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TSa Sola Wednesday July 27, 1994 Vol. 97, No. 232 Iola, KS 66749 Two Sections Idas 95 budget up slightly ers see it, is failures identified by extensive cracking of the relatively new asphalt surface and rutting caused by heavy truck traffic, mainly at places where the transports slow and accelerate. Increasing the asphalt overlay, which most view as a shortterm solution, would cost about $250,000. McCully suggested ripping up the asphalt and replacing it with concrete, which would cost about three times as much but would last much lon-ger with little or no maintenance.

City Administrator Weldon Padgett proposed two solutions. He said money in place today could be used to patch the street as needed while investigations were done to find a long-term (Continued page 2, column 1) at 1 p.m. at City Hall. Complete budget figures will be printed in The Register, in legal form, Thursday. COMMISSIONERS reviewed ongoing street and road projects a chore of no small proportion in todays environment and gave no firm idea of what they plan to do with Madison through the downtown area.

Commissioners have discussed Madisons failures several times in recent weeks and not so long ago seemed poised to increase asphalt overlay of the street. Then came Doug McCully, a local engineer who has worked many times for the city, with thoughts about more extensive overhaul, including concrete surfacing. The problem, as commission $8.7 million of the $13.5 million budget. Internal services are city stores, where materials for all operations are distributed, employee health insurance, which is self-funded, and equipment reserve transfers. City stores expects business of $911,000 in 1995 while the employee health insurance budget is $363,500.

Capital projects accounted for activity of $3.6 million this year, mainly street projects citywide and the upcoming Cottonwood-Miller streets improvements. The 1995 budget contains just $132,000 in capital projects, the citys share of improvements to Austin Road to provide north access to Iola from the U.S. 169 bypass. A public hearing on the budget will be Tuesday, Aug. 9, uor and highway tax distributions, a variety of fees and transfers from utility (enterprise) funds, mainly generated by the sale of electricity.

General fund expenditures for 1995 are estimated at $2,238,562, up $116,000 over 1994. Total budget expenditures are predicted at just over $13.5 million. The difference is found in the enterprise funds, internal services and, more significantly in past years, capital projects. Enterprise funds are the utilities. The city maintains all utility services and expects to make some profits hence enterprise from them to support general operations.

The electric utility, for example, has a budget of $4.6 million. Altogether, the enterprise funds account for more than Water wait drags Problems keep needed fluids from refugees GOMA, Zaire (AP) Rwandan refugees who have been drinking from a cholera-infested lake werent able to get thousands of gallons of clean water from American soldiers today because the United Nations sent just two leaky, beat-up trucks to transport it. With cholera and other diseases killing at least 1,800 people a day in the squalid refugee camps around Goma, U.S. troops working on getting clean water flowing were also asked to help with another urgent task: burying the dead. The first trickle of safe water from Lake Kivu began flowing to some of the 1.2 million Rwandan refugees Tuesday, with more U.S.

purification equipment set to start pumping today. But thousands of gallons of water sterilized by American soldiers to combat deadly cholera, diarrhea and dehydration couldnt reach the Rwandans. We were hoping to dump this 26,000 gallons of water here, but as you can see its just sitting here. Its frustrating, said Maj. Eric Hanson, spokesman for the U.S.

Army water purification unit. Were supposed to produce water and the U.N.s supposed to ship it, Hanson said. We asked for at least three tanker trucks. Eventually two showed up. The first had a bunch of holes in it that we had to plug up.

The other we had to turn around because it had a layer of gasoline inside. The American engineers can store only 33,000 gallons and depend on U.N.-supplied vehicles to carry away the purified water. The inability to transport the water was yet another example of the colossal obstacles facing relief officials. Even if the supplies are in hand, there is no guarantee they will reach those (Continued page 7, column 2) AG plan offered By EMERSON LYNN, JR. Editor of the Register Attorneys general have two jobs, Marvin Barkis said.

One is to practice law for the state. The other is to use the bully pulpit of that very important office to energize society arv'n Barkis and make a difference for our children and our grandchildren, he said. We need to focus on childrens problems. Were producing some very violent youngsters in our society. About 7 percent of the juvenile offenders are truly monsters.

We need to Jana Loomis, left, models the outfit she purchased for her Clothing Carousel project in 4-H and holds the Barbie doll she outfitted with her crocheting work. She will enter her crochet project in the county fair, as well as a market pig- By BOB JOHNSON Register City Editor Iolans will pay just over a tenth of a mill more to support the 1995 city budget. City commissioners reviewed budget documents Tuesday afternoon that showed the levy for the 1995 budget will be 29.979, which is .124 of a mill more than this years levy of 29.855. The 1995 levy, applied to a valuation of $16,739,752, will raise just over $500,000. A little more than two-thirds of the ad valorem tax money will go to the general fund.

The remainder will support funds for the library, special liability, industrial development, employee benefits and bond and interest payments. Most of the citys operating capital comes from sales tax revenue, other taxes, such as liq- Funston home OK for site By BOB JOHNSON Register City Editor Arrangements have been made for the boyhood home of Gen. Fred Funston, which will be moved to Iola Thursday morning, to meet city fire and building codes. The house, a wood frame structure, will be between fire walls on adjacent buildings, Lonnie Henkle, city building inspector, said. Also, Henkle said, the house will be treated with special fire retardant material once on the downtown site.

Otherwise, Henkle said electrical wiring in the house would be brought to city building standards during the time it was being refitted as a museum. Some people have questioned having the wooden frame building in the downtown area, lead- (Continued page 7, column 5) Inside Local news Society, nursing home, miscellaneous, calendar of events and other news. Pages 3 and 5. Opinion The special interest information on health care reform is coming, columnist David Broder says. Page 4.

