Garden City Telegram (Newspaper) - September 28, 1996, Garden City, Kansas Saturday September 28,1996 Volume 67, Number 230 Inside Horse sense Training horses provides way to make friends B1 Big Buff win Buffs stampede over Hays 43-14 D1 Resume Pieces of paper often make first impression D8 Briefly Police corner man who falls flat as a suspect Wis. - Police cornered a burglar inside a service convenience but he wasn't going Police realized that the shadowy figure in the store was actually a cardboard cutout of Green Bay Packers coach Mike A passerby in this southern Wisconsin town saw a figure inside the store at about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday and called Responding within minutes were Markesan Police Chief Dee Evans and two Green Lake County sheriff's While Evans and one of the deputies surrounded the the other deputy drove past the store and radioed that was still Lightning strike leaves lucky infant unhurt Ariz. Damion family might want to start calling the young boy His great-grandmother was about to buckle the 21-month-old child into his car seat but wasn't touching him Wednesday when lightning shot through her body The bolt hit the child's mother shocked both women and knocked them to the The boy was said if it would have hit my he would have been He's real said Laura 19. Laura and her 62-year-old Ruth spent the night in a hospital and were released Thursday Outside For timely weather the Telegram is the place to Dial 276-3366, then press 2000 when The Garden City mm mil 75 Cents 46 Pages 5 Sections Lynn general manager of Sullivan inspects milo in a west of on Kathy Fields bursting with milo By TIM UNRUH Staff Writer Southwest Kansas plains known for golden waves are draped in a sea of red and a sort of pale Grain also known as is making a statement in the Large thick heads studded with plump berries are blazing the autumn landscape giving hope to farmers hit with hard times at wheat The only worries left for the milo are beating the freeze to getting through harvest ahead of winter and having room at the grain is clearly the best milo crop in Lane County in 50 said Vance who farms near it's not in the bin We may never cut But if they there may not be enough space to store the which is expected to be 21/2 to five AGRICULTURE NEWS times larger than That's especially true when it competes with an expected huge corn crop for space in local grain a great problem to said Floyd manager of the Farmer's sure didn't do very good at wheat A big milo crop for the co-op is a million Barber This estimates are for a 4.9 million bushel which will just about fill his elevator the yield averages 50 bushels an we'll have plenty of but it gets to 70, we'll be pretty Barber could very well be 70-plus, but some of it will have to hurry to make Toward the Colorado Johnson Co-op has cleared a weed patch south of a grain where excess milo will be piled said Jerry grain making sure we've got That's if everything goes ac cording to Popejoy some good-looking A couple fields could make 100 to 120 bushels an Garden City Co-op has shipped out all of the grain possible to make room for the fall Enough grain must be left in the elevators to account for warehouse said Ken vice president of grain Space problems remain to be seen organization has made the most space available since I've been he a lot of it that isn't ready Drive around and you'll see a lot of green See Page A2 Safety concerns close assembly to students Pledge of Allegiance protest expected By ALESA MESCHBERGER Safety concerns led Garden City High School Principal Don Barta to change plans for a pep assembly on campus Friday The decision caused a stir among students and School officials heard that a group of students was planning a disturbance during the homecoming Fifteen minutes before the assembly Barta made the decision to not allow students to they watched the homecoming crowning on the Buffalo Broadcasting System from their seminar had a concern about Barta just didn't want to have to call a parent and son or daughter was About 1,800 students are enrolled at the high Most were expected to attend the assembly Problems began when a student announced at a pep assembly earlier in the year that students could not say the pledge of allegiance at was under the impression we were not allowing that to Barta That was not the principal Students plan and design the pep assemblies and they don't usually include a pledge of allegiance or national On Friday students did sing the Spangled See Page A2 WASHINGTON - Republicans on Friday accused the White House of risking a government shutdown by demanding changes in an immigration measure that lawmakers want to tack onto a giant spending The White House and congressional Democrats started pressing Thursday to remove provisions in the immigration measure that would deny federal benefits to immigrants who are here legally to leave town to campaign for House and Senate bargainers struggled Friday to meet a Monday deadline set by Senate Majority Leader Trent for resolving the partisan The aimed at stemming a tide of illegal immigration estimated at 300,000 people a has been in the making for and its enactment could have a major political impacts in Texas and other border WASHINGTON The House passed the Wednesday by nearly a It would nearly double the size of the Border stiffen penalties for document fraud and alien smuggling and establish pilot projects for employers to verify job work eligibility It also would increase penalties on illegal aliens caught in this country But House Majority Leader Dick said the White House had refused to accept the bipartisan proposal for changes in the provisions on legal immigrants and was insisting they be dropped The disputed for tighten eligibility requirements for Medicaid and make legal Immigration may halt government Decision upsets students By ALESA MESCHBERGER Some Garden City High School students feel slighted because tensions on campus forced them to miss a traditional homecoming assembly Friday They are upset about how school officials handled the situation - and about the attitudes of students causing the am just mad because one of my best friends was in the assembly and I couldn't be in said Sandy Students watched the homecoming crowning ceremony on television in their seminar classrooms through the Buffalo Broadcasting Some things scheduled for the assembly - like a performance by the dance team - were want our senior year said The students feel the entire student body was punished because of a few See Page A2 immigrants who receive 12 months of welfare benefits during their first seven years here subject to Democrats also were pushing for stricter penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens and more federal workplace Countering Sen. Edward one of the said the White House position did not differ significantly from the Republicans really wanted an immigration they would not back away from their agreement with the White Kennedy just want to try to carry out their extreme The stalemate also split GOP ranks over immigration for the second time in a as several House Republicans accused the Senate GOP leaders of going too far to accommodate the Show and tell Garfield Elementary students check out the saddle that cowboy poet Keith Downer brought to their school Downer shared his poetry as part the study of cowboy Garden City cowboy drops in at Garfield By ALESA MESCHBERGER Keith Downer taught children the cowboy way at Garfield Elementary School Friday With spurs and chaps the Garden City cowboy introduced children to his way of life during two special The day was a celebration of the cowboy studied by the students during Downer made the children's daily vocabulary words come to life when he showed them a chaps and He also read cowboy poetry in his natural western Children and admired his black felt cowboy hat and other western They giggled when he demonstrated how to tie a bandana around his and then slip it off with a quick flick of his Downer shared his own poems with the One was about his 3-year-old grandson being like his and another was about fighting with his older See Cowboy Page A2 Downer
