Hays Daily News, The (Newspaper) - December 8, 1999, Hays, Kansas Local forecast 50 percent chance for Rain changing to snow after Low 50 per cent chance for High page Inside today The Hays Daily News WEDNESDAY December 6 60 pages 507 Kansas 785 6281081 On the Internet at CHARLIE Hays Dally News Sam rings a bell as he mans a Salvation Army kettle this morning at Dillon Food 1902 Brownback continues annual ritual as Salvation Army bellringer Since joining the legislator has volunteered time during holidays By JUNO OGLE HAYS DAILY NEWS Salvation Army bell ringers often bring attention to the familiar red but one bellringer at Dillon Food 1902 attracted a bit more attention this Sam rang the bell and handed out small holiday greeting cards just inside the north entrance of the store for about a half hour this Every year Ive been in the Senate I ring bells for the Salvation Brownback Volunteering time for the Salvation Army helps remind others to help the less fortunate and also draws attention to the fact that small communities are often short of Brownback While Hays churches and civic organiza tions provide about 200 volunteers for the Salvation Army during the holiday bellringers are always the Will Haworth The Salvation Army has three freestanding kettles in Hays and one each in Victoria and Another kettle will be placed today at Farm and Home 2900 In there are about 15 countertop kettles in businesses around Haworth noted that in many the standing kettles are often placed outside the but Hays businesses have allowed the kettles inside the out of the The merchants have been more than coop Haworth The funds raised from change dropped in the kettles stay in Ellis said Shirley office manager at First Call for the orga that distributes the Last 526 people received assistance from the Salvation Army The money goes to assist Ellis County resi dents in a crisis Wherever there is a Fisher Those situations can include an emergency need for medications or medical First Call for Help works with other agencies in the county to direct those in need to the right agency for Bell ringers are needed through Anyone wanting to volunteer should call First Call for Help at 6232800 or Haworth at Hall Street project once again on city commissions agenda By SCOTT AUST HAYS DAILY NEWS The slow death of the Hall Street project might be realized Thursday unless the Hays City Commission can figure out a The commission will meet at Thursday at City 16th and Two weeks the commission split 22 on widening Hall Street to four lanes from 12th to signalizing the 13th and 27th street inter sections and eliminating the Elm and 12th streets Commissioners Howard Rome and Wayne Billinger were in favor of the while Larry Schmidt and Troy Hickman voted Henry Schwaller IV abstained from voting because he owns and rents property that would be affected by the After more commissioners voted 4 1 to table the issue to Thursdays who voted against tabling the is optimistic that the commission will come to a but he doesnt plan on changing his Im not probably going to change my view point on but we had a 41 vote to table it at the last Hickman That tells me the commissioners are interested in finding a solu It showed me that the commission wanted to find an answer or they wouldnt have tabled Hickman said he is planning on staying with his position of doing nothing at this time and focusing on projects with a higher but he thinks the commission is interested in finding a whether that be a compromise or finding a clear I feel we need to resolve Hickman but there doesnt seem to be a clear consensus among people in the community about what to do with Hall Many people compliment me on taking that position of doing but an equal number of people say something needs to be Hickman he the people who say some thing needs to be done are split between repair and replacement of the pavement and widening the I think the reason the commission is strug gling with the issue is because the community is struggling with the Theres not a consen sus from the Hickman Schmidt said he is confident some kind of decision will be made Thursday and he hopes more information concerning his idea will make a Schmidt has proposed repairing and replacing Hall Street and using funds that would have gone to widening it toward repairing and replacing Eighth At the last commission meeting two weeks Schmidts proposal was voted down with one But judging by comments from Schmidt said people favor his idea I think we can make a I think a doesnt have much of a Schmidt They still havent showed us any statistics that Hall should be four Schwaller agreed that there is no justification for widening Hall to a We have road We just want bigger and better Schwaller Schwaller said he would not be voting on the issue this week either because of his property That would be serving my own Schwaller That would be Schwaller said he thinks the two commission ers who voted for widening Hall Street might agree to a compromise after further AGENDA SEE PAGE A6 Bomb threat made Search of Colby High School produces no explosive devices classes conducted today By JAN KATZ ACKERMAN HAYS DAILY NEWS COLBY Just days after Colby USD 315 School Board members were threat ened with violence prompting the closing of schools Monday a bomb threat was discovered Tuesday Last night one of our night custo dians found a handwritten bomb Brian principal at Colby High said this Immediately after the note was found Tuesday night the Colby Police Department was contacted and the building was but no sive devices were We then contacted the students and other members of the community about the yet notified them that the building was secure and school would be in session Bullington We are taking every precaution we and we have a police officer on duty all he Bullington said the school also has parent volunteers on hand to monitor traffic flow inside and outside of the Its my belief that this is in con junction with the first but we want to emphasize to the students that every precaution is being taken to make them Bullington Although numbers were not avail able as of Bullington expected todays attendance to be Some students had called in to say they would not be in class today and others had checked out and gone Superintendent Kirk Nielson said authorities continue to be on top of the reiterating that Police Chief Randy Jones had notified the FBI about the We are making no assumptions and keeping this in the hands of the Nielson Anyone having information in the incident is being asked to notify the authorities at 785 the school has an established hot line phone number at 877 and the caller is kept On Saturday afternoon a package without a postmark was picked up by postal employees from a Colby drop Instructions on the outside said to deliv er it to the Colby Police Inside was a cassette tape record ing demanding that policies and pro at the school be changed or a threat of violence against school board members would be carried The school board recently had upheld its sports and activities which had resulted in the suspension of 30 students who had violated it in late October by attending a drinking On school officials decided to cancel classes throughout Colby on Schools reopened with police and volunteer parents monitor ing About 20 of the high schools 420 students were absent officials Pearl Harbor memorial ASSOCIATED PRESS Roger Thomas and Myrtle both survivors of the attack on Pearl throw a lei into the Baltimore harbor during a Pearl Harbor memorial ceremony Tuesday in The ceremonies marked the 58th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Board sends science standards out for review TOPEKA AP Critics of the State Board of Educations decision to deemphasize evolu tion in Kansas public schools have even more reason to be The latest version of science standards gives evolution even less prominence than an earlier text approved by the The board decided Tuesday to have an out side consultant review its rewritten science The vote was In the board approved standards that downplayed board members decided then to include a sentence saying students should develop an understand ing of biological evolution before graduating from high The version reviewed Tuesday by the board did not include the concept of biological evo lution in a list of topics that students should learn before The standards do not set a statewide cur but they are guidelines for what should be taught and will be used to develop statewide The new tests are scheduled to be introduced in spring During Tuesdays the board did not discuss the deletion of biological evolution from the list of topics that students should learn prior to Chairwoman Linda said after the meeting that she wasnt aware of the change but thought it probably was made to avoid copyright Budget crunch will lead regents to consider tuition hike TOPEKA AP Budget problems could lead to higher tuition for students at state The Board of Regents plans to reexamine its tuition rates for fall set by the board in On Chairman Docking called a special meeting of the boards University Budget Development and Tuition Committee for 15 at Hutchinson Community where the regents will have their regular monthly The 11member committee makes recom on tuition rates for tuition rates to the Committee members include four university administrators and faculty and student Docking said it is important for the regents to examine every option and show the board is willing to help manage state universities through the states budget Last the officials and economists who make state revenue projections told legis lators and Graves that the state would have to cut about million over the next 19 absent a tax The regents are especially concerned about an extra million in aid to universities and community colleges and technical money for the states 2001 fiscal which begins July The Legislature promised the money when it reorganized the higher educa tion system earlier this
