Kansas Senators Propose New Death Penalty Bill
Eight Republican Kansas senators unveil a bill allowing death or life imprisonment for seven crimes including murder by an inmate and murder during kidnapping or rape. It would require separate sentencing before a trial jury to weigh aggravating and mitigating factors, with execution by injection. Governor Carlin vetoed a prior version on constitutional grounds.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Neil Arnsmith
Phillipsburg
John Chandler
Holton
Ross Doyen
Concordia
Ronald Hein
Bill Morris
Wichita
Edward Reilly Jr
Leavenworth
Merrill
Werts
Junction City
House
Senate
Carlin
Americans Can Earn More With Less In The Bank
Americans will see higher interest on smaller deposits in 1980 with a 2 percent four year savings certificate and a new Energy Bond paying a bonus if held to maturity. Banks savings and loan associations and credit unions may issue the certificate tied to 2 to 4 year Treasury rates. The EE Bond goes on sale Jan 1 with a 7 percent annual bonus if held 11 years. Existing E Bonds gain the bonus if held 11 years from the first semiannual period. Existing offerings vary across institutions from passbook savings to six month money market certificates with minimum deposits from $500 to $10,000 and rates from about 4.5 to 8 percent.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Savings and Loan Associations
Treasury Department
Savings and Loan
Treasury
Aging Department Opposes State Telephone Rate Rise
Kansas aging officials oppose Southwestern Bell's 47.4 million rate ask, warning higher bills will burden elderly Kansans. Testimony cited 397,000 residents over 60, with 30 percent older than seven, relying on phones for contact and emergencies. Additional concerns target local coin payphone and other long distance charges. Public hearings continue, with final session set for December 27 in Wichita and resumed January 7.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Department On Aging
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Gary Weidenbach
Kansas Corporation Commission
Kansas
Southwestern Bell
Weidenbach
Corporation Commission
Widenbach
Donald Zimmerman
Lewis Swenger
Swenger
Tom Taylor
The
Kansas City
Wichita
Christmas Remains Tough For Family Of Tehran Hostage
Virgil and Toni Sickmann face a hard Christmas as their son Rocky, a U S Marine, is among 50 hostages held at the American Embassy in Tehran. They describe prayers, cards, and masses from around the world while planning a quiet family Christmas Eve and morning breakfast.
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Krakow
Virgil
Toni Sickmann
Rocky
Sickmanns
America
Rodney V. Sickmann
Tehran
Iran
Missouri
St. Louis
State Department
Washington
Bills Waiting For Session In Topeka Kansas 1980
Kansas lawmakers prepare for the January 14 1980 session with 24 carryover bills from 1979 out of 1 202 introduced. Costs of reprinting carryover bills are reduced by reusing plates, while many carryovers die naturally unless reintroduced.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Joe Doak
Bachman
Body Found In Refrigerator In Denver Housing Project
Police report a badly decomposed male body parts scattered around the Lincoln Park public housing project in downtown Denver. A 30-year-old man in a wheelchair, Lewis Moore, was arrested at Stapleton International Airport while attempting to board a flight to Chicago on an investigation of a serious case. Two young girls found a severed arm in a plastic bag on a doorstep at the same project, with notes attached to body parts referencing those accused in serious cases of the barrio. The project lies in Denver’s Mexican-American community core.
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Denver
Bob Shaughnessy
Lewis Moore
Stapleton International Airport
Chicago
Lincoln Park
Shaughnessy
Atchison Cleans Up After Chlorine Leak Runaway Gas
Toxic chlorine gas forced about 500 people to flee from schools and plants in Atchison Kansas. The leak from a one ton cylinder at Midwest Solvents was repaired within hours and the evacuation order lifted. Wayne Jones was hospitalized but in satisfactory condition. 250 pupils and 200 workers evacuated from nearby sites. Plant operations resumed as the holidays began.
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Atchison, Kan
Atchison
Midwest Solvents
Wayne Jones
Franklin
Sacred Heart
Pillsbury
Saunders Manufacturing Co
Randy Houchen
Ladd Seaberg
Seaberg
Kansas City
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