Kansas Legislators Fight Over Docking Letter and Bills
A Gov Robert Docking letter sent by private colleges stirred opposition in Topeka as lawmakers viewed it as propaganda. Senate approves apportionment changes while House splits on 80 member goal. Bills on billboards helmet rules tax shifts and nuclear waste sit as Senate passes 51 bills in two days and prepares more.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert Docking
House
Docking
Senate
Kansas Senate
Kansas
Harold Herd
D Coldwater
Vincent Moore
Wichita
Higher Ed Bill In Conference
The Senate approved a $23 billion higher education bill and sent it to a conference committee to resolve antibusing provisions and related desegregation measures. The 88 to 6 vote included milder busing limits, while the House demanded three strict antibusing amendments. The conference is set to begin in about two weeks to negotiate a common stance.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
House
Weather Update and Senate Desegregation Debate
Clear to partly cloudy skies with a milder night low in the 20s and southerly winds 5 to 18 mph. Friday will be falllike with highs in the upper 40s to low 50s and a 10 percent chance of precipitation. The 24 hour precipitation ending this morning was trace. The article also notes debate in the Senate over aid formulas for colleges and federal desegregation funding, including a Griffin proposal to curb busing orders and a new $1,400 yearly grant formula for students depending on family contributions.
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Senate
Robert P. Griffin
R-Mich
Griffin
House
Strip Re zoning Embers
An overflow crowd at the City Commission meeting kept the hospital zoning issue alive after Feb. 2 denial of a plan to allow medical offices on hospital grounds. Petitions with 534 signatures and 627 total received push for reconsideration, while a city official urged closing the matter after further discussions.
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Duke L. Dietz
S. Main
City Commission
Edward L. McGrath
Dyke L. Dietz
Stephen V. Ralph
City Hall
Ralph
Dietz
Frank Horton
Poplar
City Planning Commission
A. L. Cook
Franklin County Taxpayers’ Association
Medical Offices Inc
Ash Street
Willow Street
Seventh
Fifteenth
First
Dundee
Main
Hickory
Red Jacket
Blackhawk
Finian's Rainbow at OU on March 8–11 in Memorial Auditorium
Tickets go on sale Friday at the OU Union from 11 15 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily and by calling the drama department at 242 5200 Ext 226 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Prices are 1 50 for adults and 1 for students. The production is directed by Jack Nicholson with Bill Kloster as musical director and Beaumont Bruestle as guest Finian. The cast includes OU students Fernando Diaz Kathi Curry Sharon Eddie Morton Woody and Pam Rapp Susan the Silent, with 35 in the cast.
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Ottawa University
Memorial Auditorium
OU Union
OU Drama Department
Jack Nicholson
Bill Kloster
Joyce Stuer
Open House By Local Guard Unit Open House at National Guard Armory
An open house at the National Guard Armory on West Seventeenth starts at 2 pm Sunday with displays of communication survey fire direction supply administration and public information. About 150 members and families are expected lunch is served at 11 30 am the event features films helicopters from state headquarters and track vehicles from the Burlington unit to familiarize Ottawa residents with the local unit and its community service.
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National Guard Armory
West Seventeenth
Gregory Gilroy
Gilroy
Ottawa
State Headquarters
Burlington
Nixon and Chou discuss Vietnam peace and POWs
A Washington source says President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En Lai spoke in Peking about Vietnam peace prospects and POW releases. The official hints at a planned public statement within weeks on a third-country contact point for diplomacy and people to people exchanges.
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Washington
Nixon
Chou En-lai
Peking
Vietnam
Boston Globe
Henry A. Kissings
Poland
Canada
Chou
Shanghai
Mitchell Ballyhoos President Mitchell Ballyhoos President
Atty Gen John Mitchell says Nixon’s record is strong and plans cover all primaries this spring plus the fall campaign. Mitchell becomes director of the Committee for the Re election of the President and warns no states will be written off. McGovern foresees a cliff hanging New Hampshire primary while Muskie predicts fair voter judgment in the contest.
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Gregg Herrington
Associated Press
Richard Nixon
John N. Mitchell
Nixon
Mitchell
Alabama
George C. Wallace
New Hampshire
South Dakota
George McGovern
McGovern
Durham
University of New Hampshire
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Boston
Garnett City Manager Dennis Mitchell resigns
Dennis Mitchell announced his resignation as Garnett city manager at a Wednesday meeting, effective at month end. Mitchell, in office since July, will return to Hutchinson as director of public works overseeing street, sewer, airport, convention hall, arena and flood control operations. Mayor Powers expressed regret and said Garnett will begin a search for a replacement using the usual recruitment process.
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Garnett
Dennis Mitchell
Mitchell
Hutchinson
Robert L. Powers
Powers
Topeka
Kansas League of Municipalities
Paul Seaman
Assessor Receives Unlabeled Property Tax Statement
County Assessor Russell Wray found a neatly itemized personal property statement in the mail but no business name or return address. The missing identifiers leave the origin of the assessment unclear as the Wednesday deadline passes.
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Russell Wray
Wray
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House Roads and Highways Committee
Financial Institution
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Robert Bennett
Prairie Village
Don Christy
Scott City
Christy
Lester C. Arvin
Rose Hill
Harold Stones
Kansas Bankers Association
Jim Turner
Kansas Savings and Loan
National
Steve Ralph
United States
China
U.S
Mitchell Ballyhoos
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