Topeka Pace Accelerates With Bills Passed and Debates
In Topeka Kansas both chambers rushed bills with five passed in the House and five in the Senate. The Senate approved a minimum liability insurance hike to 25000 per injury 50000 for multiple injuries and 10000 for property damage while debates spanned school funding liquor laws and a statewide income tax plan to aid schools. The House advanced several measures including a women’s liberation bill and a repeal of the abortion law with new proposals on reforms and ombudsman creation.
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Kansas House
Senate
House
Kansas
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University of Kansas
Wichita State University
KU Medical Center
Kansas State University
Office of Ombudsman
Roy Garrett
R-Derby
Kansas Senate backs mandatory death penalty for specific murders
Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller endorses a bill by Sen. Jack Steineger to require the death penalty in ten murder cases including murder by contract, killings of officials and officers, and crimes during rape kidnapping burglary robbery arson or aircraft hijacking. First degree murder remains life imprisonment. bill marks a renewed effort after a Supreme Court ruling.
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Kan
Vern Miller
Kansas Senate
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Jack Steineger
Kansas City
Senate
U.S. Supreme Court
Fertilizer Blast Triggers Fire Across Pryor Plant District
A 15000 ton fertilizer warehouse exploded after a blaze near Pryor Oklahoma, touching off fires at Cherokee Nitrogen and National Gypsum plants in the Mid-America Industrial District. Four large nitrogen tanks were damaged but not punctured. No fatalities, two hospitalized, six treated and released. Damage estimated at Cherokee Nitrogen 12 to 15 million dollars. gypsum plant about 1 million. Blast felt 44 miles away in Tulsa.
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Pryor
Okla
Mid-America
Here
Cherokee Nitrogen Co
National Gypsum Co
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Kansas traffic deaths rise in week long tally
Topeka report shows highway fatalities totaling 2 in 24 hours ending 9 am Thursday. The January count stands at 16, with 16 deaths in 1973 and 28 for the same period in 1972.
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Topeka
Kan
Rose Given Life Sentence in Kidnapping Case
Akron man Rose 26 pleaded guilty to aggravated kidnapping and received life in prison in Division II of District Court. Co defendant Swistak 25, of Akron, faces charges while both suspects were arrested in Salina after Wilkinson, 22, Bonner Springs, testified to being shot nine times near the Elks Club on Oct 18.
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Akron
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James W. Paddock
George Wilkinson II
Bonner Springs
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Wilkinson
Elks Club
Paddock
David Berkowitz
Stanley Swistak
State Security Hospital
Larned
Swistak
Elks
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Kansas City
Winter Concert by Lawrence High School Band Ensemblé
About 700 attended a Winter Concert presented by Lawrence High School Concert Band and Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Edwin Bartley, band director, praised 155 students for a strong first program and said it went pretty well.
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Lawrence High School
Edwin Bartley
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