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The Manhattan Mercury REGIONALNATIONAL Tuesday, December 6, 1988 A3 JC, Geary due for grants Associated Press Man held in old slaying Associated Press JUNCTION CITY A Junction City man remained in the Geary County Jail Monday on $100,000 bond on a Texas warrant for a murder that was committed seven years ago. Mose L. Collins, 34, was arrested 30 at the plant where he worked, said Geary through the Kansas Department of Commerce, include the following: Belleville received $200,000 to provide equipment and capital for Phoenix Foam and Fiberglass Inc which presently is in Nebraska. The firm will create 35 new jobs. Caney received $160,000 to assist with start-up costs for Engineered System and Equipment, Inc.

The project will create 16 jobs. Chanute has been awarded $179,000 to assist in financing the expansion of P.C. Boards, which manufactures circuit boards for the electronics industry. The company will create 18 jobs. Hays received $300,000 to assist with the financing of Exide a battery manufacturer.

The grant will create 65 jobs. Geary County has been awarded a grant of $245,000 to complete a financing package for Kansas Export Beef, creating 24 jobs lor the county. Paola has been earmarked $195,000 to assist in the start up of Vinyl Incto create 32 jobs. Solomon received $275,000 to assist the expansion of Solomon Electric, to create 40 jobsx Great Bend has been awarded $300,000 to help in the location of A.S.I. Market Research, Inc.

This firm will create 100 jobs. Ellis County has received $300,000 to provide services to YUASA Exide, a battery manufacturer, creating 100 jobs for the county. Harvey County has been awarded $200,000 to complete a funding package for-Deutsch Treats which makes cookies. The grant will allow the company to expand its baking line and create 32 jobs. Junction City has received $300,000 to finance the expansion of Mobile Traveler which makes recreational vehicles.

Ninety jobs will be retained. TOPEKA Gov. Mike Hayden announced Monday that 11 Kansas communities will receive economic development grants totaling $2.7 million. The grants available through the Kansas Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program are being awarded to the cities of Belleville, Caney, Chanute, Great Bend, Hays, Junction City, Paola and Solomon. Also receiving grants are Ellis, Geary and Harvey counties.

The grants provide, supplemental financing for business expansions in each of the 11 communities. State officials say the $2.7 million in public money will be mingled with $4.2 million in private investments and will create or retain more than 552 jobs. The grants, administered County Sheriff Bill Deppish. Texas authorities said they arrested Collins, who had been 1- T7 1- Tax collections exceed estimates uvuig ui rwansas ioi iwu years. He was being held in connection with the December 1981 slaying of Roxann Jo Jeeves and her 5-year-old son.

An extradition hearing is set for Jan. 3, 1989. "We feel he is a very strong suspect," Sheriff's Deputy Jim Hobbs told the Dallas Times said investigators sent a sample of Collins' hair to a forensic laboratory Friday to see if it matches hair found in Ms. Jeeves' car at the murder scene. A comparison of Collins' fingerprints with those taken from the vehicle was also planned.

Associated Press AP Laserphoto Face to face Former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter talk with reporters at the start of an All-Democracies Conference at the Ford Library on Monday. The library is located on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. department's director, said he's not sure any trends can be spotted in the newest figures, because they were first released since the new estimates were made Nov? 8. He released the figures Monday to members of the Legislative Budget Committee. A top aide to Gov.

Mike Hayden said the numbers may prove Hayden's contention that the state has been collecting more money because of an improved economy. Some legislators have maintained the state is taking advantage of the "windfall," an increase in income tax revenues generated by changes in the federal tax code in 1986. Hayden administration officials have estimated the windfall at $135 million, but some legislators, especially those from relatively affluent Johnson County, have Ms. Jeeves, 30, and her son Kristopher Korper, were abducted from their North Dallas apartment complex Dec. 23, 1981, forced to drive her car to a nearby service station and then to a remote spot of Dallas said the windfall is larger.

"My contention is the same as it always has been, which essentially is that $135 million is still a good number," the aide Michael O'Keefe said. "I would say I haven't seen anything in the estimates for the last seven months that would leave me to believe our numbers on the windfall are incorrect." The Consensus Estimating Group, a panel of state fiscal experts and university economists, meets in April and November to estimate how much tax revenues the state will collect. Before the group met last month, collections for Fiscal Year 1989, which began July 1, exceeded the old estimates by $50.5 million. The revised estimates So far, the state has collected $339.2 million in sales taxes during fiscal 1989. Audit of Lottery ordered report.

In October, the agency Associated Press released an audit critical of the TOPEKA Unanticipated revenues continued to flow into the state treasury in November, as tax collections exceeded previous estimates by $2.98 million, the Legislative Research Department reported Monday. For the 10th consecutive month, actual tax collections exceeded the expectations of state fiscal experts. The trend continued in November even though those experts last month increased their estimates for how much tax revenue the state should receive during the current fiscal year by $166.3 million. However, individual income tax collections were $6.4 million below the revised estimates, reversing the trend for recent months. The loss was made up by unanticipated sales tax and inheritance tax revenues.

Richard Ryan, the research lottery's management. Their bodjes were found by a sheriff's deputy on patrol in a field near where the car was abandoned. Ms. Jeeves had been shot several times in the head and her son had been shot once in the head, according to autopsies. Authorities began looking into TOPEKA The Kansas Lottery's management will be audited for the second time in nine months, a legislative committee decided Monday.

The Legislature's Post Audit Committee ordered the Legislative Division of Post Audit, the state's official auditing agency, to compile a In particular, lawmakers want to see the results of a third, private audit of the lottery done in April by a national accounting firm, Arthur Young and Company. The company's report was specifically mentioned in the committee's orders to auditors. me case last year, modds sam. ISOTONER Event $250 Dillard's Shopping Spree Giveaways Gifts Join us during this event, now through Dec. 10.

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