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The Parsons Sun from Parsons, Kansas • 16

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FM Station to Transmit new transmitter building and had installed a new AM transmitter when the application was submitted The FM transnnter is 17 nnles east of Pa rsons on US160 highway but offices are with the AM station at 109D Central The Community Broadcasting Co of Parsons owns both stations Stockholdres are Combs Carol Combs and Eugene Joslin carry the same programming as its sister the 250-watt AM station KLKC Combs said The AM station has been in operation since 1948 Later the eight full-and part-time staff members will change the formats at least a portion of each day An application for the FM station was submitted July 22 1977 and approved on June 21 by the Federal Communications Commission KI JvC had alreaih erected a Cool Fall Weather Covers Most of Kansas KLKC-FM will begin broadcasting at 5 pm today and will cover Parsons High School football game beginning at 7 30 The station at 935 megahertz will start with news and move into regular programming before a pregame warm-up at 7 15 Tonight's broadcast will give the 6000-watt station a trial run before full-time broadcasting begins Monday or Tuesday Richard Combs manager and one of the owners said Programming will start at 5 30 am daily and continue until midnight barring unforeseen problems in the new equipment Combs said For the first two or three months the FM station will solve our energy problems" Allegrucci may have the chance to confront Whittaker with some of the "real" issues of the campaign in the final day ahead our debates tw on radio and two televised have been scheduled also campaigned at a fund raising Parsonian Motor sons today Allegrucci who today in Oswego will speak dinner at 7 tonight in the Inn (Sun Photo) ALLEGRUCCI VISITS Don Allegrucci (left) Democratic candidate for 5th District Congressman talks with Perl Bass Labette County commissioner during a visit in Par Allegrucci Hits 'Irrelevant Issues' TOPEKA Kan (APi-The blue skies of colder weather greeted Kansans today and temperatures were expected to dip into the 30s again before Saturday morning prompting a frost warning for the northeast A large dome of high pressure extending south from Canada brought the coldest temperature of the oung fall to the state early Friday dropping to below freezing in the northwest Chanute recorded a low of 28 degrees and Garden City 32 After an afternoon high said he found almost all farmers' groups differed on what they need and want The energy problem is also of major concern the Pittsburg man said don't think we can get a handle on inflation until we said who also benefit from a tax cut Besides differing on tax cuts Allegrucci said he and Whittaker contrasted in their sty le of campaigning He didn't criticize "work because they did "net him publicity which is the name of the game but I've been a laborer a steel rigger worked in the hay fields and just about everywhere else you can imagine I have to work a half day every other week to know what it's like to be a Allegrucci said Whittaker had also had misrepresented his view on the proposed National Tall Grass Prairie Park which both oppose oppose it for several reasons particularly because' productive land on the tax rolls and the park would not be any benefit to he said he continually goes around telling people that for the Instead of bickering over state issues which the 5th District congressman be working on Allegrucci said the candidates should look more to the federal issues that will face one of them Small businesses and industry are prevalent in the district Allegrucci said and most are choked by red tape and finally "regulated to death He declared that Congress should enact favorable regulations and taxation for small businesses to counteract the tendency toward helping "the big The federal government also ill have to keep its hands in farming Allegrucci said to explore possible new demands for products and set target prices But the final solution to the problem will have to come from farmers when they can organize to voice collective concerns and proposals During his campaign he people to the With a month left to go in the campaign Allegrucci said his Republican opponent Robert Whittaker of Augusta had been emphasizing emotional and state issues rather than those that concern Congress on the national level "I don't understand that if he is so concerned about state issues why he resigned from the (Kansas) House when he announced his Allegrucci said "Where was he in the last session of the legislature when something could have been done about those past voting record always match his professed concern for area residents either the 42-year-old Pittsburg lawyer said Whittaker's opposition to the Wolf Creek nuclear plant is based on his concern for Neosho River valley residents Allegrucci said yet he opposed amendments that would have safeguarded those residents' water supply and required renegotiate contracts for the upstream plant Whittaker's support of the Kemp-Roth bill which would cut personal income taxes by 33 percent over three years is a in the ploy for Republicans in the election year Allegrucci said who know they'll never have the votes to pass it "Frankly I understand and am totally committed to a tax cut but the Kemp-Roth bill is not a responsible way to approach Allegrucci said he supported a present bill in Congress that would bring between a $15 and $16 billion-dollar tax cut as the House approved and a $20 billion cut as is proposed in the