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Newspaper
Newton Kansan
Location
Newton, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1976
Page
4
The city commission refused Rocky Nickel permission to leave four brick planters in front of his N Main block business. Staff will enforce the ordinance and remove the planters, despite efforts by others to beautify downtown. Nickel earlier helped save Old Warkentin Mill and has improved his businesses.
Rep. John Fary, a Daley ally, reportedly keeps Chicago henchmen on his congressional payroll. Gloria Johnson and Mike Healy receive salaries while working in Chicago or private law, not in Fary's DC office. Raymond Anderzunas links to Midway Funeral Home as contact with schools and clubs.
Don Oakley argues against a full repeal of Taft Hartley 14b on Right to Work. He notes Democrats oppose total repeal, Truman used cooling off, and labor and public employees in many states ban or limit compulsory union membership. He defends individual choice to join a union and warns repeal would erase that right.
David Lilienthal, former TVA and AEC head, urges using small hydropower units on existing waterways. He says two thirds of potential energy in moving water is wasted and cites 12 to 15 month timelines to deploy on dams. Hydropower currently supplies 20 million.
The piece analyzes rising gasoline prices due to imported oil and price controls, with Marathon Oil and government figures debating the impact. It cites Lilienthal on hydro and small-scale power, and contrasts traditional big projects with alternatives like wind, solar, and coal, noting delays and cost escalations.
James McEvers accuses Longwood Florida officials of selling his cemetery plots twice and refuses offers of money or alternative plots. Mayor James Lormann says the city won t move the unidentified body and will not meet the demand to remove it, prompting McEvers to consider court action.
The mantelet was a movable shelter for assaulting a fortification. British engineer Moncrieff used prefabricated mantelets in the 1776 Charleston expedition against Americans. They stood 6 feet high, 14 feet long, on 3 feet, and required 18 men to carry, forming inner walls of a battery or redoubt when placed.
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