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WELLINGTON, KANSAS, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1967By CORKY SIMPSONThe biggest municipal election in recent history moves off the soap box and into the ballot booths inWellington Tuesday.9 With a registration of 3,530, two vital issues and 17candidates for public office, the estimates of most political observers here call for a substantial turnout.Polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Liquor and cereal malt beverage sales will cease during those hours.At stake are eight City Council seats, the mayor job, a proposed water line bond issue amounting to $1,300,000 and determination of the fate of the Wellington Recreation Commission.* * *Seven contests are assured inthe council election. Two coun-cilmen are already sure of winning, with no opponents filing. Assured of election are First Ward Councilman James L. Lamkin and Third Ward Councilman Levi Dunlap. Both will serve 1-year terms.Other offices uncontested are the three spots on the Wellington Unified School board and two St. Luke’s Hospital trustee positions. Askured of reelection to the board of education are Harry Coffel, Don Hyten and Dean A. Miller. Unopposed as trustees are Gerald A. Bales and Robert Cobean.Council contests shape up as follows:FIRST WARD, 2-year term: Dwight Miller versus George T. Manly.SECOND WARD, 1-year term: Basil Martin versus Jim Middleton. term: KennethLarimore versus Dr. F. E. Smith.THIRD WARD, 2-year term: Lynn Burris versus Paul Chew versus Raymond O. Berg.FOURTH WARD, 1-year term: Dale Wilson versus H. Dean Brown. 2-year term: George E. King versus Robert S. Anderson.cast ballots, along with city residents, in the Wellington Recreation Center question. The rural votes will be cast in the Township Building on North Washington Avenue, just off Fifteenth Street.Although the final registration figure is considerably short of the city’s all-time high of 4,505 voters in 1958. Second highest registration on record is 4,052 in 1962.Last November, in a rather lack-luster election that involved, among other things, the gubernatorial, a total of 77 percent of the Wellington electorate participated. Since then, 376 names have been added to the registration books, so the outlook here for Tuesday is for an exceptionally good voter response.* * *bove, toss out candy to, happy youngsters lining Washington Avenue. (Daily. News Photo)%*The Daily News, in keepingwith its long-standing tradition, will be open Tuesday night and the public is cordially invited to follow the election in the newspaper offices.The office will open around 8 p.m.Each of the candidates running for City Council filed for office by independent certificate of nomination. One announced organization, the Progressive Party, participated in the recruitment of candidates. The organization, composed of persons of all major political belief, did endorse the persons it recruited.Endorsed by the Progressives were Lamkin and Miller from First Ward, Larimore and Martin from Second Ward, Burris from Third Ward, Anderson and Brown from Fourth Ward and Murphy for mayor.Members of the newly-elected City Council will take office a week from tonight. Tonight’s session will be the last for the old administration, the three-man City Commission composed of Mayor Elton L. Hilt, Finance Commissioner R. H. (Bob) Stewart and Street CommissionerMat F. Dwyer.* 3_ Mscouts were among about 1,000 from this area who made the educational visit Saturday. (Daily News Photo by Tim Rogers)READY TO BOARD special Santa Fe train en route to Emporia Saturday are these Wellington Brownie Scouts, from the left: Kathryn Rogers, Marguerite Larkey and Deambra Nichols. TheMAYOR (2-year term)—William M. Murphy versus Mat F.Dwyer.Voting places will be as fol-lows IFIRST WARD — Calvary Lutheran Church.SECOND WARD — Roosevelt Elementary School.THIRD WARD — American Legion Building.FOURTH WARD — St. John’s Lutheran Church.TurnpikeSenate KillsTOPEKA (AP) - The Senate Highways Committee today killed a House bill authorizing construction of three new turnpikes in Kansas.The Senate committee then recommended passage of a billwhich would increase the state gasoline tax and authorize construction of only one of the three turnpikes.Under the bill, the gasolinetax would be increased twocents, with one cent of the increase going to the slate highway commission, one-half cent to counties and the remaining half-cent to cities.The only turnpike authorized under the Senate bill would be the north-south route along the eastern border of Kansas, indicated by studies to have the best financial prospects of the three routes.Studies indicated all threeroutes were feasible if bonds were backed by a pledge of state highway funds.The other routes proposed inthe House bill were from Baxter Springs to Wichita and from Wichita to Hays.The House bill was a compromise product reached after days of negotiations between the Democratic state administration of Gov. Robert Docking and the House Republican leadership of Speaker John Conard.The bill / barely squeaked thrtugh the lower legislative branch with support by most of the Democratic minority and a relatively small percentage ofthe Republican majority.