Kansan panel questions nurse and restaurant license fees
A Kansas Senate joint committee probes whether licensing and renewal fees for the division of food service and lodging and the state board of nursing generate unwarranted surpluses. Fees rose notably for restaurant licenses, prompting requests for explanations ahead of potential repeal in 1979.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Ron Hein
Joint Committee On Rules and Regulations
Division of Food Service and Lodging
Department of Health and Environment
State Board of Nursing
Hein
Food Service and Lodging Agency
Ray Schowalter
Nursing Board
Schowalter
New Fiscal Agent For Medicaid In Kansas
On July 1 a Texas based data processing firm subsidiary became the fiscal agent for Kansas Medicaid replacing Kansas Blue Cross Blue Shield. Electronic Data Systems Federal processes 250000 claims monthly while state social and rehabilitation services maintains eligibility and payments. EDSF aims to process 95 percent of claims within 30 days and to implement the Medicaid Management Information System to improve fraud detection and reporting.
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Topeka
Hns
Electronic Data Systems Federal
Electronic Data Systems
Kansas Blue Cross
Blue Shield
EDSF
Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Joe Young
North Carolina
Florida
Alabama
Tennessee
Louisiana
Texas
Wisconsin
New Mexico
Idaho
Washington
California
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
SRS
Young
Kansas
Department of Health, Environment and Welfare
H.E.W
Blue Cross- Blue Shield
Charles Stevenson
WSU Crash Settlement Ends Litigation in 1970 Flight
Kansas Attorney General Curt Schneider announced a 1.56 million settlement check delivered to Sedgwick County District Court, resolving 22 of 40 remaining claims from the Wichita State University football team plane crash in Colorado on Oct 2 1970. The funds finish state liability and consolidate 11 remaining suits.
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Topeka
Kan
Sedgwick County
Wichita State University
Curt Schneider
Colorado
WSU
King assassination inquiry probes MLK bullet path
Three top pathologists examined King death samples as House committee seeks fresh clues. Dr. Michael Baden, Dr. John Coe, and Dr. Joseph Davis reviewed fragments to locate the fatal bullet’s origin, weighing if it could come from a source other than the Memphis rooming house window, while not overturning the core finding King died from a spine and major vessel rupture.
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Washington
Martin Luther King Jr
House
New York City
Michael Baden
Memphis
Tenn
Baden
John I. Coe
Hennepin County
Minn
Joseph H. Davis
Dade County
Fla
Robert Blakey
King
King’s Motel
Blakey
Stephan Attacks Name-Calling Tactics
TOPEKA Kan AP The Wichita judge known as a tenacious political battler launched a counterattack at a Republican unity meeting at the governor’s mansion accusing Attorney General Curt T Schneider’s aide of name-calling. Stephan a former Sedgwick County judge seeking the GOP AG post condemned the smear as he campaigns against Schneider in November. He said Kansans will distinguish him from the incumbent and avoid fighting on the AG’s level. GOP leaders at Cedar Crest projected close races and unity as candidates gathered to map a shared fall path. Nancy Landon Kassebaum and several GOP hopefuls attended along with state officials and party leaders.
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Topeka
Kan
Wichita
Robert T
Bob” Stephan
Stephan
Sedgwick
Kansas
Marshall Barber
Curt T. Schneider
Schneider
Barber
Bobby Big Bucks
Scheider
Garden City
Cedar Crest
Robert F. Bennett
Jack Ranson
McDill
Huck” Boyd
GOP
Boyd
Rawson
Bennett
Nancy Landon Kassebaum
U.S. Senate
Jim Jeffries
Atchison
Jim Litsey
Bob Whittaker
Augusta
Jack Brier
Fletcher Bell
Jim Ungerer
Texaco sees Baltic Canyon gas find as moderately encouraging
Texaco senior VP Robert Palmer said the Baltimore Canyon discovery off New Jersey is moderately encouraging for future finds. The test well produced a small amount of high quality natural gas, not yet commercial, with two more wells planned to assess potential reserves. Palmer noted the area’s early stage but called the first flowing gas indication significant for an eastern seaboard reservoir.
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New York
Texaco Inc
Baltimore
New Jersey
Texaco
Robert Palmer
Atlantic City
Palmer
Shell
Continental Oil
Baltimore Dome
L. Weldon Calahan
U.S
Senators Clash On Carter Farm Credit And Wheat Policy
In Kansas, Dr. Bill Roy supports the Emergency Farm Credit Act and calls it good, while Nancy Landon Kassebaum criticizes Carter for delays on the 1979 wheat set aside and urges decisive action to reduce a large carryover. Roy praises loan level increases as helpful, but says farmers need adequate prices to retire debts.
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Nancy Landon Kassebaum
Wichita
Carter
Roy
Farmers Home Administration
Congress
Kansas
Kasse
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Roy, Kassebaum
Bill Roy
Lyons
Jcpenney
Jcpenney Catalog Department
Ottawa
Thakita Tools
First National Bank
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