Ambulance Service Faces Ongoing Payment Problems
James H. Raby runs Ambulance Service Inc with uncollected bills averaging 200 to 250 a month over three years. He carries 5000 in cash on hand, bills patients after calls, and relies on a county subsidy of 18,960 annually plus city support to stay afloat amid insurance delays and patient nonpayment.
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Jewel Scott
James H. Raby
Fake
Ambulance Service, Inc
Raby
Ottawa
Paasé
Melvern Dam work ahead after slow start in year
Work on Melvern Dam resumes with crews racing to finish dam structure and tower mechanics while a clearing contract to prepare upstream land for recreation proceeds. Two new lakes planned below the dam will support swimming beaches and wildlife habitats, with completion aimed for mid 1972.
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Dan Mullen
Melvern
Melvern Dam
Doyle F. Owen
Owen
Marais Des Cygnes
Giant
Enterprise Inc
Grayson
Lebo Road
Army Corps of Engineers
Corps
Cambodian Guard Faces Tough Assault Near Phnom Penh
In eastern approaches to Phnom Penh Cambodian troops backed by U S trained forces endure intensified combat. Mortars rockets and cannons hit bunkers in Vihear Suor marshes while hand to hand fighting rages at Prey Thom. Cambodian losses tallied with 80 dead or wounded and claimed 100 enemy killed as 9th Division presses the attack.
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Phnom Penh
Vihear Suor
Prey Thom
Am Rong
Mekong River
Chup
Memorial for Victims in Yuba City Outskirts
About 200 residents gathered at a memorial service at the local high school for 25 drifters found stabbed and hacked to death in orchard graves near Yuba City. Rev. C W Renwick and Rev. Howard Alexander urged greater compassion for transient workers and urged the community to act as their brothers keeper.
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Yuba City
Calif
C. W. Renwick
Marysville
Howard Alexander
First Baptist Church
Work Authorized for I-95 Grading in Franklin County
Topeka reports Karl Brueck district highway commissioner authorized grading contractor Sherwood Construction Inc to proceed with seven miles of new Interstate 95 in Franklin County. The $1.8 million contract covers a stretch from north of Homewood to south of Ottawa as Interstate 35 extends 114.3 miles toward the Franklin Osage line.
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Topeka
Karl Brueck
Paola
Franklin County
Homewood
Ottawa
Sherwood Construction, Inc
Wichita
Franklin-Osage
Cosmonaut Performs Weightless Tumbling in Salute Lab
In a televised segment from the Salute space laboratory, cosmonaut Lt. Col. Georgy Dobrovolsky tumbles in weightlessness while ground controllers watch. The crew shifted to a higher orbit, extending their mission as Tass cites 160.9 to 175.2 miles high, with 37 Earth revolutions after three days and Soyuz 11 attached.
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Moscow
Orbiting Space Laboratory
Georgy Dobrovolsky
Dobrovolsky
Tass
Vladimir Volkov
Senate Lowers Draft Ceiling But Keeps Exit Clause
The Senate voted to reduce the draft ceiling from 300000 to 270000 over two years and required presidential approval to go beyond it. Sen Stennis offered a plan to drop to 130000 in year one and 140000 in year two starting July 1, with 67 votes in favor. The chamber also approved a $27 billion pay raise for servicemen and rejected a Gravel bid to keep evaders under a five year statute of limitations from age 18 to 23, extending to age 31.
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Senate
Nixon
Sen
Robert Taft Jr
Ohio
Sennis
Stennis
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Mississippi Democrat
House
Allott
Mike Gravel
Alaska
County Forecast: Showers and Thunderstorms Likely
Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms beginning by evening and continuing tonight into Thursday forenoon. Partly cloudy and warmer Thursday afternoon. Low tonight 40 to 65, high near 85 Thursday. Winds southeast 5 to 15 mph turning south tonight, gusty near thunderstorms. Precipitation chances 50 percent this afternoon and tonight, 30 percent Thursday. Tuesday high 82, today’s low 63, yesterday’s high 84, low 66. Record high 100 in 1911, record low 47 in 1915. Hourly temperatures ending 8 a.m. today.
Local youths find work clearing corn near Edgerton
Amid heat and field mice, area high and junior high students work for Garst and Thomas Hybrid Corn Co. in corn field clearance northeast of Edgerton. Kansas State Employment Service manager Calvin C. Ewing says the task should finish in five to six days followed by a de tasseling start on June 28. Workers, mostly female, earn about $1.40 an hour and work in 40 person teams with breaks. some discuss restroom challenges while boys view the job as drudgery.
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Jewel Scott
Edgerton
Garst and Thomas Hybrid Corn Co
Calvin C. Ewing
Kansas State Employment Service
Ewing
Forrest Bond
Williamsburg
Garst and Thomas Company
Topeka
The
Employment Service
Knaie
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