Dear Abby People shouldnt be embarrassed by this name game. Page 12. State Sterling College would benefit from a Senate bill. Page 2. National Surprise! June was hot.

Page 6. Sports The Royals defeat the White Sox for a second straight time. Page 9. Weather: Mild Temperature High yesterday 85 Low last night 56 High a year ago today 92 Low a year ago today 72 Precipitation 24 hours ending 8 a.m.trace This month to date 4.35 Total this year to date25.57 Excess since Jan. 1 3.42 Sunrise: 6:21 a.m.

Sunset: 8:35 p.m. (Source: City of Iola) This afternoon, mild and partly cloudy. High in the lower 80s. North wind 10 to 20 mph. Tonight, unseasonably cool and clear.

Low in the mid 50s. Thursday, mild and sunny. High around 80. Friday, dry. Highs in the mid 80s.

Saturday and Sunday, dry. Highs in the upper 80s to the lower 90s. Lisa Loomis, above, provides cool water for pigs she will show at the Allen County Fair. The metal building in the background provides protection for the animals, which have sensitive skin and sunburn easily. 4-H was natural for sisters 220 and 260 pounds.

Her aim was to have her hogs weighing from 240 to 245 pounds each. Because of the heat, they havent eaten well and I have wasted some feed, she said. The feed may cost me more than I make on the project. When she shows the animals for the judges at the fair, she will be judged on how well she has trained them, as well as their appearance. She works with them about an hour three days a week.

I should have started training them in June, but with other activities, I didnt start until the first of this month, she said. The steer she will show is an AngusMaine-Anjou cross, one of her FFA projects. One of her animals will be sold at the fair and the others will be taken to market on a truck, she said. Although she has spent much time with them, marketing her animals does not affect Lisa. On the farm we are always burying a kitten, pig or something, so the kids get used to it, Phyllis said.

This week, Lisa is working diligently to finish her crochet By LILLIAN QUALLS Family Living Editor Like their mother, Lisa and Jana Loomis, Route 2, Iola, are active in 4-H. I guess since I grew up in 4-H I expected my girls to be 4-Hers, too, said Phyllis Loomis, who was in 4-H at Humboldt. Fifteen-year-old Lisa, who will be a sophomore at Iola High School this fall, will show two market pigs, a breeding gilt, a steer and her crochet project at the Allen County Fair. Lisa started her hog project last spring, about April, when she purchased two weaning pigs from her dad, David Loomis, and another from her 18-year-old brother, Matt. She used money from previous 4-H projects to buy the pigs and a metal house for them.

Because they were born on the Loomis farm, Lisa was able to watch and evaluate the Chester-Duroc piglets from the time they were bom. Having participated in FFA judging, she knew what to look for. I wanted pigs that had good muscling, were lean and straight and level across the County fair section inside A special section inside todays Register spotlights the 101st Annual Allen County Fair. Information about country music singers Faith Hill and Shawn Camp, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association rodeo and other events is included in the tabloid, Fairtime is Funtime. Also, the Allen County Extension Office staff and their contributions to the fair are featured.

top, she said. Sometimes, though, she chooses the cutest pig in the litter, she said, a practice that she didnt recommend. After she picked the animals for her project, she decided on a feeding plan and opted for a 16 percent protein ration. To show at the Allen County Fair, she said, a hog must weigh between project and working with her hogs and steer. She is crocheting a toothfairy angel using cotton yam.

Early this week, the fairy had three arms, but no wings. The arms kept coming out crooked, she said. Each row of the dolls skirt takes 30 minutes of crocheting. Lisa has taken crocheting for six years. Thelma Bedenben-der, her project leader, spends many hours working with Lisa and her 12-year-old sister.

Lisa began by making potholders and last year made a bed doll that she took to the state fair. Other projects have been an afghan and a rag rug in colors to match her room. JANA, WHO IS AT church camp this week, will enter a hog in the fair, along with her crochet project, which is an outfit of a dress, hat and shoes for her Barbie doll, and some yeast bread in open class. Jana has had a crochet project for five years, each year improving her skills and learning to read a pattern. (Continued page 7, column 1) hfuniETO Election 94 election.

Moderate Republicans grumble privately about what they see as a growing takeover of the GOP. Democrats, particularly liberal ones, are downright nervous. I do believe theres an excellent chance that theyll have a Philosophical shift possible (Continued page 7, column 3) majority in the Republican caucus, said House Minority Leader Tom Sawyer, D-Wichita. Thats scary, if they pick the (House) speaker, because then theyve got some power. In at least six districts, a relatively moderate incumbent faces primary opposition from a more conservative challenger.

Democrats are finding that conservative challenges are not just a Republican phenomena. Its trending conservative, (Continued page 7, column 1) IOLA MUNICIPAL BAND Since 1867 At the bandstand TD. Wheat, director Thursday, July 28, 1994 8 p.m. PROGRAM Star Spangled Banner arr. Sousa The Liberty Bell march J.P.

Sousa This Is America patriotic Tod Canatsey Colonel Bogey -march KJ. Alford The Music Man selections M. Wilson Lida Rose from Music Man Vocal Group M. Wilson Let Me Call You Sweetheart Everybody Sing Harlem Nocturne sax solo E. Hagen Yesterday pop Lennon McCartney Semper Paratus Coast Guard arr.

Schaenfeld King Cotton march J.P- Sousa Rained out concerts are scheduled for the following evening TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Real Republicans. Social conservatives. Radical right-wingers. Whatever label you choose, they want to take over Kansas government.

In recent years, their influence has grown in the state House of Representatives, particularly in the Republican caucus. The question for some insiders is not whether the House will be more conservative after the 1994 elections, but how much more conservative it will be. The first indications will come from the Aug. 2 primary.