♦ * *Docking was not immediatelyavailable for comment but he has indicated he would veto any increase in the gasoline tax.The Kansas gasoline tax, now five cents per gallon, is the low-(Continued to Page 2, Col. 7)Mrs. Yetta Irwin, McPherson,is the president-elect of the American Legion Auxiliary. She succeeds Mrs. Lola Brenneman, Newton.Other new unit officers are Wi'lma Severns, McPherson, sec-retary-treasurer; Mrs. Francet-ta Saunders, Wellington, chaplain; Mrs. Ann Smith, Conway Springs, historian; Mrs. Ceone Wrench, El Dorado, sergeant-at-arms; Mrs. Brenneman, junior past president. Directors, Mrs. Lilia Cornwell, Newton, three year term; Mrs. Hilah Beth Church, Wellington, two year term and Clara Cunningham, Caldwell, one year term. There was an attendance ofnearly 200 for the conventionwhich opened on Saturday morning.WellingtonEddie J. Shew*Y!fja in A treetTop K of C Officials Heretn9in its mouth, but hooked the broken piece of chain.Saturday morning we saw Kay McBride and Jim McEachern with a channel cat that weighed 18 3-4 pounds and measured 34*/2 inches. They had several other nice big channels and a long string of nice crappie. They made the catch in the Cowley County Lake. The big crappieApril is here. And we alreadyreceived some April showers which make May flowers. Lynn Burris, local weather observer, reported Saturday morning .28 inch of rainfall that helps very much.Tonight is the Grand Ole Opry at the WJHS Auditorium at 8. This promise* to be a real entertainment and is sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce. The proceeds go to the purchaseOne of the biggest gatheringsof Knights of Columbus officials ever held in Wellington took place Sunday night as major degrees were conferred upon 18 candidates from this district.In connection with the degrees, a dinner testimonial honored Robert Pudden of Wellington, who is serving his last as Kansas state warden of the Kof C.Major degrees were conferredat the Odd Fellows Hall. Dinner was held in the Ramada Inn and the affair was supervised by Tony Knoeber of Hays, past state deputy. Richard Moore, district deputy, Wellington, directed the program. Officials in Wellington for the( Continued to Page 2, Col. 1)m«■. rmr, . . . .* :A*i4Leavenworth residents will determine whether to fluoridate water, change from the Commission form of government to the establish a civil service commission. Horton also will consider the commission to com-mission-manager question.The question at Pittsburg involves changing from commis-sion-manager to mayor-council-manager.Industrial levies will be voted upon at Liberal, Florence and Smith Center.The electric utility at coats could be sold to a private company under a question there.A $1,300,000 bond issue at Wellington is for improvementof the waterworks.• • •Four cities will consider improvement of public buildings. Junction City would spend $185,-000 for expansion of its fire and police departments, Hesston $92,000 for city offices, a library and a fire station, Derby $48,-000 for a library, and Assaria $7,000 for remodeling the city haU.Garnett will decide whether to resume its sports car races. City fathers closed the races two years ago because of law enforcement difficulties.A $130,000 park improvement question is on the ballot at Olathe while at McPherson it’s $175-000 for a new swimming pool. Concordia might vote $50,000 for swimming pool additions.Two counties have special elections, Shawnee with $300,000 for construction of a parental heme, and Osborne with $250,-000 in bonds for a hospital addition.* * •Special issues In school districts include a $1.3 million proposal for a new high school in Unified School District 284 in Chase County, and a $2.65 million proposal for remodeling and new construction in district415 in Brown county.The Labette Community Junior College district will vote on a $2 million issue for a campus.Several cities will vote on whether to continue their recreation districts. Under a 1965 law, when a district is increased in size by one and one-half times, voters must decide whether to continue such suchdistricts.The question arises in Anthony, Harper, Cherryvale, Cha-nute, Jetmore, Conway Springs, Winfield, Larned, Wellington Eureka, Winona, Holcomb, Dodge City, Manhattan, Emporia, Hoieington, Caney, Kingman and Arkansas City.Shawnee Heights and Osage county will vote on whether to establish a recreation system.BUSY Voting 1G°°d Turnout ExpectedTOPEKA, {AP) — Special issues ranging from fluoridationto retail sale of liquor will be settled by voters in many communities Tuesday, along with routine balloting for school and city officials.Whether to allow liquor saleswill be decided in Fort Scott, Hugoton, Oskaloosa, Satanta, Wakefield, Waverly, Wetmore, Haddom, Walnut and Meade.Albert L WrightDay SlatedDies SaturdayTomorrowOfficial County and City Pa parBETTER VIEW Keith Neuway hoists his son, Brad, 3, up on his shoulders so the tot can get a better look at the parade in downtown Wellington Saturday. The parade was part of the American Legion Fifth District Convention here. The convention ended Sunday. (Daily News Photo)ADDING COLOR and fun to Saturday’s big parade in downtown Wellington was this miniature replica of an old automobile. Driver and his passenger, a-Conclave Ends,District LegionThe Fifth District Conventionof The American Legion and theAmerican Legion Convention held in Wellington over the weekend adjourned Sunday afternoon following the election of new officers.John Lockwood, Whitewater, is the new Fifth District Commander. He succeeds Charlie Sellers of Mulvane.Other newly elected Legion officers are:Pattie Burnette, Newton, vicecommander who is the first two-man ever elected a Fifth District office; Ray Mericle Jr., district executive committeeman. Delegates to the National Convention in Boston, Mass., on Aug. 25-31 are John Lockwood, Pattie Burnette, John Crum andFred Steel, McPherson.* * *Officers ChosenVolume No. 132—No. 29
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