Chanute Man Sues Ottawa Lawyers
Chanute resident Jim Guffey also a state representative filed a civil petition in Neosho County District Court seeking 10 000 damages against cemetery owners Robert L. Pinet and Harold V. Matney of Memory Gardens Association. The out-of-court settlement with the Attorney General created a 206 000 permanent trust fund for cemetery maintenance.
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Chanute
Attorney General
Ottawa
Jim Guffey
Fifth District
Neosho County
Chanute Tribune
Robert L. Pinet
Harold V. Matney
Memory Gardens Association
Cemetery caretaker seeks money amid Greenlawn dispute
Guffey claims he maintained Greenlawn Memorial Park in Chanute under a verbal agreement for 300 dollars monthly but received no pay beyond October 1980 and says 112 headstones were never delivered. He details injuries while caring for five acres and seeks 10000 dollars plus punitive damages.
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Ing
Greenlawn Memorial Park
Chanute
Guffey
Panel votes to keep state song in Kansas Senate
Senate Governmental Organization Committee declined to act on a bill to replace Home on the Range as Kansas official song. Emil Stawitz urged Kansas Dear Old Kansas, but the panel opted to let the measure die for the year. The decision preserves Home on the Range for now and leaves the bill for future sessions. Vidricksen suggested promoting Stawitz’s song through tourism outreach.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Senate
Ben Vidricksen
R-Salina
Senate Governmental Organization Committee
Widricksen
Emil Stawitz
Stawitz
George
Vidricksen
Tourism Bureau
Community Event and Advertisements Roundup in Ottawa KS
Local notices list flea market hours, church suppers, shrimp buffets, tax and welding services, beauty appointments, and garden center openings. Readers learn events at Garnett and Ottawa venues, with contact numbers and dates including March 5 6 and weekend activities.
Funeral for Raymond Green set in Gardner Saturday
Funeral services for Raymond Green 2 Gardner will be held at 11 am Saturday at Bruce Funeral Home Gardner with burial in Gardner Cemetery. Green born March 22 1899 in Osceola Illinois was a retired farmer and longtime member of local groups. He survived by wife Bonnie three sons and four daughters plus 24 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
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Raymond Green
Gardner
Olathe
Bruce Funeral Home
Gardner Cemetery
Green
Osceola
Ill
Johnson County Fair Association
Church of Christ
Grove
Okla
Gardner Grange
Bonnie
James C. Green
Overland Park
Roy N. Green
Larry R. Green
Wichita
Lois Corbin
Patricia McFarland
Ottawa
Kansas House OKs 7.1 Million Prison Fund Lansing
The Kansas House approved 103 to 21 a 7.1 million package for a new Lansing medium security prison and sent it to the Senate. The total 57.4 million appropriation for prison operations and public safety also cleared final House action amid debate over a missing 1.3 million for guard pensions.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas House
Senate
Lansing
John Carlin
Kansas
House
Ways and Means Committee
Carlin
Kansas State Penitentiary
Mike Crow
D-Leavenworth
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
Kansas Police and Firemen's
Kiwanis Return Mears Park Rights To City
Ottawa city moves toward disposing of Mears Park east of town after Kiwanis Club votes to relinquish the lease. City plans a quiet title action to fix the exact boundaries and may sell the land received through an estate bequest.
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Kiwanians
Mears Park
Harold Dungan
Kiwanis
Dave Watkins
Ottawa Cytones to perform at Kiwanis International Convention
The Ottawa High School Cytones choral group of 18 members will represent Ottawa at the 67th Kiwanis International Convention in Minneapolis June 27 to 30. Under the direction of Dale Fox the ensemble plans to perform three times daily for four or five days if funds allow transportation and lodging. Local Kiwanis leaders Rev Harold Dungan and Norman Park will serve as delegates.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Ottawa High School
Cytones
Harold Dungan
Ottawa Kiwanis Club
Ottawa
Dungan
Norman Park
Rock Island Owes Back Taxes In Kansas Iowa and Oklahoma
Kansas official at an interstate meeting says preliminary figures place the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad owes at least 25 million dollars in back taxes, possibly up to 35 million, since 1974 with 1980 as the only exception. Major amounts come from Kansas 6.4 million Iowa 4.9 million and Oklahoma 3.4 million, mostly property taxes. School districts bear the heaviest impact.
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Oklahoma City
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Kansas
Rock
David Tittsworth
Rock Island
Iowa
Oklahoma
Tittsworth
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Associated Press
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Greeley Rfd
Kathleen Horstick
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William Scott Fagg
Garnett Rfd
Randy Warner
Melvern
Charles E. Burlingham
Gary Davis
Diane Yeamans
Garnett Country Club
Call
E. Wilson
Sat
Alco
Garfield
Cub Scouts
West 1St
Donna Swallow
Nadine’s
Sheldon's Wagon Wheel
Ottawa Country Club
Bo Killough
Snow Valley Taxi
Eagles
Community Foursquare Church
9Th
Hickory
Suzuki
Night Hill House
Sacred Hart
Coffman Welding Service
Income Tax Service
Underwood's
Main
Monty
Robby and the Mavericks
Pomona
Fla
Ginger Bealmer
Leah
Wright
Hill House Sun
Pomona Lions Club
Methodist Church
Busy Hands
South 59
Willis Garden Center
the Daily Report
Angela Hess
S. Elm
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Gerald Pottroff
Aliceville
St. Lukes Hospital
Kansas City
Carl Hornbuckle
Dennis Wray
Billy Lloyd
Princeton
Boy
Public Safety News
Michael Lee Davis
S. Locust
Davis
District Court News
Kenneth Edwin Smith
Louise C. Hermreck
Ottawa Co-op
Wall Street
New York
New York Stock Exchange
Walburn’s Furniture
S. Main
Peoria Road
Kiwanis Club of
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Lake Pomona
Dale Fox
God
Jesus
Faith Lutheran Church
Murray Jackson
Ron Kimes
Ron Tompkins
Assoc
Pastor Murray
Felm
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