Declining enrollments press Kansas school finances
Local boards and patrons decide how much space to run as enrollment falls. Projections show sharp drops in high school seniors and college enrollments across Kansas, with private colleges hardest hit and junior colleges likely to gain.
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Legislative Educational Planning Committee
State’s
Kansas State University
Emporia State University
Kansas University
Wichita State
Washburn University of Topeka
Fort Hays State
Pittsburg State
Kansas
Kansas Wesleyan University
Salina
St. Mary of the Plains
Dodge City
McPherson College
Mid-American Nazarene College
Olathe
Johnson County Community College
K-State
Coffeyville
Racos
National Institute of Education
Ryan
Clinton water plant plans unveiled by consultants
Black & Veatch engineers presented 89 pages of plans and an architectural rendering for Clinton’s 10 million gallon daily water treatment facility. Bids may be advertised June 28 with an Aug 2 opening, and work could start soon after. The $8.8 million project includes a two-story brick plant and a 1.5 million gallon storage tank near Drag Strip Road.
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Lawrence
Clinton Reservoir
Black & Veatch
Kansas City
Clinton Lake
State Health Board
Dragstrip Road
23Rd Street
15Th Street
Kasold Drive
Jack Robinson
Clinton
Perry Lake
Senate faces battle over auto emission controls after House revision
Environmentalists and the Carter administration push to restore strict auto emissions as the House passes a major clean air bill with industry backed delays. The measure would slow or suspend tighter 1978 model standards, while the Senate plans to vote next month on a timetable closer to administration proposals.
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Washington
Senate
House
Carter
Paul Rogers
D-Fla
Sen
Gary Hart
D-Coro
Congressional Environmental Study Confer
United Auto Workers
Afl-Cio
Young stirs furor abroad and defends record
U N Ambassador Andrew Young faced international backlash after calling Sweden and Queens racists while criticizing Britain's colonial mindset and Cuba's role in Ethiopia. President Carter defended Young, saying there was no policy violation as Young downplayed grave concerns over Cuban advisers.
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Washington
U.N
Andrew Young
Europe
Africa
State Department
New York
Queens
Carter
Young
Andy Young
London
Sweden
Britain
Ethiopia
Hoax Sasquatch sighting revealed as prank in Canada
Four pranksters dressed in a $200 monkey suit and shoulder pads staged a Sasquatch sighting on a Pacific Stage Lines bus route from Harrison Hot Springs to Vancouver. They spent three weeks planning including creating footprints and placing a phony witness to fool Pat Lindquist and her passengers. The hoaxers admitted it was a joke intended to fool a few people.
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Vancouver
Canada
Ken Ticehurst
O. J. Simpson
Pat Lindquist
Pacific Stage Lines
Harrison Hot Springs
British Columbia
Cubans Expand Influence Across Africa Amid Tension
The Cuban presence grows to 10 black countries with an estimated 20 000 Cubans running farms and hospitals training black armies and preaching Marxist revolution. Ethiopia hosts 50 Cuban military technicians amid claims they are diplomats and doctors. State Department warns of possible expansion and political risk.
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Maputo
Mozambique
Africa
Ethiopia
U.S. State Department
Fidel Castro
State Department
Hodding Carter III
U.N
Andrew Young
Copeland to Represent U.S. at Inter-American Institute Meeting
Ross H. Copeland associate director of Kansas University Bureau of Child Research will attend the 52nd annual Inter-American Children's Institute directing council meeting in Montevideo Uruguay on June 14. The group, an arm of the Organization of American States, coordinates cooperation on child health nutrition and juvenile delinquency across the Americas.
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Ross H. Copeland
Bureau of Child Research
Kansas University
United States
Inter- American Children’s Institute
Montevideo
Uruguay
Organization of American States
OAS
North
South America
Copeland
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Bargain Sniffers Shop Journal-World
Clear
John D. Dingell
Dmich
Angola
Portugal
Andrews Air Force Base
Donald R. Manes
John R. Amborn
Bengal’s Ltd
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Tanzania
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Equatorial Guinea
Sierra Leone
Congo Republic
Somalia
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Marxist Popular Movement
Tanjug
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Darrell Murphey
Russ Hannibal & Associates
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