The Parsons Sun from Parsons, Kansas • 8

CO CO O' CO 0 fPittsburg company receives eviction notice SEK News PITTSBURG As a result of an eviction notice served to Helio Air- craft Inc on Jan 26 by McNally Pitt- sburg Inc the gates at the tion have been padlocked and opera-) tion at the plant has been halted In addition to the eviction notice McNally's also filed a suit against Helio Aircraft Limited a Kansas cor-0 poration and Helio Aircraft Inc an Oklahoma corporation Friday after-i- noon in Crawford County District Court asking for a settlement of nearly $57000 for unpaid rent and insurance premiums is owner of the building housing the aircraft plant In the first cause of action McNally's is alleging that Helio defaulted on a lease agreement owing $35581 in back rent It also alleges the corporation owes a total of $60067 for insurance premiums In the second cause McNally's alleges that Helio Aircraft Inc owes monthly rent for December 1984 and January and February 1985 totaling $15249 It also alleges that the corporation owes $63666 for reimbursement of insurance premiums paid for the corporation by McNally's COFFEYVILLE Another set of hired to handle the negotiations Bill Dye primary negotiator for the law firm will be paid at a rate of $85 per hour according to Superintendent Charles Mock teachers association has informed us that Mr Bob Medford (of Pittsburg) will be representing Mock explained consider him to be a top-quality professional representation for the contract CHANUTE Edd Noland 1302 9th has confirmed that he has purchased the Santa Fe depot on north Lincoln and is waiting for completion of paperwork to assume possession Noland is owner of Consolidated Oil Well Services The purchase was made in his own name directly from Santa Fe with no particular use in mind Noland said He said arrangements for the purchase were made with a Santa Fe representative last Wednesday and a down payment had been made He declined to disclose the price The depot a Chanute landmark since 1903 was placed on the market more than a year ago when the Santa Fe relocated offices it had there to a building the railroad owns in the yards Midland bid was $97832 about $2400 less than the estimate of $100230 for the project Work on the elevator will start within 30 days and take a maximum of 210 calender days to complete PITTSBURG The USD 250 Board of Education has approved a reading program sponsored by a commercial company The program sponsored by Pizza Hut Inc is an eight-week program which offers children who read two books within a four-week period a free pizza If a child reads four books in the eight weeks they earn a certificate If an entire class reads four books in the eight weeks that class receives a free pizza party Superintendent Jerry Steele said he favored children reading books but he objected to a commercial company sponsoring something in the schools my Steele said will just encourage kids to eat Board members Penny Armstrong and Jack Barnett voted against the proposal Member Lois Loucks said she favored the program and said it would not be an extra burden for teachers chemical tests taken at Whittier School are being analyzed but results expected back until Friday USD 445 Superintendent John Batti-tori told school board members Monday night Even if the tests show that levels of a pesticide sprayed in Whittier last December are safe it could be another two weeks before students return to the elementary school Battitori said would take some time to get the school ready Battitori told board members we need to get them back in as soon as Tested last week he said were all classrooms the library the lounge the and secretary's offices the and restrooms and the main hallway Whittier has been closed and its students attending classes in other district buildings since the building was fumigated the weekend of Dec 1 with the pesticide chlordane COFFEYVILLE The estimated cost to complete a sewer project delayed by court litigation has grown from $45000 to $500000 in the space of two commission meetings And that cost could go higher city north of 21st Street CHANUTE Businessman Gary Johnson has announced that he is no longer an active candidate for the City Commission although his name will appear on the primary election ballot Transitions in his business operations and the possibility that he will move outside the city limits are principal reasons for his dropping out of the contest Johnson said He said Skaters Delight the roller skating rink on US 169 south that he and his family