Memorial Day Remembered At Miami Beach Ceremony
In Miami Beach 75 year old World War I and II veteran Jack Siegel joins about 300 others to honor soldiers at a monument beside City Hall. Veterans from multiple groups attended as teens from Miami Beach High School played music and a bugler performed taps.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Jack Siegel
American Legion
Siegel
Seigel
Legion
Disabled American Veterans
VFW
Jewish War Veterans
Veterans of
Legion of Valor
Legion Hall
Bruce Turkel
Washington Avenue
Mi6
Turkel
Miami
Bennett accused of hiring outside tax expert to raise Kansas taxes
Democratic chair Henry Lueck claimed Governor Bennett may recruit Kent Kalb, a 36 year old tax expert, to raise taxes in Kansas. He criticized Kalb’s Nebraska ties and alleged focus on higher sales and income taxes, arguing this sets a dangerous, out of state precedent and harms Kansas taxpayers.
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Topeka
Kan
Henry Lueck
Robert F. Bennett
Bennett
Kansas
Lueck
Kent Kalb
Nebraska
Secretary of Revenue
Bill Avery
Kalb
Avery
Revenue Department
Docking
Nebraska Tax Commission
Baldwin City
University of Kansas
Planners review city comprehensive plan and zoning agenda
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission schedules a lengthy 6:30 p.m. meeting to review the proposed comprehensive plan and a range of zoning actions. It will vote on Iowa Street zoning, a Planned Unit Development ordinance, an airport hazard zone, and an M-1 expansion. The commission may set hearings and reference the matter to the zoning committee.
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Lawrence-Douglas County
Planning Commission
Graham Ship
Presbyterian Manor
UPR
West 15Th
Lawrence Capitol
Lawrence Municipal Airport
Commission
Keys, Ford clash over energy policy as politics seeps in
Rep Martha Keys says President Ford uses energy criticism to score political points. The Kansas Democrat, on the Ways and Means Committee, argues the energy crisis is being turned into a political football rather than solved.
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Mrs. Keys
Olathe
Kan
Martha Keys
D-Kan
Ford
Congress
Rep. Keys
House
Ways and Means Committee
Add A Can drive to end this month in Douglas County
The Emergency Service Council led Add A Can collects canned goods via local grocers for Douglas County residents. Churches will take over in June after a June 7:30 p m Plymouth Congregational Church meeting decides which churches participate. The ESC has provided about $300 monthly in canned goods and rent and utility aid but funds remain tight. a recent $300 gift raised the reserve to $316.
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Emergency Service Council
Don Conrad
Douglas County
Conrad
Plymouth Congregational Church
ESC
Atchison Grocery Owner Fatally Shot During Robbery
Francis Bird, 63, owner of Birdie's Confectionery in Atchison Kansas, was shot once in the chest and once in the side during an attempted holdup. The robber fled without taking money as customers and a delivery man interrupted the crime. Police chief Gilbert Lemke noted it was the first fatal shooting during a holdup in his 22 years on the force.
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William Peltzer
Lemke
Atchison
Meeting for diabetics and families in Lawrence
Diabetics and their families from the Lawrence area are invited to a meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the American Legion building. A local diabetes unit aims to provide educational, social, and emotional resources and raise funds for diabetes research. Melva Burt will present Help for Persons With Diabetes and Their Families.
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Lawrence
American Legion
Melva Burt
American Diabetes Association
Kansas
Inc
Watkins Memorial Hospital
Visiting Nurses Assn
Douglas County Health Department
District 17
Kansas State Nurses Assn
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Illinois
the City Commission
Munity
Lawrence High
Church Women United
Atchison Grocer
New York
Herbert Gilbert Carlton
Garden Center
Leavenworth &Weston
Abilene & Alma
Abilene
Dodge City
Wichita
Maupintour Travel Service
Massachusetts
KU Union
Hillcrest Center
Ray Stoneback
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George Hayes
Delbert Richardson
Wes Santee
Peg Springer
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Carolyn Marckley
Dana Bateson
Mary Paxton
Carolyn Downing
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