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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1982
Page
3
Sheriff deputies report vandalism creeping into the Corral Club area as tires are slashed. Melvin E. Walker says a club vehicle lost a tire Tuesday night in a pattern of incidents that have hit East US50 parking lot, including sheriff's cars, with $150 damage.
Santa arrives downtown at 2 p.m. Saturday with treats for children. Lions Club pancake feed starts at 6 a.m. in Lions Kitchen serving pancakes and sausage. Lunch includes chili and hamburgers until 2 p.m. Proceeds fund community projects. Deerfield High School Band leads the parade on Main Street. 20 turkeys given away and Christmas decorations contest winners announced with two prize turkeys.
Kenneth Henderson Junior High presents A Night of Laughter and Tears an evening program at 7 p.m. Friday in the school with free admission. Nineteen students perform in skits duets and acts led by instructor Jan Horner. SEOTI-Wild West Country meets Thursday for a 6 30 p.m. covered dish dinner at the Museum of the Great Plains in Dodge City with a museum tour and holiday displays followed by travel planning calls to local contacts.
Kansas and Colorado clash over water in the Arkansas River with Kansas alleging Colorado illegally stores water in Trinidad Reservoir. A committee will draft arbitration rules ahead of a Feb. 1 Garden City meeting as talks continue amid Colorado delays. Bentrup of Deerfield and McDonald of the Colorado Water Conservation Board lead the effort. Kansas officials expect arbitration or court action, noting the Supreme Court handles interstate disputes.
Garden City officials move toward converting the city library to a county system. The city library board votes to quitclaim the old Civic Center building and recommends deed of the present library to the county with no strings. A lease plan for $1 a year and a safeguard to keep the building for public use are discussed amid space concerns and pending renovations.
Philip Tigue, 49, forced entry into District Magistrate Donald Brown's Avondale home at 7 a.m. taking the judge and his wife hostage at gunpoint. Four plainclothes officers wrestled him to the ground in the snow after police lured him out. Brown and his wife were unhurt. Tigue faced multiple charges including burglary, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, and threats.
Gov. John Carlin accepted the resignation of Allyn Lockner director of the Kansas Water Office after a year. The move, effective Saturday, followed Lockner's note that Carlin wanted to shift duties toward short term water problems rather than research and long range planning. Lockner, 51, previously deputy regional director for the Federal Office of Surface Mining in Kansas City.
An 18-year-old Garden City man faces burglary and forgery charges after attempting to cash stolen checks from Cross Roads, a rehab center, at Warehouse Market and Kmart. A 17-year-old juvenile is charged with forgery. the adult is in Finney County Jail, the juvenile released to parents.
About 400 rural Wheatland Electric customers lost power for 12 hours after an underground cable broke near Lewis Subdivision on West Mary Street from US 83. Power was restored by rerouting to another circuit. repairs expected Wednesday. Radio stations KBUF KIUL and sheriff communications were affected. KBUF and KIAL noted generator and transmitter issues. Domestic Garden City customers remained on power.
Dow Jones average stood at 997.78, down 11.59 as Heinold Securities and Heinold Commodities provided quotations. In Dodge City Kansas, Western Kansas feedlot sales showed slow early, active late trade with steady slaughter cattle demand. 8,000 slaughter steers and 1,800 heifers confirmed Tuesday, 27,500 head for the week so far.
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