School Finance Battle Persists in Kansas Legislature
In Topeka, partisan clash over Gov Docking’s school finance plan continues with Democrats accusing Republicans of stifling debate to favor a rival interim plan. Proposals include $40 million in state aid via a power equalizer and a 30 percent assessed value tax shift, plus a 50 percent income tax surtax option to cut property taxes. Republicans claim the rival plan has broad support and emphasize funding through the power equalizer, while noting other tax policy moves.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Robert Docking
Jack Steineger
Kansas City
Richard Loux
Wichita
Senate
House
Docking
Senate Education Committee
Steineger
Joe Harder
Rmoundridge
Harder
Johnson County
Robert F. Bennett
Bennett
Library Notes Reveal Your Library Profile
A playful questionnaire from the Library suggests the key to self-discovery lies in library use. It frames Libraries as landmarks and personal growth hubs and ends by affirming the Library since 1873 as a place to discover yourself.
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Bali Hai
Hawaii
French Foreign Legion
Henry Kissinger
Friends of the Library
Carriers Called Home From Asian Waters
The Navy ordered two aircraft carriers home from the Asian theater, the Midway to Alameda California in early March and the America to Norfolk Virginia in late March. The move cuts near Indochina air power by about 100 bombers and attack planes, though four other carriers with roughly 200 strike aircraft remain with the 7th Fleet. Further reductions are anticipated as Vietnam force levels are trimmed. No word of a comparable pullout of Air Force units from Southeast Asia before prisoners are returned and remaining troops leave South Vietnam.
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Washington
Asian
U.S
Vietnam
Midway
Alameda
Calif
America
Norfolk
Indochina
7Th Fleet
Far East
Nixon
North Vietnam
Thailand
Guam
Laos
Pentagon
Southeast Asia
South Vietnam
Kansas lawmakers praise Liberal and Olney Pancake Day event
The Kansas Legislature passed resolutions to commend Liberal Kansas and Olney England for Pancake Day observing the 24th annual event on March 6. Invitations were sent to legislators and state officials to attend the pancake race where women flip pancakes in frying pans and the fastest time wins goodwill for the city.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Liberal
Olney
England
Oil Executive Says Imported Fuel Imperative For US
Amoco vice president Richard H. Leet told an American Institute of Chemical Engineers meeting that the United States must rely heavily on imported oil to prevent an energy shortage. He projected potential imports of half the crude by 1985, urged tax incentives for domestic producers and free wellhead gas, and warned ecology concerns hinder refinery expansion and tanker access, threatening a large balance of payments burden. Leet noted ongoing political instability in oil regions and the return of oil and gas to supply two thirds of energy by 1985 despite nuclear growth.
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Kansas City
United States
Amoco Oil Company
Richard H. Leet
Amoco
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Middle East
U.S
Ecology
Leet
Maryville
Northwest Missouri State College
Flossmoor
Ill
Wild horses stampede in Cheshire car crash
Brereton England AP reports Eddie Swindells a Cheshire motorist wrecked his car when three frightened wild horses stampeded across the road late at night. He was slightly hurt and joked about what the insurance people would say after the frightful incident.
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Brereton, England
Cheshire
Eddie Swindells
Swindells
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Westminster Choir
Princeton, New Jersey
Ottawa University
Ottawa Rotary Club
MTV Act
Anchor Savings
S. Hickory
Jean Swift
Jeanne
Butler-Hanes Florist
S. Main
Slavens’ Davis Paint Store
Ottawa
Haver Ence Acard Pont
David Lean
Boris Pasternaks
Poctor Zhivago
Paravision
Methocolon
King Radio Corp
Olathe, Kansas
Lock & Key
JEECO
Weready
Pruner
Wilaon
Ottawa Retail Association
Little League Bats
Louisville H & B
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