheldon
Pam Carvalho
Carol Hurst
Harriet Ducknall
Richard Fletcher
Nicholas Gelbard
Dan
Arts council eyes public space aesthetics changes
McKay urges using arts council input beyond statues and suggests a landscape architect on the council to help screen new buildings and parking lots. He wants liaison links with the Planning Commission and Park Board to interconnect boards and avoid turning off residents on visual environment issues.
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23rd _ Street
McKay
Council
Arts Council
Community Arts Council
Lawrence-Douglas
Podgorny Receives Order of Lenin on 70th Birthday
Moscow AP says President Nikolai V. Podgorny was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Soviet Union's top civilian honor, to mark his 70th birthday. Tass announced the honor.
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Moscow
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Soviet Union
Tass
More Freed Prisoners Await Journey Home
At Clark Air Base 20 POWs released Sunday prepare for U S departure with 19 others already en route to the United States. Navy Lt James W Bailey returned ahead due to his ailing father and will travel to Memphis for medical processing.
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Hanoi
United States
Navy
James W. Bailey
Kosciusko
Miss
Clark Field
Bailey
Clark
Robert E. Wideman
Bay Village
Ohio
Memphis
Tenn
U.S. Navy
North Vietnam
U.S
Henry Kissinger
International Commission For Control and Supervision
Gia Lam
Heart Drive Collections Set Sunday
About 550 block workers and 100 Kansas University students plan to canvass Lawrence for the Kansas Heart Assn. Dr. A. C. Mitchell secretary for the Douglas County Heart Unit says most volunteers will work Sunday Heart Sunday with some collecting throughout February Heart Month. The goal is 12000 dollars.
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Kansas University
Lawrence
Kansas Heart Assn
A. C. Mitchell
Douglas County Heart Unit
Heart
Mitchell
Alpha Phi Sorority
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Baker University
Baldwin
Lecompton
Eudora
Topeka Man Hangs Self Attempt In Jail Then Hospitalized
A 21 year old Topeka man who tried to hang himself with a sheet in the Douglas County Jail Sunday afternoon was taken today to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Topeka. Sheriff Rex Johnson said the man had been booked around 1 p.m. Sunday by city police for auto theft and was described by deputies as another inmate in the cell alerted staff to the attempted self harm about an hour later.
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Topeka
Douglas County
Veteran’s Administration
Rex Johnson
Johnson
Rumsey Funeral Home Service Day Notice
Funeral home advertises service day or night at Rumsey Funeral Home with contact number 843 5111 for arrangements and inquiries.
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Rumsey Funeral Home
Kansan Among Freed POWs Return From Vietnam
Two POWs released by North Vietnam, Lt Cmdr Joseph C. Plumb Jr. and Air Force Capt. John W. Clark, were flown to Clark Air Base Philippines on the first leg home. Plumb, from Overland Park Kansas, was shot down in 1967 and Clark from Columbia Missouri, was on a reconnaissance mission.
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Kansas
Clark Air Force Base
Philippines
Joseph C. Plumb Jr
Overland Park
Kan
Air Force
John W. Clark
Columbia
Plumb
North Vietnam
Clark
Great Lakes Naval Air Training Center
Chicago
Cmdr
le Ind
Naval Academy
Lecompton
Barbara Runkel
Shawnee Mission
Kansas University
Montgomery
Ala
Auburn Means
William H. Means Jr
Kansas City
Means
Genie
Ricky
Tommy
Genie Means
Dormitory Evacuated at Kan sas University Over Night
Oliver Hall residents were evacuated at about 2 15 a m Sunday after a bomb threat. Alice Neff a freshman from Overland Park answered a call from an unknown man claiming a bomb would explode in 20 minutes. The hall was searched and no device was found.
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Oliver Hall
Kansas University
Alice Neff
Overland Park
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