Decline In Retail Sales Dismays Economists
Economists warn on consumer pullback as Commerce Department reports a 1.5 percent June drop in retail sales. Auto sales fell 6.9 percent. May had a 2.7 percent gain. Major chains Sears and Kmart reported June declines, while International Paper posted a 51 percent profit drop on 9 percent sales slide. Gold jumped over 16 dollars an ounce amid higher rates and a stronger dollar. Continental Airlines and Texas Air Corp. shareholders approved a merger. Braniff International faces an FBI probe into possible fuel kickbacks.
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Commerce Department
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Kmart Corp
International Paper Co
North America
U.S
Treasury
Continental Airlines
Texas Air Corp
Texas Air
Texas International Airlines
Continental
Wheat Harvest Struggles With Storage and Shipping Delays
Kansas grain handlers battle rain tied harvest delays as Garvey Grain stalls incoming shipments for a week to 10 days. Railcar backlogs persist while farmers store rather than sell, and several terminals report capacity pressure but some elevators still move wheat.
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Wichita, Kan
Kansas
Garvey Grain Co
Jim Coughenour
Wichita Terminal
Garvey
Coughenour
Goodland
St. Francis
Oberlin
Oakley
Paula Kaiser
Kansas Job Service
Great Bend
Vno
Sheridan County
Janet Kaba
Hoxie
Ellis County
Farmers Co-op Association
Hays
Coop
Toulon
Collingwood Grain Inc
Gary McKinney
C-G-F Topeka Grain Elevator
C-G-F
Smoot Grain Co
Kansas Board reluctantly approves teacher merit pay deferral
Kansas Board of Education defers state employee merit pay as mandated by Gov. Carlin to ease a budget crisis. The panel, voting under protest, cuts about 334000 dollars from its 1983 budget to avoid service losses while planning to protest to the governor.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Board of Education
John Carlin
Carlin
Floyd Grimes
Paola
Grimes
Dale Dennis
Financial Services
School For the Deaf
School For the Visually Handicapped
Dennis
Education Department
Crash Probe Hindered By Outdated Recorders
Washington AP. Federal investigators fault Pan Am 759 recorders as outdated and unreliable. NTSB urges FAA to require replacement of cockpit voice recorders within two years and modern digital flight data recorders to improve accident investigations and save lives. James Burnett warns of 1950s tech hindering future safety.
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Washington
National Transportation Safety Board
Federal Aviation Administration
The
Safety Board
Burnett
Classified Rates and Error Policy in Ottawa Herald
The notice lists per word rates for want ads and column inch charges, including 1.00 for one inch lodge notices with emblem and 1.50 for two insertions. It notes out of trade territory rates, a 24 word minimum for certain insertions, and states Ottawa Herald will correct only the first incorrect want ad insertion.
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The
Ottawa Herald
Notice to Creditors in Estate of Allen L. Rumford
In Franklin County Kansas the estate of Allen L. Rumford deceased is administered. Raymond G. Rumford appointed executor and letters testamentary issued. Creditors must file their claims within six months from first publication or be barred. Attorney William Bowers represents executor.
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District Court
Franklin County
Kansas
Allen L. Rumford
U.S.A
Raymond G. Rumford
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Narcotics Anonymous
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TV50
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