Senate approves inflation plan with rent controls bill
In Washington AP reports the Senate backed Nixon inflation plan with rent controls for selected metros. The 85 to 2 vote extends wage and price freezes to 1974 and moves to the House. Case’s amendment limits rents to 2.5 percent where vacancy is under 5.5 percent, with exemptions for luxury units and new buildings. A separate note cites February CPI rising eight tenths, with grocery prices up 2.4 percent, the largest since 1951.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
House
Clifford Case
R-N.j
Case
Ropolitan
Iola Firm Wins Low Bid For Ottawa Fire Station
Ottawa bids show Sell Construction of Iola won the low bid for the city's new fire station facility with a general contract of 204000 and a combination bid of 257800 including a training tower and electrical work. Loyd Builders and Norris Brothers also submitted bids. figures include lineal-foot pricing for piers and casings and alternate tower costs.
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Iola
Bob Hunter
Sell Construction, Inc
Ottawa
City Commission
City Hall
Sell Construction
Pete Smith
Skidmore and
Devore
Cedar
Loyd Builders, Inc
Loyd Builder
Norris Brothers, Inc
Lawrence
Norris Brothers
B.A. Green Construction Co
Building Systems, Inc
Topeka
Kansas Construction Co., Inc
Sprigg Construction, Inc
Paola
Triangle Builders, Inc
Huxtable and Associates, Inc
Wiggins Electric
Compromise school finance plan reaches tentative deal
A House-Senate conference committee proposal outlines a $186 million school finance plan with $65.2 million in new state money. The plan, discussed in Senate Democrats caucus, would shift funding and adjust local property taxes, with 90 percent of Kansas districts seeing local levies of 20 to 30 mills.
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Topeka
Kan
Senate
Pete Loux
Wichita
House
Loux
Sen
Joe Harder
R-Moundridge
Associated Press
Harder
Bob Bennett
Conference Committee
High Court Approves P-Tax Method for Schools Financing
The Supreme Court in a 5 to 4 ruling upheld local property taxes to fund public schools, ruling education is not an explicit or implicit constitutional right. The decision reversed a lower court verdict that Texas schooling funding violated equal protection by tying quality to local wealth.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Texas
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Powell
Hawaii
Appropriations Bill Passes Kansas House 120 0 Vote
The Kansas House approved a 206.37 million general government appropriations bill for the 1974 fiscal year and sent it to the Senate. The measure boosts funding for the governor's department and the legislature, with 42.05 million from the general revenue fund. Debate included defeats on retirement benefits for legislators. The Senate planned a vote on a foreign trade zones bill, limiting duties on imported goods within zones and blocking a private trade zone permit provision.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas House
Senate
Governor’s Department
House
Robert Docking
General Revenue Fund
Docking
Norman Gaar
R-Westwood
Gaar
Harrison Johnson
Union Gas Service Company of
Kansas City
Johnson
Kansas
Paul Hess
Wichita
School Board Candidates Meet Five Incumbents In Ottawa
Ottawa Education Association sponsors a 7:30 p.m. Monday panel in Ottawa High School Cyclone Room with five candidates for three school board seats. Incumbents John S. Reynolds Dr. Larry Matney Howard Doyen and challengers John Bushman John Manahan answer questions moderated by Allen Unruh. Election is April 3.
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U.S.C
Ottawa
Board of Education
Ottawa Education Association
John S. Reynolds
Larry Matney
Howard Doyen
John Bushman
John Manahan
Allen Unruh
OEA
Saigon presses to relieve key outposts in north siege
Several thousand South Vietnamese troops with tanks and bomber support advance toward the Rach Bap outpost 30 miles north of Saigon to lift the siege. The campaign follows a rare admission of major operations under the cease-fire, with reports of artillery strikes at Tong Le Chan, casualties, and renewed North Vietnamese infiltration claims. The United States filed a protest with the Joint Military Commission, citing aerial photos of large-scale North Vietnamese material movements.
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Saigon
Rach Bap
Tong le Chan
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Republic of Vietnam
Laos
da Nang
Cambodia
United States
Foreign Ministry
John A. Wickham Jr
U.S
U. S
Lake Pomona Reservoir At 10 Feet Over Normal Pool
U S Army Corps of Engineers reports Pomona Reservoir is about 10.19 feet above the normal conservation pool of 974 feet, now at 984.19 feet with full pool at 1,003 feet. Heavy rains in the past week pushed river levels up and prompted limited discharges into the Marais des Cygnes system after a 1.10 inch rainfall on Monday. Water is muddy with surface 50 degrees and tunnel outlet 48 degrees while fishing conditions last week were fair with strong channel cat and good walleye fishing.
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U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Pomona
Marais Des Cygnes
Corps
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Democrats
Us-59
Joseph Schweiger
Osawatomie
High Court
John Crofcot
Cedar Point
Lake Pomona
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