Potatoes to be dumped at Newton landfill by Santa Fe
Santa Fe Railway expects about 600 tons of potatoes to arrive Friday for disposal at the Harvey County Sanitary Landfill. Delbert Miller says Newton division can handle the load. Gary Lagree notes site workers are ready and will mix with trash, compact, and cover daily. Rain could disrupt final covering.
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Santa Fe Railway
Harvey County
Santa Fe
Newton
Delbert Miller
Gary Lagree
Lagree
Miller
Larger Social Security checks go out in July for Harvey County
Harvey County residents will receive larger Social Security checks in July as a cost-of-living increase takes effect. The automatic rise, added in 1972, increases average payments for retired workers from 221 to 234 dollars monthly and boosts SSI maximums from 167.80 to 177.80 for individuals and 251.30 to 266.70 for couples.
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Harvey County
Arlie Biles
Wichita
Biles
Authorities seek break in Camp Scott Girl Scout murders
Investigators aim to identify a killer after three sleeping girls at Camp Scott were murdered and sexually assaulted. Three fingerprints and a footprint from the scene are being analyzed while police examine a burgled counselors tent and a farmhouse nearby.
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Locust Grove
Okla
Dist. Atty
Sid Wise
Lori Lee Farmer
Tulsa
Doris Denise Milner
Michelle Guse
Broken Arrow
Camp Scott
Magic Empire Girl Scout Council
Cookson Hills
Oklahoma
Wise
County approves 1978 fuel contracts from multiple bidders
County commissioners awarded unleaded gasoline to Farmers Grain Coop Walton at 51.6 cents per gallon, the low of four bids. Wenger Oil Co won No. 2 diesel at 36.5 cents and No. 1 diesel at 38.9 cents. Crossroads Coop secured regular gas at 49.39 cents per gallon. Additional bids from Walton Coop and others were noted.
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Farmers Grain Coop
Walton
Wenger Oil Co
Crossroads Coop
Walton Coop
Wenger
Epp
Elbing
Planning commission recommends zoning denial for I-1 on 22 acres
The Newton-North Newton Planning Commission unanimously votes to deny the I-1 light industrial zone request for about 22 acres south of Quail Creek Estates. They favor a residential-suburban R-S zone and continue a July hearing on a C-2 change for Berry's Hatchery while approving related street vacations and final plats.
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Newton-North Newton
Newton
Orville Brunner
Robert L. Barnes
Berry's Hatchery
W. 17Th
Windsor Drive
Seitz
Magnolia St
SE 3Rd
E. Ist
Slate Creek
George Sharp
Central St
W. 5Th
W. 6Th
Public hearing set on Kansas workmen’s comp rate rise
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Fletcher Bell announced a public conference for June 28 to discuss proposed changes in workmen's compensation rates. The National Council of Compensation Insurance seeks a $17.40 million increase for Kansas and its member and subscriber companies.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Insurance
Fletcher Bell
Bell
National Council of Compensation Insurance
Weather outlook with warm, humid days
Partly cloudy and humid through Friday with isolated thunderstorms possible tonight. Temperatures reach upper 80s to low 90s, with tonight's lows around 70. Winds from the south to southeast at 5 to 15 mph.
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Fuiay
Harvest hampered by humidity slows Harvey County wheat crop
Farmers and grain elevator operators in Harvey County report high moisture 12 to 20 percent and weights of 54 to 61 pounds per bushel as harvest stalls awaiting sunny drying weather. Extension agent Jack Barnes notes weeds like mustard and buckwheat complicate cutting with harvest only about 10 percent complete.
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Harvey County
Newton
Farmers Grain Co-op
Walton
Farmers Co-op Grain
Halstead
Sedgwick
McLain Grain Co
Harvey County Agricultural Extension
Jack Barnes
Barnes
Milt Goerzen
Ross Industries
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Military Park
Amy Taylor
Kansan
Planning Commission
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Rollings Hills
Sharp Homes Inc
Ray Penner
John Schmidt
Weather Data
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