Initial Courthouse Sketches By Jewel Scott
Franklin County Commission approves preliminary designs for phase two of the law enforcement center. Architect Wilbur F Kruse expects final plans by May end and a possible bid setting in June if approved. Construction financed by a $322,000 Governor’s Committee grant. Plans include a 1,400 square foot basement, 6,500 square foot first level, and unfinished second level for future District Court use. Second phase to have steel frame and brick veneer like the new jail. First floor to house County Court facilities, judge’s chambers, Probate Court, vaults, conference room, law library and juvenile offices. Also approved purchase of a $150 calculator for the Assessor and traded a motor grader for two tractors, net trade difference $5,000, delivery in 30–45 days.
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Jewel Scott
Franklin County Commission
Law Enforcement Center
Wilbur F. Kruse
Governor’s Committee On Criminal Administration
Mid Con Equipment
Topeka
Main Street
Franklin County Law Enforcement
Franklin County Sheriff's Department
Ottawa
County Commission
Meatless Days Proposed By Consumer Group On Boycott
Washington AP says the National Consumers Congress, led by 150 women, urged two meatless days weekly and May 5 demonstrations against high food prices. They called for Earl Butz’s resignation, reduced exports, and boosted domestic production. Critics warned rollback could trigger meat shortages and rationing.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
National Consumers Congress
Congress
Betty Furness
New York City
Consumer Affairs
Earl Butz
Chicago
American Meat Institute
Judge Blocks OKO Phase Out Plan
A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday enjoined Howard Phillips acting CEO from further dispersing Office of Economic Opportunity programs and people, ruling the Nixon administration’s phase out plan illegal. Judge William B. Jones issued a broad order, signaling judicial pushback on the rapid dispersal strategy.
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Washington
Nixon
Office of Economic Opportunity
US District Court
William B. Jones
Howard Phillips
Jones
OEO
Congress
Missouri Rural Redevelopment Corporation
Chicago
U.S. District Court
James B. Parsons
Parsons
OKO
White House
OLO
Phillip R. Kete
Government Union
United States
Howie Phillips
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
AIM Studies Wounded Knee Pact Revision Talks
Government negotiators await a decision from militants at Wounded Knee as AIM leaders propose a seven point plan to end the 44 day siege. Pottinger notes factions within the village and that attorneys do not set the terms. Medical and infant supplies remain allowed. Additional regional jazz festival coverage follows.
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Wounded Knee
Asst
U.S. Atty
Stanley Pottinger
American Indian Movement
AIM
Pottinger
Dennis Banks
No Weather Report Today From Herald Observer
John Kelsey the Herald weather observer suffered a stroke Tuesday and cannot provide the daily report. Family stays at Ransom Memorial Hospital while substitutes compile forecasts. County forecast notes clear to partly cloudy conditions with northeast winds and moderate temperatures through Friday.
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John Kelsey
Herald
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Kelsey
Rmh
Expanded Probe Into Murders Near Ottawa
LAWRENCE The probe into the March 28 triple murder near Ottawa broadened today in Douglas and Jefferson counties. Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents planned interviews with friends and acquaintances of Hazel Avery, Steven Avery, and Gary Longfellow. The victims were found March 29 in Mrs. Avery's car along a county road south of Ottawa. No new developments reported. A $1,040 reward stands for information leading to arrests and conviction.
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Lawrence
Ottawa
Douglas
Jefferson
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Hazel Avery
Steven T. Avery
Iola
Gary C. Longfellow
Beiruts 40000 mourners escort coffins amid Beirut raid protests
A 40 000 strong funeral procession in Beirut escorted eight Israeli raid victims amid armed Palestinian support. Lebanon seeks UN Security Council action over Tuesday strikes in Beirut and Sidon. Foreign Minister Hamad condemns Israel while militants hunt for alleged aiders and a French national is reported captured.
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Lebanon
Khalil Abu Hamad
U.N. Security Council
Sidon
Vietnam
Hanoi
Israel
Palestine Liberation Army
Damascus
Baghdad
Hamad
Security Council
United Nations
Yosef Tekoah
Viet Cong claims four nation team says heli crash off course
The ICCS mission said the peacekeeping helicopter strayed from its flight path before being shot down in Quang Tri province. Nine aboard perished including four ICCS officers. another helicopter took fire but caused no injuries. Thailand pledges more aid to Cambodia amid cease-fire violations cited by Saigon.
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Saigon
Viet Cong
Duncan McAlpine
International Commission of Control and Supervision
ICCS
Quang Tri Province
McAlpine
U.S
Thailand
United States
Cambodia
Opposition Here To Rollback Opposition Here To Rollback
Franklin County farmland groups oppose a House Banking and Currency Committee bill to roll back meat prices to January 10 levels. Farm Bureau members drafted letters to Rep. Larry Winn, arguing price cuts of six to seven dollars per hundred on cattle and hogs could wipe out profits for feeder cattle buyers. George Hiles warned a rollback harms both business and consumer, risking black markets and a stagnant economy, and the county bureau plans an outreach campaign if the bill advances.
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Tierrell DeGraff
Ralph Nader
Safeway
Agriculture Department
Leon Schachter
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
Schachter
Joanistas
Franklin County
House Banking and Currency Committee
Franklin County Farm Bureau
Larry Winn
Farm Bureau
Joyce Wasmund
Farm Bureau National Affairs Policy Committee
George Hiles
Richmond
Hiles
County Farm Bureau
Demos Seek Compromise On Price Control Bill
Washington AP Democrats reverse course and craft a compromise price control bill to be debated Monday. A 60 day extension of Nixon discretionary powers was dropped as Democrats push for a more robust plan to end Phase 4 and extend economic controls beyond April 30. Shultz called the tentative extension disappointing to the Nixon administration.
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Los Angeles
Daniel Ellsberg
Ellsberg
Leonard Boudin
Boudin
New York
Vietnam
Pentagon
Washington
House
Nixon
Economic Control Authority
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
George P. Shultz
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