have operated since its opening two years ago will close at midnight Friday The rink has consistently shown a loss Johnson said and he was unable to continue running it while trying and hoping for a turnabout that materialized done everything I know to do to try to keep he said stay with it any longer" IOLA Midland Development Inc of Independence made the lower of two bids for installation of an elevator and other work to assist the handicapped at the Allen County Courthouse Bids were opened at County Commission meeting officials and the architect admitted to city commissioners at commission meeting Despite misgivings voiced about the money involved commissioners voted unanimously to accept a low bid for completion of the project in question at a cost of about $2 million from Garney Co Inc of Kansas City Mo Dean Davis representing the project architects AC Kirkwood and Associates of Kansas City Mo said his original estimate of a city obligation of about $50000 was low because he had used old information to calculate the cost Davis said the higher figure was to provide contingency money in the event that portions of the project already completed needed replacing INDEPENDENCE A professional negotiator has been hired for upcoming teacher contract discussions by the Independence School District board of education The Foulston Siefkin Powers and Eberhardt Law Firm of Wichita was Death penalty Continued from page 1 hanging until a 1973 US Supreme Court decision struck down death penalty laws in all states No one has been executed in Kansas since 1965 feel this particular piece of legislation could deter certain Graeber said feel we need to bring back to society accountability A person has to know he or she will be held accountable for his or her The bill would allow capital punishment in cases of premeditated murder murders committed during rapes kidnappings and sodomy and and murders An amendment offered by Rep Joe Knopp R-Manhattan and rejected overwhelmingly would have limited the death penalty to those who killed more than once or who killed while taking others hostage Although Gov John Carlin has promised to veto a death penalty bill as he did in 1979 1980 and 1981 supporters say they may have enough support to override the veto with two-thirds votes in both chambers While supporters generally argued Public opinion sought on proposed merger Testimony against bank bill heard the death penalty would deter crime opponents argued it would not and would simply satisfy a desire for revenge and discriminate against the poor and non-white look at it as being a double standard of justice the last bastion of discrimination in this said Rep Clarence Love D-Kansas City that can afford it will avoid the death Rep Norman Justice D-Kansas City agreed and said he was the House even considered the proposal means society is so sick this day and age we show we have not risen above the barbaric days of old pre-historicism as black people cannot afford the luxury of the death penalty because society has not seen the necessity of uniform enforcement of criminal law The criminal justice system in this country does not dole out justice equally to all of its Rep Theo Cribbs D-Wichita said capital punishment is simply unfair is a very expensive way to get even with peole because they committed a Cribbs said reading the Bible it tells me that two wrongs make a Railroad have already protested the move suggesting it would develop a rail monopoly in southwest Kansas At a public meeting in Liberal last May Katy spokesman David Rose predicted the merger would create one two companies are each biggest competitors If these two railroads would merge today southwest Kansas would have only one Rose said To protect its own interests and promote competitive railroad shipping the Katy has asked for trackage rights along the old Tucumcari Line running between Topeka and Liberal Spokesmen from Santa Fe Southern Pacific and the Katy railroads will be at meeting for brief discussion of the proposal Citizens who would like to testify but cannot appear at the hearings may send their comments to: John Schierman chief of rail programs KDOT 8th floor of the State Office Building 10th and Topeka Topeka 66612 KANSAS CITY GRAIN KANSASCITY Mo (AP)-WheatBcars 4 to 24 lower No 2 hard 3 744-4 08n No 3 3 634-4 Q7n No 2 red wheat 3554-3 61 4n No 3 3 444-3604n Corn cars 4 lower to 4 higher No 2 white 3 25-3 45n No 3 3 00-3 40n No 2 yellow 277 4-2 964n No 3 257l4-2 954n No 2 milo 4 42-4 50n No 1 soybeans 5 834-5 914n Bulk mids