Kansas Senate backs education funding in $417.5 million bill
The Kansas Senate tentatively approved a $417.5 million fiscal 1972 education and agency appropriation bill, advancing it to a final roll call. The measure includes $240.17 million in general fund appropriations and $1.22 million from the governor's budget, with several amendments debated.
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Topeka
Kansas Senate
Robert Docking
Robert Bennett
Prairie Village
Homestead
Bennett
Du Pont plant to upgrade pollution controls in plan
Tecumseh's Du Pont cellophane facility joins a company wide $300 million three year effort to upgrade air and water pollution controls. Kansas Health Board requires secondary wastewater treatment by Dec 31 1975 and the plant plans new facilities including odor abatement while staying under permit discharge limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tecumseh
du Pont
Kansas State Board of Health
Kansas Traffic Deaths Log For March 1971
Kansas highway death log shows 42 fatalities in March 1971, 133 for the year to date through 9 am Wednesday, with 13 deaths in the comparable 1970 period. The 24 hour period ending 9 am Wednesday recorded six fatalities.
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Topeka
Kansas
Welfare and highway bond bills pass in Kansas Senate
Senate approved bills to limit welfare aid for Aid to Dependent Children to 277 dollars a month and to authorize 300 million dollars in highway bonds with House amendments capping at 30 million per year and 20 year terms. Two-thirds of proceeds go to freeway construction with rest to the state highway fund.
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Wint Winter
Ottawa
Lansing
Robert Docking
House
Topeka
Senate
House Health and Public Welfare Committee
Ceeds
Freeway Construction Fund
State Highway General Fund
Arden Dierdorff
William Dearth
D-Parsons
Shelby Smith
Wichita
Austin Nothern
City crews battle sewer jam with street sweepers
City street sweepers patrol urban streets to prevent sewer blockages caused by washed in sand from last year's April rains. Three sweepers, each holding four cubic yards of dirt, operate mainly by day and sweep downtown areas at night.
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Lawrence
Five KU Faculty to be Honored at Retirement Dinner
The KU Endowment Association will honor five Kansas University faculty members at the annual retirement dinner. Recipients include John Blocker, Clayton Crosier, Miss Mattie Crumline, Domingo Ricart, and Edwin Stone. The event begins at 5 45 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union and tickets are available to the public.
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Kansas University
KU Endowment Assn
John Blocker
Clayton Crosier
Mattie Crumline
Domingo Ricart
Edwin Stone
Kansas Union
Endowment Association
Truck Trapped in Elephant Pit In Oregon Backyard
In Mehama Oregon two boys ages seven and five dug a hidden elephant pit over a weekend. They camouflaged the hole with straw and sticks. When grandfather Merle Phillippi drove his pickup over it his front wheel dropped. The boys fled to avoid punishment.
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Mehama
Ore
Kevin Holt
Buddy
Kevin
Merle Philippi
Phillippi
AP Corrects Korean War Battle Record of 7th Cavalry
Maj. Gen. William A. Harris says the 7th Cavalry did not lose its colors in Korea and military historians confirm. The unit fought at Ia Drang in 1965 and helped lift the Khe Sanh siege in 1968, earning two presidential unit citations in ten days.
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Saigon
Associated Press
7Th Cavalry
U.S
1St Air Cavalry Division
William A. Harris
Pentagon
Korea
Ja Drang Valley
Khe Sanh
Harris
San Antonio
Tex
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H.R. Healy
Senate Executive Reorganization Committee
Tom van Sickle
Fort Scott
Revenue Department
Don Fitzhugh
Joe Glas
Fitzhugh
Glas
State Board of Health
Kenneth
Ken” Anderson
Lawrence School Board
Kansas University School of Education
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Plymouth Congregational Church
Master Planning Commission On Education
State of Kansas
Radio Shack
Pavilton
Tandy Corporation
Massachusetts
United States
Nancy
Wm. W. Ha
Hambletonmbleton
Oxford Rd
of Lawrence
Nancy Hambleton
Hillcrest P.T.A
League of Women Voters
Hambleton
Irvin Youngberg
Peter Curran
Buster Brown
ZITA
Kani
Peet Ced
China
Sahara
Saker
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