Overflow crowd pressures Equus Beds meeting in Halstead
An 800 plus audience packed Halstead High School for an Equus Beds Groundwater Management District No. 2 session about Wichita water grabs. Speakers warned against overuse of the beds amid proposals for Corbin Dam and other reservoirs. officials pledged studies and a June 1977 preliminary report.
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Halstead
Equus Beds
Halstead High School
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Chikaskia River
Corbin
Wichita
Kansas
Gary Base
Sedgwick
Tom Bell
Bell
McPherson
Hutchinson
Burrton
Little Arkansas
Andy Peck
Bureau of Reclamation
Oklahoma City
Bureau
Sumner County
el Dorado Reservoir
Tow
Towanda
Corps of Engineers
Cheney
Chikaskia
Peck
John Adrian
Moundridge
John Wyncoop
Wichita Water Department
Jim Holecek
National Cooperative Refinery Assn
Groundwater District Board
Security shrouds OPEC meeting in Doha Qatar
Oil ministers from 13 OPEC members gather in Doha for talks seen likely to push oil prices up 8 to 15 percent. Security forces, bulletproof shutters, and searched rooms guard the 342 room Gulf Hotel after a Vienna attack by Carlos. U.S. warns a rise above 8 percent raises recession risk and inflation.
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Doha
Qatar
Organization of
Vienna
Persian Gulf
Gulf Hotel
Carlos
Algeria
West
United States
U.S
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Iran
OPEC
Hughes Heir Claim Shifts From Desert Find to Forgery
Los Angeles attorney for Howard Hughes estate says Melvin Dummar forged the so called Mormon will naming him heir to an estimated multimillion dollar share. FBI fingerprints on the envelope were attributed to Dummar, who says he found Hughes in the desert in 1968. Dummar’s status as one of the heirs remains contested amid the ongoing legal fight.
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Los Angeles
Howard Hughes
Melvin Dummar
Hughes
James Dilworth
Superior Court
Neil A. Lake
FBI
Dummar
Desert
Carter Chooses Blumenthal for Treasury Amid Cabinet Fill
President elect Jimmy Carter named W. Michael Blumenthal chairman of Bendix Corp as treasury secretary and pushed to complete his Cabinet by Christmas. He also floated Jane Pfeiffer as commerce secretary and discussed Dunlop returning as labor secretary amid multi-name turnover.
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Atlanta
Jimmy Carter
W. Michael Blumenthal
Bendix Corp
Treasury
Carter
Commerce
Brock Adams
D-Wash
Washington, D.C
Transportation
Senate Commerce Committee
Adams
Carl Curtis
Nebraska
Blumenthal
Curtis
Carter- Dunlop
Dunlop
Harold Brown
California Institute of Technology
Pentagon
Johnson Arter
Jane Cahill Pfeiffer
IBM Corp
John Dunlop
Georgia
Carter Dunlop
Secretary of Defense
Charles Schultze
Presidential Council of Economic Advisers
Andrew Young
D-Ga
United Nations
Young
Congress
Hear Ye Hear Ye Answers on Local Retirement Pay
The Kansan notes residents' questions on former Harvey County retirement pay. County administrator Melvin Gradert says information on counts receiving retirement pay as of Dec 1 1975 and presently is unavailable. Pre 1963 retirees are handled by Social Security or private plans.
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Dana Cox
Sedgwick
Harvey County Planning Commission
Harvey County
Bureau
Melvin M. Gradert
Kansas Public Employes Retirement
KPERS
Topeka
Gradert
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Newton
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Laban Peachey
Hesston College
George J. Hanna
Newton Chamber of Commerce
Little Arkansas River
Howard Beck
Hesston
Harvey County Conservation District
SCD
John Sanders
Walton State Bank
Walton
Richard Basore
Bentley
Dick Chamberlain
Fred Diehl
Robert Schmidt
Kans
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Salt Lake City
Gary Gilmore
U.S. Supreme Court
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Ronald Stanger
IRA
New
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
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Maze
Roy Young
Weather Data
South Central
Kjirg
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Charles Hart
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