Silver Prices Spiral Upward Across Markets
Silver has surged about 548 percent in a year to a record 40.05 per ounce, outpacing gold and pulling costs higher for hospitals, dentists, jewelry makers, photographers, and newspapers. Local merchants anticipate further increases as銀 supplies constrain and related products adjust in price.
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Jay Bemis
John Drake
Drake Jewelry
S. Main
Drake
Ralph Church
Clio
Pomona
Church
Kodak
Snow
Graphic Arts
Health Planning Agency Hearing Set in Northeast Kansas
A public hearing for a proposed Health Systems Agency of Northeast Kansas covering 25 counties will be held Wednesday at 7 30 p m in the Franklin County Courts Building basement. Dwight West of Lyndon chairs the steering committee. The agency would issue certificates of need for hospital and nursing home expansions and major equipment acquisitions and fund planning research to identify service gaps and duplications. Funding comes from the federal Department of Health and Human Services, formerly HEW.
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George B. Pyle
Northeast Kansas
Franklin County Courts
Health Systems Agency
Dwight
Lyndon
Mary Corrigan
State Office of Health Planning
Topeka
Corrigan
Department of Health and Human Services
Health, Education and Welfare
Department of Education
Inside Highlights Vocational Co-op Negotiations
A vocational co operative enters talks aimed at shaping labor and training partnerships. City officials planned discussions to align programs with local industry needs and workforce development goals, signaling an ongoing collaboration between education and business sectors.
Harried Khomeini Seeks Seclusion
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini plans a 15 day seclusion at his Qom home amid mounting unrest. He asks demonstrations be canceled in Qom while revolutionary guards stop and search cars. U N and U S officials push for sanctions over the Tehran embassy hostages as the 66th day of captivity arrives.
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Tehran
Iran
Ruhollah Khomeini
Qom
U.N
New
York
U.S
Donald McHenry
Security Council
Kurt Waldheim
Security Council Council
Afghan Bloodbath Defies Soviet Backed Amnestyclaims
Afghanistan reports say executions of political prisoners persist under the new Soviet backed regime. Fighting continues in about six provinces as Afghan rebels clash with Soviet troops. Rebel sources claim gains near Faizabad and in Kunduz and Laghman provinces, while Tehran and Islamabad sources cite mass graves near a prison despite official denials.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Islamabad
Pakistan
Faizabad
Kunduz
Laghman
Amin
U S Consular Shake Ups Hit Kiev and New York
Western diplomatic sources say the United States will withdraw its Kiev consular mission and that Soviet authorities should pull their consular staff from New York in protest of Afghanistan intervention. Kiev staff and dependents to be reassigned within months. announcement likely in Washington. Also notes Ottawa weather station report with 24C high and 9C low and a county forecast of mostly cloudy skies and cool temperatures.
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Moscow
U.S
Kiev
Ukraine
New York
Afghanistan
Washington
Grain markets reopen after Carter embargo
Federal regulators announced grain trading centers would reopen Wednesday after a two day shutdown caused by President Carter's embargo on shipments to the Soviet Union. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said wheat corn soybeans and soybean oil futures trading would resume at GRAIN CRUNCH. The embargo has farmers uncertain about their record harvests and may impact Kansas producers.
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Washington
Carter
Soviet Union
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
President Carter
Russia
Afghanistan
Kansas
Fred Solis
Tokyo
Carter Administration
America
Congress
Bob Bergland
Bergland
Japan
European
Bob Whittaker
GOP
Keith Sebelius
Dan Glickman
Trading To Resume On Wednesday In Four Centers
Trading to resume Wednesday at the Chicago Board of Trade Minneapolis Grain Exchange Kansas City Board of Trade and Mid-America Commodity Exchange after Carter embargo. Commission Chairman James M Stone said markets had time to assess the impact and no further suspension is warranted.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Commission
James M. Stone
Carter
Stone
Chicago Board of Trade
Minneapolis Grain Exchange
Kansas City Board of Trade
Mid-America Commodity Exchange
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Ransom Memorial Hospital
Mary Carlson
RMH
Joel Nordeen
OK Photo Service
Eastman Kodak Company
Nordeen
Herald
Wayne Snow
Area City Council
United Way
Harried Khomeini
Red Army
National Weather Service
Ottawa
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