45 Years Ago
April 1974
WICHITA (AP) KG&E spokesman Robert Rives said KG&E representatives, on behalf of a group of Kansas electric power suppliers, have filed an application with the Atomic Energy Commission in Bethesda, Md., to construct the first nuclear power-generating plant in Kansas. KG&E and Kansas City Power & Light Co. propose to build the $750 million plant on a site on Wolf Creek in Coffey County.
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Emerson Lynn, Jr., Register editor and publisher, was elected president of Mid-America, Inc., the nine-county Southeast Kansas industrial development organization.
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Diane Bodemann, a sophomore at IHS who is highly regarded throughout the Midwest for her gymnastic abilities, will perform during a mid-point break in a special wrestling show at the high school gym tomorrow night.