Carlin Plans Budget Over $3 Billion
Governor John Carlin will submit Kansas 1983 budget above three billion dollars with a 125 million expected revenue from a 5 percent severance tax on oil and natural gas and a 2 percent coal tax. He backs the tax to avoid higher school property taxes and signals possible later compromise.
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Topeka
Kan
John Carlin
Carlin
Associated Press
Kansas
Robert Docking
Robert Bennett
Partly Cloudy Weekend Forecast For County
Partly cloudy Saturday with steady or slowly falling temperatures in the mid teens. Mostly cloudy and bitterly cold Saturday night and Sunday with a slight chance of flurries. Low Saturday night from zero to 5 below, high Sunday from low to mid teens. Northerly winds 10 to 20 mph Saturday.
State Attorney General targets corrections chief amid guards complaints
State Attorney General Bob Stephan assails Secretary of Corrections over inmate guard grievances. He probes the department after prison guards allege unsafe conditions and improper management, prompting calls for reforms and accountability.
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Bob Stephan
Corrections
Atlanta detective testifies on splash in Williams murder trial
A national police source describes a suspicious splash tied to the Wayne Williams case during the high profile Atlanta murder trial. Page 10 coverage notes cautious interpretation of the incident amid ongoing proceedings.
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Atlanta
Wayne Williams
Wichita, Kan
Wichita
Paul Garofalo
Anthony Ray Martin
Sedgwick
Ivory Haislip
Garofalo
Haislip
Martin
Ottawa Board set to pick Metropolitan Life for district health coverage
Ottawa Board of Education meets Monday at 7 30 p m to approve Metropolitan Life of Overland Park as the new health insurance carrier after 33 years with Blue Cross Blue Shield. Employees backed Metropolitan by 104 votes to 10 for Blue Cross and nine for Kansas Employees Educational Pool. The agenda also covers a possible school breakfast pilot, personal freedoms policy for teachers, policy to withhold grades for unpaid fines, curriculum development structure for U S C 290, a 1982 83 calendar with 170 school days, two board negotiators for teacher contracts, and a work session date.
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Jay Bemis
Ottawa Board of Education
S. Main
Metropolitan Life of
Overland Park
Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Metropolitan
Blue Cross
Kansas Employees Educational Pool
Lou Burke
OHS
Nancy Hale
U.S.C
Nelson
Board of Education
Farmers Fear Outbreak Of Bankruptcy Increases Predicted
Kansas City hearing on the agricultural economy heard Rep. Wes Watkins warn higher prices are needed to avert record farm bankruptcies in the next two years. The panel, chaired by Rep. Dan Glickman, included six House Democrats. About 200 people attended at the Kansas City Convention Center. Testimony cited harder borrowing, rising costs, dwindling land equity, and an expected 1982 decline in net farm income for the third year. Rep. Tom Daschle called agriculture on the brink of a low mood.
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Kansas City
Kan
Wes Watkins
D-Okla
John Adrian
Kansas Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Committee
Watkins, Daschle
Glenn English
Oklahoma
Federal Farmers Home Administration
English
United States
Ack Kelsey
Oklahoma Farmers Union
Ron Hoerner
Kansas Association of Wheat Growers
L.K. McDonnell
International Flying Farmers
Reagan Eyes Tax Hikes and Asset Sales to Reduce Deficit
President Reagan tentatively endorses doubling major excise taxes on tobacco liquor wine beer gasoline and liquor while shifting highway welfare and education duties to states to shrink the 1983 deficit. Treasury estimates show gains of about 5.4 billion annually from doublings with broader cuts or asset sales also discussed.
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Washington
Reagan
Administration
Treasury
SW Bell: No AT&T Hang-Ups
The settling of a seven year antitrust suit will not affect customers in Kansas immediately. AT&T must divest its 22 local Bell companies within 18 months. Southwestern Bell Kansas VP John Hayes says changes won’t occur for about two years and will route local service to Southwestern Bell while long distance and equipment go to other firms.
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Topeka
Kan
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Kansas
Washington
Justice Department
At&t
Bell
John E. Hayes
Southwestern Bell
Hayes
County groups to distribute federal surplus cheese in Kansas
ECKAN says eligible Ottawans will get free federal surplus cheese once SRS approves, but individuals cannot apply yet. Only non profits with food banks distributing to the needy may participate. ECKAN will print forms after approval and issue a news release. Expect late January or early February for distribution.
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Herald
ECKAN
Richard Jackson
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
SRS
Jackson
Kansas
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