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Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph from Colorado Springs, Colorado • Page 5

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Commissioners Redistricting Proposal Not On This Agenda Adjusting your driving for hills, curves, and varying traffic conditions is essential to keeping your car under conrtol and to driving safely. shop the Gazette Telegraph where there is the greatest choice Gazette On Sept, 5, 1774, delegatesi from all the colonies except' Georgia convened in Phiia-i Colorado Springs, Colo. delphia for the first Continental Sunday, April II, 1976 Congress. A proposed redrawing of the El Paso County district boundaries failed to make the agendas for eitlier Tuesday or Wednesday. Nearly two weeks since it disclosed that Commissioner Jack Vaeth was preparing a redistricting plan, the matter hasi yet to be considered by thei board.

i According to Vaeth. the redistricting prepared by the not designed to specifically eliminate a announced candidates against him or Commissioner Jack Mitchell. Their seats are up for election in November. Under state statutes, candidates accepting their nominations at the county assemblies in May must reside in the district they wish to repre-j sent. I Also under state statute the! commissioners may redistrict i as often as once every two! years.

Once the two-year time I limitation is achieved, the com- Major Agenda Items Search and Rescue quonset hut. Request to cancel uncollectable taxes. Quit-claim deed for right-of-way with Woodmen Road extension. Speed limits at Little Ranches of Fountain. Request to abate erroneous 1975 taxes.

11-inch Winnie-the-Pooh A of an Easter gift missioners may redistrict at anytime, even on election day if they so desire. The last redistricting was done on April 4, 1974, so the board may now' redistrict at any time. Even though redistricting plan, which reportedly is being revised with 1974 census data, is not scheduled for either the 7 p.m. Tuesday or 1:30 p.m. Wednesday meetings, it could be considered under Added Items and Reports.

There is only one item on the Tuesday evening agenda. At that meeting, the commis- sio.ier’s are scheduled to consider a request by the El Paso Ounty Search and Rescue Unit for a location of a quonset hut storage. Protesting Folk Singer Phil Ochs Kills Himself NEW YORK (API Jbil Ochs, composer and folk er-guitarist whose songs of pro-1 test against the Vietnam War lifted him to prominencem the; 1960s, has committed his family reiwted. family told poire that he apparently hanged himself Friday at the Queens lome of his sister. Sonny Tanznan, with whom he had been limg since December.

had been very depressed for a long a i family friend said. the words romng to him compositi(ts included such as and Declare the Wtr Is His tunes were siig by superstar folk performrs Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, niong others. Oc-hs, who was 3.5, preferred to be called a rather than a folk By the time he was playing professionally in Greenwich Village cabarets, he had a repertoire of more than 60 songs, all of which touciied on some social issue. He was praised by critics for his philosophy, is wit, and the literate word-play in his songs, and many of his fans found his rebellious stance appealing. Born in El Paso, Ochs was the son of a physician who moved his family to up.state New York when the folk singer was a youngster.

The family later moved to the Far Rockaway section of Queens. Funeral arrangements were incoplete. The unit has been storing its equipment in the old warehouse at 16 W. Vermijo Ave. That building is scheduled for demolition later this month to provide space for construction of the first phase of new office building.

Centennial Hall. The actual contract for the entire block, the county hopes to eventually use for the Centennial Hall project, has yet to be ratified by the county and the Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Effort, which owns the bbck. The agenda for board meeting has seven items They include: report by the Pikes Peak I Family Counseling and Mental JJealth Center; I request from Treasurer I Sharon Shipley to cancel uncol-i llectable personal property taxes i I for 1969; request from the Public Works Department to accept a I quit claim deed for right-of-way i purposes in connection with the extension of Woodmen Road. resolutions estab- li.shing speed limits within the I Little Ranches of Fountain subdivision and installation of stop signs at various intersections just east of Fountain; of claims against the county; request by Assessor M.C. Port to abate 1975 taxes erro- neously assessed; i of a 3.2 per-i I cent retail liquor license appli-; from Barnes Monument; Resort.

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Olien every night till Sundays 12 to 5 ntONK ENTER FB'S COLORING CONTEST NOW THROUGH APRIL 17! WIN Al ALL-EXPENSE PAID TRIP FOR 2 TO THE LAND OF FUN, FANTASY AND MERRIMENT! STOP INTO ANY YOUNG SET OR OYSWEAR DEPARTMENT AND PICK UP THE OFFICIAL COLORING FORM. COie IT LIGHTLY, BRIGHTLY ANY WAY YO' LIKE AND RETURN THE FINISHED PICTJRE TO A YOUNG SET OR BOYSWEAR DEPARTMENT BY SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1976. PRIZE: AN ALL-EXPENSE PAID TRIP FOR 2 CHILD, 1 TO DISNEYLAND. irOLUDED WILL BE ROUND-TRIP AIR FARE, 2 NIGHTS LODGING AT THE ROYAL INN DF ANAHEIM, 2 DAYS PARK ADMISSION AND DISNEYLAND TICKETBOOKS. JioyaL Snri AT ANAHIIM RUNNERS-UP (3 PER CITY) WILL RECEIVE TICKETS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY TO SEE WALT DISNEY STUDIO'S CURRENT MOVIES, "DUMBO" AND "RIDE A WILD (OPENING IN DENVER, ON APRIL 9, AT THE CHERRY KNOLLS, THORNTON, WESTLAND, CINDERELLA CITY AND AURORA MALL THEATRES; OPENING APRIL 16 AT THE BOULDER BASEMAR COLORADO SPRINGS CINEMA 70, GREELEY COOPER II, PUEBLO CHIEF AND GRAND JUNCTION MESA.) JUST A FEW REMINDERS: 1.

CHILDREN MUST BE 10 YEARS OLD AND UNDER TO ENTER. 2. OFFICIAL FASHION BAR COLORING FORMS MUST BE USED, AVAILABLE ONLY AT A FASHION BAR YOUNG SET OR BOYSWEAR DEPARTMENT. 3. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

4. YOU NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN. 5. EMPLOYEES AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO ENTER. RUNNING OUT COLOR DUMBOS FASHION BAR DOWNTOWN OPEN MONDAY THRU SATURDAY UNTIL 5:30 FRIDAY NIGHTS UNTIL 9 CLOSED SUNDAYS CITADEL OPEN MONDAY THRU FRIDAY UNTIL 9 OPEN SATURDAY UNTIL 6 CLOSED SUNDAYS.

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