Garden City Telegram (Newspaper) - May 1, 1996, Garden City, Kansas Wednesday May 1,1996 Volume 67, Number 104 The Garden City ram 50 Cents 22 Pages 3 Sections puts on final show spring season Playing host Buff teams capture third at Special treat Families give kisses for Briefly Refusal to testify costs parents jail time Vt. parents of a 25-3rear-old rape suspect were ordered to stay in jail Tuesday after repeating their vow not to help prosecutors make the case against their Craig Yandow has not been charged in the 14 in which a woman was beaten and left in the unconscious and His parents have beerl jailed separately for a They claimed Scholar discovers Alcott BOSTON but penniless governess discovers she is Her heart wins her the love of a English Louisa May Alcott wrote this romantic tale when she was 18, but few knew about her first novel until two Alcott scholars found the manuscript in the Harvard University library come up with a lot of nice things but none as good as said Joel an English professor at the University of South The titled was found along with a note from Park leases church where King preached ATLANTA National Park Service has signed a 99-year lease for the church where the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. and his father and will open it to visitors during the Summer In the congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church will get land for a sanctuary next to the Park Service's new visitor center across the COMING 800N - For timely weather the Telegram Is the place to Watch tor more Pump price hike prods probe Clinton vie for gasoline votes WASHINGTON leaders promised a vote by Memorial Day to roll back gasoline taxes as the Justice Department opened an Tuesday into the causes of the recent surge hi prices at the believe with the skyrocketing prices of jet fuel and other fUels that the most certain way to give consumers relief is to repeal the gas and do it as quickly as we can before the summer driving season starts in said Senate Majority Leader Bob President Clinton's GOP challenger in the fall In a contest to win votes by lowering Republicans have called for a repeal of 4.3-cent-a-gaUon gasoline tax increase that Clinton won in 1993 as part of a Dole and House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Congress would vote quickly for a repeal through the end of this And they said a permanent repeal would be in fiscal 1997 budget The Clinton administration has said it is willing to discuss It has moved to drive prices down by increasing And on Assistant Attorney General Anne K. head of the Justice Department's antitrust named a task force of lawyers and economists to conduct the investigation of price She acted at the request of Associate Attorney General John Schmidt and hi response to inquiries by three members of department spokesman Carl Stern Senate Democrats Christopher Dodd and Joseph and Rep Charles wrote Attorney General Janet Reno requesting an The task whose members were not first study whether market forces account for the in Stern then they will determine whether there is evidence of which is illegal imder antitrust Reno told reporters Tuesday afternoon that she was not aware of anyone in the Justice De- discussing the probe with the White House before the Tuesday decision to open the As inquiries from Capitol HUl Reno asked Anne to look into it to see if there's any Schmidt was enough unusual activity that Anne and I this was something the antitrust division should look to see if there was evidence of collusion as opposed to market forces at Gasoline prices are at thek highest level shice the Persian Gulf War They've jumped 5 cents in the past two weeks and 14 cents in the past The average price including all grades and was a gallon as of Friday to the Survey of 10,000 gasoline Judge upholds water decision DENVER - new restrictions on farm wells in the Arkansas River Basin have been upheld by a state water The rules were issued to help pay back Kansas for water that Colorado illegally diverted for 40 Six Colorado farms arguing the restrictions would put them out of business and to an illegal of property without The rules were issued by State Engineer Hal On Tuesday Division 3 Water Judge John Anderson ruled the restrictions are necessary to fix depletions hi the river basin's groundwater Anderson ordered the rules take injury to senior surface rights alone sufficient reason for adoption of the new the judge wrote in a 25-page noting an link between groundwater and the river The judge also denied the claims the rules have a significant economic reality is that the price of water is going and the well owners will now have to pay the going rate replacement Anderson Under the farms that pump wells to irrigate crops must the loss by putting water elsewhere back into the Last the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado broke its 1948 compact with Kansas by taking too water tmm the precipitating the state's call for the new Thousands of drilled shice the compact was signed have been blamed for cutting the river flow through southeastern Colorado and across the Kansas Some 2,800 Colorado wells are subject to the new the weUs pump 160,000 of water a or about 48,9 billion Gratchan last class Nursing instructor Ella Wiebe grins at some good-natured ribbing from Gary Jarmer on Tuesday at Garden City Community Wiebe is retiring after 25 years teaching at the Instructor lectures last day in stride Wiebe enjoys 25 years teaching at college By ALESA Staff Writer Ella did not allow herself to be distracted by visitors to her classroom Tuesday The Garden City Community College instructor lectured and discussed as But it was anything but a normal day for It was her final day in of a class before In the last 16 Gary dean of technical and Evelyn director of walked hi took over the Jarmer asked the room fUll of students to grade performance as a The dass in the ftm and gave her a in serving listening and Bowman talked about many years in applaud for all the things you've done all your Bowman As Jarmer and Bowman congratulated her and left the Wiebe reminded students to hand hi pop quizzes before Wiebe is retiring after 25 years of teaching at She ed in 1952 from Bethel College and did her clinical work at Bethel Deaconess She at St. Catherine Hospital hi the obstetrics department fcom 1963 to 1971. She worked part-time because her sue children were She the faculty at the 1971. Wiebe had another visitor in her dass on her final day - her Art. He had never observed her teaching Wiebe He also brought At the age of 66, Webe decided it was time to dose this chapter in her was thne to move on to other she The final day brought feelings of sadness and Wiebe adding she will miss the college and her When she was women did not have the variety of careers to choose from that they do today The choices focused on secretarial or was my Wiebe She tried to emphasize the importance of caring in nursing to her She said she also tried to in the After the Wiebe plans to stay busy by staying in hobbies and Ingalls harnesses wind for sewage Staff Writer A River Pond Mill churns water In an Ingalls sewage treatment the the City of is controlling its on pontoons float hi the sewage treatment lagoons south of They turn in the wind and and drive that churn the water Ingalls Mayor John O'Brien - also of schools - said the city purchased two Little River Pond Mills tcm last The Agency had questioned the city about the high levels of in its O'Brien said the city needed a way to speed evaporation the ponds during wet The pond mills are expected to increase evaporation by 10 to m on our O'Brien they will help Impellers also put oxygen hito the which feeds aerobic bacteria that eat up solids in the Hank Raff of said the pond mills bring water tram the bottoms of lagoons to the surface and roU it over which is from anaerobic is reduced by the Solids are pulled irom the bottom and suspended in the body of which allows bacteria to more effectively break them Raff Pond also are used to aerate fishing Raff said has been the product about a year hi the United States and has sold them in IS They liave been used in Canada he spent on the two pond Worker fights off robbers A Sonic employee fought off two robbers as was making a deposit early this and escaped serious police The robbers got away with the woman's but she kept them from stealing the deposit Garden City Police Michael Utz gave this Sonic West manager Dana 26, went to the Fidelity State Bank branch at 1504 Taylor Plaza to make a drop in the night deposit She was approached by two men bandanas on their They attacked Rinehart hi her car and tried to the deposit but she threw the bags hi the back of the car and fought the men off. They grabbed her purse and ran east on The woman suffered minor scrapes and bruises to her arms and said the purse contained a small amount of Police were still this The suspects are described as two black one 5-foot-lO and the other 6-foot. Anyone with call the police department or crime Traffic work could take about two months has started on the of 3rd-4th and Steve city said parts of 3rd and 4th are dosed to southbound traffic at goes we're anticipating two lie said about the thne length of the Contractor is Dodge City Project cost is about began Monday The project wUl take southbound on 3rd hito an on to 4tb-
