Young Weatherman Travers Builds Private Forecast Service
Kansas City sophomore John Travers runs Weather Command from his basement, serving six radio stations and several municipalities. At 15 he forecasts, broadcasts, and recruits clients across Montana Alabama Missouri and Kansas, charging far less than typical services. He aims to expand into the nation’s largest private weather service while balancing school and long hours.
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Kansas City
Montana
Alabama
John Travers
Travers
Weather Command
Leslie Cook
Kansas
Kcur-Fm
KCUR
KJLA
Coleman
Ala
Red Lodge
Mont
St. Louis
Leavenworth
Kan
Sook
National Weather Service
NWS
Poles Near Confrontation On 40 Hour Week
In Poland a clash between Solidarity and the communist government grows over a five day 40 hour work week with no pay cut. Government counterproposals favor two Saturdays off monthly or all Saturdays with 30 extra minutes daily amid regional protests near the Soviet border and student demonstrations.
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Warsaw
Poland
Independent Labor Movement
Presidium of
Solidarity
Mieczyslaw Jagielski
Communist Party
Jagielski
Gdansk
Ostrzynki Dolne
Stanislaw Ciosek
Jan Wolinski
Rzeszow
Law and
Baltic
Severance Tax Arouses Controversy in KansasPolitics
Gov. John Carlin backs a severance tax to raise about 199 million annually from oil gas and coal with mixed Republican reactions. House Speaker Wendell Lady urges careful review while Sen. Frank Gaines and others criticize the proposal as politically motivated and unlikely to pass. Senate leaders express varied support.
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Topeka
Kan
John Carlin
Kansas
Wendell Lady
Roverland Park
Carlin
Senate
Ross Doyen
Concordia
Pye
Lady
Donald P. Schnacke
Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association
Kansas Senate
Frank Gaines
Augusta
Begin expected to resign as early elections loom
Prime Minister Menachem Begin may resign next week over a teachers salary dispute. Finance Minister Hurvitz and Education Minister Hammer threaten to quit, risking government collapse and triggering elections possibly by summer with parliamentary polls already slated for November.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Menachem Begin
Begin
Yigael Hurvitz
Zevulun Hammer
Hurvitz
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Young Weatherman
House
Fred Weaver
Baxter Springs
Weaver
Jack Steineger
Richard Larimore
Steineger
Blue Valley Drilling Eastgave
Osawotonse
Gerald Strader
Hammer
Yedioth Ahronoth
Yitzhak Navon
All America
FDIC
Peoples National Bank & Trust
Seth Thomas
Hickory
Ottawa
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