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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 2001
Page
1
A Wheat crop mix of bounty and loss reflects a year of NBA draft activity. A6 Prep stars secured first, second, and fourth round selections, signaling strong performance from the program amid competitive expectations and rising prospects.
At 11 a.m. the Dow Jones average stood at 10,630.85, up 196.05 from this morning's open. Tonight and Friday bring partly cloudy skies with a chance of thunderstorms, lows 65 to 70, and highs 85 to 95 with regional variation. Friday night remains partly cloudy with a southward thunderstorm chance and similar low temperatures.
The Telegram announces online access at www.gctelegram.com delivering local news sports and editorials via their internet site for readers seeking digital updates and features from the newspaper.
Preliminary Kansas Assessment results show USD 457 math up 5.4 points and writing up 1.3, while reading dips 1.1. Officials caution margins of error and await final August scores after a clerical error affected Jennie Wilson’s math. Results guide early progress and future improvements.
Carly Mader, a Garden City High School senior, runs a fireworks stand as her Buff Project. The stand at Ward's Garden Center tests advertising effectiveness while funding her college education, with profits directed to a future fund. The family previously hauled the stand between Garden City and Dodge City as they prepared for the season.
Tyson Foods Inc. increases its footprint by purchasing IBP Inc. The deal merges the world’s largest chicken producer with the top beef and pork supplier. Tyson offers 30 dollars cash for 50.1 percent of IBP stock, with remaining shares converted to Tyson stock, and assumes 1.7 billion dollars in IBP debt. Cash offer target by Sept. 1 and stock conversion by Nov. 15. The arrangement resumes after earlier delays tied to SEC inquiries into IBP’s accounting following its 1998 acquisition of DFG Foods.
Workers at the Excel beef packing plant in Dodge City will vote July 12 on whether to retain their union United Food and Commercial Workers Local 340. The Federal Labor Relations Board will conduct the election, with 2,500 employees at stake and voting in the plant`s slaughter and processing sections.
EPA uses the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act to require Seaboard Farms Inc of Merrill, Kansas, to investigate and fix leaks from hog manure lagoons suspected of contaminating water wells in Major and Kingfisher counties Oklahoma. Groundwater nitrate levels reached up to ten times acceptable levels with a high of 15 mg/L in some wells. Seaboard faces costs and a multi month investigation under EPA supervision.
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