Paid Cash and Saving by Levy in School District Picks
A local florist proposed naming a new USD 457 elementary school “PAID FOR” to highlight financing by a capital outlay levy. The piece reviews how levies fund buildings, the district’s cash plan for a northwest Garden City school, and the broader impact on bonds and public finance.
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Unified School District 457
James E. Wharton
Gertrude Walker
Whartons
USD 457
Horace J. Good
Board of Education
Garden City
Apollo Moon Exploration Ends With Peaceful Farewell
Apollo 17 ends as Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon aboard Challenger after a historic 22 hours of surface work. They collected 334 pounds of lunar rocks and soil, conducted new geology studies, and prepared to return to the America command ship for splashdown in the Pacific on Dec 19. Cernan urged world youth and spoke of peace and shared samples with other nations to symbolize harmony on Earth.
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Space Center
Houston
Eugene A. Cernan
America
Cernan
Harrison H. Schmitt
Ronald E. Evans
Moon
Schmitt
John F. Kennedy
Apollo
Earth
Pacific
Manned Spacecraft Center
U S backs Thieu peace plan at Paris talks
The United States voiced support for President Nguyen Van Thieu Christmas peace plan while North Vietnam said Le Duc Tho would return to Hanoi. Kissinger and Tho in talks paused without a ceasefire and South Vietnamese proposals urged direct, Vietnamese-only negotiations to end the fighting.
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Paris
United States
Nguyen van Thieu
North Vietnam
le Duc Tho
Henry A. Kissinger
Hanoi
Tho
Kissinger
Washington
Nixon
Henry Isham
U.S
Thieu
Pham Dang Lam
Thieu Vn
South Vietnam
Viet Cong
Isham
Thiecun
Lam
Hospital Project and Housing Authority Granted Variances
The Holcomb Garden area planning commission approved variances for two town projects. A setback variance allows St. Catherine Hospital to construct a Radiation Therapy Addition near Spruce and 5th, with future expansion planned to a full three stories if funded. The Housing Authority variance reduces elderly unit parking to one stall per unit, while 45 general family units will have two stalls per unit at Jenny and Conkling. A public hearing date was set to rezone the general family site from R2 to R4, and Garcia’s Jack and Jill Food Store will gain additional parking after relocating a nearby house.
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Holcomb Garden
City-Finney County Area Planning Commission
St. Catherine Hospital
Housing Authority
3Rd and
Pershing
Spruce and 5Th
Howard Blanchard
Planning Commission
Blanchard, Vanderweide & Fillmore
Blanchard
Jenny and Conkling
Gibsons
Garcia’s
Jack and Jill Food Store
Lith and Jones
Garden Sass Mast People Realized You Can't Take It With You
Gus Garden says people try to keep wealth from going to waste before they die as they plan for the future and what they can leave behind.
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Gus Garden
City to Reconstruction on US 83 Receives First Federal Share
City of Garden City reports its first federal revenue sharing check, $57,637, half of the 1972 allocation of $115,274. Funds will back the US 83 reconstruction from 5 Points to city limits, with work set to begin in spring and the rest of the allotments due quarterly. The city will not use funds to match federal money and has invested $55,000 of the first allocation in Treasury notes until needed.
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Garden City
Deane Wiley
Commission
Wiley
U.S. Treasury
Line Break Harts Heat
In Sylvia Kansas a 2.4 inch natural gas line broke around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, cutting heat to about 400 residents. City workers relit pilots after repairs and all meters were shut off during the repair. Cold temperatures were blamed for the plastic line failure, with eight hours or more without heat for some residents in 20 degree weather.
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Sylvia
Kan
Reno County
Cities Service Gas Co
Hutchinson
Truman Slipping Further in Fight for Life
Kansas City AP report on former President Harry S. Truman, 88, whose condition deteriorated overnight with kidney decline and heart weakness. Doctors say he remains serious but vitals are not immediately critical. fluid in the right lung persists and daughter Margaret Truman Daniel notes limited optimism.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Wallace Graham
Truman
Thuman
Graham
Nobed
Margaret Truman Daniel
Daniel
URA to Appeal Courts Decision in Garden City
Garden City's Urban Renewal Agency met in a secret session and voted to appeal a Finney County District Court ruling halting parts of its activities. The body planned to send officials to Kansas City to confer with HUD and awaited HUD guidance on the appeal and project continuation.
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Garden City
Urban Renewal Agency
URA
Gene Rudd
Finney County District Court
Rudd
Kansas City
HUD
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Oblinger & Smith of
Wichita
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Gee
By Nolan Howell
Wharton
Taxpayers Association
Holcomb District
Garden City Community Junior College
Taurus-Littrow
Itout
Cape Kemedy
Sunflower Electric Power
Kansas
Telegram
Thieu Yule
Peace Pack
Spruce
Declyns
Dodge City
Hill City
Salina Russell
Topeles
Evenue
Harts
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