County tax debate flags road and bridge funding risk
County officials warn revenue sharing cuts threaten road and bridge programs. A 1983 transfer plan would trim services while no fund warrants push repayment. Officials argue voters want the appraiser to stay in the general levy and warn of cuts in sheriff and prosecutor budgets if the plan fails.
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Board of Tax Appeals
Keith
Peffly
Porfly
Andilar Ob Lemon
Vntinty
Roy Swank
Poffis
Ro Cone
Wendell Barker
Hex Bowling
Sayiiuk
Franklin County Watchdog Committee
Barker
Swank
Register of Deeds
Sheriff's Department
Downtown street repaving plans face mixed comments
Downtown residents merchants and officials gathered as City Commissioners discussed Main Street repaving. Engineers said work will proceed on one side two blocks at a time with parking open across the street and a December 1 completion target for the river to Fifth Street section. Delays due to weather would be penalties to the contractor while residents pressed for safety and traffic access during construction.
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Carmen Peffly
Dorothy Nichols
Leonard Larson
Shan McCrea
McCrea
Main
Schachter
Walt Butler
Commission
Department of Public Safety
Corporate bankruptcies rise as rates fall slowly
New evidence shows interest rates easing but help for cash strapped firms remains limited. Economists warn more sizable company failures loom as sales slump offset by little relief in interest expenses. Citibank trimmed its prime rate to 16 percent, with further declines unlikely this summer.
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New York
Citibank
GOP Accused of Reneging On Remap
In Topeka Kansas the Republican majority faced accusations of breaking faith with Democrats over congressional reapportionment. Senate Minority Leader Jack Steineger testified in a federal court panel that the Hess Whitaker plan abandoned shared criteria and sparked a partisan clash, impacting the district map for Kansas five congressional seats. Democratic critics argued the plan favored state Republicans and shifted Douglas County and Wyandotte County into districts to aid proponent Jim Slattery against incumbent Jim Jeffries. The dispute centers on district boundaries and the legality of remapping amid court oversight.
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Topeka
Kan
Wichita
Senate
Jack Steineger
Paul Hess
Neal Whitaker
Stejneger
Kansas City
John Carlin
Kansas
Steineger
U.S. District Court
Hess
Douglas County
Jim Jeffries
Wyandotte County
Lawrence
University of
Slattery
Larry Hume
Jim Slattery
Douglas
GOP
Hess-Whitaker
Rep
Jeffries
Testimony continues in farm hearing in Kansas
A former social worker at The Farm home testified of June 1980 discipline where an 11-year-old girl was pulled by the ears to the floor and of alleged sexual advances by a male employee. The testimony occurred as a state hearing considers revoking The Farm's license near Emporia.
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Topeka
Kan
Terri Henderson
Ms. Henderson
Emporia State University
Independence
Department of Health and Environment
Emporia
Delbert Johnson
Lutheran Branches Ponder Huge Consolidation Move
In Omaha Nebraska leaders of the Lutheran Church in America the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches and the American Lutheran Church discussed a possible merger into a single church by 1988 with more than five million members. LCA Bishop James Crumley AELC Bishop William Kohn and ALC General Secretary Arnold Mickelson spoke at a news conference while delegates from six states gathered to consider unity though the Missouri Synod did not participate.
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Omaha
Neb
Lutheran Church
United States
Lutheran Church In America
Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches
American Lutheran Church
LCA
James Crumley
New York City
AELC
William Kohn
Crumley
Kohn
Mickelson
ALC
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Colorado
Texas
Oklahoma
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T. Rowe Price Associates Inc
Ottawa
White Shrine
Alice Maxwell
W.H.P. Lanah
Cameron
W.S
Russell Wadkins
Alcoholics Anonymous
Al-Anon
Secial
Ralston
G.F. Martin
Dept
Waverly
North Sycamore
Yamaha
South Mulberry
South Maineeamen
East 10Th
Tems Unlimited
East 7Th
Cypress
North
Cleveland
Richmond
the Family Circus
By Bil Keane
Lave
Pinel
CMON
Clotan
Beetle Bailey
Lutheran
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