Senate Cutting taxes by a third Allegrucci said would reduce the federal budget by $100 billion to $150 billion and increase inflation by 1 to 4 percent and eat up any benefits taxpayers might receive That inflation would also be detrimental to the 34 million people on fixed incomes he campaigned in Parsons today to help their father in his election bid for the US Senate (Sun Photo) SON CAMPAIGNS Bill Roy Jr talks with students at Labette Community Junior College in Parsons today Roy and his sister Rise 16 The Daily Record i 8 Hospitals 0 LABETTE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER Admitted Thursday: Mrs Albert Hice 1 Altamont Loren Devilbiss 1 Chetopa Clyde Likins Box 01 292 Dennis Michael Rankins j2 Box 271 Altamont Miss Rhonda Hall 721 17th Mrs (5 Leona Nance Box 61 Oswego Mrs Evelyn Walker Oswego Mrs Barbara I- Troester 1015 Central George Bradbury Albuquerque Mrs Nola Anderegg 2 Parsons Dismissed Thursday- Paul Dumm 2 Oswego Miss Tolli Shue Oswego Neva Bryant 1000 25th Richard DeBolt 1436 25th Miss Linda Godfrey 1804 Stevens Mrs Clifford Waller 806 15th Mrs Anna Moore Erie Miss Michelle Fly 1410 Stevens Mrs Earl Groff 301 Stone Mrs Gayla Thomas 2 Erie Mrs Jesse Addis and infant son 2 Oswego Roy Hizey Box 36 Galesburg Miss Sheri Glasgow 1211 21st KATY HOSPITAL PARSONS Admitted Thursday: Myrtle Tredway of Erie Mark Brothers of Cherryvale Dismissed Thursday: Wilma Lyons of Parsons Howard Schnelle of Labette Area Hospitals COFFEYVILLE Memorial James Stacy of Cherryvale dismissed INDEPENDENCE Mercy Donna Roberts of Cherryvale admitted Orville Walker Helen McMath both of Cherryvale dismissed NEODESHA Wilson -Patricia Berg of Thayer admitted PITTSBURG Mount Carmel Sheri Zwahlen of Oswego admitted James Dorman of Seammon dismissed FORT SCOTT Mercy -Mrs Ernest Zellner of Walnut dismissed District Court A 19-year-old Crestline man was sentened to 90 days in the Ibette County jail and fined $100 for a misdemeanor theft of gasoline Timothy jail sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for six months Hill was found guilty in Ibette County District Court in Oswego of stealing gasoline from the Ajax Industries in Oswego Sept 14 Municipal Court Bonds forfeited for speeding: Steve Hurt 3200 Dirr $11 Virginia Rex-winkle of Mound Valley $20 Harrison Flora 38 Locust $47 Robert Lamm 1510 Appleton $26 Robert Courtney 7418 Broadway was fined $8 for speeding Steve A Roger 2601 Morns forfeited a $65 bond for careless driving and driving without his di iver's license or vehicle tags Mark Martin 3015 Clark forfeited a $22 bond for running a stop sign Jay Hobelinan of Colony was sentenced to five days in jail and fined $105 for driving while suspended Bonds forfeited for speeding: James A Husband 1412 Clark $22 Beverly Vogel 3 Parsons $11 John Allen 1409 Partridge $26 LCP Play Opens Here The play "The Miracle which opened Thursday night at Thiebaud Theatre will continue with performances tonight and Saturday night and Sunday afternoon Performed by the Labette Community Players the play is the first of the four plays to be presented by the group this season Tickets which can be purchased in advance or at the door are $3 for adults $150 for children 14 and under and free for LCP members Tonight's and performances will open at 8 The Sunday matinee is at 1 30 Children Visit Here By MARSHA WOOIJERY of The Sun Staff Voter apathy toward all politicians and what he called on irrelevant were described today as frustrations for state Sen Don Allegrucci Pittsburg Democrat in his campaign for Fifth District congressman Allegrucci was in Parsons for downtown visits and will address a dinner of area Democrats at 7 tonight in the Parsonian Motor Inn Between visits to plant workers in Oswego and a return to Pittsburg to campaign in the afternoon Allegrucci said he hadn't seen much interest in any political race in the state until two weeks ago one of the most frustrating he said approach people about their concerns and they just want any part of politics at all "I keep telling them that you just turn your back on the system If dissatisfied you should find a candidate ou can support and commit yourself to helping him get Allegrucci said he hoped county-wide registration drives would help then only half the he said You still have to get FOUNDER DIES MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) George Blaisdell founder of the Zippo Manufacturing Co makers of the well-known Zippo cigarette lighters died Tuesday at the age of 83 Farm Markets KANSAS Cm GRAIN KANSAS CITY Mo (API-Wheat 77 cars- to 14 lower No 2 hard 3 29L-3 41 No 3 3 34 No 2 red 3 27-3 28n No 3 325-3 27n Corn 97 cars- Unch to 1 higher No 2 white 2 10-2 65n No 3 190-2 60n No 2 yellow 2 2514-2 Oats 1 cars: Unch to lower No 2 white 1 34-1 54Ln No 3 1 26-1 53 No 2 milo3 52 No 1 soy beans 6 41 '2-6 57n BARTLETT CO-OP Bartlett Soft Wheat 2 90 Unch Hard Wheat 300 Unch Yellow Corn 222 Unch Milo 310 U05 Soybeans 621 D09 PRODUCERS CO-OP Girard Soft Wheat 2 86 01 Hard Wheat 294 01 Yellow Corn 210 Unch Milo 310 Unch Soybeans 620 D10 LIVESTOCK FUTURES HI( AGO i AP utui i li ading on Iht hie ago i antilt 4 him'c Optn High low lost I IV HI I A I II 1 today into the 60s overnight temperatures should dip into the 30s in the north and remain about 40 in the southwest Clear and cool temperatures were forecast for the weekend with a slight warming ti end expected for early next week COOL NIGHT Sunny skies and a 10-25 mph noi therly ind accompanied a 62-degree reading at 1 pm today in Parsons The ovei-mght low reached 40 after a high Thursday of 70 and Rise had spoken to were knowledgeable