Hays Daily News, The (Newspaper) - September 17, 1999, Hays, Kansas Local forecast partly Low from South wind 10 to 15 partly High Southwest wind 10 to 20 page Inside today The Hays Daily News FRIDAY September 3 30 pages 507 Kansas 785 6281081 On the Internet at Dedication rewarded In his second Liebenthal youth comes home with grand champion market steer from Kansas State Fair By JUNO OGLE HAYS DAILY NEWS LIEBENTHAL He says its more fun than but Billy dedication paid off Saturday when his was named grand champion market steer at the Kansas State This was the 15yearolds second appearance at the state A few years he showed a heifer and received a blue He seems to be a natural at working with live his and Donna Legleiter When their son was they that caused them to I did because he was never really afraid of All the big for a little kid to han they have their own Legleiter But the animals size never concerned who started showing cattle in 4H when he was We always had them pretty tamed to where you could do anything with so I was never he Billy worked with two steers and two heifers this spending about a half hour to an hour a day with after a full day of football practice and chores at the family farm north of Thats a lot of Legleiter The said they expected Billy and General to do well at the state but it was still exciting when they won the top We had high expectations except for the fact that hes Legleiter referring to the tendency for black cattle to be favored in With the red you cant hide With black hair you can hide quite a he Billy has already picked out calves from the herd to work with for next years He said he looks at calves other people have chosen and tries to match their such as thickness in the body and a good Hes not quite finished with General He will show the steer at the Kansas Junior Livestock Show in Wichita Liebenthal resident Billy with his Saturday at the Kansas State Fair in Billy said it is tough to give up the cattle after working with them for nearly a but as hes hes become used to The top five cattle in the Junior Livestock ANDREW OTTO Hays Dally News which won grand champion market steer Show are sold at And if General doesnt finish in the top five After he goes to our neighbors Donna Legleiter Silent prayer sparks debate for schools AUGUSTA AP A new policy allowing high school students to use the school intercom to urge fellow stu dents to join in prayer got its first use this week when a senior asked fellow students to join her in silent The school board had approved the use of the intercom for prayer earlier this week in a move that could bring a legal challenge from American Civil Liberties among The policy appears to violate the First Amendment because it forces those who may not wish to pray to par said Dick execu tive director of the Kansas and Western Missouri Amanda spoke through the intercom as classes began and asked the student body to join her in silent I dont understand what people are afraid Garcia In my it may not be but its School Board attorney Ervin Grant said he advised board members that the policy is as long as the board or the administration do not dictate what students The Supreme Court never really intended to squelch the idea of stu dents being able to Grant Kurtenbach Theyre opening themselves to some serious legal he Kurtenbach said students are free to pray on their own without action from the school board as long as they are not disruptive and do not force others to Kurtenbach fact that the request for prayer was broadcast throughout the building meant the school board was pushing a religious agenda down and thats where the First Amendment comes Kurtenbach The ACLU will represent anyone who wishes to challenge the new poli cy in Kurtenbach Prayer in school has been debated since 1962 when the Supreme Court banned organized prayer in Earlier this a federal court granted permission to a 17yearold Texas high school senior to invoke God in an inspirational mes sage before a football Last the Kansas House Education Committee did not act on proposed legislation that would have allowed local school boards to require a moment of silence each Augustas policy probably violates two Supreme Court said Jennifer an attorney for the Rutherford a civil rights organization and a group that usually backs conservative caus She said that by using the word prayer in its the school board is endorsing which was banned by the Supreme What the students did was admirable and probably would have been OK if the school board hadnt used the word prayer in the she School board member Bob Chorn said he has no doubts the policy is We need to return to the roots that our school system started he This discriminates against no No one will be forced to listen to the Those who believe in prayer have just as much right to pray as those who Ron the only board member to dissent in the 61 said he did so for two he felt the school board moved too bypassing its cal 30day review of new he I consider myself a strong but I do not believe in forced prayer or prayer before a confined Sophomore Cami Hahn said she thought a morning moment of silence would be more appropriate than a stu People should be allowed to do whatever they want during the moment of she Sophomore Robert Chavana said If theyre going to just do it out side where its not going to bother Lawmakers to attend discussion on farming at state fair HUTCHINSON AP Congressmen will get a reality check by getting out of Washington this week end for a visit to the Kansas State Fair to hear farm ers talk firsthand about their Jerry Moran organized the Saturday trip for members of the House Agricultural Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman was expected to The Agriculture Committee held a hearing this week in Washington to gather testimony from agricultural interests and from representatives of the Department of Many in agriculture say low prices have put farm ers in a crisis situation even as the rest of the nations economy races Saturdays hearing gives the opportunity for a good reality Moran Heres what we heard in meetings in Washington for two days and now were going to be in Kansas heres what the farm ers are Does it fit This is an indication how serious the problem is and how interested my colleagues are in trying to help us find Moran wants his colleagues to hear the same mes sage he heard during the 66 townhall meetings