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Southwest Election Fever Is at Varied Pitc Southwest Kansas election fever runs from cool in several no contest communities to the hottest in years in such towns as Syracuse where activity for' mayor and city council has been boiling. Here is a rundown on the local election slated for voter decision CIMARRON Mayor, councilmen and school board are the local races confronting Cimarron area voters Tuesday. Two men are vying for the title of Cimarron mayor. They are Paul Eichman and Charles Thomas. Candidates for two seats on city council are: James Marchel, Russell Schartz, Jerry Anderson, and Charley Foulks.

In the school board election for Unified School District 102, Cimarron, there are races for positions four and two. Arnold L. Hartnett and Jim Bryant are the candidates for position one. Mrs. Don (Irene) Hastings and A.

E. Nicolet are vying for position two. INGALLS Five of the six candidates for the Ingalls- pity Council will be day. There are elected Tues- no races for positions on the Ingalls school Candidates for city council are: Robert Rixon, Clovis Addison, Pete Warfield, G. W.

Egbert, David Hewes, -and Jan Penfca. Loren Doll is unopposed in his bid for election as Ingalls mayor. MONTEZUMA There will be only one loser in the councilmen race in Montezuma Tuesday, but three losers in the three races for seats on the board of education of Unified School District 371, Montezuma. The six candidates for the five councilman seats are: Lee V. Schmidt, William Erhart, Kenneth Zimmerman, John Paul Unruh, Dale Tuxhorn and Ronald Perkins.

Vemon Nusser is unopposed his bid for reelection as Montezuma mayor. In the school board races, Loyd McCuhe and Frances Glasco are seeking position two; Johnnie Jantz and Dana Lupton are after position three; and Denton Unruh and Irvin Marrs are vying fpr position seven, the at large position. SUBLETTE There are four contests in Tuesday's Haskell County elections, all in Sublette. Ed Hall, long time -mayor of Sublette, is retiring from that position and two other Sublette men are seeking to replace him. Hall has served on the Sublette council since 1953 and as mayor the past 12 years.

Seeking the mayor slot are Robert Orth and John Stark 1 Four candidates are seeking two openings on the Sublette city council. They are: Roberl Faurot, Holland Jacquart, Albert Schnellbacher and Nick Trimpa. Other contests are for two wsitions on the board of education of Unified School Dis- 374, Sublette. Mrs. Shirley Shotton and LeRoy Stapletori are seeking one position while Arnold Knief and Jay C.

Hammer are seeking the other slot. ULYSSES Only contest Tuesday in Grant County will be for three seats on the Ulysses board of Bob Gindlesberger and Holly Brown are vying for position two on the board. J. H. Rain- man is contesting Lyle Morris 1 bid for reelection to position three; Madison Traster and Karen June Yount are seeking position seat.

the at large JOHNSON Only one race is slated Tuesday in Stanton County. It is for position three on the board of education of Unified School District 452, Johnson. andidates are Lewis Shore and Eugene L. Shore. SYRACUSE Election interest is running high in Syracuse with races for city council and for the Syracuse school ward.

Seeking the mayor's post are A. D. Cauthon and James Nor- xm. Five of the 10 candidates for city council will be elected to office in the hottest city council race in Syracuse in years. The candidates are Keith Scott, Wendell Howell, Paul White, Dr.

Norman Marvin, Gerald Schmidt, Earl Hess, Roy Dunagan, Alvin Jantz, Bob Salter, and Walter Ottem. There are three races for seats on the board of education of Unified School District 494, Syracuse. Audine Marvin and Darrell Dutton are seeking position two; Gilbert Johnson and Os car Rector are vying for posi tion three; and Fred Martin and Charles Van Eddy are seeking position seven, the at arge position. KENDALL Voters in Unified School District 478, Kendall, will decide two races for seats on the board of education. Keith Dodge and Sadi Stevenson are seeking position two on the school board.

Other race is for position three with Calvin Mueller and John Graber opposing each other. The Kendall school district takes in portions of Kearny, Grant and Hamilton counties. LAKIN Lakh area residents will decide races for one slot on the of education of Unified School District 2.15, Lakin, and for three Lakin city council seats. The only race in the school board election pits Elmer H. Wilken against veteran school board Wallace Kuhlman.

Three of the fnur candidates 'or Lakin city council will be elected to office. The candidates are: Clyde Beymcr Richard C. Lucas, Brad Tatc, and Norman Simshauser. DEERFIELD There arc nine candidates vying for (iv2 seats on the Deeiiield city council in Tuesday's elections. The candidates, including two women, are: Sarah K.

