Garden City split on new downtown fire station plan
Three Garden City commissioners returned from a Kansas fire station tour undecided on building a new downtown station now. Four commissioners toured five cities, viewing living quarters on the same floor as apparatus and other features. Some officials advocate a downtown station while others remain noncommittal. a blueprint was prepared and city funds were not used for the firemen’s travel.
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West
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Tornadoes strike near Sublette amid heavy hail in Kansas
Undersheriff Joe Brock chased a funnel across Haskell County two miles south and east of Sublette. He reported a large tornado destroying two storage buildings and a barn on the Irvin Powell farm and injuring livestock, while a combine was picked up at the Lloyd Watson farm. Evacuations occurred at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses and Western Prairie Car Home. Rainfall totals topped 3 inches in Garden City area. no dollar loss estimates yet.
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Grant County
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Stanton County
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Holcomb
Garden City
Finney County
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Myers
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River Road
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Gray-Haskell
Lee Stinson
National Weather Service
Dodge City
Colorado
Garden City Experiment Station
Garden City Municipal
Kalvesta
Fred Saunders
Satanta
Tribune
Scott City
Dead man found on US 50 in hit and run suspected
Kansas Highway Patrol and St. Catherine Hospital officials search for the victim’s identity and the hit and run driver believed to have killed a Mexican American man about 25 to 30 years old. The body lay on US 50 near Mr. Boogies about 2 am with massive trauma.
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Eichhorn
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