New City Manager Mills Takes Post In Ottawa
Ottawa's new city manager Robert W. Mills 37 begins his first week at City Hall meeting Mayor Stephen V. Ralph City Clerk Orlin Smith and department heads. A Kansas native with prior posts in Sterling McCook and Arkansas City Mills stresses team city government and careful change aimed at growth and stable taxes. He and his wife Nancy and two children live at 1525 Orchard Drive.
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Edward McGrath
Ottawa
Robert W. Mills
Stephen V. Ralph
Orlin Smith
Mills
Kansan
Wichita
Wichita State University
Washburn University School of Law
Topeka
University of Kansas City
Arkansas City
Sterling
Kan
McCook, Neb
First National Bank and Trust Company
Lincoln
Neb
Kansas City
Nancy
John Robert
Ellen Anne
Orchard Drive
Aftermath Of Strikes Shrinks Rail Labor Disputes
Rail officials rushed to restore service after a nationwide strike against 10 railroads ended. Perishables moved first as refrigerator cars were deployed. wage hikes totaling about 190000 workers' pay and rule changes were part of the settlement. GM and Ford plants resumed, with Southern Pacific aiming to restart commuter service in the San Francisco area.
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Sam Dobbins
Associated Press
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
West
Northwest
General Motors Assembly
Kansas City
Union Pacific
Ford Motor. Co
New 185 question accident form rolls out statewide
Kansas law enforcement adopts a longer at scene accident report form used for collisions. With 185 questions it quadruples prior length, prompting confusion and extended delays as officers carry forms on patrol.
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Kansas Motor Vehicle Department
Eugene Flaherty
National Safety Council
Kansas Highway Patrol
Fred A. Vogler Jr
Vogler
G. C. Simmons
Simmons
Flaherty
Motor Vehicle Department
US launches push to seat both Chinas at UN
Washington reports the Nixon administration initiates consultations with UN members on two China policy to avoid expulsion of Nationalist China while seating Communist China in the world body this fall. State Department officials say the plan offers an alternative to Albania's Yem resolution and aims to win support for a two-thirds vote.
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Washington
Nixon
United Nations
China
State Department
Albania
Taiwan
Peking
U.N
Republic of China
U.S
William P
Rogers
Chiang Kai-shek
Foreign Affairs
Richard Nixon
Steelmakers Follow Suit With 8 Percent Steel Hike
Wheeling Pittsburgh joined four other large producers in announcing roughly eight percent increases on nearly all raw steel products. The White House questioned if this serves long term interests but did not press for a rollback. U.S. Steel said the rise offsets costs from a new AFL CIO contract granting a 30 percent wage rise over three years.
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White House
U.S. Steel
Afl-Cio
United Steelworkers of America
Miller says tax lid must be extended to keep sales tax gains
Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller ruled that unless the 1972 legislature acts to extend the property tax lid and repeal a statute, Topeka Lawrence and Manhattan must rescind their special half cent sales tax increases implemented last spring. The lid expires automatically at end of 1972 unless extended.
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Topeka
Kan
Vern Miller
Kansas Cities
Thomas van Cleave
Kansas City
Robert Docking
Miller
van Cleave
Lawrence
Manhattan
Rested Astronauts Map Moon Surface in Orbit
Apollo 15 crewmates David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden woke refreshed after nine hours sleep and operated a 17 million dollar instrument array mapping about 20 percent of the moon. They faced a late Falcon jettison amid a pressure anomaly in the tunnel but Mission Control found no leak and delayed the separation two hours. The crew aims to splash down in the Pacific Saturday after completing orbital science tasks.
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Space Center
Houston
Moon Orbit
Lunar
David R. Scott
Mission Control Center
Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
Falcon
U.S. Space Agency
Joe Allen
Moon
Pacific Ocean
Donald K. Slayton
Irwin
Worden
Mission Control
Allies Annihilate Red-Held Villages in Cambodia Frontline Action
South Vietnamese fighter bombers and U S helicopters destroyed two enemy held villages in eastern Cambodia during a day long battle near the Parrot's Beak south of Highway 1. Rangers suffered two killed and eight wounded as villagers fled. one village was seized by dusk. The report notes intensified aerial reconnaissance along the Cambodian border to curb North Vietnamese infiltration ahead of August 29 elections, with fears of disruption.
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Saigon
U.S
Cambodia
Associated Press
Huyen Cong Ut
Parrot’s Beak
Phnom Penh
United States
South Vietnam
Jack J. Wagstaff
Wagstaff
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California
Oregon
United Grain Growers
United Transportation Union
J.D. Hodgson
Steelmakers
Pittsburgh, Pa
Wheeling Pittsburgh
Vern
Samos
M. Baromot
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