Sunflower to Buy Hospital for Headquarters in Hays
Sunflower Electric Cooperative Inc plans to buy the old St Anthony Hospital from Don Pratt to use as its new headquarters. Art Schnose declined to comment on price. The move follows earlier plans to finance a corporate HQ with 3.5 million in industrial revenue bonds approved by the Hays City Commission. The company aims to double its 44 employees by 1984 and reach 111 in ten years.
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Kansas
Hays
Sunflower
Schnose
Hays Commission
Garden City users sign up for new optional local calling plan
About 180 Garden City customers joined Southwestern Bell’s optional local calling during the early weeks of a two year Kansas market test approved by the Kansas Corporation Commission. Two plans cut the flat monthly rate of 7.55 dollars. One thrift plan charges 2.55 monthly plus per minute daytime rates, with evenings and nights discounted. The budget plan costs 4.05 monthly with first 3 dollars of calls included. No connection charges, one year to revert if unsatisfied, toll free info line.
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Garden City
Southwestern Bell
Kansas Corporation Commission
Bob Wright
Wright
ECC
Kansas
Beil
Air Midwest to buy Saab Fairchild 340 regional airliner
Air Midwest of Wichita joins early buyers of the Saab Fairchild 340 twin turboprop. The 34 passenger regional airliner, produced by Saab-Scania and Fairchild, rolled out in Linkoping with King Carl Gustaf IV and Ambassador Forsberg in attendance. About 97 orders exist, with 46 in North America and 34 seats per aircraft. First deliveries expected April 1984, including Air Midwest at Lynn Lake Manitoba.
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Air Midwest
Wichita
U.S
Saab-Scania
Sweden
Fairchild Industries
Linkoping
Carl Gustaf IV
Franklin S. Forsberg
Crossair
Switzerland
Saab-Fairchild Finance
Citibank
New York
North America
Europe
North American
Air Pacific
Comair
Trans Colorado
Tennessee Airways
Air Chaparral
Air Oregon
Calmair
Lynn Lake
Manitoba
Wyoming and Colorado Pay Tops In Mountain Plains 1981
Average annual pay in the Mountain Plains Region rose 9.8 percent from 1980 to 1981, led by Wyoming and Colorado. Wyoming posted 17 238, Colorado higher than the national average, while South Dakota had the lowest regional pay. North Dakota surged 12.4 percent, the region’s strongest gain. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics note UI coverage and exclusions across sectors and workers.
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Mountain Plains
Bureau of Labor Statistics
South Dakota
Wyoming
Colorado
U.S
North Dakota
District of Columbia
Bureau
Utah
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Montana
Nebraska
Cimarron man joins farm income protection task force
Sparky Hefner from Wheat Growers Mutual Hail Insurance Co of Cimarron has been named to the 13 member task force created by the 1980 farm bill. He is one of three insurance representatives and the only Kansan on the panel, which must report by June 22, 1983 on farm income protection insurance as an alternative to price support and disaster programs.
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Cimarron
M. Sparky Hefner
Wheat Growers Mutual Hail Insurance Co
Secretary of Agriculture
John Black
U.S. Congress
Hefner
Recognition highlights ten years service in Kansas court system
Betty Blackburn Wichita County District Court clerk received a ten year service award from the Kansas judicial system during a Garden City meeting on the revised juvenile code. Other items note awards for Janet Lacy and Sid Warner, a KDOT 30-year pin for Alvin Heili, and Air Midwest passenger growth and fleet expansion.
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SECTI
Betty Blackburn
Wichita County
Kansas
Blackburn
Supreme Court of Kansas
Howard Schwartz
Philip C. Vieux
Garden City
Chicago
Clyde Blackburn
Kansas Territorial
Alvin Heili
Mulberry
Kansas Department of Transportation
KDOT
Farmland tests computer potential in rural sales plan
Farmland Industries reveals a three month pilot to test a computer sales and servicing program via member cooperatives. The package includes a computer, accounting and word processing software, operator training, a maintenance contract, a supply kit and a monthly computer trends newsletter. Meanwhile IRA assets in mutual funds reached 4.98 billion dollars through September with over 1.7 million accounts. Money market funds held 54 percent of IRA mutual funds, stock funds were next, followed by corporate bond funds.
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Farmland
America
Larry D. Slaight
Investment Company Institute
National Association of Mutual Funds
Money Market
Livestock and meat prices rise on Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Associated Press reports higher prices Friday as live cattle gain up to 0.33 cents and December contracts reach 59.72 cents per pound. Feeder cattle jump or hold, hogs rise to 58.92 cents, and frozen pork bellies climb to 83.47 cents per pound for February delivery.
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Associated Press
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
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Hospital
Ron Slater
Rutter/Cline Associates
Independent Insurance Agents of Kansas
Topeka
White Star Machinery and Supply Company, Inc
Michigan
Clark Equipment Company
White Star
Michigan Products
Oklahoma
E. Fulton
Janet Lacy
Insurance Women of
Western Kansas
Lacy
Cimarron Insurance Company
Insurance Women’s Association
Sid Warner
National Association of Insurance Women
AIA
Joe H. Vanderweide
Kansas Society of Architects
American Institute of Architects
Joe
Vanderweide
Blanchard
David Crockett
John Kemp
Transportation Department
Bob Schreiber
John Nanninga
Kansas Motor Car Dealers Association
Emporia Holiday Inn
Schreiber
Schreiber Motors
Nanninga
Western Motor Company
New Car and Truck Dealers of
National Automobile Dealers Association
Robbie Cline
Rutter/Cline/Associates Insurance Agency
Insurance Institute of America
University of the State of New York
Cline
Rutter
P.O
Kans
IRA Assets
Wichita Holiday Inns
E. Kellogg
W. Douglas
Holidome
N. Broadway
Illic
Ial Als Aga
Chiropractic
F. Rupp
A.C. Better Health Naturally
E. Fulton Terrace
Quint Automotive
Fulton
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