Kansan sports notes farmers' crop option and crime stats
Inside Highlights covers heaters and fishermen as new options for struggling farmers on page 10. State Bureau of Investigation officials respond to crime statistics with renewed emphasis on data accuracy on page 3.
Tax reform debate worries Franklin County residents
Franklin County residents press Congressman Robert Whittaker at a 45 minute Friday meeting on Social Security, railroad pensions, and the tax reform bill. Whittaker cites plans to cut income brackets from five to two by 1988, eliminate many deductions, and tax home equity withdrawals. He notes capital gains removal and continued benefits for charitable contributions and municipal bonds, while urging income averaging for farmers. One listener urges a personal vote if taken today.
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Melissa Bauman
Franklin County
Robert Whittaker
U.S
Fifth
Whittaker
Congress
Ottawa Board of Education sets regular meeting agenda
The Ottawa Board of Education will meet at 7 30 p m Monday at the U S C 290 office to discuss five critical issues from in service training 1996 87 enrollment first week data curriculum Kansas Teacher of the Year nominations and planning. An executive session will address personnel matters and a September work session is tentatively planned. County forecast calls for mostly cloudy with a 20 percent rain chance and highs in the 65 to 70 range.
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Ottawa Board of Education
U.S.C
Nancy Hale
East Central Vocational Cooperative
Building Trades
Hale
Kansas
Britannica saboteur thwarted by computer safeguards in 1988 edit
Chicago officials said a disgruntled Britannica employee tried to rewrite history in parts of the 1988 edition but was stopped by the company’s computer safeguards. The employee confessed, was laid off, and agreed to help correct the text, with no changes slipping into the 1987 edition.
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Chicago
Norman Brown
Brazn
Braun
Tom Goetz
Britannica
State Chief Justice Schroeder to retire from Kansas Supreme Court
Alfred J. Schroeder, chief justice since 1977, did not file for retention and will retire in January 1987 after three decades on the Kansas Supreme Court. Justice David Prager is slated as a potential replacement as Gov. John Carlin could gain a Democratic majority on the high court.
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Topeka
Kan
Alfred J. Schroeder
Kansas Supreme Court
High Court
Schroeder
Secretary of State’s Office
Ron Keefever
Supreme Court
John Carlin
Carlin
Kansas
David Prager
Fort Scott
Shawnee County
Prager
Newton
Kansas State University
Harvard
U.S. Air Force
Skyjack saga ends in Karachi jet siege shootout
Four hijackers held 400 captives aboard a Pan Am jumbo jet in Karachi. After lights failed, gunfire killed at least 17 and wounded 127 as commandos stormed the aircraft. Two hijackers died, two captured. an American hostage was among the casualties. Authorities report 41 Americans aboard. plane bound for New York via Frankfurt.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Hussain Shaffi
Washington
D.C
Pan Am
New York
Frankfurt
West Germany
Khurshid Anwar Mirza
Mirza
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