State Welfare Director seeks 8 to 10 million extra funding
Kansas welfare director Dr. Robert Harder appealed at a budget hearing for supplemental state funds totaling 8 to 10 million for the current fiscal year and asked for 22.38 million in all funds across four aid categories. He warned that without more money ADC payments could be cut 15 to 16 percent in January and medical payments may face further reductions. the total supplemental request is around 27 million.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert Harder
Kansas
Harder
James Bibb
Wel
ADC
Dren
Bibb
Welfare Department
Robert Docking
Deartment
Iscal
Docking
Five Deaths Listed in Viet Nam Week Ends Low Casualties
AP reports US Command tallies show five American battle deaths and four wounded for the week ending last Saturday, the smallest weekly toll since early 1965. Accidents and illnesses killed 13 Americans. South Vietnamese and allied losses also declined amid troop withdrawals and disengagement from combat.
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Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
Allied
Salvation Army Christmas Tree Lights Start Fund Drive
The Salvation Army’s Christmas appeal begins with the lighting of the Tree of Lights at Fire Station No. 1 at 10 a.m. Friday. For every $10 donated by Lawrence residents, another light is turned on toward a $5,500 goal. Participants include Capt. Howard Chase and Howard Wiseman. Funds buy Christmas dinners and other expenses. Mail contributions to Box 205.
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Salvation Army
Ted Owens
Kansas University
Lawrence
Howard Chase
Salvation Army Church
Howard Wiseman
Salvation Army Advisory Board
Deputy Sheriff Wounds Himself While Deer Hunting
Douglas County Deputy Floyd Baker, 30, was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for an arrow wound to the hand suffered while climbing a tree platform built for deer hunting. He was released after stitches. A second deputy reported an accidental gun wound but learned the injury came from another weapon. Baker and a companion hunted northwest of Lawrence.
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Douglas County
Floyd Baker
Baker
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
LMH
Lawrence
Alaskan Teen Jury Ends as Officials Reject Juvenile Trials
Fairbanks Alaska AP reports that Alaska Attorney General John Havelock ended juvenile juries by barring district attorneys from trying cases with jurors under 19. A 12 member teen jury at Lathrop High School acquitted a 16 year old on a narcotics charge, amid protest from students and officials who called the move unfair.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Atty
John Havelock
Havelock
Lathrop High School
Superior Court
Warren W. Taylor
Taylor
Supreme Court
Lathrop
Phil Sword
Sword
Kelly Metcalf
Pakistanis Claim Attacks Continue in East Pakistan
New Delhi AP dispatch reports Pakistan charges Indian forces with continuing cross border attacks in five East Pakistan border areas. Dacca notes a new front with air support in north Bengal. Radio Pakistan claims gains and casualties on Indian troops. Indian officials deny large scale cross border fighting.
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New Delhi
Pakistan
East Pakistan
Dacca
North Bengal
Radio Pakistan
Dinajpur
Jessore
Mukti Bahini
Senators Praise Perry Project
Senators James B. Pearson and Robert Dole praise Senate passage of a bill authorizing the improvement and paving of three access roads to Perry Reservoir in Kansas. The measure would let Army engineers grade straighten and pave the roads without new appropriation, seen as removing safety hazards and blight to the environment.
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Washington
James B. Pearson
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Senate
Perry Reservoir
Kansas
Army Engineers
Martha Mitchell Says Car Not Big in Arkansas Visit
Martha Mitchell, wife of the attorney general, defends the government car use while visiting Arkansas. She notes prior attorney generals’ wives used government cars, cites cost of 850 dollars yearly plus about 8300 dollars for the driver. She compares her car size to Jacqueline Kennedy's and cites official duties in Washington require the sedan.
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Little Rock, Ark
Martha Mitchell
Washington
U.S
John Mitchell
Three Men Given Suspended Terms
Three 19-year-old men from Douglas County District Court received three-year suspended prison terms after pleading guilty to charges carrying one to five years. Patrick K. Sanders of Osawatomie was fined $500 for attempted sale of hashish, linked to Feb 26 drug raids in Lawrence. Douglas Michael Tenbrink and Robert G. Smith of Topeka pleaded guilty to attempted grand theft for a March 3 Ern's Cycle Center break-in and have made partial restitution.
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Douglas County District Court
Patrick K. Sanders
Osawatomie
Lawrence
Ern’s Cycle Center
Douglas Michael Tenbrink
Robert G. Smith
Topeka
Murder Charge Added In Honeycutt Action
Drury L Honeycutt 25 Haven Kansas faces first degree murder in Douglas County for the death of his 11 year old cousin Ivy Marie Honeycutt found Nov 4 in Kansas City Kansas. He also faces aggravated kidnapping and a competency hearing is set to determine trial fitness.
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Douglas County Court
Drury L. Honeycutt
Haven
Honeycutt
Ivy Marie Honeycutt
Kansas City
Kan
Wyandotte County
Herman Jones
Drury Honeycutt
Charles Rankin
Cutt
Douglas County
County Atty
Mike Elwell
Elwell
Wyandotte
China Delegate Arrives in Oxford Gray Suit at UN Security Council
Huang Hua Peking’s permanent representative to the United Nations attends a Security Council meeting in a dark Oxford gray Western style business suit at United Nations headquarters in New York.
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United Nations, N.Y
Huang Hua
Peking
United Nations
Security Council
U S Jets Lead Cambodian Supply Line Drive
U S B52 bombers spearhead a four day South Vietnamese push against North Vietnamese supply bases in eastern Cambodia. Jets struck near the Chhlong River as recon teams report no enemy sightings and Saigon forces push toward rubber plantation targets along Highway 13 amid 12 000 to 15 000 enemy troops in the area.
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Tay Ninh
Vietnam
Cambodia
Chhlong River
U.S
Saigon
Snuol
South Vietnam
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William Honeycutt
Rt. 2
China
W.A. Miller
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Art Christie
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Vint Warner
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