State Senator Winter Voices Tax Reform and School Aid Goals
Kansas Senator Winton A. Winter outlines legislative aims for the 1970 session including funding for local schools to curb tax burdens, potential sales tax on services, possible tobacco tax increases, and possible corporate income tax hikes. He cites a looming $4.9 million deficit by late 1971 and urges more state aid to schools while discussing bond reforms, marijuana penalties, highway financing, and prison needs.
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Winton A. Winter
Kansas
Topeka
Joint Committee On Taxation
Robert Docking
Winter
Olathe
State Hospital
Osawatomie
Highway Department
Senate
Lansing
U S Task Force Battles North Vietnamese Troops
American forces swept Black Virgin Mountain encountering entrenched North Vietnamese troops. Reports say 47 enemy killed as U S bombers and artillery blasted caves and slopes. U S casualties were three wounded. Thieu urged continued U S support beyond 1970. Nixon has begun troop withdrawals, with 494,000 U S personnel expected after current reductions.
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Saigon
Black Virgin Mountain
Ngueyn van Thieu
South Vietnam
U.S
Thieu
United States
Vietnam
Nixon
2 Aand
Thien
Israeli Jets Attack Along Suez Canal and West Bank Raid
Israeli jets pressed daily strikes along the Suez Canal for 70 minutes with one Israeli soldier wounded in a south canal artillery exchange. In the West Bank near Bethlehem Israeli forces killed one suspected saboteur and captured 20, after a two hour siege in a cave where five guerrillas surrendered and a sixth died. The army found two large caches of arms. Jordan reported an Israeli patrol briefly crossing the Jordan River with heavy exchanges and no losses. King Hussein warned Jordan will not accept peace terms short of full liberation of occupied Arab lands.
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Tel Aviv
Suez Canal
West Bank
Jordan River
Bethlehem
Amman
Jordan Valley
Hussein
Jordan
Israel
Rabat
Morocco
Ottawa Druggists Bypass Charges
Ottawa druggists largely skip the 50 cent charge for Medicaid welfare prescriptions as Kansas cuts Medicaid payments to curb rising costs. Some pharmacists still plan to honor the extra fee while others provide drugs free, amid questions of legality and temporary policy.
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Ottawa
Kansas Social Welfare Department
State Welfare Board
Kansas Pharmaceutical Association
Lewis Reid
Reid
Talks to Resume Ambassadorial Talks With China
Washington reports the State Department will restart ambassadorial talks with mainland China, broken off by Peking two years ago, with discussions to be held in the embassies of both nations. The talks, previously in Warsaw from 1958 to 1968, will open at the Chinese embassy.
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Washington
State Department
United States
China
Peking
Dan
Warsaw
Weeklong Siege Cold Grips the Southeast and Northeast
The worst cold spell of the winter tightens across the nation as Raleigh records a new low and subzero temperatures span from the Rockies to New England. Penn Central cancels 14 trains while electrical outages and heater failures strain utilities. reports log weather related deaths and widespread school closures.
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Associated Press
Raleigh
N.C
Florida
Penn Central
Wilmington
Del
Roanoke
Charleston
W. Va
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington, D.C
Bismarck
Casper
Wyo
Milwaukee
Indianapolis
North Platte
Neb
Des Moines
Iowa
Detroit
Chicago
Albany
N.Y
Cincinnati
Minneapolis
Burlington
Deep South
Miami
Leon County
Tallahassee
New York City
Long Island Rail Road
Penn Central Railroad
New York
Washington
Gix Metrolingin
New’ York
Kennedy inquest ends with limited testimony on Kopechne case
Edgartown Massachusetts AP reports Judge James A Boyle barred testimony suggesting Kopechne could have been saved if Edward Kennedy summoned help promptly. Diver John Farrar testified only about recovering Kopechne from Kennedy’s submerged car on Chappaquiddick Island. The inquest ends after 34 days of testimony, with a report to the Massachusetts Supreme Court and possible grand jury action pending.
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Edgartown, Maas
James A. Boyle
Mary Jo. Kopechne
Edward M. Kennedy
John Farrar
Miss Kopechne
Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Boyle
Superior Court
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Farrar
Dist. Atty. Edmund
Dinis
Dukes County
Weather county forecast shows clouds and milder Saturday
Tonight increasing cloudiness and not so cold. Saturday mostly cloudy and warmer with a chance of rain or snow in afternoon. Lows tonight in teens, high Saturday 28 to 35. Probability of measurable precipitation 30 percent Saturday. Record highs and lows listed for dates with hourly temps and barometer reading.
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Bam
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Robert B. Wellington
Franklin
Osage
Winton Winter
Nguyen van Thieu
William J. Phillips
RFD
Margaret Belter
Willow
Phillips
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Rocky Mountains
Mississippi River Valley
Great Lakes
Appalachians
New England
Michigan
Muskegon
Mich
Buffalo
Rockies
Plains
Georgia
Midwest
Safeway
Timony
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