Area Legislator Resumes Old Hobby
Irving Niles a Kansas state representative and farmer has taken up sculpture. Self taught, he revived clay work five years ago after childhood interest, producing busts of George Washington, General Eisenhower, and Dr. Eldon Teeter. He plans a cement bull sculpture for a veterinarian, with site work to avoid entrapment in his home.
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Ron Womble
Irving Niles
Niles
George Washington
University of Kansas
Kansas State University
Nancy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eldon Teeter
Northwest Medical Center
Goodland
Eisenhower
Teeter
Kansas
Carol
Lyndon
House of Representatives
Quang Tri Citadel Battles Resume Amid Stiff Resistance
South Vietnamese Marines fought into the Quang Tri Citadel but met strong opposition as the fortress remained contested. Informants reported about 400 North Vietnamese troops entrenched in the 19th century stronghold, whose political symbolism outweighed its military value in the battle of Quang Tri.
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Quang Tri, Vietnam
Quang Tri
North Vietnam
Saigon
Quang Tri Front
Kissinger Talks Secretive as Moscow Visits Continue
Kissinger pressed on with talks in Moscow for a second day while a news blackout limited details. U.S. sources noted Nixon adviser lunch with Andrei Gromyko and Jacob Beam. Marine operations around the Citadel intensified as North Vietnamese forces pressed in Quang Tri and rail strikes against China extended the air war, with over 300 sorties reported.
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Moscow
Henry A. Kissinger
Kremlin
U.S
Nixon
Andrei A. Gromyko
Jacob D. Beam
Kissinger
Vietnam
Middle East
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Gromyko
North Vietnam
China
Peace proposal narrows Viet Cong role in postwar government
Washington officials studied Hanoi's latest broadcasted peace plan and found only one small shift from prior positions. The proposal suggests the Provisional Revolutionary Government and the Saigon administration will each appoint members to a government of national accord, excluding President Nguyen Van Thieu from selection power.
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Washington
U.S
Hanoi
State Department
Saigon
Senate tightens welfare service ceiling to 1 billion
The Senate voted 60 to 28 to cap state social services for welfare at 1 billion dollars annually, with day care and family planning exempt from the cap. The bill shifts funds toward poorer states, while urbanized areas and other amendments failed.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
House
Lawton Chiles
D-Fla
QEA Surprises School Board With A Bit Of Old Business
Monday night USD 290 Board of Education faced teachers from Ottawa Education Association who pressed for insurance rebates on Blue Cross Blue Shield plans. Lee Quisenberry of the Kansas NEA outlined the teachers case. The board keeps 12 percent of rebates, about $1,200, while returning 88 percent to teachers. The dispute centers on how much of the premium payments constitute the board’s share of rebates.
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QEA
Board of Education
USD 290
Ottawa Education Association
Kansas National Education Association
Lee Quisenberry
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Robert A. Anderson
Anderson
Kansas House of Representatives
Ward Martin
Garfield
Ottawa Woman Reports Husband Missing and Baby Abducted
Mrs. Bonnie Bethea of Ottawa reports her husband John Bethea and their eight month old son Joey vanished after Friday morning calls and plans to drop the baby at Pat's Beauty Shop. An all points bulletin was issued. Bethea was last seen leaving in a gray 1967 Dodge Polara.
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Bonnie Bethea
John Bethea
S. Hickory
Bethea
Joey
Pat
S. Main
All Points
New Mexico
St. Louis
Florida
West Palm Beach
Lakewood
Hais
John
Pileup in Federal Loan Program Hits U.S. Colleges
The Associated Press reports thousands of students nationwide face tuition shortfalls due to a backlog in the federal guaranteed loan program. More than 4,000 Kansas and Missouri students are affected, with many receiving help from universities or private sources and colleges implementing deferred payments as short term loans are issued at registration. University of Missouri notes over 2,500 students used the program last year across its four campuses, averaging about $1,000 each.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Missouri
Alan J. Purdy
University of Missouri
Student Financial Aid Service
Purdy
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7Th Air Force
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R-N.y
Javits
Russell B. Long
D-La
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Long
Ottawa
Joe
Leonard Meyers
Hawthorne
Forker
Joey Bethea
Office of Education
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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