Garden City Telegram (Newspaper) - February 5, 2002, Garden City, Kansas Tuesday February 5, 2002 Volume 73. Number 30 Inside ram 50 Cents 16 Pages 2 Sections Projects County accepts consultant's offer Budget A3 Bush's plan receiving some A 4 ( KU keeps streak alive against KSU Market At 11 the Dow ' was up 15,15 from this morning's Outside Local forecast Kansas mostly cloudy east with snow likely Mostly clear Lows from 15 to 20 west to the upper 20s mostly cloudy mostly sunny west and Highs in the 40s some 50s Wednesday mostly Lows in the to Local sports and editorials are available at The Telegram's Internet Index Ann Comics Horoscopes Kansas A2 tax preparation Washington .AS Weather Majority agrees on freshman center Some think second high school inevitable in Garden City's future By JENNIFER CHICK Staff Writer The majority of those speaking at the Garden City School Board meeting Monday night were in favor of a still the issue remains a divisive About 15 people attended Monday's meeting to give input on three options the board is considering to free up space in Garden City High All three options focus on a either converting Abe Hubert Middle Schol or Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center or building a stand-alone freshman Of the eight Making the grade Leaders get taste of what students face on assessment tests By JENNIFER CHICK Writer Local community leaders were in the hot seat Monday when they were challenged to answer sample questions from the Kansas state assessment As part of Take the Test day across the Garden City USD 457 invited community leaders to eat lunch at Kenneth Henderson Middle School and take sample of state assessment tests that students are required to The questions pertained to mathematics and social School administration took the opportunity to briefly cover the history of state assessments and the needs for the State assessments began in 1991 with a pilot test for In 2000, new state assessments were implemented that were realigned to the national those people that say that kids aren't learning used I think 11 find that we expect a lot more of them than when I was in Superintendent Milt said to a group of about 15 that included county media and local business USD 457 curriculum coordinator Ann Goodman said the purpose of inviting community leaders to participate was to ask for the community's support and to develop awareness of the importance of the state As students begin testing at the end of February Goodman asked the community to provide moral support to the Test results are used for school accreditation and to assess and strengths and The tests also provide a means of accountability for students and pie who spoke on the five expressed support for building a Clifford still believes a second high school is inevitable in Garden City's and he said he applauds the board for considering a new center that would be a step in the right He questioned whether anything would pass a bond election at this but encouraged the board to proceed with confidence in whatever decision it He urged the board to refrain from making the same mistake the hospital has made by choosing a location that would not lead to further In a variation on past public the board invited public com- ment before it chose a direction to Irv Stephens agreed with encouraging the board to make sure it builds a center where there might the possibility for future City is going to build a second high Stephens just a matter of where and Former board member Kevin Sterling said he doesn't think the board should hide the fact a new freshman center someday could be used as a second high don't want you to be afraid as a board to say that this could eventually be used as a second high Sterling Some weren't so high on the idea of a have never voted against any bond issue the but I See USD 457, Page A5 Graham K. Members of the USD 457 Board of Education listen as James an associate research professor at the University of Kansas School of discusses the success of the Project Effort program during Monday night's The board also heard public comment on overcrowding issues at Garden City High Finney County commissioner Alan Fankhauser looks over the questions on a sample Kansas assessment test Monday afternoon at Kenneth Henderson Middle Officials from USD 457 invited members of the community to take the test in order to see what kind of standards students are being held The activity was part of a state-wide event deemed Take the Test Day designed to raise awareness about new the assessment standards that have been The district has worked diligently to align its curriculum with the state make sure it is taught to dents before they are tested on the state Goodman The state assessments are becoming more rather than Instead of simply regurgitating facts and the See Page A5 Livestock producers cutting back low prices forcing ranches to reduce herds across the state AGRICULTURE NEWS WICHITA - Faced with prolonged drought and low Kansas livestock producers have reduced the numbers of cattle and sheep they are keeping down on the In its annual livestock Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported the 6.6 million head of all cattle and calves on Kansas farms and ranches Jan. 1 was down 1 percent from a year The beef cow inventory was mated at 1.48 percent from Milk at 95,000 were down 1 percent from the same time a year - Don a operator in Dighton and past president of the Kansas Livestock attributed much of the downturn to the cyclical ebb and flow of. the cattle When are producers liquidate cattle and send more to slaughter than he said Monday But the drought in the western United States has been another factor in the falling cattle ' we don't get rain this there will be a lot of cows for sale as farmers liquidate part of their he One of the numbers Hineman especially looks at in the annual cattle report is the beef replacement which gives him a good indication whether producers are rebuilding their In beef replacement at 230,000 2 percent from the previous And milk replacement at 40,000 was down 43 percent from last KASS expected by npw we be rebuilding but we haven't again it is due to low market prices and drought in the western half of the he the number of all cattle and calves totaled 96.7 million down 1 percent from last Both beef and milk cows were down 1 percent from their numbers a year Kansas had 35,000 including 29,000 beef cow farms and 1,200 milk cow farms operating in Kansas last would like to expand my but I am going to have to find more grass to rent to be able to do Hineman think it is a good time to expand I think we are going to have profitable times ahead of .us in the next few WHEAT CROP Prolonged drought hurt winter wheat crop Crops in poor condition despite recent moisture WICHITA - Repent have brought needed moisture to winter wheat fields in but the prolonged drought so stressed the crop that as much as 32 percent of it remains in poor to very poor Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service said Monday The said in its crop weather report that another 41 percent of the wheat was in fair with 27 percent in good to excellent looks pretty Bob plant pathologist at Kansas State said of the crop Moderate temperatures and dry conditions continued during most of January sleet or freezing rain was received last week in most with snowfall amounts of 6 inches or more in the northern tier of the While that wheat remains drought stressed with poorly developed root lot of wheat came up but then the soil got very dry and it didn't get a chance to establish a root system before Bowden is under a lot of stress right Damage from wind is reported to be light on 22 percent of the acreage and moderate to severe on 9 KASS Freeze damage has been light so with this latest report showing 7 percent of the acreage has moderate freeze damage and 25 percent light But what worries plant pathologists like Bowden is the very warm fall without made conditions ripe for the spread of- barley yellow dwarf The which also affects has already been found in some of Bowden The virus can much as a third of the if I am allow us to fully kind of weather we have In this cropping Another thing that troubles Bowden and he is the first to admit that as a plant pathologist he is a little pessimistic - is the incidences of leaf rust and rust this winter in 1 Spores can blow in the wind to which saw its first ever stripped rust epidemic last That disease was blamed for reducing yields 7 percent 0672472000507
