Tense water woes hit three town systems in SW
Rita Shelley reports Deerfield Ingalls Cimarron and Leoti facing low water pressure and intermittent supply as population growth, outdated towers, and heavy usage strain storage. Mayors warn against fires, councils plan meetings and conservation, while officials explore new wells and outside-water options.
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Rita Shelley
Deerfield
Ingalls
Garry
Swords
Jim Witt
Greater Southwest Regional ‘Planning Commission
Witt
Cimarron
Two Men Die After 105 Foot Fall From Elevator Scaffold
In Syracuse two Jarvis Construction Co. workers aged 25 and 26 died after plunging about 105 feet from a scaffold while painting a grain elevator at the Syracuse Co‑op. The second man died en route to Garden City. OSHA agents will investigate Monday. The unidentified man is believed from DeLand, Florida.
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Syracuse
Jarvis Construction Co
Salina
Arthur M. McCormick
Cedar Vale
Kan
Hamilton County
R J. Nichols
Ciige
OSHA
Schmidt
DeLand
Fla
Nichols
Youth Killed in Harvest Accident
A 16-year-old, Michael D. Belcher, died after being run over by a combine in a Finney County wheatfield near Garden City. He apparently fell from the ladder while the machine was moving and died en route to St Catherine Hospital. Belcher was with a Kalvesta crew on the David Ross farm. driver unnamed.
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Finney County
Michael D. Belcher
Pat Connon
St. Catherine Hospital
Cannon
Belcher
David Ross
Garden City
The
Combine
d-Belcher
Finney County Emergency Medical Service
Jack
Ey . Belcher
Whitewater
Space Shuttle Enterprise delayed test flight lifts off with tools aboard
Edwards Air Force Base reports the much delayed Space Shuttle Enterprise carried its first pilots aloft in a piggyback flight on a jumbo jet. The 42 minute test included preflight checks before the mission was scrubbed due to a guidance system fault and a non responsive computer. Haise, Fullerton, both veterans of Apollo 13, were aboard for the flight and subsequent safeguards.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Enterprise
Donald K
Deke’’ Slayton
Fred W. Haise Jr
Air Force
Gordon Fullerton
Slayton
Haise
James A. Lovell
John L. Swigert
Earth
Hailstorms batter Syracuse area with six-inch piece reported
Severe hail pelted Syracuse early morning, shattering windows and tearing trees. No damage estimates yet while crops and gardens suffered in town. Reports describe a six inch jagged piece and hail lasting about 30 minutes near 3 a.m. Local counts include 0.70 inch rain in Syracuse and 0.48 inch measured by Mrs Starkey, with lightning and wind noted in nearby counties.
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Syracuse
Hamilton
George Starkey
Starkey
Dick Holdren
Stanton
Wichita County
Telegram
No Parole For Ray until At Least 2001
BRUSHY MOUNTAIN Tenn AP James Earl Ray serving a 99 year term for killing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr will not be eligible for parole until at least 2001 because of his escape from Brushy Mountain State Prison A two hour hearing Friday saw a prison review board sentence Ray and six other inmates who climbed over the back wall to 30 days in administrative segregation The board also reduced each man s accumulated good time by three years Ray 49 would have been eligible for parole in 1998
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Brushy, Mountain, Tenn
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther, King, Jr
Brushy Mountain State
Ray
Seven-Inch Rain Swamps NE Areas
Heavy rains swelled creeks and flooded parts of Ogden Chapman and Manhattan with seven inches in the Manhattan area. Evacuations began for about 200 residents along Seven Mile Creek in Ogden while 30 mobile homes were rescued near Chapman Creek. Downtown Ogden streets saw water up to six feet. Kansas 18 was closed east of Ogden. Forecasters expected more scattered thunderstorms tonight and Sunday with highs in the 70s to 80s and scattered rain through midweek.
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Riley County Sheriff's
Seven Mile Creek
Ogden
Kansas 18
Chapman Creek
Chapman
Manhattan
Elly
Wichita
Lawrence
Hoax Accident Alert Ties Up Holcomb Units
Law enforcement and rescue teams searched for a non existent crash victim this morning after a caller reported a semitruck being pinning a man near Holcomb. Officers traced the hoax to a resident who was asked to summon aid. making false reports is illegal.
Employers Torture Beat Woman In Kidnap Plot Raid
A Los Angeles woman, Betty Joyce Champagne, was tortured and beaten for days by her employers in St. Louis in a ransom scheme tied to an apartment fire. Police and FBI arrested 12 people, charging drug offenses for marijuana and methadone found there. one man, James Tippett, faced extortion and assault counts. Champagne, severely burned and knife-wounded, was found locked in a bathroom and hospitalized. Authorities say the group sought $25,000 in ransom to cover alleged damages, with efforts traced to a supposed Los Angeles kidnapping before shifting to local involvement.
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ST. Louis
Los Angeles
FBI
West End
Missouri
James Tippett
Archie Jackson
Betty Joyce Champagne
Tippett
Kevin
Ilia
Sijiq
Lela Nicholson
Watts
George Maurer
Maurer
Illia
Intertobang ideas and a kitty naming tale
A comic essay proposes a new punctuation mark the intertobang and threads through assorted notes on pets a kitten named Fillmore Pizzicato a fixed cat named Fuzzy and a rabbit Kazoo. The column muses on language politics tobacco humor and a quip about changing questions Patents about sports and gophers close with a quip on aging and Agnew.
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Max
Fuzzy
Kitty
Kazoo
Rabbit
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Leoti
Ogallala
Leoli
Dakota
Edwin Gutentag
U.S. Geological Survey
Leoti City
Wilken
Keith Lebbin
Scott City
Gutentag
Wey
Kansas
Fullerton
NASA
Pentagon
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Hall
Essee Lauder
Hoover's
Holcomb
John Frazier
Holy Terror
Uncle Sam
Agnew
Gus Garden
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