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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1982
Page
3
Holcomb will delay choosing a new city clerk to interview one applicant who missed Tuesday nights session due to slick roads. Mayor Ivan Myers said the vote planned for Wednesday will await a Saturday interview with the unavailable finalist as Gay Ross resigns after 11 years.
Stevens County attorney said preliminary hearing for two Hugoton men charged with first degree murder conspiracy to commit murder and felony theft will be postponed beyond Friday. John Thomas Jones Jr. 22 and James Michael Gann 18 remain jailed in lieu of 500000 each. Victim Lewis O Price 60 owned Argus Hotel. body found in shallow dune grave three miles northwest of Hugoton.
Finney County Commission approved six thousand dollars of liquor tax money for Garden City Friends of the Zoo. President Marie Osterbuhr said the funds support aviary construction and other projects. Architectural plans for an EMS station were reviewed. bids open January 10 at 2 p.m. for a facility in the 200 block of North Lynch, west of the city building, to be staffed by two people around the clock.
A toll-free number 1 800 362 0274 is launched to connect Kansans over 55 with part time public service jobs through Project Locate, Kansas Green Thumb. The Missouri funded program will operate weekdays 8 am to 5 pm and collect basic info to route callers to Green Thumb or Job Service offices for local follow up within three days.
Registered nurses licensed practical nurses and aides are invited to a Liberal workshop at Seward County Community College Student Union conference room on Monday December 13. Sessions run 10 am to noon and 3 30 to 5 30 pm. Two hours CE credits awarded for RNs and LPNs. Presenter is Sydney D Krampitz RN PhD associate dean and director of graduate programs School of Nursing KU Medical Center. For more information call Southwest Kansas Area Health Education Center Garden City 67846 275 0259.
The Oldtime Fiddlers Pickers and Singers group will hold a carry-in supper and gift exchange Sunday in Lakin Kansas. The event starts at 1 30 p m with performances or listening welcome. Donations appreciated contact Ruth Anderson at 8722731 in Scott City for details.
Grim-faced workers pile sandbags along the Mississippi as record floodwaters rise. The disaster has caused nearly half a billion dollars in damage and left about 28,000 homeless across Arkansas Illinois and Missouri. At least 20 dead four missing. Evacuations continue as levees are reinforced and traffic blocked.
Samuel Weston Jr. drove a cab 13 years without being robbed, then chased a female robber after she pulled a gun and grabbed his money bag in a park. He followed the pickup into Missouri, watched his bag and a gun dumped, and rammed the truck in Kansas City, Kansas. Police stopped the woman. two men fled, no charges filed yet.
Spokane AP Don Loeslie president-elect of the National Association of Wheat Growers says agriculture must not be sacrificed for economic recovery. He argues farms are vital as other industries falter and cites the Jan 4 1980 grain embargo on the Soviet Union as a key trigger for the downturn, while speaking at a Washington Wheat Growers convention.
Kansas Bureau of Investigation traces threatening letters to county sheriffs urging three year imprisonment of ten judges for allegedly accepting taxes or fines in gold or silver. The radical group Posse Comitatus claims to defend God’s law as U S District Judge Richard Rogers and nine district judges are named. The letters, postmarked Topeka, promise a potter’s field for those who fail to act.
Grain quotes from Garden City Co op and Heinold Securities list noon and 1:30 p.m. updates. Dow Jones average at 1059.14 up 2.21. Livestock markets in Dodge City report Western Kansas feedlot sales slow with slaughter steers and heifers mostly 2.00 lower as demand remains light but improves slightly late Tuesday.
A man in a black outfit and helmet claimed to have 1000 pounds of dynamite in a van near the Washington Monument and threatened to blow it up. Park Police negotiated while seven visitors were held at the top of the 555 foot obelisk. A van with an anti nuclear slogan was involved and the man wore a pack with a 3 foot antenna. Last year a separate incident saw a man with a flintlock pistol hold police at bay inside the monument.
Firemen responded to sparks from a water heater at 703 E. Santa Fe around 10 30 p m Tuesday. There was no fire. Fire Chief Allen Shelton said lint buildup caused the sparks. Damage estimated at 25 dollars with no injuries.
Police said burglars struck Julie Huber at 1702 Walker and Chevyl Louthan at 610 N 13th, stealing a Atari video computer and tapes worth 230 dollars and tapes and records worth 200 dollars. The Louthan break in occurred between 10 p.m. Monday and 8 45 a.m. Tuesday while Huber’s happened between 7 p.m. Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday.
A Friday seminar titled Rape A Community Intervention Approach runs 9 am to 5 pm at the Elks Lodge Wichita. Registration begins at 8:30 am. Speakers include Wichita Area Rape Crisis Team members and Wesley Medical Center ER head nurse. Registration is 5 dollars for meals and handouts, 40 dollars for continuing education units offering six CEUs in social work and nursing.
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