hoppers 68 00-70 00 GRAIN FUTURES CHICAGO (AP) Futures trading on the Chicago Board of Trade Wed: By Harris News Service Public opinion over the proposed merger of the Southern Pacific and Santa railroads is being sought this week in two public hearings Testimony on the matter has already begun before the Interstate Commerce Commission said Vic Moser who was hired by the state to study the proposal However the Kansas Department of Transportation is looking for grassroots reaction to the proposal and invites citizens to offer their own testimony Moser said The first public meeting was Tuesday in Topeka The second hearing will be Thursday in Hutchinson That meeting will last from 10 am to 12 noon in the City Conference Room If approved the merger of the two railroads would result in three major railroads serving the western half of the country: Union Pacific Burlington Northern and the new line formed by the merger However spokesmen for the Katy BARTLETT CO-OP Bartlett Hard wheat S3 40 02 Soft wheat $3 20 02 Soybeans $5 60 02 Yellow corn $3 00 Unch Milo $4 25 Unch Oats $2 10 Unch PRODUCERS CO-OP Girard Soft wheat $3 21 02 Hard wheat $3 36 02 Com $2 87 Unch Oats $2 05 Unch Milo $4 28 Unch Soybeans $5 59 02 GRAIN FUTURES KANSAS CITY (AP) -Wheat futures on the Kansas City Board of Trade Wed: Open High Low Settle Chg WHEAT 5000 bu minimum dollars per bushel TOPEKA AP i Legalizing multibank holding companies in the state would be bad for agriculture and that makes them bad for Kansas the Senate Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee heard today Allowing corporations to own an unlimited number of banks would lead to a concentration of financial resources in the metropolitan areas of Wichita Topeka and Kansas City drying up capital which farmers need to operate opponents of multibanking said as two days of hearings concluded before the committee Chairman Neil Arasmith R-Phillipsburg said the panel may discuss the bill Thursday if time permits but more likely will take it up and possibly vote on it next Tuesday or Wednesday Under study is Senate Bill 102 which would permit Kansas holding companies to own any number of banks and savings institutions as long as their assets do not exceed 9 percent of the total assets of all financial institutions in the state Under Kansas' present unit banking system one company can own only one bank outright and no more than 25 percent of any other bank Advocates of multibanking who testified before the Senate committee Tuesday say interstate banking is virtually certain to be authorized by Congress in the near future They say Kansas must prepare now for that inevitability by changing its bank structure to allow bigger banks to grow even bigger in order to compete with large out-state banks However those who testified today challenged that argument saying the strength of banking system has been its diversity and large number of small banks who can best serve farmers because they will take greater risks in loaning them money If financial power is concentrated in Wichita Topeka and Kansas City they argued farmers will suffer because there no longer will be hometown bankers making the decisions on taking those risks have a good banking structure StocksiVJarkets Wall Street today KN Energy KanGasEl 37 lb 18 in the state of said Edie Dah-lsten of Lindsborg vice president of Kansas Farm Bureau Women believe it would ill-behoove the Kansas Legislature to now change the structure that has given us this diversity and competitiveness and allowed the development of banks and bankers who have been fiercely dedicated to serving the needs of Kansas She joined spokesmen for the Kansas Independent Bankers Association Kansas Farmers Union Kansas Association of Wheat Growers Kansas-National Farmers Organization and Kansas Association of Counties in testifying against the bill The burden of proof that Kansas should change its banking system ought to be on the proponents of multibanking Mrs Dahlsten said and they have not make their case a reasonable in her judgment believe the present system allows for size if desirable and for power if that is desirable and justified through superior she said John Tincher a Lyndon banker speaking for the Kansas Independent Bankers Association chided the bigger Kansas Bankers Association for the way it arrived at a governing council vote of 18-14 last fall to support multibanking Tincher said spot polling the KBA did showed Kansas bankers favored by at least a 2-to-l margin having the organiation remain neutral on