Williams, Kueker, Richard E. Landon, Alvin L. Coerbcr, Dale Unruh, William A. Swords, Charles E. Hartley, John Novack, and-Herman J.

Pruilt. DIGHTON Two school board races, a race for mayor, and contest for city council will liven Tuesday's elections in Dighton and Lane County. L. H. (Hap) Donecker, incumbent Dighton mayor, is being opposed, in his bid reelection by Lester Ferguson.

The seven candidates for live Dighton city council seats are Man Injured in Cycle-Car Crash A collision of a motorcycle and a car here Friday night 'hospitalized a Garden City mam. Suffering injuries to his leg was Doyle Waywe Hester, 24, 1700 E. Spruce. He was admitted to St. Catherine Hospital.

Hester was the cycle rider in the wreck. The accident occurred at 9:26 p.m. in the 400 block of E. Fulton. The cycle in collision with car driven by Melody Kay Gugelmeyer, 17, N.

8th. Police investigation indieated the car was headed 'east on Fulton, the cycle west. Printing Industry in History Program Topic Barbara OrinigderifPs weekly television program, "Reflections on Southwest Kansas" will feature as its topic "How the printing industry has contributed to the preservation of history of Southwest Kansas." Guests wilt be Mike Etrick, Garden City printer, and Sue Herman, a singer firom "Boot Dodge City. The program airs Monday at 6 p.m. 13.

on KUPK-TV, Channel Hospitals DISMISSALS At St. Joseph Anderson, Rt. 1 Mrs. Ronald Blackwell, 606 Hamliroe Mi-s. Alfred L.

Bolte and baby boy, 2304 Juan DeLiwia, 1309 W. Fulton Mrs. Marshal Gurley, Garden City Mrs. Earnest Hartley, Rt. 1 Vanessa Jan Koehn, Frank Morris, Rt.

1 Mrs. Richard Parson, Rt. 1 Mrs. Jasper Siebeirt, Wallace Glenda Kay States, Russel Springs Mns. Clyde Thomas, City, Billy D.

Torrence, St. Charles, Mo. Winnie V. Wallace, Sublette Donald A. Welker, St.

Louis, Mo. Mrs. Dewey Whisler, Satanta Courts TRAFFIC Bonds Forfeited Mrs. Gene Brock, 1722 Old Manor, careless driving, $15. Robert C.

Graves, Hutchinson, parking en private property, $12. Lyle C. Stallsworth, 1014 N. 2nd, parking on private property, $12. Leroy S.

Danler, Rt. 1, careless driving, $15. Norbert City Dome, 618- N. 2nd, leaving scene of non-injury accident, $30. Willie Garza Cisneros, 1802 N.

8th, driving while intoxicated, $105. Fined Marcellus W. Barker, 401 N. 6th, parking disabled veMclt in street, $5 and $2 count costs. Mrs.

Tony Joe Arteaga, 915 N. 10th, careless driving; $10 and costs. Bonds Forfeited Jerry Duane Schreibvogel, 904V2 Howerton, permitting a dog to run at large, $20. Carl Pomeroy, 2211 N. 7'th, permitting a clog to run at large, $10.

Fires Firemen answered an alarm at 11:11 a.m. Friday in the 1500 block of E. Kansas Ave. Grass was afire on property owned by Mns. Otto Hund.

No damage. Cause undetermined. CIG HERE LAST NIGHT Lakin District Four Wins Award Colorado Interstate Gas a division of Colorado Inter- state conducted a safety ewaird dinner at Wheat Lands Convention Center 'here last night. Sixty-eight employes and their wives were present to receive personal gilts presented by Gartlh McCMnitock, director of safety, Colorado Interstate' Corp. The 1970 safety award won by District Four, Lakin, under the supervision of Drew H.

McCorkle, district superintendent, Hugoton field operation; L. D. Jensen, construction and maintenance superintendent; T. G. Watkiras, station and gasoline plant superintendent, and Marcus M.

Ford, measurement superintendent. Purpose of the safety award program is to recognize outstanding safety performance by operating units in a group com: petition on an annual basis. The winner in each group is the unit that has achieved the greatest improvement in their entry ratio when compared to last year's experience. Colorado Interstate Gas Co officials from Colorado Springs were President Thomas L. Pelican, and.

Mrs. Pelican; R. Frank Williams, vice-president of transmission, and Mrs. William; William I. Blount, general superintendent, and Mrs.

Blount; William L. Scull, southern division manager, and Mrs. Scull and other corporation officials, personnel director, Jerry J. Baur and Mrs. Baur; safety manager, Garth McClintock and Mrs.

