Chanute Booms and Busts Shake Local Business Scene
Chanute sees openings and closures as firms relocate or open new shops. Taco John’s at 421 W Main relocates to Wichita with an 80 seat plan for Jan 15. Don Divine’s Restaurant moves to New Strawn. Wade’s Family Restaurant opens at 1202 S Grant after Rusty’s era. Goodyear Service Store closes December. Three other Main Street shops announce exits.
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Orozco
Pete Mendoza
Derby
E. Main
Discount Shoes
Dryer's Shoe
Local seminar clears scope on dope
The Drug Abuse Committee of We Who Care announces a six session Social Seminar led by Charles Bell and Ron Frye at the First Presbyterian Church. The free program runs 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays with 32 participant limit and pre registration available. It aims to inform sensitize and reduce drug abuse through discussion based on a National Institute of Mental Health data driven approach.
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Jane Blades
Charles Bell
Drug and Alcohol Committee
We Who Care
Bell
Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center
Humboldt
Ron Frye
Southeast Kansas Regional Planning Commission
First Presbyterian Church
National Institute of Mental Health
Frye
Chanute
Plummer Street project details shared by Chanute City
City Manager Bob Bunting released a two part report outlining the Plummer Street project. The plan includes two through lanes and a continuous left turn lane with curb and gutter extending about 10 feet beyond existing pavement. The benefit district would pay about 6 per linear foot of frontage and some nearby properties would share costs. Federal funds cover 70 percent of construction and right of way with 30 percent locally funded. The local share is split 17 percent by the benefit district and 82 percent by the city at large. The project would widen the street from 20 to 39 feet and add roughly 10 feet per side in most areas. Through truck traffic is cited as a concern but a nearby bypass planned for 1979 could reduce it.
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Chanute
Plummer Street
Bob Bunting
Bunting
Plummer
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Randy Olson
John Brooks
Chanute Square
John Orozco
Taco John’s
W. Main
Kustom
Duane E. Knapp
Mission
Kustom Electronics, Inc
Wayne A. McMurtrey
Knapp
McMurtrey
John L. Benschoter
Benschoter
LeRoy Chaney
Dryer’s
South Santa Fe
S. Santa Fe
John Schultz
Schultz Agency Realtors & Insurers
Gentry & Jacobs
Lassman Electric
Swaney Auto Service
Custom Kreator
Schultz
Kenneth Swaney
G&w Farm Center
Yours
John Sharkey
Deaton
Myrtle Hart
Sue
Ebur Schultz
Cha
Sue Deaton
Sue’s Fine Foods
Hart’s Cafe
Kansas Department of Transportation
South Plummer
Consolidated Oil Co
Cleaver’s Salvage Co
Byers Rock Co
Ronco Oil Co
U.S. 169
Plummer Stret
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