First Of A 3 Part Series Local Ambulance Strained
Franklin County faces ambulance service financial strain as inflation, new rules, and subsidy limits bite Raby's Ambulance Service. Owner James H. Raby reports high operating costs, low profits, and rising expenses from fuel maintenance and required equipment. He details radio upgrades, wage concerns, and the $12,000 ambulance price barrier, noting Medicare headroom rules complicate replacements.
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Uncle Sam
Kansas
Franklin County
Raby
Medicare
Cosmonauts Raise Salute Space Lab To Higher Orbit
Three Soviet cosmonauts aboard Salute moved the space laboratory to a higher orbit to slow its descent. Docked with Soyuz 11 after a 26 hour chase, the crew reported normal systems and ongoing research aboard the 18 ton station circling Earth at about 164.6 by 148.5 miles.
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Moscow
Space Laboratory
Moscow Radio
Soyuz
Earth
Tass
Space Station
Georgy Dobrovolsky
Vladimir Volkov
Viktor Patsayev
New York City strike widens as 2000 sewage workers walk out
NY municipal workers strike, 2000 sewage treatment employees walk off, closing or hampering 35 facilities handling 1.4 billion gallons daily. Earlier 6000 workers disrupted 24 drawbridges, causing massive traffic snarls. Union leaders vow escalation until pension improvements agreed. Environmental official notes one treatment plant shut.
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New York
Jerome Krelehmer
Budget Spat Stalls Music Coach Hire At Ottawa District
Ottawa school board wrestled with a 1972 73 operating budget boosting total spending to 1 519 725 an rise of about 29 000 continuing programs. The meeting featured a heated clash over hiring Dale Fox as assistant high school basketball coach and music instructor.
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Edward McGrath
Howard J. Doyen
Dale E. Fox
John N. Wassmer
Fox
Ottawa
Ray Brown Ford
Patterson Chevrolet
County Forecast: Partly cloudy with warm temps ahead
Partly cloudy with little temperature change through Wednesday. Wind light and variable tonight with a few thunderstorms likely. High Wednesday around 80s, tonight low near 60s. Precip chances 30 percent tonight and 20 percent Wednesday. High Monday 89, low today 65. compared with 84 and 57 a year ago. Record high 100 in 1911. record low 42 in 1924. Hourly temps end at 8 a.m. today.
Hot Spot In Viet War Fronts Clashes Continue Along DMZ
U S and South Vietnamese troops fought North Vietnamese forces along the demilitarized zone for a third day while enemy gunners bombarded allied bases below the zone for the eighteenth day. Two Americans were killed and four wounded in a clash two miles southeast of the CMA, with one enemy fighter reported killed.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
CMA
State Civil Rights Probe Moves West
The Kansas Commission on Civil Rights has begun an investigation into alleged discrimination against migrant workers and Mexican American residents in western Kansas. Executive Director Troy Scroggins said he and three staffers will focus on Goodland Garden City Scots Ulysses Scott City and Johnson, spending about three days weekly in the probe. The commission has 26 informal complaints from Mexican Americans in the area, with no formal filings. The panel can initiate housing discrimination complaints but can only process complaints filed by individuals in other areas such as job discrimination.
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Topeka, Kan
Kansas Commission On Civil Rights
Kansas
Troy Scroggins
Executvie
Scroggins
Goodland
Garden City
Scots
Ulysses
Scott City
Johnson
Airliner Hit Us Survivor Claims Collision Blamed
Los Angeles AP report says the radar intercept officer, 1st Lt. Christopher Schiess, survivor of a midair crash, states the commercial DC9 hit the Marine F4 Phantom he rode. The DC9 with 44 passengers exploded after a 12,000 foot dive. 50 perished.
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Los Angeles
Christopher Schiess
Salem
Ore
Schiess
Air West
Insufficient Facilities Blamed In New Haven
Officials say the lack of an instrument landing system at Tweed-New Haven Airport contributed to a crash that killed 28 aboard an Allegheny Convair 580. Fog and a 200 foot ceiling were cited. airport modernization delays and a missing ILS are noted as factors.
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New Haven
John H. Reed
Malarky
Dng Haben
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Raby's Ambulance Service
Edward Maher
Afl-Cio
West Fifteenth
Haworth Construction Co
OHS
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Forker
Charles R. Waymire
W. P. Shepard
Harold R. Wallace
Waymire
Wallace
Wassmer
John I. Reynolds
Naden
Kansas City
Marilyn R. Hay
Ottawa University
Sylvia Reynolds
Garfield School
Ames
Reebt
Renee P
Sam Jersterenees
Rights Probe
Duarte
Five
la Gabriel Mountains
Los Angeles International
Fallon Navy Air Station
Nevada
el Toro Marine Corps Air Station
Calif
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