Quartet Dominates CMA Awards In California Show
At Knott's Berry Farm the quartet Alabama won entertainer of the year and top vocal group for the fifth straight year. George Strait took album of the year and top male vocalist. Ronnie Milsap won song of the year with Lost in the Fifties. Milsap, blind, read Reba McEntire’s name in Braille for top female vocalist. Highwayman by Nelson Cash Jennings Kristofferson won single of the year.
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Buena Park
Calif
George Strait
Alabama
Strait
Jeff Cook
Knott
Berry Farm
Ronnie Milsap
Milsap
Reba McEntire
Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash
Waylon Jennings
Kris Kristofferson
Minor Parties Stricken From Kansas Ballot
Kansas secretary of state announces that in 1986 no minor parties will appear on the statewide ballot. Due to a 1984 law requiring 1 percent of statewide votes, and petitions lacking, only Republicans and Democrats will be on the ballot. This marks the first Kansas general election without a minor party candidate in 125 years.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Jack Brier
Brier
Lucille Bieger
U.S. Senate
Nancy Kassebaum
Marian Buck Jackson
American Party
Douglas Merritt
Libertarian Party
Freda H. Steele
Prohibition Party
Russian Wheat Aphid Invasion Reaches Plains
The Russian wheat aphid has been found in four Plains states including Texas New Mexico Oklahoma and Kansas with first confirmations in late March. The pest injures wheat by toxin injection causing leaf streaks and curling, and it may spread barley yellow dwarf virus. Control below $5 per acre uses a contact plus systemic insecticide.
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Manhattan
Kan
Europe
Africa
Plains Area
Texas Panhandle
Leroy Brooks
Kansas State University
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Kansay
Brooks
Russia
Middle East
Mediterranean
North Africa
South Africa
Challenger debris piece may explain shuttle explosion cause
A two ton chunk of Challenger debris with a 1 by 2 foot burn hole in its joint casing was recovered 40 miles off Cape Canaveral. The Navy said the piece includes the ruptured joint that released flame 15 seconds before the Jan. 28 disaster that killed seven astronauts. Commission members and NASA officials planned briefings as recovery efforts continue for the second key joint section still missing.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Navy
Stena Workhorse
William Graham
Richard Truly
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Commission
William P. Rogers
NASA
Turnpike Fatalities Decline Amid Traffic Rise in 1985
Kansas Turnpike Authority reports 1985 fatalities fell to nine, the lowest in 29 years, while total accidents rose 21.1 percent to 1,106. Traffic increased 5.6 percent with 14.5 million vehicles, miles driven up 2 percent to 635.3 million, and toll revenues up 1.7 percent to 27.3 million.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Kansas-Oklahoma
Sumner County
Kansas City
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