Republicans in Kansas map delegate selection for 1976
Republican state leaders plan to set procedures for selecting Kansas 34 delegates to the August national convention in Kansas City. The state committee meets in Topeka Thursday and Friday to assign county, district, and state convention dates while Sen. Robert Dole attends events.
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Kansas
Republican State Committee
Kansas City
Robert Dole
Crystal Room
Eldridge House
Dole
Topeka
John Langstrum
Douglas County
GOP
Byrona Wiley
Stephen Hill
Morris Kay
Jack Brand
Kent Frizzell
Washingon
Kansas utility bill advances in 1976 Legislature
The first major House bill of 1976 advances tentatively and heads to a Wednesday roll call. It would set exclusive electric service territory amid a compromise between investor owned utilities and rural cooperatives, with Kansas Gas and Electric opposing. Highway financing proposals seek $42.5 million for state roads and rely on transfers from the general fund and higher vehicle fees.
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Topeka
Kan
House
Kansas
Senate
Ben Foster
Wichita
Kansas Gas and Electric Co
Kansas Power and Light Co
Duane McGill
GOP
John Hayes
Hutchinson
State General Fund
Highway Fund
Robert F. Bennett
State Revenue Secretary
KU Medical Center bid rejected for regional health planning center
HEW rejected KUMC's initial bid to join a regional health planning center with Missouri. A revised two year 560000 dollar proposal is planned, and a pre proposal conference will be held in Chicago to aid applicants.
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Kansas University Medical Center
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Journal-World Monday
Kansas
Missouri
KUMC
University of Missouri
Ivan Anderson
Unac
Chicago
Lawrence district approves bus bid specs and Indian funds
The Lawrence District 497 school board approved seven alternate bid procedures for bus routing and operation for next year, sending forms to four companies with bids due in early April. The board also sought $20,840 in federal funds to support Indian student self image and tutoring programs, and heard reports on a new resource room for hearing impaired students and K-12 metric system plans.
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Lawrence District 497
Harmon Bus Company
Kenneth Fisher
Julie Hack
Roma Earles
Board. Com
Don Herhbel
Jane Schwartz
Pinckney School
Don Racy
South Junior High
Carl Knox
United School Administrators
Lawrence High
Douglas County Soil Conservation District
Knights of Columbus
Bankers Awards
Donald Fuston
Paul Tuley
Lawrence
Harold Jehle
Baldwin
Ben Gibson
Ottawa
William S. May
Federal Land Bank of
Wichita
Fifth skit added to KU Rock Chalk Revue
Kansas University announces a fifth entrant for the Rock Chalk Revue to ensure fairness after a scoring misread. The show on March 5 6 in Hoch Auditorium features five fraternity sorority teams with 20 minute sketches and a $300 stipend from ticket sales per group.
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Kansas University
Hoch Auditorium
John Schwartz
Wichita
L Fraternity
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Kappa Lambda
Alpha Chi Omega
Phi Gamma Delta
Gamma Phi Beta
Beta Theta Pi
Chi Omega-Sigma Chi
Pi Beta Phi-Delta Upsilon
KUY
Ford hosts Rabin in rain at White House ceremony
President Ford welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with renewed U.S. backing for Israel and a push for Middle East peace. The two leaders stood bareheaded in rain as the U.S. Army band played both nations' anthems before about 2,000 spectators outside the White House.
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Washington
Ford
Yitzhak Rabin
Israel
Middle East
Rabin
White House
U.S
United States
Rising food costs blamed on middleman charges
The Agriculture Department reports higher middleman charges drove most of a $126 rise in the typical family’s 1975 farm produced cod cost. For 1975 the market basket averaged $1,876 per year, up 7.2 percent from 1974, with farm value at $783 and middleman costs at $1,093.
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Washington
U.S
Agriculture Department
Department
Henry T. Badger
Economic Research Service
USDA
Douglas County Commissioner I J Stoneback Falls Ill En Route Home
Commissioner I J Stoneback reportedly fell ill while returning from a Mainland China trip with Kansas farmers. He called from Los Angeles to say he would not reach Lawrence as planned, delaying his return. others have already returned and a Wednesday meeting is set.
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China
Douglas County
I.J. Stoneback
Commission
Arthur Heck
Stoneback
Lawrence
Tokyo
Los Angeles
Heck
Kansas legislators clash over recall bill at Monday hearing
Kansas lawmakers debated a proposed constitutional recall process covering all elected officials. The bill requires 10 percent petitioning to form a recall committee and 25 percent to trigger a recall election for state officials, with different thresholds for local offices. Critics warn the grounds are vague and could target innocent voters, urging safeguards and revisions.
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Topeka
Kansas
House Federal and State Affairs Committee
Anderson
Carlos Cooper
R-Bonner Springs
Cooper
Lloyd Buzzi
R-Lawrence
MPLA launches three-pronged drive toward Huambo Silva Porto Lobito
Soviet backed MPLA mounts a three prong assault on UNITA in central Angola with old T34 tanks led by 75 mm guns. Hits target towns Huambo Silva Porto and Lobito as UNITA capital faces pressure. Reports place MPLA near Huambo and claim UNITAFNLA coalition fled Huambo for Silva Porto.
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Popular Movement
MPLA
National Union
UNITA
Angola
Luanda
Huambo
Silva Porto
Lobito
Nicholas Ashford
Times of London
Ashford
The
National Front
FNLA
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