Population slide hits Los Angeles County record high
Los Angeles County, Calif, posts its first net population decline in modern times with a 9,600 drop for the year ending June 30, 1971, leaving an estimated 7,024,600 residents. Officials cite smog, crowding, crime, and aerospace recession as drivers amid ongoing out migration to a county containing over 75 cities and a 2.8 million count in Los Angeles itself.
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California
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Ronald Reagan
State Finance Department
Hollmann
Hellmann
Robert Marr
Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission
Docking Ends Beef Tour With 12 Policy Proposals
Kansas Governor Robert Docking closed his sixth annual Beef Tour in Manhattan at Ci-Co Park with twelve proposals to grow the state beef industry. He urged expanding research on feed and fattening methods, using sorghum, preventing overgrazing, boosting markets, easing farmers tax burdens, extending low interest credit, opposing federal department fragmentation, lowering transport costs, strengthening meat inspection, and halting rural migration.
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Kan
Robert Docking
Kansas
U.S. Department of Agriculture
America
Big Red One to help Lyons boost town image with parade
About 50 volunteers from the 1st Infantry Division will fly from Ft. Riley to Lyons to improve Salt Creek in Workman Park and participate in Rice County's centennial parade. The detail, led by Sgt. Robert Collins, includes concerts at the park bandstand and community outreach during a three day pilot project.
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Workman Park
Ft. Riley
Rice County
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Miller urges aggressive action on child support payments
Atty. Gen. Vern Miller said he will work personally to force divorced fathers to pay child support and asked Kansas county attorneys to pursue cases more aggressively. He conferred with Dr. Robert Harder on reducing the welfare budget load.
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Topeka
Kan
Vern Miller
Kansas
Miller
Robert Harder
Plane wheels off at Hutchinson airport injures California family
A Lakewood California family of three C T Griffiths 42 his wife Margaret 50 and son Robert 17 were hospitalized after their plane struck down at Hutchinson airport and lost a wheel shortly after touching down Airport personnel reported the mishap and said more details would follow
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Lakewood
Calif
Hutchinson Airport
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Walkaway Capture Near Larned After Food Theft
A walkaway from Larned State Hospital was captured by sheriff's deputies on Tuesday after fleeing to a farmhouse near Larned. Mrs. Bertha Fairchild heard an intruder in her basement and alerted authorities. The man had helped himself to bread milk and jam before being cornered in a shed across the road.
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Larned
Kan
Larned State Hospital
Bertha Fairchild
Clifford Dugger
Dugger
Kansas City seeks 4500 acre annexation expansion
Kansas City officials push four annexation ordinances to extend city limits west and north, clashing with Bonner Springs which had begun annexation of part of the same land. Mayor Walsh questions legality, while Commissioner Doherty warns against a "Chinese wall" blocking westward growth.
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Kansas City, Kan
Bonner Springs
Richard F. Walsh
Hugh P. Doherty
Kansas City
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