about issues but were more apathetic than they ere four ears ago "Of course this could be due to the nature of the issues which are less emotional than Vietnam and Watergate" he explained "The economy just doesn't bring out the ideological fervor that some past issues had Porterville She and her late husband Alvin Ray Johnson owned and operated a grocery at Porterville for several years then moved to a farm 4 1 -a miles north of Walnut She was born here on Jan 6 1894 to Mr and Mrs Bert Wilson She and Johnson were married on April 20 1926 He died on Dee 6 1975 Mrs Johnson was a formei member of the Baptist Church in Porterville She is survived by a sister Alenta Wilson of Walnut Graveside services will be held at 2 pm Saturday in the Walnut Cemetery The Pierce Funeral Home of Erie is in charge of arrangements JOHNPIERARD Special to The Sun PITTSBURG Services for John Pierard 69 of Pittsburg will be held at 2 pm Sunday in the Quinn Funeral Home here and burial will be in Hosey Hill Cemetery at Weir Pierard was a native of Weir and grew to manhood there He lived for several years in Parkersburg Va where he was in the automobile business His parents were John and Pansey Blackett Pierard Sr of Weir He came to Pittsburg 16 years ago He died Thursday a nursing home after an illness of three months Three daughters survive Mrs Earl Neighbors of 900 Lincoln Parsons is an aunt budgeting freeze federal employees and require a balanced budget according to the younger Roy Bill Jr said his father was a leader in health legislation during his four years in Congress and was a major author of the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act and the Health Organization Act Bill Jr said that persons he Roy's By LINDA STEWART of The Sun Staff Taking time from college classes to campaign for their dad Rise Roy and her brother Bill Roy Jr came to Parsons today The younger three-week campaign stint meshes with their campaign for US senator on the Democratic ticket They were at Labette Community Junior College and visited in downtown Parsons at the Parsons State Hospital and Training Center and several industries as ell Visits to Fort Scott Chanute and Pittsburg also were scheduled on their southeast Kansas tour Rise 19 is a student at Montana State University and Bill Jr 24 attends Washburn University law school in Topeka They are among the Deaths and Funerals Wall Street Today Senate Approves ERA six children Bill Jr said that they had received a positive response from the people they had visited and looked forward to a favorable outcome in the Nov 7 election He said one of his father's qualifications was the time he spent in the US House from 1971 to 1975 that enabled him to understand the workings of the government One of the concerns Bill Jr said was the size and role of government is spending too much and reaching into areas where it doesn't also feels that they need to balance the budget which would lower he said of his father To reduce the size of the government you would need to reduce spending cut and in every action of the US Congress that Congress has the authority to determine what is a reasonable time for ratification of a constitutional are asking the Senate to join the House in declaring that 10 years is a reasonable time for the Bayh said is no ordinary constitutional amendment We are dealing with the rights of over half the people in this Senators' Votes Listed on ERA WASHINGTON (AP) -Kansas senators split their vote on the roll call today by which the Senate voted to extend the time limit for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution Sen Pearson voted for extension Sen Dole voted against Both are Republicans Pearl Grimme Special to The Sun OSWEGO Mrs Pearl Grimme 81 of Kansas City died today in a nursing home there She was a former resident of Oswego having moved to Kansas (Tty about 12 years ago She was born in Oswego on July 22 1897 to Henry and Harriett Alspaugh Hardin and livbed here until going to Kansas City She was a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church there Among survivors are a daughter Edna Nixon of the home at 308 Brighton in Kansas City one sister Jewell Rice of Norton two brothers Earl Hardin of Sun City Anz and Fred in California There are four grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren Graveside rites will be held at 2:30 pm Monday in the Oswego Cemetery wCT Father James officiating Arrangements here are in charge of the McGavran Memorial Chapel Oswego Birdie Johnson Special to The Sun WALNUT Mrs Birdie May Johnson 84 of 2 Walnut died Thursday in Girard City Hospital She had been ill several years Mrs Johnson was a native of the Walnut area and lived most of her life here and at Contiuued from page 1 rescind has not been determined Mrs Schlafly predicted that more states will vote to rescind and "the 15 states that have rejected it will continue to do She said federal court lawsuits challenging the extension would be filed by states which have ratified states which have not and states which have rescinded their action ERA opponents argue that the extension is illegal partly because it was not approved by the two-thirds majority required for congressional passage of constitutional amendments Supporters argued that only a simple majority was needed because the time period was not part of the constitutional amendment itself In a closing statement on the Senate floor just before the vote Sen Birch Bayh D-Ind chief Senate sponsor of the extension said: "It has been clear in every court decision I.

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