McClintock and safety supervisor Jerry C. Jones and Mrs. Jones. EADS, Ooiio. Kiowa County Disitri6t Court at Eads, heard two more full days of testimony Thursday and Friday in the case of Rodger Eugenie Jones, 42, Scott City.

charged with the first degree murdier of 18-year- old Gary Seyler, Scott City, last month. Seyler's body was found beneath a bridge in eastern Kiowa County. A hearing on motions in district court here began March 25, continued through March 26, and adjourned until last Thursday. During Thursday and. Friday's hearing of testimony, agreement by both parties was reached to file briefs with the court, District Judge John State- said this morning.

Next court action will be June 3, he said, when both parties will present oral arguments. Crash Injuries Are Fatal to Coloradian A Holy, man died this morning at St. Catherine, Hospital of injuries suffered in a pickup truck-farm tractor accident south of Holly March 27. John Wilson Watt, 64, Holly, had remained in critical condition at St. Catherine since last Sunday night, when he was transferred from the County Hospital, Syracuse.

The Coolidge Sink Hole This is the Coolidge Sink Hole as it appears today, above, and in 1929 as it first looked shortly after its sudden appearance. The county road that once crossed the hole's location now curves around the west side of the hole that measures 150 feet across and 50 feet deep. Both scenes are looking south. See "Dateline Western Kansas," Page four. Young Scientists Here for Fair Telojrrani.

Phote Young scientists from Southwest Kansas are on the college campus today for. the school's annual science fair. Sandra Bailey, 8th grader from Sublette, is one of some 50 entrants in the fair. Her experiment concerns measurement of air and water pollution. Issues on Ballot Af Lakin, Ingalls Sale of liquor in Copeland, a new high school at Ingalls, and unds for promotion of a dam near Lakin are among special I Tht Telegram Registrants forwarded to Denver Wednesday for induction into the U.S.

Army were Rudy R. Farmer, a volunteer, Harold E. Faulcone, Duane D. Heeke an'd Louie A. Ford, all Garden City.

Sent for preinduction physical examinations were Michael W. and Larry G. Birmingham. Ordered to report and transferred to other selective service boards were Donald R. Geier, Stephen M.

Nelson, Gary D. Thompson, Wesley E. Oakley, Monte W. Riggs, Ralph E. Adams, Roger D.

Smith, and Ronald Schreib- vogel. Among the cadets at St. 'John's Military School, Salana, earning wrestling letters is Robert Thomas, son of Mr. Carrol D. Thomas, Lakin.

A senior at tihe boarding high school, Robert was a member of the squad. Course an Defense Driving Is Planned A defensive driving course will conducted at the Farm Bureau Conference room, Center and Kansas, Tuesday and April 13 at .7:30 p.m. Conducting thu course in Dick Bortz of the Farm Bureau. The course has been developed by the National Safety Council, working with professional drivers, and has been termed a success. A fee of $1 will be charged to covisr the cost of material used.

The public is invited to attend ithe course. issuiss voters in several area counties will decide Tuesday. Largest measure is the proposed $275,000 bond issue at Ingalls which, if approved, would build and equip a new high school for that community. The funds would also provide for remodeling of existing facilities. Oopeland voters will decide whether or not to allow the opening of a liquor store in that Gray County town.

A petition signed by 56 of the 150 eligible Ooipeland voters put the measure on the ballot. Only Cimaiiron now has a liquor store in all of Gray County. Lafcin residents will be voting on a proposal to approve levying one mill for funds to promote a dam on the Arkansas River at the former Hartland townsite west of Lakin. The levy would raise about $2,000. Up in Greeley County, residents of Hoiv.cis (a small town to the westt of Tribune) will vote on the possible issuance of $9,000 in bonds for a new town water main.

Voters in Unified School Distract 452, Johnson and Stanton County, will decide whether or not that school shall be allowed to levy to four mills for a capital outlay fund. The levy would raise about $58,000 yearly for four years, providing a four year accumulation of $290,000. The school board there is faced with the need for a new or greatly remodeled high school. The matter was brought to a vote by ths submission a petition opposing a school board resolution which would have set up the levy. deaths Mrs.

Silas Hickman Mrs. Adie Ethel Hickman, 77, Greensfourg, died yesterday evening at the Southwest Medical Great Bend, following long illness. She was the mother of Mrs. Eva Powers, 1714 N. 3rd.

Born May 7, 1894, in Kiowa County, Mrs. Hickman married Silas Orwsl Hickman Dec 1, 1911, ait Greensbud-g. He preceded her in death Nov. 23, They had been long-time residents of Kiowa County. She was a mem'ber of the Christian Church, Greensburg.

