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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 2005
Page
3
The White Woman Basin Chapter of the Old Time Fiddlers Pickers and Singers will perform from 2 to 4 30 p m Sunday at 300 Church Street Scott City The public is invited at no charge All musicians are welcome
In Wichita, East High School principal Kenneth Thiessen faces discipline after a video camera intended to catch graffiti writers was found in the entry area of a boys' bathroom. District policy bans cameras in bathrooms and Superintendent Winston Brooks will determine the penalty. Student Charles Rogers was suspended after discovering the camera and taking it home.
In Topeka AP report federal Judge Julie Robinson delayed the jail hearing over alleged terms of release violations by former Westar Energy CEO David Wittig. The hearing now set for January 6 follows a brief teleconference with prosecutors and defense. Wittig, free on bail during his appeal of a July 2003 bank fraud conviction, faces sentencing in a separate loot ing case with Douglas Lake. Prosecutors contend he violated release conditions by selling 1.2 million dollars in stock to his wife.
Sedgwick County jail inmate Tracallen Streeter was found guilty of attempted murder for the July stabbing of fellow inmate Jason Olson. Streeter, who initially denied involvement, testified he taunted Olson after the incident but would take the blame. Sentencing set for January 26. Olson survived with a 15 inch metal shank in the chest, penetrating the lung diaphragm and liver.
At a Kansas energy conference, Randy Udall warned the national natural gas crisis is urgent, citing rising prices after Katrina and the shift toward renewables. Legislators discussed Kansas lacking a unified energy policy while Sen. Emler and Rep. Sloan noted ethanol and wind progress, with Phillipsburg's eighth ethanol plant under construction.
Kansas Board of Regents asks lawmakers to approve a five year 10.6 million program to raise nursing school enrollment by 250 annually by hiring more faculty, adding equipment, and funding a master’s degree teaching loan plan. Backers cite a statewide health worker shortage and rising demand.
The religious studies backers at the University of Kansas disavow a faculty member’s public comments that described intelligent design and creationism as mythology. The course was canceled after emails surfaced, and Mirecki resigned as department chair but remains a professor.
Dairy cooperatives from Missouri New Mexico Texas consider a $50 million milk processing plant in southwest Kansas to cut transport costs. About 65 000 to 70 000 cows are in the region with 20 large dairies and 105 million dollar yearly revenue projected, potential sites unnamed yet.
Topeka Kansas added 10 500 nonfarm payroll jobs in November while the jobless rate rose to 5.1 percent from 5.0 percent. Labor Secretary Jim Garner said payrolls reached 1.371 million, the highest since June 2000, and were up 27 100 from November 2004 marking the 21st consecutive month of year over year gains.
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