Wellsville Board to Meet Tonight Over School Construction
The Wellsville Board of Education convenes at 7:30 p.m. in the classroom south of the district office to hear from Manning-Prosser Construction about the new elementary school and to wrap up the fiscal year business. Ottawa Library Board also on the docket for 5:15 p.m. Wednesday with budget, card catalogs, telephones, and officer elections. Storytime Tuesday canceled for Great Plains Chautauqua event.
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Wellsville Board
Wellsville Board of Education
Manning-Prosser Construction
Ottawa Library Board of Trustees
Ottawa
Roosevelt and Addams Inspire Wartime Debate and Social Reform
The Front Page recounts Theodore Roosevelt faulting Wilson over entry to World War I and praising Kansas Civil War echoes, while Jane Addams details Hull House origins. Addams recalls abolishing illegal nut shelling, improving Ward 19 life, and promoting social education and race harmony as she pursued peace.
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Hull House
Chicago
Addams
Ward 19
Europe
Leo Tolstoy
Steffes named to KPERS board in Kansas
Don Steffes, 71, a former state senator and banker, is named to the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System Board of Trustees for a four year term starting July 1. Steffes chaired the Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee and served on the Joint Pension Investments and Benefits panel. He is a retired banker and ex Kansas Bankers Association president who once backed bank regulation reforms. KPERS manages about 10 billion in assets and mails roughly 44 million in monthly benefit checks. Governor appoints four board members, with leaders naming one each. two members are elected by participants and the state treasurer holds the ninth seat.
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Topeka
Don Steffes
McPherson
Senate
Dave Kerr
Steffes
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
Board of
Financial Institutions and Insurance
Jay Scott Emler
R-Lindsborg
Ankers
KPERS
Bill Graves
Kerr
R-Hutchinson
Kent Glasscock
Manhattan
Garden City waits on ConAgra decision after plant fire
Six months after the ConAgra Beef plant fire that displaced 2300 workers, Garden City faces an uncertain comeback as executives delay rebuilding. Unemployment soars to 11.1 percent while Salvation Army aid dwindles and residents seek English and truck driving training to stay. Some accept other local jobs. many plan to leave when benefits end.
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Garden City
Kan
ConAgra
Bret Fox
Finney County
Reyes Hinojos
Finney County Community Learning Center
Andy Wed
Dell
Garden City Salvation Army
Salvation Army
Weddell
Maria Ramirez
Garden City Community College
Hinojos
Ramirez
Kansas
Texas
IBP
Holcomb
Excel
Dodge City
Webdell
City Daily Report Receives Wide Range of Admits and Incidents
Ottawa area daily notes list admissions Eddie Wright and John Slaven plus Ethel McCurdy in Williamsburg. Dismissals include Teresa Seeger Amy House and family from Pomona. Police report multiple arrests in Franklin County including Criqui Gibson and others on DUI, drugs, and warrants. several inmates held on bonds. Traffic accidents and noninjury incidents detailed with locations, times, and outcomes. several ambulance calls and road closings noted.
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Eddie Wright
John Slaven
Ottawa
Ethel McCurdy
Williamsburg
Teresa Seeger
Amy House
Dusti Powell and Son
Pomona
Rock Creek Road
Terry Lee Criqui
N. Cherry
N. Main No
Franklin County
Brad
Edward Gibson
Osawatomie
S. Main
Kelly Earl Butts
Hickory
Lori Ann Hays
Thomas Road
Main
Tyrone Car
Clayborne
Wilson
Failing security firm tied to Western plan faces scrutiny
Protection One Inc is under state regulatory watch as Western Resources moves a 150 million rate increase and a restructuring plan to split electric from unregulated units. The Kansas Corporation Commission schedules hearings, with July 25 decision targets and a July 3 order-writing session, while Protection One shows multi-year losses totaling over 155 million dollars through 2000. Western controls Protection One via Westar Industries after an 85 percent stake acquired in 1997 and 367 million dollars in cash.
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Topeka
Protection One Inc
Kansas Corporation Commission
KCC
Protection One
Western Resources Inc
Western
ECC
Protection
Commission
Rosemary Foreman
Public Service Company of New Mexico
PNM
David Wittig
Kim Gronninger
Kansas
KPL
KGB
Westar Industries
World War II veteran finally awarded Purple Heart decades late
Richard Rasdall, 76, received the Purple Heart in Tonganoxie after a long letter campaign aided by Kansas Senators Brownback Dole and Kassebaum. Wounded when his B-17F was shot down over Europe with the 407th Bomb Squad, 92nd Bomb Group, he spent years attempting to prove his service as records were lost in a St. Louis fire.
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Tonganoxie
Kansas
Richard Rasdall
Europe
Rasdall
407Th
George Patton
Kansas City
Kan
Valley Falls
St. Louis
Sam Brownback
Bob Dole
Nancy Kassebaum
Brownback
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Bulletin Board
America
Roosevelt
John Brown
Lawrence
Jane Addams
Toynbee Hall
London
Lower East End
Daily Report
James Matthew Gilbert
John Daniel Singleterry
Maple
Mitchell A. Holcomb
Waverly
Princeton
Justin A. Smith
Jeffery L. Fritts
Nevada Road
Ruben A. Olivas
Lincoln
New Mexico
St. Maple
William Thomas Beeson
Arkansas City
Wellsville
Kansas Highway Patrol
Dustin R. McClendon
Vermont
James R. Peckham
Rantoul
Marshall
McClendon
Peckham
Overland Park Regional Medical Center
Stephanie L. Jackson
Walton
Ruth M. Jacobs
Indiana Terrace
Jacobs
Rita M. Fischer
Haskell Road
Jackson
Fischer
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Laura Elizabeth Hawk
Baldwin
U.S.59
John D. Singleterry
Hawk
Singleterry
Blake S. Vanauken
Wichita
Idaho
Vanauken
Aaron E. Buskirk
Dewey
Okla
Buskirk
Randal C. Davis
Reading
Eisenhower
Davis
Jason M. Bell
Barbara
Johann
Paola
Bell
Poplar
E. Third
Princeton Road
Eisenhower Road
Western Plan
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