he held across his expansive western Kansas district this This will give farmers the opportunity to express their suggestions as to what Congress and the presi dent should do to return profitability to both in the short and long he Moran said those in attendance will hear testimony from everyday farmers about what is going on in their everyday lives and what they see as solutions to the Were working on disaster relief to try to keep farmers farming long enough to get programs in he Glickman spent four hours testifying before the House Agriculture Committee He told House committee members that while other sectors of the economy enjoy prices for some ture commodities are the lowest theyve been in Farmers and ranchers in some regions of the country are faced with the seemingly improbable combination of low crop yields and low Glickman He said the farm crisis was fueled by four years of record global production and weak export both beyond the scope of the farm now being Other congressmen scheduled to attend will be Frank Leonard Gil Bob Charlie Tom and Mike ASSOCIATED PRESS Richard on stilts and dressed as Uncle towers over Alsea and of Lewis at the Kansas State Fair Thursday in The state fair ends Dying Floyd delivers a final blow BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tropical Storm Floyd spun into New England pelting the region with heavy rain as it deliv ered a final blow from its whirlwind race up the East In its floodwaters caused havoc in parts of North Carolina and New Jersey and res cuers took to the air today to reach hundreds of stranded The storm packing winds of 60 mph fell apart after flooding states from South Carolina to New As of 11 the remnants of Floyd made their way up to Boothbay Harbor in with wind down to 25 to 35 Left behind were millions of dollars in damage and at least 18 including 12 from traffic acci dents in the Virginia and Two girls in Delaware drowned after they were swept into a sewage three people were killed by falling and one man was pre drowned in the Across eastern North Carolina where 15 inches of rain rescue teams mounted a massive rescue operation today to reach stranded peo some in trees or on Thwarted by floodwaters at every rescuers took to the sky and Thirtyfive aircraft took wing this and boats were rushed to Rocky and other areas with the worst What were trying to do is get people off of rooftops said Mark Van a state emer gency management Our biggest problem is that we cant get vehicles into these This is really In Rocky so many rescue aircraft were in the sky that a Coast Guard chopper hovered over doing nothing but air traffic public safety secretary Richard Moore For many people in North the worst part has just he All of the rain from Floyd virtually shut down the coastal plain east of Interstate What were asking people to do is basically observe a closed sign for all of North Carolina east of Moore said The flooded roads barred evacuees from return ing to Wilmington 140 and all secondary high ways into Wilmington except 17 from Jacksonville were Authorities were diverting 195 traffic at to Among those rescued today were members of two families who were ferried across a flooded ditch by boat and power company boom Im so Ive never been in a boat I just want to get said Bessie one of the rescued It was a similar situation on a smaller scale in Bound Serious flooding from the Raritan River stranded some terrified residents on A Coast Guard helicopter plucked at least a half dozen people from and officials said the total number of residents in distress could be Weve just got to concentrate on getting people said Christie who today asked the federal government to declare New Jersey a dis aster The headcount really hasnt started The floodwaters rendered firefighters helpless to extinguish a raging blaze in a pair of adjacent Bound Brook which was out of control this Helicopters were brought in from New York to drop water on Nearly 1 feet of rain fell in some disrupting travel along most of the East Coast and canceling a Police detain thousands in Moscow explosions ASSOCIATED PRESS A realty sign offers waterfront property in a flooded area of Thursday after Hurricane Floyd traveled through the area Wednesday open meeting of the Security Council in New York for the first time in recent Traffic problems continued today across parts of the with some commuter rail service still crippled in the New York City Amtrak service resumed this morning in some areas but was still cut off between New York and See related Page MOSCOW AP Police have detained more than suspects as part of a massive security sweep prompted by the wave of terrorist attacks in the interior minis ter claimed About 30 of those rounded up are suspected of involvement in the bomb ings that have claimed about 300 lives this according to Russian The vast majority were detained for completely unrelated reasons after police began randomly stopping peo ple on in markets and at apartment buildings to check identity documents and search for clues in the Speaking in President Clinton pledged today to help Russia combat terrorist attacks and said that Americans share the worlds outrage over these cowardly The struggle against terrorism is a long and difficult road but we must not lose our the president said in a written America stands ready to work with Russia to protect our citizens from this common A small explosive device blew up in an apartment building in killing two people and injuring The Thursday night blast was the sixth fatal bombing in Russia in less than three the Petersburg sion was not on the same scale as the other apartment and authorities believe it was related to gang The explosion was prob ably an and the ensuing fire was made worse by a can of Interior Minister Vladimir President Boris govern ment is under increasing pressure to end the attacks and drive out Islamic militants from southern where they have been battling Russian forces for more than a month in Russian leaders say the many of them from the breakaway ter of are also responsi ble for the bombing campaign in Police have been targeting people from southern Russia for document Police have detained a number of Chechens in recent but so far no one has been formally charged in any of the The security sweep has netted people who were already on police wanted and another sus of involvement in various crimes unrelated to the
