Commissioners back private recreation center near Santa Fe Park
City Commission endorsed a plan for a privately run recreation facility with indoor tennis and swimming, to be built east of U.S. 169 across from the National Guard Armory, and declined curbside trash pickup and a $51 000 Sanborn Drive sewer extension for Santa Fe Park restrooms and nearby facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brooks
Santa Fe Park
Park Area
Wayne Burghart
U.S. 169
National Guard Armory
Chanute
Burghart
Small Business Administration
Bill Boone
Safari Golf Course
National Guard
Sanborn
Ed Cox
The
Recreation Commission
Parking meters stay out in Chanute CBD
Chanute city commissioners approve an indefinite extension of the meter removal program in the Central Business District begun by the Retail Trade Association. The measure preserves free two and four hour parking as the district continues its transition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brooks
Chanute
The
Retail Trade Association
R.C. Lee
Chamber
Trade Association
Bob Bunting
Lee
Commission
Mobil
Mid-America Refining Co
Robert Pennington
Pennington
Memorial Building
Money major element in CBD rehabilitation
Chanute city officials and merchants pressed for CBD policy plan funding at a workshop led by architect Walter Viney and historian Willaim Ellington. The group discussed restoring historic facades and adding canopies, signs, lighting, and pocket parks while preserving charm to attract shoppers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Viney
Bender, Viney & Mann
Wichita
Willaim C. Ellington
Wichita City
Viney
Ellington
Cbd
Chanute
Missouri inmate jump ends with climb to prison wall
Jefferson City Missouri police arrested Michael Bostick a 23 year old from Lee's Summit after he climbed three quarters of the way up the north wall of the Missouri penitentiary early Monday. He said he jumped from a freight train seeking a shortcut to town and rode about six blocks to the county jail while authorities weighed charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
UPI
Missouri Penitentiary
Michael Bostick
Lee's Summit
Cole County
Wyman Basinger
Bostick
Intercepted Letter From Nute Sparks Plotting Debate
A brief intercepted missive with an isolated closing Dear Cha and signoff Yours Nute suggests planners discussed making a pretty picture. The fragment hints at coordination or propaganda themes without specifying details or outcomes.
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Cha
County approves Shaw Road improvement bid and raises weed director wage
Neosho County Commissioners accept Beachner Construction Co. bid of 209 027 56 for an 11 mile Shaw Road leveling course and plan a contract to start at the east end. The wage for Dean Stipp as assistant noxious weed director rises to 3 43 retroactive to April 16. The 1978 extension budget is set at 49 200 with the county share 33 790.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrea Groves
Neosho County
Beachner Construction Co
St. Paw
Shaw Road
Beachner
Charles Ingle
Ingle
Dean Stipp
Don Woods
Carter Far Eastern diplomacy praised as Turkey rift persists
President Carter wrapped up his first overseas trip with praise for his Europe talks and NATO address while failing to secure relief from the Turkey arms embargo crisis. He met Assad in Geneva and pressed for Middle East peace, but Turkish Prime Minister Demirel remained cautious as Washington bases faced closure and no immediate breakthrough on military ties.
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London
UPI
Carter
Turkey
United States
Western
Europe
NATO Tosday
Hafez Assad
Geneva
Middle East
Washington
Helmut Schmidt
Valery Giscard d’Estain
U.S
Andrews Afb
NATO
Cyprus
Makarios
Suleyman Demirel
Constantine Karamantis
Demirel
Ankara
Congress
Carter proposes limited tax boost to shore up Social Security
President Carter outlines a plan to cut the 75 year deficit with a $14.1 billion general revenue dip and a phased in employer tax increase totaling $30.4 billion over four years ending 1982. He warns 1980s funding shortfalls and reserves exhaustion without action.
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Congress
Carter
Health Education and Welfare
Joseph A. Califano Jr
House
Disability
Old Age and Survivors Insurance Fund
Weather forecast notes mild, sunny days ahead
The AREA forecast calls for mostly sunny and mild weather through Wednesday. Highs this afternoon will reach the low to mid 70s with tonight’s low in the 50s, followed by mid to upper 70s on Wednesday. Winds from the southeast 5 to 15 mph.
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Bunting
Jim Beck
Boone
Chamber of Commerce
Mid- America, Inc
Kansas Cities
Harvey Young
Sunnyside
Crestview
Beachner Construction
St. Paul
Mobil Oil Co
Spencer Brandon
W. 7Th
Proto
Rob Johnson
14Th and
Santa Fe
Yours
Shaw
Warsaw Pact
Soviet Union
West
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