Kansas House OKs bill to control state insurance purchase
The Kansas House approved a bill to place state agency insurance purchases under a committee of elected officials with bids overseen by the attorney general, auditor, and insurance commissioner. The measure passed 70 to 45 amid party lines as Senate committees advanced pay and juvenile delinquents bills.
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Topeka
Kansas House
Senate
Ways and Means
Kansas Finance Council
State Board of Social Welfare
Judiciary Committee
Welfare Board
Kansas Legislative Council
School Aid Severance Tax Proposal In Kansas House
TOPEKA AP A bill seeks a 5 percent severance tax on oil and gas to raise 13.2 to 13.8 million in state aid for schools, with 60 percent funneled to a severance tax school aid fund and 40 percent to counties and cities. Estimated annual revenue 22.3 million. Aid per pupil about 32 dollars, with district totals varying. most districts gain at least 10 dollars per pupil.
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Topeka
Mulslinville
Ft. Leavenworth
Hearing on Docking highway bond program continues
A joint session of Kansas Legislature Roads and Highways Committees resumes hearings on Governor Docking's bond financed accelerated highway plan. Highway Director John Montgomery and advisor Gale Moss testify as to bond terms of 40 years at about 5 percent interest. Moss says freeway件 could be funded in five years via tax measures. Skoog proposes 36 or 3 cent gasoline tax increases to finance the plan.
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Topeka
Kansas
Roads and
Robert Docking
John Montgomery
Gale Moss
Senate
House
Moss
Docking
Ralph Skoog
ReTopeka
Skoog
Last Day for 1967 Herald Photos
Wednesday is the final day for photographs printed in the Herald for 1967. Call at the Herald office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. to arrange pickup before Wednesday.
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Herald
Mrs Shanahan Will Run Again for Kansas Secretary of State
Mrs Elwil M Shanahan the Kansas secretary of state and a Salina Republican announced she will seek reelection. She was appointed after her husband Paul R Shanahan died in 1966 and had headed the Republican ticket in the 1966 general election.
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PEKA
Elwil M. Shanahan
Kansas
Toll Above 300 New Quakes Cause Panic in Sicily
Palermo reports the Sicily earthquake toll surpassing 300 dead with about 1,500 missing and 1,500 injured. Rescue crews search ruins as tremors continue, hospitals collapse, and refugees endure freezing conditions across Salemi Poggioreale and Santamargherita Belice triangle. International aid flows in from Italy, Britain, and the United States, with president and Vatican urging support.
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Palermo
Sicily
Mediterranean
Salemi
Poggioreale
Santa Margherita di Belice
Giuseppe Saragat
Rome
Paolo Emilio Taviani
Houston Channel Sets Ablaze In Collision
The freighter Christiane struck gasoline laden barges in the Houston Ship Channel near Baytown and La Porte. Fire swept the water and explosions were heard for miles. Two American tourists a 3 year old child and 27 crew members escaped in lifeboats. Traffic halted until rescue crews stabilized the scene. The Christiane headed toward Galveston for repairs with Captain Pete Panagiotou and his wife and daughter onboard.
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Houston, Tex
Houston Ship Channel
Baytown
la Porte
Houston
Christiane
Christiane Shipping Co
Bermuda
Port Arthur
Tex
Barbara Waxler
Galveston Bay
Shell Chemical Co
Heber M. Gingerich
York
Honduras
New Orleans
Mrs. Gingerich
W.L. Nix
Channel Tunnel
Nix
Grant
Galveston
Weather Topeka Skies Warm Up Across State
The Weather Bureau forecast fair skies and warmer temperatures across Kansas today with overnight lows from two above in Topeka and Fort Leavenworth to 28 at Goodland. Highs ranged from 95 to 40 in the east and 45 to 50 in the west. One to two inches of eastern snow should melt as temperatures rise today and Wednesday. Fog lingered in extreme eastern Kansas. Southwesterly breezes spread warmth, improving conditions from Monday. County forecast calls for mostly fair and warmer tonight, partly cloudy Wednesday, low 15 to 20, high in the 40s, with 10 percent precip Wednesday. Statewide hours show a trace precipitation in the last 24 hours ending 7 am.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Ft. Leavenworth
Goodland
Kansas
Newman To The Rescue Newman To The Rescue
Hollywood and Broadway actors plan a fund raising drive for six senators and congressmen opposing U.S. Vietnam policy. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward headline a Sunday New York show for the Congressional Peace Campaign Committee co chaired by Sen Stephen Young and Rep William Ryan. Lincoln Center performers include Belafonte Streisand Bernstein Reiner Carroll Smothers Ryan Wallach Jackson.
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Washington
Hollywood
U.S
Vietnam
Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward
New York
Congressional Peace Campaign Committee
Stephen M. Young
D. Ohio
William F. Ryan
Den.y
Tony Randall
Alan Arkin
Congressional Campaign Peace Committee
Lincoln Center
Philharmonic Hall
Harry Belafonte
Barbra Streisand
Leonard Bernstein
Carl Reiner
Diahann Carroll
Tommy Smothers
Robert Ryan
Eli Wallach
Anne Jackson
Who's Judge God and Co sued by accident victim
George Albricht an electrician sues 32 Lake Worth churches and synagogues plus a construction firm and the city of Lake Worth for 25000 claiming an act of God caused injuries when a rain soaked sidewalk collapsed in 1964. He filed a 17.50 fee and gave court clerks copies of his allegations to serve the defendants.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
God
Lake Worth
George Albricht
God and Co
Albrecht
Burglary at Farrar Home Takes Hearing Aid and Wallet
Franklin County sheriff reports a burglar entered Walter I. Farrar and his wife’s home between 11 Monday night and 5 Tuesday. The thief cut a screen door, forced the door, stole a hearing aid in a front room, then took Farrar’s billfold containing $24 from his trousers. The wallet was found empty in the front yard.
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Walter I. Farrar
Lane
Farrar
Franklin County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff's Deputies
Wilson Announces A Big British Forces Pull-Back
Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced the withdrawal of all British armed forces from the Far East and the Persian Gulf by end of 1971. He also outlined social welfare cuts and a joint air defense plan for Malaysia and Singapore, canceling a $1.02 billion purchase of 50 F-111 bombers to save about $960 million.
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London
Harold Wilson
Far East
Persian Gulf
House of Commons
Wilson
Britain
Southeast Asia
Malaysia
Singapore
Grim
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Ness City
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Wayne Shinwise
Jetmore
Houston Channel
Pete Panagiotou
Nicole
Danny Grant
Newman
Margaret
Europe
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