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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1973
Page
4
Kansas Missouri Iowa Nebraska and Oklahoma face wide options for the 148 million in federal revenue sharing funds. Missouri leads with 66 million, housing 33.2 million in a trust fund. Proposals range from tax relief to education aid and capital improvements.
Regional lawmakers weigh using revenue sharing for education libraries and capital projects. Proposals include education and library boosts or capital improvements with potential tax relief, while some favor highway safety and state prison upgrades. Nebraska undecided. funds equal about one third of one percent of sales tax or about 2 percent of income tax.
Federal security rules take effect at Kansas City International today with an estimated annual cost of 300 000 to 500 000. About 40 additional officers join a 27 person force to conduct passenger screening and weapon checks using walk through detectors and handheld devices. Airlines have varied reaction with TWA United and Delta already implementing checks.
Police in Richmond arrested a burly person in a downtown sting for offering to sell favors. The charge was changed from prostitution to misrepresentation after officers realized the arrestee was a man.
A Pentagon report lists 299 American soldiers killed in action in 1972, the lowest yearly toll in eight years, with U.S. battle deaths peaking in 1968 at 14,392 and a worst single week of 562 deaths in May 1968.
The Oskaloosa City Council hired Jack Cox as night marshal to patrol city streets for fires and unlocked doors. He will earn 150 dollars monthly plus 50 dollars for using his car. Cox replaces Don Edmonds who resigned in December. The council also approved city salaries, bills, and repairs to city equipment and water plant chemicals.
Lawrence police report theft of radio gear from a storage closet at the Ramada Inn. Value listed at 1250 dollars includes a base station radio phone and two car type receivers. Manager C. M. Brack noted items were missing over the past four months.
The FCC authorized Western Union to construct three satellites for domestic communications at 8.3 million dollars each, totaling 70 million dollars for the system named WES TAR. First launch expected April 15, 1974 from Cape Kennedy using a Thor-Delta vehicle with Hughes Aircraft as contractor.
Abstracts for papers to be presented at the 1973 Kansas Academy of Science meeting must reach secretary by February 15. The event on April 27 at Kansas University covers sections in agriculture biology chemistry education environmental science geography geology history philosophy and physics engineering. Send abstracts to Jerry Weis at Kansas State University division of biology. All abstracts will be published and distributed to registrants.
The 23rd annual Sanitary Engineering Conference will be held February 7 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union at KU. KU civil engineering faculty Walter O'Brien Ross McKinney Carl Burkhead and George Clausen will present on bio treatment systems for small industry ecological alternatives to sewage disposal and laboratory studies on feedlot runoff.
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