United Fund Campaign Nears Finish After Extensions
Lawrence United Fund plans to end its campaign next Wednesday led by Keith Lawton. The drive aims for $150,055 with KU reaching its division goal and partial progress shown in other divisions. Several divisions trail and will be targeted for last minute solicitations before the finale.
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State Senate Group Approves Redistrict Plan for Kansas
The Senate Reapportionment Committee approved a revised Kansas Senate redistrict plan for 1972, preserving at large elections in urban areas with 26 single senator districts and several multi county groupings. It outlines district compositions by county and sets population ranges from 53,944 to 58,926 per district.
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Kansas Senate
Senate
Sedgwick
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Jefferson
Price Agency May Balk At Inflationary Increases
Washington AP Chairman C Jackson Grayson of the Price Commission said the government may balk at granting price increases reflecting full labor costs if they appear inflationary. He noted some cases may allow increases while others may curb spiraling costs and that coal settlements of 15 to 17 percent will be examined on an individual company basis. Senate and House committees move to retroactive raises despite wage price freeze. Labor Department reports rising costs in another economic development.
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Senate rejects union tax exemption move in tax cut bill
The Senate voted 61 to 31 against a Republican amendment to revoke tax exempt status for unions that use dues for politics. The fight centers on provisions to fund presidential campaigns with federal tax money, with Democrats pushing the plan and Republicans opposing it as a slush fund and a raid on the Treasury.
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Paul J. Fannin
Wallace F. Bennett
Utah
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
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Scott
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Pay Board Approves First-Year Coal Contract Without Changes
The Pay Board voted 10 to 3 today to allow the first year of the coal industry contract to go into effect without changes.
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Washington
Pay Board notes small rise in living costs amid price freeze
Living costs rose two tenths of one percent last month despite the price freeze due to higher prices for 1972 automobiles winter and fall clothing and shelter. The rise ran about half the average monthly increase before the freeze began August 15. The Pay Board meets today to review a new contract between the United Mine Workers and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, proposing pay raises up to 35 percent over three years and a 100 percent rise in management pension contributions. Board guidelines would cap increases at about 5.5 percent per year.
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Central region leads in over 65 population figures
Iowa and Nebraska rank second nationwide in seniors aged 65 or older at 12.4 percent of their populations. Missouri is at 12 percent and Kansas 11.9 percent, with Lawrence at 6.7 percent over 65 and a median age of 22.8.
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Nebraska
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Missouri
Kansas
Lawrence
Costs Rise In October Amid Price Freeze Details
Government data show the cost of living increased two tenths of one percent in October despite a price freeze starting Aug 15. Higher prices for 1972 cars, winter clothing, and shelter drove the rise, with the index at 122.6 percent of the 1967 level and weekly earnings slipping to 129.11 dollars.
Sunny cool football day in Lawrence for KU Missouri
Sunny skies and cool autumn temperatures forecast in Lawrence for today and Saturday. Fans planning the KU Missouri game at Memorial Stadium Saturday at 1 30 p m can expect near cloudless skies upper 50s with southwest winds 10 to 20 mph and no rain.
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Lawrence
Ku-Missouri
Memorial Stadium
National Weather Service
Nixon presses inflation battle amid AFL CIO doubts
President Nixon told about 2,000 AFL CIO delegates he would push his wage price control program to halt inflation with or without labor cooperation. He pledged to continue anti inflation efforts and warned he would act within his powers to achieve the majority's goal of stopping the cost of living rise. Leaders warned they would stay on the Pay Board but withhold cooperation unless it served their goals.
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Miami Beach
Nixon
Aflcio
United States
Labor Federation
Labor-Industry Public Pay Board
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
Bankers Pick Nixon As 1972 Favorite In St Louis
A majority of 1,200 bankers from 19 states predict President Nixon will win a second term in 1972 at the 25th annual conference of bank correspondents in St. Louis. Edwin S. Jones of First National Bank cites 77.5 percent backing Nixon, with Sen. Edmund Muskie named as his probable challenger.
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Richard M. Nixon
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First National Board
Edwin S. Jones
Nixon
Edmund Muskie
D-Maine
Haskell Leaders Meet City Over Campus Relations
Haskell Indian Junior College officials and city leaders held a lengthy series of meetings after a disturbance at the Red Baron tavern. Participants included student leaders, Supt. Wallace Galluzzi, Dean Frank Quiring, City Manager Buford Watson, Police Chief Richard Stanwix, and John Shepard. Three steps emerged: student input to the Police Community Relations Steering Committee, early contact with Lawrence law enforcement, and ad hoc committees within the HJC Student Senate to improve communication. Quiring stressed student frustrations and the need for patient, meaningful processes to ensure their views are heard.
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Haskell
Wallace Galluzzi
Frank Quiring
Buford Watson
Richard Stanwix
John Shepard
Quiring
Lawrence
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Police
Sheriff
Highway Patrol
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