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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1990
Page
3
The Western Plains Chapter of Kansas Old-Time Fiddlers Pickers and Singers will meet Sunday at the Memorial Building in Lakin. Sign-up for performers is at 1 p.m. CST, with the program at 1:30. All are welcome to perform or listen. no admission. For info call Jerry Dunn or Elmer Grubbs.
About 65 people signed up for the Senior Center holiday lights tour of the city. Residents should ensure decorations are lit on the evening of the tour. Those with special displays may contact Bonnie Burgardt at 275-0462.
The Garden City High School Parent Advisory Council will meet at 7 30 p m Monday in the high school library to focus on band and orchestra programs. The agenda includes Project Graduation and a district mission statement discussion. All high school parents are welcome.
About 150 Marine Corps reservists from Kansas City's 24th Marines Headquarters Company headed for Camp Pendleton California for further training and potential deployment to the Middle East. The unit, a regimental headquarters, acts as a commanding officer staff with three battalions in the regiment. mission not specified. A separate TOW Platoon from the Kansas City reserve center left for Camp Lejeune North Carolina.
The Kansas Corporation Commission will hold four public hearings on bids by KCPL and KPL to acquire Kansas Gas and Electric Co. The hostile KCPL proposal and the KBPL approved plan will be reviewed by customers and the public. Written comments accepted through Feb. 1.
Volume Shoe Corp. will expand its distribution center north of Topeka by 245,000 square feet at a cost of 40.7 million dollars. The project, supported by potential industrial revenue bonds, would raise capacity about 40 percent by 1998 to supply over 1,000 new Payless stores and reaffirm Topeka as Volume Shoe’s hub with corporate offices and 1,300 local workers.
Market figures list a sequence of decimal values including .79 .92 76.17 76.27 and .19.32 75.42 75.72 .79.85 76.12 76.20, reflecting a pattern of prices or indices across months. The fragment hints at a data block or chart rather than a complete story or event.
Extension honors Nancy Potter at the 1990 Finney County Extension Council Appreciation Award dinner in the 4-H Building. Potter, a long-time Extension Homemaker Unit leader and officer, serves on the Kansas State University Agricultural Council and has delivered over 100 presentations. She and her husband Kaye farm with five grown children.
Retired Dodge City judge Don C. Smith, now a Democrat, joins 38 new state representatives in Topeka for a day of organizational sessions. The 1991 Legislature begins with orientation on Robert's Rules and a mock session as freshmen study the chamber's changing norms since 1962.
Trustees of Harris Enterprises Inc and associated Employee Profit Sharing Trust weigh purchasing all or most Harris Enterprises stock to form an employee stock ownership plan. If majority control is achieved tax benefits apply. no purchase price figures yet as feasibility work continues. Harris owns 11 newspapers including The Garden City Telegram and stakes in radio and California weeklies.
Manhattan report shows the FACTS hotline at Kansas State University receiving more calls from younger farmers in their 30s who are current on loans and cash, yet want to exit farming. Ward notes big and mid-size operators seek restructuring while younger clients aim to transition away. Callers express exhaustion after five years of struggle and a need to find another path. FACTS staff work without a formal exit checklist.
Thies reports fragments from lower legs and ankles sent to Kansas State University forensic anthropologist Mike Finnegan. Ultraviolet dating suggests age 100 years or more, likely buried by 1890 or earlier. Bones appear from an adult male possibly American Indian or pioneer. grave may be a secondary site with an old cross marked by an unknown person. landowner seeks no trespassing, no circus atmosphere, and prosecution for violators.
A five year old boy Corey Bascue wrote to President Bush asking to keep his Army dad Ron Bascue safe in Saudi Arabia. The boy’s mother recounts how the letter reached Bush via a friend who met the president aboard Air Force One. Bush replied from the desert, praising the troops and noting he appreciated Corey's gesture. Corey hopes to perhaps write again.
In Olatha, a former Rendleman Office Supply building downtown is eyed as a minimum security jail for about 50 inmates. Johnson County commissioners plan to buy the vacant one story building near the county jail, with renovation costs estimated at 462000 dollars next year. The plan, supported by Sheriff Fred Allenbrand, would use the annex for about two years until a 250 bed facility is erected, though funding remains undecided.
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