Bridge closure prompts detour plan near Garden City
US 83 bridge south of Garden City will be shut for five months starting April 30 for deck resurfacing and abutment repairs at a cost of 235000. A new gravel detour road west of the bridge will reroute traffic while KDOT cites funding limits and safety needs. Local businesses fear loss of highway traffic and farmers worry about wheat harvest shipments.
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Garden City
Jim Burns
Kansas Department of Transportation
Burnside Drive
KDOT
Main and
Fulton
Dale Dugan
Topeka
Dugan
Burns
Garden City Co-op
Inflation creates new millionaires as IRS reports
IRS figures show 2,041 Americans earned over 1 million dollars in 1978, with incomes averaging just over 2 million. Inflation shifts more households into wealthier brackets, while total adjusted gross income rose to 1.3 trillion dollars.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Millionaires’ Club
IRS
Sands Death Triggers Belfast Londonderry Riots
The 27-year-old IRA hunger striker Sands died after 66 days of fasting prompting three days of Catholic district riots in Belfast and Londonderry. Police fired over rioters, fires burned a West Belfast police station, and violence spread as 70 youths attacked facilities near the Delorean plant while authorities pledged calm.
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Belfast
Londonderry
IRA
Irish Republican Army
Provisional
John Paul II
Northern Ireland
Maze
Francis Hughes
West Belfast
Ulster Defense Association
Delorean Auto
Margaret Thatcher
NATO endorses US open talks with Soviets this fall
NATO foreign ministers endorsed the Reagan plan to begin theater nuclear weapons talks within the SALT framework by year end. The decision was announced after Haig briefed ministers in a closed meeting. Brady rests comfortably after brain surgery to prevent clots from reaching heart and lungs.
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NATO
Soviet Union
U.S
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Washington (Ap
White House
James S. Brady
Brady
Emily Turk
George Washington University Hospital
County backs rezoning despite Pierceville protests
Finney County Commissioners unanimously approved rezoning 350 acres north and west of Pierceville from agriculture to R-4 multifamily housing. The move followed protests by 10 Pierceville residents and included assurances of covenants and a homeowners association to govern a planned development with 55 to 70 homes in the first three years. Developers argued the project meets housing needs while critics warned of long term impacts and financial burdens on future residents.
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Finney County
Holcomb
Garden City- Finney County Planning Commission
Pierceville
Garden City
Jim Mills
Russell Liner
Colorado Springs
Mills
Mike Ramsey
Commission
Mike Merrill
Ramsey
Iowa
IBP
Planning Commission
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Dodge City
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Hutchinson
Russell
Salina
Aramis
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Rob Andrews
Ellis
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