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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1975
Page
1
Readers send letters and satire about ballooning failures and fire drill humor. Anon replies with a sharp optometrist quip, while Carol Crupper is clarified as the actual author of a balloon trip column. Fire Chief Tommy Thomas shares a printed satire on what to do during a fire.
Los Angeles officials report articulated remains of more than a dozen animals, including a sabre-toothed tiger, uncovered during work on a new museum building at Rancho La Brea. Excavation director William A. Akerston said the fossils are very rare and still joined as skeletons.
In Butler County Kansas Judge Page Benson ruled the court lacks jurisdiction over the Kansas school finance law after 1975 legislative changes, effectively mooting his February ruling. The decision may prompt an appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court. In Wichita, teachers and the Board of Education settled disputes over 1975 76 contracts out of court after negotiations between the National Education Association Wichita and the board.
May 29 ceremony marks approval of 415000 Community Development funds for Garden City projects including housing, parks, streets, and utilities. Emil Huber outlines contracting steps and line of credit usage while Mayor Jewell and city officials emphasize citizen involvement and future community improvements. In Indianapolis, Oliver and Cynthia Smith face unexpected home order deliveries from a lumber firm amid a flood of unrelated supplies.
In Shawnee County six 14 and 15 year olds began a second week of community service duties to repay 7300 in damages from a vandalism spree that damaged 57 houses and street lights in a federally owned housing project near the former Forbes Air Force Base. They earned two dollars an hour with pay credited to restitution.
The Rockefeller Commission urges a 30 point plan including a joint congressional committee to oversee the CIA and a separate executive oversight body. Ford says CIA domestic activity report will be public while assassination evidence goes to the Justice Department and intelligence committees.
Wilbur Holsinger a 20 year old fruit and vegetable plant employee in Martinsburg Pennsylvania survives four hours buried under twenty tons of potatoes in a railroad refrigerator car. He was freed after rescuers perforated the car side and unloaded the potatoes by hand. He was taken to Roaring Spring hospital in satisfactory condition and commented on the cold 40 degree car and overtime.
Finney County Commissioners tentatively approved plans for a $75,000 flood protection dam and 60 acre lake to be built northeast of Garden City near US 156. Federal funds would cover half, with donations and local shares split between the county and Pawnee Creek Watershed District. Contacted by Robert Fuller of the Soil Conservation Service, bids were opened for road realignment near Six Mile Road with Reed and Reed Dirt Contractors submitting the low bid at $6,997.60.
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