Other survivors include three sons, three other daughters, 18 grandchildren 'and seven Edgar Eugene Me La in Funeral services for Edgar Eugene (Gus) McLain, 35, 520 N. 9th, will be 3 p.m. Sunday at this First Baptist Church, Hart, the Revs. Fred Brown, C. T.

Cunningham, and Thomas Taylor, officiating. Burial will be in Hart Cemetery. Survivors include the widow, his parents, 'three sisters, and four children. Phillips-White Funiapal Home is in charge of local arrangements. Page 3 City Telegram Saturday, April 3.

1971 Rogene Smith, D. Doris Delmar G. Walerson, Jamtx Murphy, Herman Bahm. -Richard J. Scullsy, and Robert II.

Fox. Voters in Unified Schnol Di- trict 482, Dighton. will decide two contest for positions on Ihn board of education. Sandra Pallon and Stanley D. Fullmer arc both seeking postion two while Mrs.

Don McWhirtcr and Harold Hall Jr. are running for position four. SCOTT CITY Scott City voters will decide between fourteen candidates for four city council positions while voters in Unified School District 466, Scott City, will choose two school board members from among four candidates. Here are the city council candidates: Ward 1 Milton Robinson and Glen Cunningham; ward 2 T. H.

Plum, Floyd Krebs, Ronald Eaton and Herman Funk; ward 3' Everett Lindeamuth, Ron Thomas, Kenneth Fyler and Carl Kasten; ward 4 Mrs. Evelyn Moore, William G. Carpenter, Duane Drake and Kenneth Hoover. The two school board races pit Mary Boulware and Bernarr Nelson against each other for position two; and Harold Williams and Eugene Eckels against each other for position three. LEOTI Five of the eight candidates for Lecti city council will be elected to office in Tuesday's general election here.

There are no races for positions on the board of education of Unified School District 467, Leoti. The eight candidates for city council are: F. C. (Curt) Walk, Jerry Spraclling, Dr. Carl L.

Zinlc, Dr. R. B. Stewart, the Rev. Doyl Carroll, Clair Dierks, and Jack Steele.

TRIBUNE More interest han usual is expected in Tribune and Greeley County elec- ions Tuesday with races for Tribune mayor and city coun- il and for all four positions en Unified School District 200 'ard of education that are up 'or election. Mrs. Oma Smith and Melvett Ruder are the two candidates for Tribune mayor. The four candidates seeking two city council seats are: Erma John, Velma M. Farmer, Richard H.

Vester, and Don H. Ste-phenson. Seeking the four school beard positions are these eight candidates: Ross A. Kuttler, Beu Graber Arliss W. Wineinger, Benton Stewart, Betty Jean Dittmer, Jack Arnold, L.

A. (Mick) Peter, and Henry Robertson. Here at $278,640 Estimated value of building permits issued during March by the city inspection department totaled $278,640. Included were 8 permits for new honnes valued at $133,000. Other permits were for Gash Carry effice building, St.

Catherine Hospital addition, and Dillon Kwik Shop, $38,000. There wsire also 16 permits for remodeling totaling $35,640. Kansas Traffic Log TOPEKA highway "death log: 24 hours until 9 a. m. For April For Comparable 1970 The island MaJita is 50 mites south of Sicily and 220 miles noirtih of Tripoli in Africa.

Malta became a sovereign nation within the British Commonwealth in 1964. Holy Week Services Set at St. Thomas Services will be conducted daily during the coming Holy Week at St. Thomas Episcopal Church. The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated Monday at 7:15 a.m.; Tuesday at 5:15 p.m.; and Wednesday at 7:15 a.m.

On Maundy Thursday, the Holy Eucharist will be a choral eveininig celebration at 7:15, and will be concluded with the Stripping of the Altar. During the stripping the congregation will read penitential psalms while the priest and acolytes dismantle the Altar. Following the Maundy Thursday evening celebration, the Maundy Thursday all-night vigil will begin and will continue until 6 a.m. on Good Friday. Pacishioneirs wffl.

"watch" at one-hour intervals thj.migh.out the vigil. Good Friday, there will be two services Mass of the Pre-Sanotified at 6 a.m. At noon, devotions will include the Litany, Stations of the Cross, Homily, Veneration of the Crucifix, and Mass of the Pre-Sanctified. Length of the service will be approximately one hour and a hailf. Saturday at 4 p.m., thene will be the Easter Even Lighting of the Paschal Candle and Holy Baptism.

Dr. M. D. Niedens Chiropractic Office 111 Mam Garden City Hours Jim Steward has served 6 years on the City Commission, and asks your support in Tuesdays ion. Pd.

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