Kansas Finance Council OKs State Employee Pay Increases
The Kansas Finance Council approved a 144 million dollar annual pay raise package for state employees, combining a five percent raise with a 27 dollar monthly flat increase. Effective July 1, the vote also set a plan for a pay schedule study and related classifications aided by potential federal matching funds. Senate voices warned about blending studies delaying the pay plan while Governor Docking urged proceeding on all fronts.
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Topeka
Kansas Finance Council
Finance Council
Robert Docking
KU Seniors Produce Nostalgic Film For 25th Reunion
Kansas University seniors of 1969 financed a 30 minute 16 mm color sound film titled Where Is Yesterday showing sights and sounds of KU in 1969. Written by John M. Hill and directed by Nicholas Eliopoulos the film includes 1969 seniors reflections and guest appearances by Chancellor Wescoe and Dean Balfour. Interviews feature Andy Williams Pat Paulsen and Walter Cronkite with Pepper Rodgers guiding the Orange Bowl segment. Eliopoulos also did camera work and used an undergraduate research grant to study at a cinema workshop.
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John M. Hill
Nicholas Eliopoulos
Prairie Village
W. Clarke Wescoe
William Balfour
Andy Williams
Pat Paulsen
Walter Cronkite
Pepper Rodgers
Eliopoulos
Southern California University Cinema Workshop
Iowa Director Named to Head Computer Center
Paul J. Wolfe, coordinator of the Regional Computer Center at Iowa University, is named director of the Computation Center at Kansas University. He will begin July 1 and will manage a GE 635 system with about 80 staff and up to 1,000 jobs daily. Wolfe, 38, has a rich academic and military background and has led an NSF funded regional sharing program linking 10 small colleges to Iowa University’s mainframe. He and his wife have 10 children.
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Paul J. Wolfe
Iowa University
Kansas University
James R. Surface
Wolfe
St. Ambrose College
Davenport
Iowa
Pennsylvania State University
Michigan University
Iowa State University
U.S. Air Force Weather Service
Washington, D.C
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company
Iowas University Computer Center
National Science Foundation
Illinois
Iowa City
Entomology Leader Receives $30000 Federal Grant
Dr J L Bressitt chairman of entomology at Bishop Museum in Honolulu has been awarded a 30000 federal grant to classify the world’s leaf eating beetles. He said researchers must share a common scientific language.
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Honolulu
JL. Bressitt
Bishop Museum
FAA tests electronic hijacker detector at Lambert St Louis
Federal officials tested an electronic device at Lambert St Louis Airport to detect weapons on passengers boarding Eastern Airlines flights. The test is part of the Sky pirate Sentinel system, said to be near completion with further tests planned at other airports.
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ST. Louis
Lambert-St. Louis
Eastern Airlines
Federal Aviation Agency
FAA
Lambert
National Airport
Washington, D.C
John F. Kennedy Airport
New York City
Neighborhood brothers fund Memorial Day flowers for forgotten soldier
In Birmingham Alabama two boys ages 11 and 12 save part of their allowance for a wreath on Sgt Richard F Campos buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery San Francisco The Huey family adopted him informally and support a flag in his honor Their mother notes the boys understand belonging and love through their act of paying the memorials every year
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Birmingham
Ala
Richard F. Campos
Mark
David Huey
David
Richard
Lucian C. Huey
Vietnam
San Bruno
Calif
Golden Gate National Cemetery
San Francisco
Heat Wave in India Kills Two in Delhi Surges to Forty
A heat wave in northern India caused two deaths in Delhi on Wednesday as temperatures neared 114 degrees. Over the past five days the toll rose to 40 across the region.
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New Delhi
India
Delhi
Ghosts of D-Day to Visit Ike’s Hometown
Famed D-Day ghosts will march in Abilene Kansas at the Eisenhower Center site of Ike’s tomb for a D-Day 25 Years Later conference on June 6 7. A six month display marks the Allied invasion with scholars including Forrest Pogue Don Whitehead and others to speak on air power naval strategy and invasion outcomes.
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Abilene
Kan
France
Ike
Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Adolf Hitler
John E. Wickman
Forrest Pogue
George C. Marshall Research Library
U.S. First Army
Don Whitehead
Associated Press
Bloody
Omaha
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Docking
Tom van Sickle
Fort Scott
Nancy Herrick
Northfield
Ill
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Nancy
Journal-World Photo
Campos
Huey
Irondale
Kentucky
Hopkins Kleen Air Service
N.H. Vi
Barker
By Henry B. Jameeson
Pullman Inc
Martin Blumenson
The
University of Nova Scotia
Mulberry
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Capitol Federal Savings and Loan
Kith
Loden
Magnavox
Stereo Theatre
VIVID
Thrilling
Con Myo Tye
Massachusetts
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