State House Moves On School Aid And Other Bills
The House gave tentative approval to allocating 1,060,000 in extra sales tax revenue to the state elementary school aid fund, sending the measure toward Gov. Fred Hall for signature after Senate passage. The body also advanced a bribery penalties bill for athletic events and six minor measures including moving one term of Neosho County district court from Erie to Chanute and funding county law libraries with statute supplements.
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Fred Hall
Senate
Hall
House
Neosho
Kansas
Pleads Guilty To Two Charges In Alabama Case
Charles Duane Miller 23 of Dallas Texas pleaded guilty in U S District Court to two counts of kidnaping and two charges of transporting a stolen vehicle Judge C B Kennamer sentenced him to 20 years on each kidnaping count and three years on the two theft charges The sentences run concurrently totaling 20 years In court it was disclosed he was discharged in April 1954 after a three year term for car theft at Leavenworth Kansas
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Montgomery, Ala
Charles Duane Miller
Dallas
Tex
U. S
C.B. Kennamer
Miller
Leavenworth
Kas
Senate Debates Labor Bills In Topeka Session
In Topeka the Senate advanced labor management measures and a constitutional amendment. A bill bans closed and union shops and secondary boycotts while permitting maintenance of membership contracts. A secret vote would be required to authorize strikes in a bargaining unit. The group also proposed shifting the state superintendent appointment to the State Board of Education and raising workers’ compensation benefits.
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Topeka
Senate
Labor and Industry Committee
R. C. Woodward
el Dorado
Donald Hults
Lawrence
Cai
State Board of Education
Vice Flourished in Phenix City Two Months Before Slaying
Alabama highway patrolman testified in the Albert Fuller murder trial that gambling and prostitution thrived openly in Phenix City two months before A L Patterson was slain. He and another officer, in plain clothes, visited several dens and even joined dice games and pinball while gathering evidence of racketeering. The state portrays Patterson as crusader against vice, with Fuller and two co defendants accused of conspiring to kill him to protect gambling interests.
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Birmingham
Ala
Albert Fuller
Phenix City
A. L. Patterson
Russell County
Fuller
H. E. Ray
Curtis Simpson
Highway Patrol
Tom Carlisle
Patterson
Vice
Alabama
Senate Bills Coroner Bill Faces Study After Killing
A Senate committee killed a bill to abolish county coroners and create a state postmortem commission. The group favored Legislative Council study and a report to the next legislature. House-passed gas sale bill for irrigation pump use was also killed. U S death rate in 1954 estimated at 9 2 per 1000 people.
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Topekawi
Senate
Richard Woodward
el Dorado
Legislative Council
Senate Oil and Gas Committee
U. S
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