Kansas Legislature Sheds Light on Local Government Wins
The 1977 Kansas Legislature saw mixed results for counties and cities as well as elderly groups and the liquor industry. While gains included allowing higher local tax lids for law enforcement and a five year 35 percent rebate on property tax for solar energy, losses included failure to relax tax lids, restore state revenue-shift funds, expand homestead relief, and pass broader income and sales tax authority for localities. The session also created a Department on Aging and approved a guest tax for tourism, while thwarting energy and building code measures and imposing limits on campaign contributions.
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Kansas
Fred Allen
Kansas Association of Counties
Ernie Mosher
League of Kansas Municipalities
League
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Department On Aging
Ralph Turner
Douglas County Advocacy Council On Aging
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Kansas lawmakers praise locals in 1977 resolutions
The 1977 Kansas Legislature passed about 85 resolutions honoring individuals, groups and places from Jubal Hale to the Independence High School Band and the Little Brown Church in the Wildwood. The effort included tributes to a state producer and a Pork All-American, with some skepticism from Sen. Donn Everett over numerous state symbols. The bluestem state grass bill died after House inaction.
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Kansas
Jubal Hale
Fred Gnadt
Independence High School
State Printing Office
Kansas House
Fred Gnadton
Richard Rolph
John Vermillion
Independence
Senate
Ron Hein
Topeka
Health survey rates Northeast Kansas care as so so
A 25 county survey by the Northeast Kansas Health Systems Agency finds health services in the region rated good by about half the respondents. Dental care leads with 60.7 percent good. hospital and physician services rated good by only about 40 percent.
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Kansas
Northeast Kansas Health Systems Agency
Topeka
Health Planning Agency
Douglas County
Journal-World
Nancy Hambleton
Lawrence
Carter Heads to Europe for Major Global Summit
President Carter sails for London to attend an international economic summit and NATO talks amid plans for inflation tackling and employment growth. He will meet leaders from Japan Canada and the European Community and later visit Syria and Berlin talks, with officials including Vance and Blumenthal.
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Carter
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Geneva
Hafez Assad
Syria
Berlin
Takeo Fukuda
Japan
Pierre Trudeau
Canada
Roy Jenkins
European Common Market Commission
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Helmut Schmidt
West Germany
Giulio Andreotti
Italy
Cyrus Vance
Treasury
Michael Blumenthal
Regents' gains reported on funding setup at KU
A Kansas Board of Regents task force moves ahead to craft a new funding formula for six institutions including Kansas University. Del Shankel says recommendations may come this summer as enrollment shifts prompt a more nuanced approach.
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Topeka
Kansas Legislature
Shankel
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Bishops Move to Lift Excommunication for Divorced Catholics
Roman Catholic bishops vote to repeal the 1884 Baltimore decree excommunicating divorced Americans who remarry. Pope approval required. The move, supported by 246 bishops, signals possible use of hand communion and a shift in reception practice.
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Chicago
Community of Believers In Christ
Cletus F. O’donnell
Madison
Wis
Baltimore
United States
U.S. envoy invited to visit Cuba
U S Ambassador Andrew Young said he was invited to visit Havana after informal talks with Cuban delegate Hector Rodriguez Llompart at a Guatemala City reception. He noted the invitation is not part of his current duties and does not involve the Cuba talks.
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Guatemala City
Guatemala
U.S
Andrew Young
Economic Commission For Latin America
Havana
Young
America
United Nations
Hector Rodriguez Llompart
Eugenio Kjell Laugerud
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Cuba
Latin America
Topekan Charged in March Holiday Inn Robbery
A Topeka man, Michael K. Wells, 24, was charged Wednesday with the March 6 aggravated robbery of the Lawrence Holiday Inn. Wells is held on 15000 dollar bond, named as one of two suspects in the clerk desk and restaurant robberies, after turning himself in.
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Topeka
Lawrence Holiday Inn
Michael K. Wells
Holiday Inn
Wells
Meany Eyes Carter Record Criticizes Welfare and Energy Plans
AFL-CIO President George Meany, addressing a 34 member council in Silver Spring, said Carter shows little to be happy about. He blasted welfare reform, energy policy, and the 20 cent minimum wage proposal, urging a $3.00 level with future hikes tied to manufacturing wages.
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Washington
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Carter
Meany
Executive Council
Organized Labor
Congress
Labor Studies Center
Silver Spring
Wholesale prices rise 1.1 percent in April
Wholesale prices jumped 1.1 percent in April marking the third straight large monthly increase and signaling accelerating inflation. Farm prices rose 3.4 percent, the sharpest in a year, while processed foods and feeds gained 2.5 percent. Industrial commodities increased 0.6 percent as economists monitor underlying inflation trends.
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Washington
April Building Boom Sets City Records for Permits
City inspectors report rapid April construction led by single family housing with 53 permits, a record for eight years. Four month total 143 single family permits, valued near $6.5 million, surpassing 1974 totals and approaching 1969 1971 1973 levels. Overall April construction reached $3.52 million with the year-to-date $10.21 million, edging ahead of 1976 pace.
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