Lawrence teachers seek benefits plan study in contract talks
In Lawrence, teachers and the district clash over benefits versus pay. The LEA proposes a summer committee study for a 1976 77 benefits plan while the district favors keeping a pay raise and examining insurance only for next year. Both sides push timelines toward a July 1 budget deadline and November report. The dispute centers on tax treatment and legality of proposed life and health insurance packages.
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Lawrence
Lawrence Education Assn
District Administration Center
Jack Brand
Brand
LEA
Menninger urges new Villages foster homes study and build plan
Dr Karl Menninger addressed about 25 at Lawrence Country Club praising the Villages Inc efforts to create foster homes for neglected youths. Groundbreaking in Lawrence follows a $25 000 Eagles donation named for H RoeBartle with construction set to start this month on a 41 acre tract on a gravel access road.
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George Millener
Karl Menninger
Villages, Inc
Menninger
Lance Burr
Villages
Raymond Nichols
Villages Board
Lawrence Country Club
Topeka
Lawrence
Fraternal
Order of Eagles
Eagles
Kansas City
H. Roe Bartle
Lawrence Villages
Bartle
Tensie Oldfather
Douglas County housing study signals urban rural shift
A Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission study warns of a housing shortage affecting Douglas County residents. The preliminary findings forecast 506 more housing units needed by 1980 and show agricultural land converted to homes, with urban to rural migration and a rise in mobile home housing.
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Douglas
Jones
Douglas County
Lawrence
Planning Commission
Dean Harvey
Harvey
Dean Jean Stouffer, longtime FHSU associate dean, dies
Jean Stouffer, 56, associate dean of students at Fort Hays State College, died after a brief illness in a Hays hospital. A KU alumna and former Girl Scout executive, she established the Stouffer Chair of Mathematics at KU and chaired the Fort Hays State International Student Program. Memorials to FHSU program or KU Endowment. Survived by an aunt and two cousins.
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Jean Stouffer
Fort Hays State College
Hays
Lawrence
Girl Scout
Kansas University
Miss Stouffer
KU Alumni Association
E.B. Stouffer
United Presbyterian Church of
Syracuse University
Kansas City
Fort Hays State
Beta Gamma Sigma
Business Honorary
Phi Beta Kappa
Kappa Alpha Theta
Mortar Board
YWCA
MLC
Cunningham
Exiled Bolivian Leader Torres Found Shot Dead Near San Andres de Giles
The body of exiled Bolivian president Juan Jose Torres, blindfolded and shot three times, was found 65 miles from Buenos Aires near San Andres de Giles. A ranch hand heard gunfire and saw four people depart in a car. a government communique was expected.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan Jose Torres
Emma Oblea de Torres
San Andres de Giles
Here
Congress backs Africa aid for black majority rule
Washington AP reports both House and Senate backed Ford administration policy aiding black majority rule in Africa. They approved 85 million dollars in aid to Zaire, Zambia and other nations facing economic risk from supporting majority rule. House passed 7 billion military aid. Senate approved southern Africa aid but not final debate. House also barred assistance to Mozambique.
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Washington
House
Senate
Africa
Congress
Zaire
Zambia
Rhodesia
Mozambique
City planning staff defend Plan 95 data and base year
The staff defended using 1973 as a base year and contended data from KDED KSU and the Kansas Center for Regional Progress are current. The commission authorized evaluating public comments and plans to discuss planning theory and standards at the June meeting. A separate note states a 200 inch cigar was rolled in South Windsor Connecticut City Hall.
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KDED
KSU
Kansas Center For Regional Progress
Dick McClanathan
Commission
Deanne Vieux
Johanna Kollmorgen
Windsor
Conn
Magna Carta Display Honors Anglo American Bonds
Leaders of Parliament presented an original Magna Carta to the United States in a Capitol rotunda display for one year as a Bicentennial honoring gift. Lord Chancellor Flwyn Jones and House Speaker Carl Albert spoke as U S leaders received the vellum document, one of four surviving copies from 1215. The artifact will return to the British Library after exhibit with a replica housed in a gold lined case.
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Washington
U.S
wyn-Jones
House of Lords
House
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
United States
Great Britain
Albert
Senate
Mike Mansfield
London
Westminster Hall
John of England
Runnymede
Capitol
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Gauthier
Menninger Foundation
Local Villages Board
Nichols
Pleasant Valley Area
KU Endowment Association
J.L. Crook
Spokane, Wash
Bolivia
Kaw River Bridge
SY An
England
John
Jimmy Connors
Robert Bruce
Massachusetts
Strong's
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