First Part Of An Investigative Report Cigarette Smoke Not Only Hate In Kansas Clubs
The Harris Enterprises Topeka Bureau begins a series on private Kansas clubs, their nonprofit status, and tax exemptions. A state senator boasted of selling club tax exemptions for 1500 dollars, while IRS and ABC officials discuss abuse, loopholes, and the spread of class A and class B clubs across Kansas. Names, places, and dates linked to specific clubs are cited with discussion of the evolving regulatory crackdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris Enterprises
Topeka
Kansas
Wayne Lee
Leroy Towns
Peka
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Alcoholic Beverage Control
E.V.D. Murphy
Supreme Court
Wichita
The
Elks and the Moose
Country Clubs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Rounders Club
Red Pussy Cat Inc
Pink Garter
Waterhole Assn. Inc
Sedgwick
Sedgwick County
Dallas
Washington
ABC
Robert Storey
Muth
Golden Dragon Club Inc
Hays
Kuhn
Labor Social Club Inc
Salina
Trial Home Built Here Nearing Completion In Ottawa
A three bedroom trial home at 1500 S Poplar underway under a federal assistance program. Haverty & Hedges Inc of Lawrence builds 980 square feet on a 75 by 125 foot lot with 200 down and a 30 year loan at seven percent subsidized by the federal government. If accepted, more homes will follow. The first should finish within 30 days.
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S. Poplar
Haverty & Hedges Inc
Lawrence
Ottawa
Herren & Westerhouse
Ottawans Caught In Bahamas Entry Ban Diplomatic Standoff
About 200 Americans including six Ottawans on a Co-Op tour were held at Nassau International Airport after Bahamas officials, backed by Washington, ordered no American entry. The ban followed the Bahamian minister being searched by U.S. agents in Miami. Among those on the tour were Forest L. Kelly and family, Ottawa cooperative leaders, plus Harlan Page and Darrell Macy.
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Bahamas
Nassau International
U.S
Miami
Washington
Miami International
Nassau
Forest L. Kelly
S. Poplar
Kelly
Harlan Page
Cottawa Rfd
Page
Darrell Macy
Ottawa Rfd
Macy
Weather county forecast cold wave warning tonight
Cold wave warning issued for the county with subfreezing lows in the lower teens and northwesterly winds 10 to 20 mph. Tuesday will be partly sunny and colder with highs in the mid 20s and only a 5 percent chance of precipitation tonight and near zero Tuesday. Earlier and upcoming temps include highs near 47 Saturday and 48 Sunday with lows in the 30s to near 40s. records show 76 high in 1950 and 17 low in 1963. Trace precipitation recorded in the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. today.
Nixon Proposes 1973 Budget with Record Deficits
President Nixon sent Congress a 246.3 billion dollar fiscal 1973 budget. He projects deficits of 38.8 and 25.5 billion dollars, defends deficits as necessary medicine, and rejects new tax cuts or increases. Defense, space, health, and consumer programs are outlined with targeted increases and shifts toward international aid.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
White House
Space
Atomic Energy
Atomic Energy Commission
National Heart and Lung Institute
Antiaircraft Sites Suffer USAF Wrath
U S planes attacked five North Vietnamese antiaircraft batteries in the DMZ and North Vietnam over the weekend, destroying two sites and damaging another. American warplanes dodged missiles over Laos, while an Army OH6 helicopter was shot down in the Mekong Delta, with one crewman wounded. B52s continued heavy bombing on Vietnamese buildup along the western highlands as ground fighting yielded 23 enemy and three South Vietnamese deaths and 16 wounded.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
North Vietnam
Laos
Mekong
Ban Karai Pass
Air Force
Dong Hoi
Dmz
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Wallace Dodges Lindsay Debate Challenge in Florida Primary
Alabama Governor George Wallace rejects a one on one debate with John V. Lindsay despite Lindsay's offer to meet in Montgomery. Wallace says his schedule leaves no time for debate while noting he may still pursue a third party run. The piece also notes Democratic leaders' skepticism and a Gallup poll showing Muskie leading Kennedy among potential Democratic nominees.
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Bill Kosman
Associated Press
Alabama
George Wallace
John V. Lindsay
New York
Wallace
Lindsay
Florida
Montgomery
Ala
Washington
Lawrence O'Brien
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
ABC
Sen
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Kansas House Approves Reapportionment Plan Tentatively
In Topeka the Kansas House gave preliminary approval to a bill reapportioning the Senate into 28 districts, with four multi member districts, after narrowly defeating amendments for 40 single member districts. The bill now heads to a final roll call Tuesday as Senate debates Gov Docking budget and homestead exemptions and road financing meetings loom next week.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Senate
House
Robert Docking
Glee Smith
R-Larned
Senate
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Ottawans
Charles A. Beeman
William D. Bancroft
Ottawa Kiwanis
Memorial Auditorium
Mears Park
Lake Pomona
Paris
Vides
Defense
Pentagon
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
USAF
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Smith
Ways and Means
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