the issue tell you without reservation that I represent more Kansas bankers here today than all of those you heard from said Tincher He said the issue is control of money and power and that rural Kansas will suffer if the concentration of capital is allowed to occur in the three metropolitan centers of the state are casting here for the control of said Tincher the control of money comes power This is a issue If this were not so then you might have been through with this issue by would be the same 91 1 it could set back the date to change telephone systems without sacrificing safety It will sacrifice convenience however because those dialing the old numbers would hear a recording giving the new number until the new numbers are listed in the directory The city would also run an advertisement in the newspaper listing the new numbers The new system with Southwestern Bell will save the city money in the long run because the city would stop leasing telephones from American Telephone Telegraph and purchase the equipment according to Dennis Tinberg city manager after mishap by Jack Rowland 47 Altamont said Tom Wilson undersheriff for the Montgomery County Sheriffs Department Rowland was also treated for minor cuts at the hospital and released Mrs Oyler was eastbound and stopped at a stop sign on US 166 and preparing to turn when her car was struck in the rear Damage to both vehicles was estimated at more than $300 Parsons sets new date for bidding on phones 5000 bu minimum dollars per bushel Mr 177 1774 1764 1764 -004 My 1724 173 1724 1724 -004 Jl 1674 1674 1664 1664 01 Sp 166 166 165 165 Dc 1684 1684 1684 1684 Prev sales 252 Prev open int 3887 up 20 SOYBEANS Prev day's open mt 17821 up 349 LIVESTOCK FUTURES CHICAGO (AP) Futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Wed: Open High Low Settle Chg CATTLE 40000 lbs cents per lb Feb 6515 6527 6502 6515 -02 Apr 6795 6800 6755 6757 -45 Jun 6902 6915 6870 6875 -47 Aug 6710 6720 6685 6692 Oct 65 35 6550 6505 6507 -38 Dec 66 85 6715 6660 6670 -50 Feb 6735 6735 6705 6705 Prev sales 28862 Prev open int 57486 up 859 FEEDER CATTLE 44000 lbs cents per lb Mar 7405 7405 7302 7307 -83 Apr 7345 7365 7300 7300 -55 May 7245 7260 7190 7190 -62 Aug 7360 7360 7297 7297 -63 Sep 7275 7275 7235 7235 -32 Oct 7215 7225 7180 7185 -42 Nov 7300 7300 7280 7280 Prev sales 5077 Prev open int 11971 up 363 HOGS 30000 lbs cents per lb Feb 50 80 5115 5060 5102 Apr 4777 4785 4737 4750 Jun 5315 5325 5277 5307 -33 Jul 53 85 5397 5365 5390 -22 Aug 5302 5325 5285 5305 -05 Oct 4850 4870 4830 4875 -15 Dec 48 80 4895 4880 4895 03 Feb 4885 4885 4885 4885 -05 Apr 4665 Prev sales 8051 Prev open mt 30092 up 378 PORK BELLIES 38000 lbs cents per lb Feb 7060 7100 70 00 7037 Mar 7005 7042 6950 6987 15 May 7070 7115 7025 7090 43 Jul 7075 7125 7015 7077 15 Aug 6675 6930 6830 6885 30 Feb 6885 6925 6725 6925 200 Mar 6775 6775 6775 6775 200 Prev sales 10094 Prev open int 14355 up 214 The Parsons City Commission today set March 14 as the date to receive bids for new telephone equipment to use with a proposed new system for the city buildings because no bids were submitted at this scheduled meeting Potential bidders have said that the date to have the equipment installed is too close The city had set April as the date to change to the new service so the new telephone numbers would be accurately listed in the telephone book If the numbers are changed in May wrong numbers will be listed for a year The commission decided that because the emergency number Three treated TYRO Three people were treated Tuesday at Coffeyville Memorial Hospital for minor injuries after being involved in a car-truck collision at 4:30 pm on US 166 near the Tyro city limits Wendy Oyler 22 and her 6-year-old daughter Shannon were treated for minor cuts and bruises after her car was struck from behind by a Kansas State Forestry Service pickup driven METALS NEW YORK AP) Spot nonferrous metal prices Wednesday: Aluminum 50 20 cents per pound NY Comex spot month closed Tue Copper 674-70 cents a pound US destinations Copper 6180 cents per pound NY Comex spot month closed Tue Lead -18-21 cents a pound Zinc 43 cents a pound delivered Tin $5 6022 Metals Week composite lb Gold 830320 per ounce Handy Hannan (only daily quote) Gold $30180 per troy ounce NY Comex spot month closed Tue Silver $6 260 per ounce Handy Harman Silver $6207 per troy ounce NY Comex spot month closed Tue Mercury $31000-131900 per 76 lb flask New York Platinum 00 domestic merchant troy ounce NY NEW YORK (AP)-Dow Jones 2 pm Stock averages: i I.