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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1977
Page
9
Scott City News-Chronicle editor Bill Boyer summarizes a Garden City Telegram Synanon reprint, detailing fundraising through cattle and consumer goods, child rearing practices, and alleged brainwashing. He cautions farmers about the group’s influence and promises a follow up on parallels with Moonies.
Synanon representatives in the Garden City area solicit donations and promote their program as helping drug abusers. Editor Bill Boyer questions the organization while Synanon claims nonprofit status, describes its funding, and defends the Game as a communication method. The report also notes a pool closing and Costa Rica actions involving a fugitive financier.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. filed two actions in Kansas to boost revenue. It asked Cowley County District Court to review a state decision denying most of a $25.9 million rate increase and simultaneously filed a new $24.6 million annual rate hike with the Corporation Commission. The new filing centers on past state experience rather than projections of future profits.
Lee Richardson Zoo superintendent Bob Fulton cites overfeeding as the cause of grotesque hoof growth afflicting donkeys. He notes the condition, common to horses and mules, cannot be corrected by trimming. Frequent calls reflect public concern as donkeys sometimes binge after days of sparse feeding.
Jimatene Jeffery, 20, Kansas State University junior and former Miss Beef Empire, competes for the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association Queen title at the national finals in Bozeman Montana. She earned the chance by winning K State Rodeo Queen honors this spring and has a history with Scott City rodeos. Jeffery, an art major with a 3.75 GPA, plans to become an art instructor and lives on Montana State University campus with her mother Nathella during the event, returning to Scott City late next week. The national queen will be crowned Tuesday evening before the rodeo competition begins.
Syracuse reports 39 year old Robert Books charged with aggravated sodomy and taking indecent liberties with a minor. He is held in Lakin jail on 25000 bond. A preliminary hearing is set for June 16. The alleged incidents involve his 12 year old step daughter, a Lakin resident. Aggravated sodomy is a class B felony with up to 15 years in prison.
Gary F. Brown, 26, of Garden City, faced grand theft charges in district court Friday for stealing $80 from Robinson Truck Stop on West US 50. He is jailed on $15,000 bond after being arrested Thursday evening following a service stop incident. Brown allegedly returned after deputies left and took cash from the register before being located with the $80 recovered in a junked pickup nearby.
ULYSSES Cliff Cuse greeted by about a dozen Hugoton farmers and wives to relay farmer distress to aid secretary Bob Bergland. Ouse urged market expansion and price support to stabilize agriculture, condemning broad subsidies as ineffective. He cited a pending international wheat talks and warned of a welfare outlay.
Four area seniors selected as Girls State delegates Debra Hawk Mari Roberts Cynthia Timken and Lora Youngers The program sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary at the University of Kansas runs Sunday to June 19 Delegates will visit Topeka’s capitol and museum hear speeches from state officials and elect a mock government. the program aims to develop leadership and civic involvement Debra daughter of Mr and Mrs John Hawk attends Garden City High School active in Pep club FHA tennis Spectroscope staff Mari daughter of Sue Roberts and John Roberts Sublette participates in pep club Kayettes band yearbook staff track debate and 4 H Cynthia daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Rimken participates in band pep club FHA Lora daughter of Mr and Mrs George E Youngers attends Syracuse High School in National Honor Society and Student Action for Education
Mrs Sophia Mary Schauf 68 of Cimarron died Friday at Dodge City Regional Hospital. Funeral mass will be Monday at 10 a.m. at St Stanislaus Catholic Church Ingalls with rosary Sunday at Schroeder Funeral Chapel. Burial in Greencrest Memorial Gardens Dodge City. Survivors include husband Henry two daughters Joan Schmidt Garden City and Mary Lou Perkins Wichita two brothers Martin and John Wendel Cimarron and five sisters Esther Wendel Delores Miller Lena Remmert Lillian Dreiling Marie Bourchard. She was active in St Stanislaus and Ladies Aux of the Kansas Optometric Society.
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