Abduction of Baldwin City Officer Triggers Multi-County Chase
Police report a Baldwin City officer Mike Shute was abducted at gunpoint during a routine stop. Suspects fled, leading to cross‑county chases in Baldwin Wellsville and Kansas City areas. Warrants issued for two men on kidnapping and weapons or battery charges. A 19 year old Wellsville woman forced to drive. released 6 a.m. Aristotel Onassis admitted to American Hospital Neuilly for muscular disease with influenza. entered via rear door to avoid photographers.
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Douglas County
Paris
Aristotle Onassis
Neuilly
Jobless Rate Leaps Beyond 8 Per Cent
Washington AP report shows January unemployment at 8.2 percent, highest in 33 years, with 7.5 million seeking work. Layoffs hit blue and white collar workers, teens, women, and men as the recession deepens, raising questions about peak rate and policy forecasts.
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Washington
Labor Department
Tax Cut Measure Gathers Momentum
The emergency tax-cut bill in Congress would mail rebates up to 200 to 10 percent of 1974 taxes, with 200 maximum for those under 20,000 income. The package, approved by the House Ways and Means Committee 28 to 5, includes lower taxes this year and business incentives, and raises standard and itemized deduction limits while adding a 5 percent earned income credit and a 10 percent general investment tax credit for corporations.
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Ford
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Senate Finance Committee
Thomas P. Salmon
Vermont
John C. Sawhill
Ways and Means Panel
Ford to address Kansas Legislature in Topeka visit
President Ford will speak to a joint session of the Kansas Legislature in Topeka then host a 7 pm news conference at a downtown hotel for national telecast. Gov. Bennett confirmed the plan and noted a working lunch with ten Midwest governors at Cedar Crest before the talks.
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Ford
Kansas
Robert F. Bennett
Midwest
Kansas Senate
House
Bennett
Cedar Crest
White House
Plains
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Leroy Towns
Kansas Statehouse
Elon Torrence
Kansas Reef
Hard Line On Bingo Still Intact
Kansas House votes to keep strict regulation and licensing provisions in the bingo bill after an overnight mood shift. An amendment to remove regulation failed 61-55 as debate over location limits prizes and daily game caps continued amid concerns about public desire and legal enforcement safeguards.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas House
Ansel Tobias
R-Lyons
Tobias
Kansas
Vern Miller
Senate
Weather County Forecast and Legislative Finance
Increasing cloudiness tonight with a low near 7 and a high in the upper 20s to 30s Saturday. Northerly wind tonight. In the House debate on amendments Rep Ansel Tobias offered a further amendment to drop restrictive provisions in the bill. The Tobias amendment faced criticism as an attempt to remove a provision preventing discrimination by licensed organizations. An amendment to the Tobias amendment was offered but time pressed at 12:45 pm. The House approved a change in the discrimination clause likely to stand, permitting discrimination on sex and allowing all male groups such as the Elks to sponsor bingo.
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John Carlin
Dsmolan
Ansel Tobias
R-Lyons
House
Tobias
the Elks
Ford energy plan costs higher than White House estimate
A Library of Congress study released at a Senate Finance hearing shows the Ford energy program would cost 33 to 155 percent more than the White House estimate, with a total price around 50 billion dollars annually. The study also indicates the impact on the poor would be over three times greater than on wealthier families.
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Ford
Library of Congress
Walter F. Mondale
D-Minn
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