Senate to vote on cable, bilingual, patrol bills in Kansas
In Topeka today the Kansas Senate scheduled final roll calls on bills allowing city control of cable firms, permitting bilingual schooling in Spanish and English, and expanding plainclothes highway patrol numbers. The chamber also approved a constitutional amendment altering the State Board of Education to nine appointed members. A districting plan proposing 40 single member districts with zone divisions in Sedgwick and Johnson counties drew mixed support.
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Topeka
Kan
Senate
State Board of Education
Tom West
Charles Hinchey
Kansas City
America
Robert Bennett
Prairie Village
Kansas
Arvin
Board of Education
House
Jack Robinson
Wichita
Sedgwick
Johnson
Robinson
Harold Herd
Coldwater
Tax Reform Debate Deepens State Fiscal Crisis in Kansas
Gov. Robert Docking and Rep. Shelby Smith clashed over tax reform as the House committee killed Docking’s sales tax exemption proposal. Docking warned the move endangers programs for seniors and students, while Smith called the reforms tax increases and blamed the governor for the fiscal crisis.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert Docking
Shelby Smith
Wichita
House Assessment and Taxation Committee
Smith
Docking
Smith Committee
Department of Revenue
Suit Names Lee Marvin For Million Dollar Claim
Los Angeles AP reports singer Michelle Triola sues actor Lee Marvin for half his assets, claiming a six year nonmarital cohabitation formed a common property arrangement. She cites oral agreement to combine earnings and share all property, with her acting as companion and homemaker.
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Los Angeles
Michelle Triola
Lee Marvin
Tuesday
Triola
Marvin
Triol
Nixon China Visit Coverage From Major Networks
New York AP reports ABC will air midnight to 11 30 a m highlights and live reports if available CBS runs 10 30 p m to midnight wrapup NBC also from 10 30 p m to midnight with wrapup including the Nixons at the Great Wall taped and live coverage during Today show from 6 to 8 a m CST
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New York
Nixon
China
ABC
CBS
NBC
The
Great Wall
Road Appraisers Report Progress on U S 59 and K 10 Near Lawrence
Lawrence highway commissioner Robert Hagen says utility work advances on U S 59 from 23rd Street south with 42 of 128 tracts appraised. For K-10 between DeSoto and K-7, 29 of 46 tracts are appraised and seven purchased. Field survey is 92 percent complete for the 11 mile link, geology 77 percent, soils 70 percent.
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Lawrence
Robert Hagen
23Rd Street
DeSoto
K-7
Haegen
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Texaco
23Rd
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Callaway
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Jet
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Massachusetts
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