Loux Named Kansas KCC Chairman After Open Nomination
Harold Houske swore in as KCC member and nominated Richard C. Loux of Wichita as chairman. Loux, turning 50, vows greater public input and hearings transparency while maintaining team leadership. He emphasizes administrative style and support for broader utility regulation powers amid 1979 legislative talks.
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Topeka
Kan
John Carlin
Kansas Corporation Commission
Harold Houske
Richard C. Peter Loux
Wichita
KCC
William G. Gray
Houske
Loux
Kansas Utilities
Corporation Commission
ECC
Commission
Kansas House
Carlin
Robert F. Bennett
Dale Saffels
Tom
van Bebber
Women Move Into Ag Marketing
Washington AP report notes growing female participation in USDA marketing roles. Barbara Lindemann Schlei cites cotton classers rising from 4 of 213 to 104 of 227, and new female graders in tobacco. She also highlights two women among 288 tobacco graders and recent hires under a Civil Service program.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Barbara Lindemann Schlei
Agricultural Marketing Service
USDA
Ms. Schlei
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Tobacco Division
Federal Grain Inspection Service
Leland E. Bartelt
Los Angeles
Wedding Bells Loom For Space Monkey Baker in Huntsville
Miss Baker, the first US space monkey, may remarry with Normal Norman of Atlanta as Alabama space officials and Yerkes Primate Center search for a new mate after her mate Big George died in January. Baker's May 28, 1958 Jupiter rocket flight helped pave the way for manned spaceflight.
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Huntsville
Ala
Miss Baker
Normal Norman
Atlanta
Alabama Space and Rocket Center
Yerkes Primate Center
Big George
Norman
Outer Space
Maple syrup in demand as sugaring season nears peak
Lloyd Sipple of Bainbridge, N.Y., editor of the National Maple Syrup Digest, notes sugaring spans from New England to the Midwest with 7,000 sugar-makers. Demand outstrips supply. Vermont and New York lead production, plastic tubing boosts efficiency, and home kits grow in popularity. The story also covers early history and rising retail prices.
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Vermont
Wisconsin
New England
Maryland
Virginias
Indiana
Ilinois
Iowa
Sipple
United States
Canada
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Alleghenies
Virginia
Joan Magary
Woodbury
Conn
Joyce
Richard Blood
Concord
N.H
Plymouth Rock
Quebec
New York
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Maine
Robert Moore
GH. Grimm Co
Rutland, Vt
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G.T. van Bebber
State Civil Service Classified Service
NY Times
Lansing
Mich
William G. Milliken
New York Times
William G."milliken
Space Monkey
National Association of Home Builders
Federal Housing Administration
Lee Shelden
Haggar
Arrow
Shelden
Williamsburg
Richmond
Kansas
Ches OK
Gene Ward
Shields Motor Co., Inc
Osage City
Dicky-John
Farmers Co-Op
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