Texas Decision May Sway State Lawmakers
Kansas legislators may rethink school finance after a Texas court ruling found heavy reliance on local property taxes unconstitutional. Senator Joseph Harder predicts moves toward shifting burden to state taxes, with $20 million more needed in the general fund and Gov. Docking opposing a sales tax rise.
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Texas
Kansas
Joseph Harder
R-Moundridge
Harder
California
Minnesota
U. S. Supreme Court
Shawnee County
Johnson County
Docking
Record In Injury Suit Record In Injury Suit
In Wichita Kansas a large jury award in a personal injury case from a Liberal gas explosion was announced. Leda Mae Symonds received 475000, the largest such jury award in Kansas. George Shields got 10500 and Travelers Insurance 15400 for shield residence damages. Mueller Co of Decatur Illinois manufactured the tee linked to the gas line. The verdict focused on a defective coupling creating a gas leak to the Shields home basement.
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Wichita
Kan
Kansas
U. S. District Court
Liberal
Albert Kamas
Leda Mae Symonds
Kamas
George A. Shields
Travelers Insurance Co
Shields
Insurance Company
Mueller Co
Decatur
Ill
Liberal Gas Co
Frank G. Theis
Shields Residence
Liberal Main
Wichita Welfare Ties Unemployment to Caseloads and Social ills
Kansas Welfare Department released Monday statistics linking rising general assistance and unemployment in Wichita to broader social ills in the state. General assistance cases in Wichita climbed from 130 in March 1969 to 463 in March 1971 as unemployment surged, with unemployed workers exhausting regular benefits rising from 134 to 1,230. Overall public assistance recipients reached 95,000 by mid-1970, up about 20,000 since 1967, while statewide unemployment, divorces, illegitimate births, and juvenile referrals all increased from 1960 to 1970.
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Topeka
Kan
Wichita
Kansas Welfare Department
Kansas
Nebraska Wheat Growers Leader Criticizes Butz Policy
Vic Haas of Hemingford, president of the Nebraska Wheat Growers Association, says Secretary Earl Butz is stabbing the family farmer in the back by opposing a 25 percent rise in wheat and feed grain price supports. He cites Butz's stance against H R 1163 and the Melcher Amendment, which passed the House and was backed by the Senate Agriculture Committee, as harming the U S export program.
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Earl Butz
Vic Haas
Hemingford
Nebraska Wheat Growers Association
Haas
Butz
Senate
Melcher
House
Senate Agriculture Committee
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