Bennett backs toll roads as speedup option in Kansas
Kansas Governor Robert F Bennett told contractors the state should consider toll roads on key routes to accelerate highway building even if not fully feasible as freeways He stressed he does not intend tolls to drive the entire highway program naming U S routes 69 54 50 81 169 and 36 as priority corridors and warned tolls must be self supporting over 40 year bonds to be truly feasible
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Kansas City
Kansas
Robert F. Bennett
Kansas Contractors Association
Muehlebach
Bennett
U.S. 69
U.S. 54
U.S. 50
U.S. 81
Salina
U.S. 169
U.S. 36
State Highway Department
Department of Transportation
Secretary of Transportation
Highway Commission
Hebert Faces House Fight After Democratic Caucus Loss
Rep F Edward Hebert of Louisiana vows a floor fight to keep his chairmanship of the Armed Services Committee after losing his post in the Democratic caucus revolt against seniority. Poage also ousted as Agriculture chair, with Steering Committee split over succession and potential GOP support uncertain.
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Washington
F. Edward Hebert
House Armed Services Committee
Hebert
W. R. Poage
D-Tex
House Agriculture Committee
Poage
Democratic Steering Committee
Wright Patman
Wayne L. Hays
Ohio
Hebert and
Henry S. Reuss
D-Wis
Patman
Frank Thompson Jr
D-N.j
Hays
Common Cause
Citizens
All House
House
GOP
John J. Rhodes
Arizona
David C. Treen
R-La
Push For Jackson Push For Jackson
Gov. Bennett urged Kansas Board of Regents to elect Elmer C. Jackson as chairman. Jackson, a Kansas City Kansas attorney and the first Black on the board, was appointed in 1969 with a term through 1977. The chair vacated after a replacement was named for Carl Courter.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert F. Bennett
Kansas Board of Regents
Elmer C. Jackson
Jackson
Kansas City, Kan
Bennett
Board of Regents
Carl Courter
Wichita
Fragmented financial figures row from an unspecified source
Readable text shows multiple monetary amounts in dollars including 16,469.27, 1,292,232.97, 300,000.00, 892,232.97, 10,929,264.62 and 18,850,706.47, but no clear context or entities. The fragment lacks verbs or a discernible event.
Ford Offers Own Consumer Break
Ford Motor Co offers rebates to auto buyers as part of a stimulus. checks of 200 to 500 dollars are mailed to purchasers of 1975 small car lines through February 28. Must include 200 on Pintos Mavericks and Comets, 300 to 500 on Mustang II, 350 on SuperCab, 500 on Capri. Chrysler extends plant closures. 13,750 workers affected.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
St. Louis
Newark
Del
Roger Dayton
Southdale Ford
Minneapolis
Edina
Dayton
John B. Naughton
Ex-Singer Florence Ballard Faces Hard Life After Supremes
Detroit born Florence Ballard from the Supremes era, once earning gold records with Diana Ross, now 31, broke, with three children, living on welfare on Detroit's West Side. She alleges mismanaged earnings, suits against Motown and her former attorney, and says she has not performed since 1967 amid marital separation.
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Detroit
Florence Ballard
Diana Ross
The
Supremes
West Side
Mary Wilson
Brewster Housing Project
Cindy Birdsong
Motown Record Co
Tommy Chapman
Motown
Bomb Ends IRA Truce Marks End of Christmas Cease-fire
In Belfast and across Northern Ireland gunfire and a bombing ended the IRA Provisional Christmas cease-fire after 25 days with a British soldier killed. Cross border fighting sparked as the Provisional wing rejected extending the truce citing troop withdrawals amnesty and internment without trial.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
IRA
England
Dublin
Londonderry
Kilkeel
Portadown
Merlyn Rees
Gerry Fitt
Ulster Defense Association
Rees
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Peoples National Bank
Ottawa
U.S. Treasury
United Stat
Beeense
R. C. Winchester
R.C. Winchester
Said. Winter
J. W. Dickerson
Ransom Bennett Jr
Ee Ane
General Motors
Hamtramck
Mich
Henry Ford
Ford Dealers
Jamaica
Kingston
Caymanas Park
Caribbean
Southwestern Bell
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