Salina Journal (Newspaper) - May 8, 1993, Salina, Kansas the Salina Journal Serving Kansas since 1871 INSIDE Journal Line Category directory Page 12 Kansas May 1993 SO cents s m I Minister threatened by agent Gun pulled during try to search house The Salina Journal The Robert Jones hasnt slept well since a federal law enforcement agent aimed a cocked gun at him When I try to all I see is that gun in my the 69yearold man said I couldnt see nothing but death looking at me with that 214 said the Department of Agriculture agent pointed the gun at him during Wednesdays sweep of Salinans ac of illegally purchasing gov surplus food stamps and The incident occurred after the agent said he wanted to search Jones During a discussion in which Jones told the agent he needed a warrant to search his the agent drew his pistol and aimed it at I think he was just showing off because nobody threatened him with Jones Robert USDA regional inspector said Friday his department did not have an agent with the name Jones Jesse Jones said he was contacted Fri day by a USDA official who said the agent was employed by the depart ment and that the incident was being Department See Page 7 Cases unveiled Terry Revels accused of buying surplus Page 3 Tom Journal The Robert Jones stands near his front where a USDA official pointed a gun at Retirement village may hinge on water By DAN HESS The Salina Journal A new but plan to build a nursing home and retire ment village in east Salina might hinge on the issue of drainage and fire city officials Bui those who live in the neigh southwest of East Country Club and Holmes roads say the new although still might not be acceptable to Its a more palatable plan than the original but it does not address our original said Chris 103 Neighbors complain the new plan will increase overextend wa ter lines and cause drainage prob they say the development is too far from recreation and medical The best use of the property is for neighbors One would think that the city Its a more palatable plan than the original but it does not address our original Chris 103 Presley fathers and the planners would ap the east Salina develop ment and how it has with relatively high family Summers In the Salina Planning Commission recommended denying the original nursing home which would have required that the land be rezoned from agricultural use to single family and multifamily residential The plan included highrise apartment buildings and did not mesh with the citys com prehensive which calls for low density residential The Salina City Commission re turned the issue to the planning commission at the developers re Since then the Ted Brown of Holiday Resorts of Em has changed his He now seeks a dis which falls within the guide lines of The plan will be considered May A district allows the city more control over the use of including design and A nursing home is al lowed in but only with a Because the developers revised plans would require that the property be zoned for rather than multifamily con cerns about the plan not conforming with the comprehensive plan have been said Dean assistant city Planning Commissioner Bob Haworth said his original objections to the plan were the highrise apartments abutting the neigh but the new plan could have Without seeing the whole would fall more in line with the comprehensive but it may not fall fully in Haworth The main thing in being a planning I feel I need to go into it with an open Commissioner Eric Hardman echoed those Until I actually see the I would be hesitant to See Page 6 Tornado kills one camper at Wilson Lake By KAREN PARK Salina Journal About 6 18yearold Jeremy Zimmerman was at home about a mile east of Kens Marina on Wilson watching what turned out to be a deadly tornado Zimmerman and his friends saw the twister descend from the clouds and touch down on the hill above the Instead of jumping back into the the tornado wound its way down the hill and flattened every thing in its including rec vehicles and the One identified by relatives as Helen Bunker of was and at least four others in whose body was found floating in the was camping with her son at Minooka a campsite on the south side of the when the twister touched Two of the a husband and wife ages 42 and were taken to Russell Regional They were admitted with broken bones and lacerations and were in stable condi tion Friday The other two a husband and wife ages 82 and were in good condition at Ellsworth County Vet erans Memorial Hospital with The couple were in their house when the twister a nurse Journal Storm stories Do you hove a story to tell from Friday nights torna does Call Journal Line at 8256000 and press category Follow the tions and leave your address and telephone then tell your A reporter may call later for more Virgil Lawson of the Dorrance Rural Volunteer Fire went to the It the marina was totally de Lawson The boats were scattered and it the tornado took a bus camper and flat tened it Debris was floating in the and at least 15 camping vehicles were The tornado was ac companied by hail almost as big as See Page 7 wheat crop may fell price By LINDA The Salina Journal ASSARIA Farmer Clayton Short faces a good news kind of The good news Abundant mois ture has turned his 600 acres of wheat near Assaria into fields of lush poten It looks real good at this Short If everything goes right and there is no negative were in for a really good The bad news After you come up with a the next thing to worry about is price and its really he With weeks to go until the 1993 harvest kicks into Kansas fanners and others whose living flows from the states wheat fields are optimistic about the chances for a The annual guessing game of How big will the Kansas crop be started in earnest last week when industry representatives estimated farmers would harvest 439 million bushels of an increase of 21 percent from last years 364 million Their prediction was based on conditions during the annual wheat tour sponsored by the Wheat Quality Days the Kansas Farm Bu reau set production at a record 481 million That compares to the current high of 472 mil lion bushels in The states largest farm organiza tion also predicted yields of 43 bush els an slightly more than the current record of bushels in I think theres better than a 5050 chance for a record But how much bigger than the record Id hate to said a econo mist at Kansas State Others have taken the prediction game even Some analysts have started talking privately about this being the year Kansas reaches the magic 500 or 500 million bushels of a figure that most years would exceed the entire crop of No one has ever seen a crop that so theyre unwilling to project something that has never happened Tierney That is especially true with a crop 10 days to two weeks behind normal because of the wet If it turns hot and that will force everything said Tom Saline County extension Thats where we could lose a lot of our So much of the yield comes from heading to grain The See Page 7 Serbs pound safe Clinton preparing to act By The Associated Press Bosnian Serb forces hammered a safe haven town provoking a warning from the chief peacekeeper that his troops will resist such attacks once in Ham radio operators said assaults were continuing on the eastern en clave of where more than 500 people were reported killed or wounded in four Zepa was ravaged by Serb forces firing from the the radio operators In President Clinton predicted that a common ap proach for allied military action against Bosnian Serbs would soon despite what he called some disagreement around the In remarks that also appeared de signed to prepare Americans for a military Clinton said he would have very clear tactical ob with a a middle and an end should he decide to order air Fadil a spokesman for Zepa civil said many of the residents and refugees had sought refuge in forests and He said Serb forces were a Zepa is one of six safety zones in Bosnia agreed on Thursday by the Security Bosnian Serbs had agreed to respect such Philippe Morillon of commander of peacekeepers in prepared to send troops to Zepa and another declared safe and said they would return fire if fired Every attack on the safe zones will be Morillon He said the peacekeepers role was being upgraded to be able to respond in kind to Help too late Frantic officers try to save screaming girl Genoe left and daughter Rota hold a picture of daughter who wot By The Associated Press Officers heard muffled screams and scuffling as they kicked in the door to a room where a 7yearold girl had been It was too They found Divina battered body on a bed and arrested a recently paroled man on charges of raping and murdering The identified as 40 yearold Conrad lunged at the officers as they burst The girl lay face bound and said Passaic County Prosecutor Ronald who neighbors said stalked children after moving to the area about five weeks was being held Friday in the Passaic County Jail on million He was charged with aggravated sexual assault and Jeffrey The unsuccessful race to save Divina and the nature of the crime shocked police James Rhoades You have to most of us are married and have said ordeal began as the man challenged her 9yearold and other children to a He promised the winner a Rosa She said a boy named Jose won the race and Jeffrey gave him a After Jeffrey grabbed Divina by the Rosa Then he took my I called my sister but my sister did not listen to Rosa said He took her and pushed Rosa said she followed them for a time but lost She ran to her mother I cant find my an informant told police of the sus whereabouts in a boarding The detectives raced upstairs to Jeffreys winds
