Gun control bill targets snub nose handguns in commerce
Senators push a bill to remove two inch or shorter snub nose handguns from sporting goods and hardware outlets across the nation. Merchants note small guns are a minority of sales, with opinions mixed on broader limits and enforcement timelines.
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Dan Mullen
Senate Judiciary Committee
Birch Bayh
Alabama
George Wallace
Ottawa
Kansas
Brazil
Taiwan
Italy
Florida
United States
Harry Brown
Brown’s Hardware
Otasco
Roger Casteel
Casteel
Stan Stava
Gibson’s Discount Center
Brown
Ron Reusch
Budge’s Hardware
The
Herald
Residence Requirement Ruled Invalid in Kansas Election Law
Atty. Gen. Vern Miller ruled that a Kansas resident who has lived in the state at least 21 days before an election satisfies the residence requirement. The six month state residency and 30 day precinct rule is invalid. Secretary of State Shanahan will send letters to county election officers with the opinion.
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Topeka
Kan
Vern Miller
Kansas
Elwin M. Shanahan
Good Quality Wheat So Far
TOPEKA Kansas AP The Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service released the first official 1972 wheat crop report showing high quality across 1 207 cars of wheat from 29 counties Tests indicate an average test weight of 62 3 pounds protein content 11 5 percent and a high share of No 1 grade The 62 3 pound test weight is just below last year s 62 4 pounds
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Supreme Court Furman Ruling Halts Executions Nationwide
The Supreme Court’s five to four ruling creates a moratorium on capital punishment, with justices split on whether the Eighth Amendment bans all executions. The decision notes possible legislative reinstitution in limited cases while nullifying current death sentences for about 600 inmates across 31 states.
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William C. Douglas
William J. Brennan Jr
Thurgood Marshall
Potter Stewart
Byron R. White
Nixon
Burger
Harry A. Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell Jr
William H. Rehnquist
United States
Douglas
Brennan
Marshall
Stewart
White
William H. Furman
Georgia
William J. Micke Jr
Savanna
Micke
Lucious Jackson Jr
Chatham County
Elmer Branch
Vernon
Tex
County Opens Shoe Fly Bridge Near Ottawa Washout
County engineer Bob Lister announced a shoe-fly crossing two and a half miles north and five miles east of Ottawa to restore limited traffic after a washout. The earthen span over a steel culvert must be monitored after rain, with permanent work planned to begin soon.
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Bob Lister
Ottawa
Lister
Richter
Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the death penalty as currently applied violates the Constitution. Justices issued 11 opinions and reversed death sentences in Georgia and Texas.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States
Georgia
Texas
Nixon broadens price controls to raw farm products
President Nixon signed an order ending the exemption for raw agricultural goods from price controls after the first sale. The rule covers fresh vegetables eggs and seafood at wholesale and retail, subject to Cost of Living rules on margins.
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Washington
Nixon
Price Commission
Donald Rumsfeld
Cost of Living Council
Rumsfeld
Major drug raid in Lawrence nets 24 arrests
Lawrence AP report details a wide scale operation by state, county, and local authorities that arrested 24 people and sought 20 more in Lawrence. The raid involved 60 to 70 raiders from multiple agencies, with 42 arrest warrants and seven search warrants, targeting sale or possession of marijuana to heroin. Four arrestees identified as KU students.
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Lawrence
Kan
Vern Miller
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Douglas County
Miller
Fred Howard
KBI
Mike Elwell
University of Kansas
Elwell
Hijack suspect arrested in Detroit in 502500 ransom case
A 28-year-old unemployed man from Wyandotte was arrested at home and charged with air piracy for allegedly hijacking an American Airlines jet, receiving 502 500 dollars in ransom, and parachuting over Indiana after forcing the plane to fly toward Toronto. FBI and police teamed to arrest Martin J. McNally, with ongoing investigation spanning Missouri Indiana Illinois and Michigan.
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Detroit
Indiana
FBI
Martin J. McNally
Wyandotte
Neil J. Welsh
Michigan
McNally
St. Louis
American Airlines
Tulsa
Oklo
Toronto
Farmers Field
Peru
Ind
Missouri
Illinois
D.B. Cooper
Seattle
Reno
New
Wayne County Sheriff's Office
Weather County Forecast Mostly fair with warm days
Mostly fair weather dominates through Friday with warm days and cool nights. Tonight west to northwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Lows 50 to 65, highs near 90 Friday, precipitation near zero. Historical highs of 91 and 108 noted. record low and other figures appear in scattered data.
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Fanny
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