New Hangout For Youth Opens The Good Time Getaway
The Good Time Getaway opens today at 1523 Main as a youth hangout with four foosball tables, four pinball machines, two pool tables and an air hockey table. Operated by Ron DePriest and Gary DePriest, it will run 3 to 22 hours weekdays, noon to 11 p.m. Saturdays and 2 to 9 p.m. Sundays, with supervision and a rule against alcohol or drugs. it targets teens but welcomes all ages.
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Ron DePriest
Gary DePriest
Storm Sweeps Kansas With Heavy Snow and High Winds
A winter storm grips Kansas with 4 to 8 inches likely in central areas and 1 to 3 inches elsewhere. Northerly winds 25 to 40 mph reduce visibility. temperatures drop to five to ten below in western Kansas and into the 20s in the southeast. Snow ends tonight with clearing in the east and no major precipitation through Tuesday. county forecast calls for decreasing cloudiness and bitter cold with highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Oklahoma Line
Pratt
Hutchinson
McPherson
Salina
Junction City
Manhattan
Belleville
Sabetha
Nebraska
National Weather Service
Northwest
Liberal
Great Bend
Concordia
Hays
Pittsburg
Ford weighs tax rebate plan to spur consumer spending
President Ford considers a one time about 10 percent tax reduction for 1974 and mailing government checks to millions of taxpayers to boost spending. Officials say the rebate could be spread over nine months with checks in spring and later, subject to Congress approval, as part of a broader anti recession package. The plan, tied to air levy funding, would be reviewed ahead of a State of the Union address scheduled after Congress opens its 94th session.
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Washington
Ford
U.S
White House
Congress
U.S. Treasury
Treasury
House
Carl Albert
Kansas Legislature Readies Bigger Highway Battles in 1975
Kansas lawmakers open the 1975 session facing a potential upheaval in highway policy. Key fights center on creating a Department of Transportation with a secretary wielding road-building power, and on whether to divert freeway funds to toll road subsidies. Debates split rural and urban lawmakers over who controls road placement and funding. The four-lane versus two-lane approach remains a unifying question across parties.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Highway Department
Department of Transportation
Highway Commission
Secretary of Transportation
State Highway Commission
Nonfarm Jobs Plunge Marked by Big December Losses
Washington AP reports the largest two month drop in nonfarm payrolls since 1945. December losses totaled 675000, pushing total nonagricultural employment to 77.7 million with a 15 percent unemployment rate and a 7.1 percent December jobless rate. Wage data show December weekly earnings at 159.87 dollars, up from November.
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Washington
Labor Department
Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
American Industr
CIA Acknowledges Destruction of Dissident Lists
Washington AP report says CIA told Justice Department it destroyed lists of 9 000 to 10 000 political dissidents supplied by DOJ. The agency reportedly used the data to monitor dissidents abroad, with no shown domestic spying. Helms to be questioned by Senate panel. Meany mail-reading claim noted by Post. Schweiker cites CIA bid for tech study.
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Washington
Ford Administration
CIA
Justice Department
Spy Agency
Department
Administration
U.S
United States
Jerris Leonard
Leonard
New York Times
Richard M. Helms
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Helms
The
Washington Post
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Eugene Fodor
Richard S. Schweiker
R-Pa
Tornadoes Strike McComb Area Schools and Town
Tornadoes hit McComb and Summit area schools and a residential district injuring about 70 with eight dead. A school elementary and high school were struck after classes began, while a third school north of McComb faced a separate twister. In Summit, buses were blown into woods but drill safety limited injuries. Other twisters touched Natchez and Greenville with light damage. Swearing in Franklin County officials is set for 11 a.m. Monday in the courthouse.
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Mccomb
Miss
Summit
Natchez
Greenville
Texas
Panhandle
Viets Gird To Recapture Phuoc Long Province
President Thieu vows to order South Vietnamese forces to recapture Phuoc Long province after its fall toward the Cambodian border. The planned operation could involve 10,000 troops and strain dwindling supplies amid ongoing air battles and ground fighting in the Mekong Delta.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Phuoc Long
Thieu
National Security Council
Mekong
Delta
Phuoc
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Ron
Dilly
Russell
Goodland
Mercury
Kansas Legislature
Twister
Franklin County
Bruce Spears
Rex Bowling
Shirlee Capper
Register of Deeds
Jack Davis
Mike Nichols
Laura Sutton
Robert Pinet
Ruby Sanford
Spears
Viets Gird
Binh City
Bong Son
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
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