Jury verdict clears Landon irrigation fault in fatal setup
A Nebraska jury found Landon employees partly responsible in a fatal irrigation accident. Defense expert Daniel Turner argued wiring errors caused the death. jurors cited lack of safety wires and rushed setup. Separate AP report notes 2nd Lt. Christopher Cooke faces new espionage charges after extra visits to the Soviet embassy.
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Hesslink
Turner
Charles Tittus
General Electric
Landons
Daniel Landon
Landon
Bob Landon
Omaha, Neb
Washington
Air Force
Christopher M. Cooke
Kenneth L. Hollinga
532Nd
Strategic Missile Squadron
McConnell Air Force Base
Kan
Cooke
Strategic Air Command
Omaha
Two-Vehicle Crash on US50 Near Best Western
Garden City residents Edwin D. Miller 20 and Anita K. Black 28 were treated and released at St. Catherine after a 5:30 p.m. crash on US50 west of the US83 spur involving a pickup and a motor home driven by Lee Schmatterly 45. Schmatterly and three motor home passengers were uninjured.
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Edwin D. Miller
Miller
Anita K. Black
St. Catherine
Lee Schmatterly
Highway Patrol
Schmatterly
Best Western Motor Inn
Garden City
Hearing set for land rezone suit dismissal
A July 17 hearing will decide whether to dismiss a suit by about 140 Sunrise Addition landowners near Garden City seeking to void Finney County commissions rezoning from agricultural to multi family and commercial. The landowners allege procedural flaws and invalid votes, while county officials push dismissal as moot since annexation to the city occurred.
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Garden City
Paul Handy
Finney County
Mike Friesen
Campus Drive
US 156
County Commission
Holcomb-Garden City
Finney County Planning Commission
Planning Commission
Handy
City Commission
Harry Towns
Garden City Production Credit Association
Prairie Land, Inc
Noon markets dodge city feedlot sales report
Western Kansas feedlot sales show 2,700 head confirmed with slow trade. Slaughter steers mostly 71.00 to 72.00 per cwt for 1085 to 1175 lb cattle, with lighter classes at similar levels. Heifers mostly 68.00 to 69.50 per cwt for 975 to 1020 lb, with some 67.75 for a 950 lb lot.
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Dodge City
Kan
Kansas
Justice Stewart retirement fuels high stakes Supreme Court guessing game
Justice Potter Stewart plans to retire July 3 creating the first Supreme Court vacancy in six years. President Reagan signals a possible first female nominee while names like Elizabeth Dole Carla Hills Rita Hauser and others surface. The White House moves to formalize the search with Attorney General Smith and State Department official William Clark among leading possibilities.
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Washington
Potter Stewart
Supreme Court
Reagan
Stewart
White House
Carolyn Sand
William O. Douglas
Jimmy Carter
Oval Office
Larry Speakes
William French Smith
Speakes
Smith
Senate
David R. Gergen
William Clark
California Supreme Court
State Department
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Carla Hills
Housing and Urban Development
Ford Administration
Rita Hauser
New York
Cornelia Kennedy
6Th
U.S. Circuit of Appeals
Mildred Lillie
California
Sylvia Bacon
District of Columbia
Warren E. Burger
William H Rehnquist
William J. Brennan
Thurgood Marshall
Johnson man leads fastest single engine Beech in Trans Atlantic Race
Mike Smith of Johnson asserts his 1966 Beech Bonanza as the world’s fastest single engine plane after winning the first Trans Atlantic Air Race from Paris to New York and back 8050 miles, assisted by pilots Bob Moriarty and Tom Danher. Moriarty set new records Paris to New York and overall round trip. The event ran June 7 to June 13 with 650 starters, 103 starters, 65 finishers.
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Jeff Myrick
Johnson
Mike Smith
Johnson Man
Bob Moriarty
Perkasie
Tom Danher
Wichita Falls
Texas
Smith
Charles Lindbergh
Atlantic
Lindberg
Johson
Moriarty
Danher
New York
Paris
Lindbergh
Sunflower hearing set for electric rates and line
The Kansas Corporation Commission announced hearings on Sunflower Electric Cooperative of Hays seeking a 3.44 million dollar annual revenue increase. Hearings on a 345000 volt transmission line for Jackson Jefferson and Leavenworth counties are set for July 15 at 9 am and 7 pm in the Jefferson County Courthouse in Oskaloosa. Sunflower sells wholesale power to eight rural coops in western Kansas with about 41000 consumer members, including Great Plains Colby Northwest Kansas Bird City Norton-Decatur Norton Western WaKeeney Lane-Scott Dighton Victory Dodge City Pioneer Ulysses Wheatland Scott City. The increase equals 8.82 percent in base charges. Norton-Decatur Electric Cooperative and Garden City have intervened. The last Sunflower rise was 3.42 million in April 1980.
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Kansas Power and Light Co
Jackson
Jefferson
Leavenworth
Jefferson County
Oskaloosa
Sunflower Electric
Kansas
Great Plains
Colby
Northwest Kansas
Bird City
Norton-Decatur
Norton
Western Cooperative
WaKeeney
Lane-Scott
Dighton
Victory
Dodge City
Pioneer
Ulysses
Wheatland
Scott City
Corporation Commission
Norton-Decatur Electric Cooperative
Garden City
Scott City man hurt in wreck near Pence Road intersection
Scott City a 24 year old Rodney Eslinger Rt 3 was hospitalized in stable condition after a one vehicle accident Friday morning. He failed to negotiate a turn at Pence Road intersection, struck a barb wire fence then plummeted down an embankment into a creek and was trapped in the cab until sheriff's deputies freed him before transport to Scott County Hospital.
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Smith
Moriarty
Tsure
Scott City
Scott County Hospital
Rodney Eslinger
Rt. 3
Eslinger
Wayne Neese
Neese
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Wheat Ae
Milo
Chicago
Heinold
CGP
Dillons
el Paso
Helmrich Payne
IBP
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NCR
Nat Distillers
Panhandle
RTN
Volero
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Topeka, Kan
Kansas Corporation Commission
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