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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1981
Page
2
Southwest Kansas residents report a $500 reward for information leading to arrests in the theft of caged catfish from Beymer Water Recreation Park Lake. The fish, placed by the Fish and Game Commission three weeks ago, were to grow through summer and be released in fall. In spring, the cage was removed and some fish vanished or died.
Kansas Avenue from 3rd Street to Five Points and Buffalo Jones Avenue from Five Points to the railroad tracks will start resurfacing on Tuesday. City engineer Steven Cottrell says the project should take about five days weather permitting. Work on Kansas starts at 3rd Street heading west with the north half first, traffic reduced to one lane each direction. After completion the south lanes will be resurfaced in the same manner. Side streets will close until ready, and streets reopen at sunset daily. Buffalo Jones will be resurfaced similarly with Smith Land Company, Inc. of Garden City as contractor.
Ethel Jessie Cutler 91 born Ethel J. Ray November 18 1889 Vermillion died Friday at Park Lane Nursing Home Scott City She was twice married to Ellsworth Case and Clyde Cutler Survivors include her husband four daughters 13 grandchildren 22 great grandchildren four great great grandchildren Funerals 2:30 p m Sunday Weinmann Price Funeral Home Scott City Rev William O Haney officiating Burial Scott County Cemetery Memorials to Park Lane Nursing Home requested Friends may call until service time
Jackson County officials seek housing for 80 to 100 prisoners to ease jail crowding. Independence lawyer J D Williamson Jr received a 10 day sentence for refusing to represent an indigent defendant without pay. Legislator Bob Beaird offered his Baytown home as an alternative shelter if the jail remains full while appealing the sentence.
Investigators say the two week old hit and run that killed James Weeks Jr. near Garden City remains unsolved. Kansas Highway Patrol and Kansas Bureau of Investigation seek information about suspects or front end damaged vehicles. A coroner cites skull fracture as the probable cause of Weeks's death and notes the body lay on US 50 near VFW Road for under an hour. Contact 276-3201 with tips.
Garden City Municipal Swimming Pool begins summer hours Monday at 1 p.m. The Finnup Park pool opens daily from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. with no admission fee. Basket rentals rise to 25 cents, up 10 cents from last year.
Garden City Telegram notes its daily except Sundays and certain holidays, publication number 213600, and post details. It lists advertising and circulation contacts, change of address, editors, and subscription rates for Finney county carriers at 3.75 monthly, outside Finney at 3.25, and motor car delivery at 4.00 with tax, plus durations.
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