Prisoners Still Receive Holiday Treats at Finney Jail
Since 1965 the Finney County Jail honored inmates with stockings stuffed by Undersheriff Grover Craig and his wife Jo, a tradition that continues though 1982 with meals in the basement kitchen, a Love Fellowship Church service, and individual gift handling amid reduced staff on Christmas Day.
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Finney County
Grover Craig
Craig
Capt
Jo Craig
Law Enforcement Center
Norman Radke
Love Fellowship Church
Garden City
Radke
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Glasses take a Texas trip and return home
Richard Jantz misplaced his glasses during wheat harvest last July and they traveled with a truck to Cimarron Co op. Found in Dallas in a carload of wheat, the glasses were mailed back and mostly intact apart from scratched lenses and a bent ear piece. Gen notes: separate burglary arrests in Finney County led to recovery of $1,569 worth of stereo gear and tools from nine vehicles at the IBP plant west of Holcomb.
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Cimmaron
Richard Jantz
Jantz
Millard Jantz
Anitz Ewart
Cimarron Co-op Equity Exchange
Cimarron Co-op
Dallas
Texas
Chet Fairbank
Fairbank
Idaho
Colorado
Finney County
IBP
Grover Craig
Craig
Garden City
Holcomb
Pack 95 Webelos spread Christmas cheer with pillow dolls
Webelos den of Pack 95 sponsored by First Christian Church packed pillow dolls for charity. They delivered the items to Mexican-American Ministries for distribution to low income Finney County families, coordinated by Mayo Guillen with den master Alan Cheatum and leaders Ernie Wegner Venita Cott and Ted Contry.
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First Christian Church
Taylor
Mayo Guillen
Finney County
Alan Cheatum
Jason Beninga
Blaine Bratcher
David Cheatum
Eric Sherraden
Russ Williams
Kent Cartmill
Randy Kells
Mitchell Moffet
Tracy Salley
Kent Schimke
Jim Summers
Troy Webb
Wesley Wegner
Cheatum
Ernie Wegner
Venita Cott
Ted Contry
Santa in Liberal avoids police charge after candy handout
A Liberal Santa, who asked to remain unnamed, handed out candy after a party near K Mart Gibson and Alco. A woman noted his license plate and called police. Officers visited his home at 11 p.m. and found no danger, concluding the incident harmless.
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Liberal
HNL
Santa
Liberal Police Department
K Mart
Gibson
Alco
Kansas Literature Course at Garden City CC
Garden City Community College will offer a spring course titled Kansas Literature taught by Eugene Schneider for three credits. The class, meeting 10 a.m. MWF starting January 5, covers prose fiction essays drama and film in Kansas literary tradition with critical analysis and composition. Registration in the library on January 4 runs 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
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Kansas
Garden City Community College
Eugene Schneider
Langston Hughes
William Inge
Gordon Parks
Truman Capote
Schneider
GCCC
Christmas Eve Snow Shocks Last-Minute Shoppers in Garden City
Katherine Loyd, 15, among shoppers hurriedly buying gifts in downtown Garden City on Thursday as a light snow fell on Christmas Eve. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Loyd of 1304 Cloud Circle.
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Katherine Loyd
Garden City
Ward Loyd
Cloud Circle
Sett Cottins
Storm threatens travel as blizzard, tornadoes lash regions
A life threatening storm packing heavy snow and high winds endangers Christmas travelers from the Rockies to the Midwest while tornadoes injure dozens in seven Arkansas cities. Snow dumps across Boulder foothills, wind gusts reach 50 mph, and travel advisories trigger interstate closures and flight suspensions.
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Associated Press
Continental Divide
Midwest
Mississippi Valley
Boulder
Colo
Wyoming
Central Plains
National Weather Service
Hugh Crowther
Kansas City
Kansas
Colorado
Minnesota
Rockies
Pacific Coast
California
Arizona
Nevada
Denver
Stapleton International
United Airlines
Interstate 5
Mexico
Canada
California-Oregon
Jim Schultz
Weather Service
Dissident Kim Dae Jung Arrives in Washington to Seek Return
Kim Dae Jung arrives in Washington after release from prison crediting Reagan and Kennedy for aid. He seeks Harvard visiting fellow status when health permits and hopes to return to South Korea soon to resume politics amid a warm welcome from local Korean residents.
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Washington
Kim Dae Jung
Reagan
Edward M. Kennedy
Kim
Harvard University
South Korea
Dear Santa job hopes: children ask for work for dads
Kids across the country voice Christmas wishes shaped by hardship. A Detroit boy asks for a job for his father while Seattle children plead for family stability and a mother's happiness. Santa notices many kids request small items or simple security as unemployment tempers holiday cheer.
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Associated Press
Santa Claus
Sherman Hardge
Detroit
Jeff Swale
Seattle
Andrea
Chicopee
Mass
Santa
John Steele
Santa Keith Thomas
Rich
Atlanta
Carlin hints Doyen supports tax aimed at royalty owners
Gov. John Carlin suggested Senate President Ross Doyen’s remarks backing a severance tax that includes royalty owners were a tactic to derail the proposal. He said he does not back such a plan and would not confirm a veto, noting broad opposition to taxing royalty interests.
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Topeka
Kan
John Carlin
Senate
Ross Doyen
Carlin
Doyen
Concordia Republican
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Hot Spring County Memorial Hospital
Stephan
Robert Stephan
Marcia Tomson
U.S. District Court
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W. Robert Alderson
Betty Johnson
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Portland
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Meier & Frank Department Store
North Pole
America
Ken MacDonald
West Springfield
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Board of Regents
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