City OKs truck route plan and water plant bids
Lawrence commissioners approved a new through truck route plan aimed at easing enforcement and spreading traffic burdens. They also awarded the Clinton Reservoir water treatment plant contract to Sharp Brothers at 6.29 million after bid alterations, with scrutiny over bidding practices. Drainage plans remained unresolved.
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Lawrence
The
Traffic Safety Commission
Clinton Reservoir
Sanitation Department
Iowa Street
Mission Head
Akagi
Black & Veatch
Kansas City
Clinton
Jack Robinson
Robinson
Sharp Brothers Contracting Co
M.W. Watson Constructors Inc
Topeka
Sharp Firm
Misunderstanding Clouds Historical Unit Funding
Douglas County Historical Society faces a funding misunderstanding seven months after receiving bicentennial money. Former bicentennial officials press for accounting while society and its museum trustees clash over control and project selection.
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Misunderstanding Clouds Historical Unit
Douglas County Historical Society
Douglas County Bicentennial Commission
Historical Society
Charles Fisher
THE
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Douglas County Historical Building Survey
Bicentennial Commission
Fisher
Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum
Travis Glass
Historical Society Board
Glass
Museum
Museum Board
Zenith to Move Key Operations to Mexico and Taiwan
Zenith Radio Corp plans to shift television module board and chassis assembly to Mexico and Taiwan, cutting about 3,500 U.S. jobs next year and adding another 1,500 from imported stereo products. The move will trigger immediate layoff of 600 Chicago area middle management and engineering staff and eventual job cuts at plants in Chicago and other U.S. sites. Zenith employs roughly 21,000 hourly workers in the United States and 3,000 overseas. stock fell and profits slipped in early year.
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Zenith Radio Corp
Mexico
Taiwan
U.S
John Nevin
Youngstown Steel Co
Ohio
Nevin
Zenith
Paris
Springfield
Sioux City
Iowa
Watsontown
Demo reveals tax relief plan for Kansas cities and counties
Senate leader Jack Steineger unveiled a property tax relief plan tying revenue sharing to a lid on rising taxes. The proposal would limit city and county levies to base-year revenues with inflation and allow new tax authority for improvements, while funding a City-County Revenue Sharing and Property Tax Reduction Fund. It excludes certain increases tied to mandated programs and retirement costs.
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Topeka
Kan
Senate
Jack Steineger
Kansas City
Steineger
Robert Docking
Curt Schneider
Wildlife lecture kicks off KU Wednesday Evening Series
Tumaiui Mcharo former Serengeti National Park official will speak on African wildlife at 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Panorama Room Dyche Museum of Natural History Kansas University Oct 5 The talk is part of a fall series with two additional programs planned. Mcharo now teaches animal behavior at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City Missouri.
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Tumaiui Mcharo
Serengeti National Park
Kid Wiley
KU Museum of Natural History
Albert J. Rowell
KU Faculty Sabbatical Compromise Talks Progress
KU faculty representatives and administrators held closed talks on a compromise sabbatical plan after rejecting the initial proposal. William Westerbeke said movement toward a language acceptable to all is occurring, with a written compromise to be presented to the faculty council on October 13. The policy requires sabbaticals to be awarded only in strictly meritorious cases.
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Kansas University
William Westerbeke
KU Senate
Westerbeke
Kansas Board of Regents
Dei Shankel
Shankel
Archie Dyker
Senate Executive Committee
Grants Awarded for KUMC Jobs and Windows Upgrade
Federal grants totaling just over 1 million dollars support two Kansas University Medical Center projects. A 950000 grant funds expansion of a 3.5 million radiation therapy center with about 2 million already state appropriated and an 127290 grant funds Wahl Hall window replacement with double glazed solar windows to cut cooling needs. Funds come from the Economic Development Administration Local Public Works Program. Announcement came from U.S. Rep. Martha Keys in Washington.
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Kansas University Medical Center
Wahl
Medical Center
Kansas City, Kan
Max Lucas
University
Economic Development Administration
Washington
U.S
Martha Keys
D-Kan
Kansas use value assessment plan faces reversal at interim meeting
A Kansas legislative interim committee reversed a penalty plan forcing reassessment of property, warning that tying penalties to use value appraisal could raise farm taxes. Sen. John Simpson warned the move might shift tax burden to farmland as counties lag on reassessment.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
John Simpson
Salina
Simpson
Kale Hineman
R-Dighton
Barry Finchbaugh
Kansas State University
Flinchbaugh
Man released from hospital after bus collision
Guy Janousek, 16, of Orchard, was dismissed Tuesday from Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a pickup truck collided with a bus on West 15th Street. He suffered head and chest bruises. no others were injured.
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Guy Janousek
Orchard
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Janousek
West 15Th Street
Search continues for Douglas County farm agent position
The Douglas County extension council decides to extend the search for a new agriculture extension agent with livestock experience for at least another month. Ruth Ann Nutt says salary issues deterred several applicants, and the agent will replace Julian Toney who left last spring. The annual meeting also elected nine new commissioners to three year terms across agriculture, home economics, and 4 H youth roles.
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Douglas County Agriculture Extension
Ruth Ann Nutt
Julian Toney
Council
Agriculture
Howard Heck
Trail Rd
Architects to gather ideas for East Lawrence Center
East Lawrence residents will share ideas at a 7 p.m. meeting October 5 at the present East Lawrence Center. The session is a joint effort by the East Lawrence Improvement Assn. and the Far East Lawrence Improvement Assn. Midgley Shaughnessy Fickel and Scott Architects of Kansas City have been chosen to design the center, with about 250000 in Community Development funds allocated. City commissioners favor locating the center at 10th and Delaware where land is owned by the city.
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East Lawrence Center
East Lawrence
10Th and
Del
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