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THE IOLA REGISTER, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1996, PAGE 2 enate passes speed limit deal News in Brief Goods, services trade deficit worsens WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services rose to $111.04 billion in 1995, the worst showing in seven years. The Commerce Department report today showed that the overall deficit of $111.04 billion in goods and services was up 4.5 percent from a 1994 imbalance of $106.21 billion. It was the worst showing since 1988. In another economic report today, the Labor Department said that consumer prices in January were up 0.4 percent, the biggest monthly increase in more than two years.

The increase in the Consumer Price Index was led by a steep 1.9 percent jump in energy costs, reflecting rising demand dur- son and the Pooled Money Investment Board authority to invest local governments deposits and state idle funds in risky securities. After they removed provisions granting new investment authority, the Senate passed today, 30-10, a bill designed to address $20 million in trading losses sustained in late 1994 by the Municipal Investment Pool, a program for! local governments. The Senate also approved two bills, both by 40-0 counts, dealing with problems in the states weights and measures program, and legislative leaders named members of a special committee to that program. One bill increases the tax assessed on the wholesale purchase of motor fuels and kerosene to raise more money for inspection of fuel pumps and meters, and the other makes it easier to remove the director of the program. A bill placing new restrictions on abortion won House approval, 71-53, on Tuesday and went to the Senate where it may face stiffer opposition.

It would require women to wait 24 hours between when they seek abortions and when physicians could perform the procedure. Current law requires an eight-hour wait. It also would require doctors to advise women of the risks of abortion. Also Tuesday, the House sent to the Senate a bill that would establish for the first time admission standards for graduates of Kansas high schools to enter state universities. The so-called qualified admissions bill is expected to receive a friendly reception in the Senate which has passed similar bills in the past, the last time by 27-13 in 1993.

The House had never approved an admissions bill until Tuesday, when it approved the latest version, 65-, 59. If the Senate also passes the bill and Gov. Bill Graves approves it, students now in the eighth grade would be the first to have to meet one of three requirements to enter one of the states six universities in the fall of the year 2001. Students would have to have a 2.0 grade average on a 4-point scale in a core curricu--lum, rank in the top third of their high school class or score 21 or better on the ACT, which is slightly below what state seniors averaged last year. Texas executes another murderer HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) More than 21 years after 1 confessing to stabbing seven people to death, Texas longest-serving condemned inmate was executed by injection Tuesday night.

i Kenneth Granviel, 45, who also confessed to five rapes, was convicted only for the murder of 2-year-old Natasha McClendon, who was stabbed to death along with her mother and three other relatives in Fort Worth in 1974. i Granviel originally was scheduled to become the state first prisoner to be executed by injection in September 1977, but prolonged (appeals followed. Since then, 105 killers have gone to Texas death chamber. i 1 Problems found with lost satellite CAPE CANAVERAlj, Fla. (AP) -r Still stumped by its broken tether, NASA has a new mystery: how the satellite-J on-a-cord ended up with a dead computer and no gas after breaking loose from space shuttle Columbia.

i NASA managed to communicate with the escaped satellite on Tuesday, via radio commands. I Engineers were surprised to find that one of the main computers and a gyroscope were not working and that 1 valves on both nitrogen-gas thrusters were open. All 100 1 pounds of gas had spewed out. NASA officials said they were uncertain whether the satellite problems were connected to Sunday nights break in the 12-mile cord. They also did not know whether these problems would have happened if the satellite had remained attached to Columbia.

i OKC bombing defendants to move Legislature 97-27, a bill to let teachers hang historic documents in their classrooms. Opponents argued teachers already do that, and the real motive is to use the documents to teach religion. Supporters said some Kansas teachers fear using them if they contain religious references. Foes of corporate hog farming' suffered a defeat as the Senate rejected a proposal to allow counties to block expansion of corporate hog breeding and feeding operations where already authorized. Sen.

Stan Clark, R-Oakley, tried that as an amendment to a bill allowing family farms to form partnerships. The bill, which permits family farmers to form partnerships to compete with corporate operations, passed the Senate today, 32-7, and went to the House. The Republican majority in the Senate voted against giving State Treasurer Sally Thomp A city report estimates the cost of the 147-stall lot at $275,166. City officials previously said the lot would cost $175,000, not including concrete and other expenses that were to be paid by the city. The new report said concrete, along with bumper blocks, curbing, planters, lighting and some city labor, would cost $93,836.

I Longtime Parsons media figure dies PARSONS, Kan. (AP) Carol Bird Combs, a partner in the Community Broadcasting Corp. who worked at the com-papys KLKC Radio until she was 85, died Tuesday at the age of 103. 1 Mrs. Combs was the widow of Lester M.

Combs. The couple came to Parsons in 1918 from Anthony, where Combs ran the Anthony Republican. Together, they assumed part ownership in the Sun Publishing Co. and Mrs. Combs served as treasurer.

Her husband managed the Parsons Sun newspaper until his death in 1942. Mrs. Combs sold her interest in the paper and acquired KLKC radio station in 1953 and worked there until 1978. Funeral services will be Friday. markets TOPEKA, Kan.

(AP) A compromise version of the bill raising speed limits in Kansas passed the Senate today, and went to the House for possible action late today. Speaker Tim Shallenburger said the House would take up the conference committee report containing the compromise sometime during its afternoon session. Senate acceptance of the compromise version, 21-19, represented a major breakthrough in getting a law on the books before a March 8 deadline for Kansas to decide what it wants to do with its speed limits. If a bill is not signed into law by Gov. Bill Graves by a week from Friday, the states speed limits revert to the pre-1974 levels, when the federal government imposed the now-scrapped 55 mph national speed limit.

A Senate-House conference committee agreed Tuesday on the compromise version, deciding to increase speed limits to 70 mph on interstates and 65 on good two-lane highways, with a 10 mph buffer to protect speeders from having tickets go on their driving record. Also today, the House passed, Area news Neosho County buys rock crusher ERIE Neosho County commissioners approved the purchase of a rock crusher. The decision was made Friday by commissioners Hugo Spieker and Jerry Williams. Commissioner Ernest Clevenger left the meeting after a motion to buy the crusher, but before a vote was taken. Clevenger told The Chanute Tribune he was not ready to vote on the issue because his mind was in turmoil.

Neosho County will pay $535,283 for the new crusher with no trade in of an older one. The purchase will be made with $300,000 from reserve funds and the remainder through a five-year lease-purchase agreement. The decision came after commissioners heard a proposal from Mid-West Minerals to sell road rock for $3.25 a ton and chips for $6 a ton. A recent analysis in Allen County showed that a new crusher produced rock last year for $1.45 a ton. Parking lot cost estimate increased CHANUTE Anew Memorial Building parking lot will cost about $100,000 more than previously announced, The Chanute Tribune reported.

Todays New York(AP)-noon stocks Soldiers remains coming home WASHINGTON (AP) Remains of five U.S. Air Force and Navy officers, until now unaccounted for in Vietnam and Laos, have been identified and will be returned today to a military mortuary in California. The Pentagon identified the five on Tuesday as Air Force Capt. John E. Duffy, of Portland, Maine; Air Force Maj.

Edward M. Hudgens, of Tulsa, Navy Lt.1 Cmdr. Orland J. Pender of Atlanta; Navy Capt. John R.

Pitzen, of Stacyville, Iowa; and Air Force Capt. Robert L. Sandner, of Clearwater, Fla. The remains will be flown from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, where identification work was completed, lo the mortuaiy at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. Families- will 1 determine burial dates.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Bombing suspects Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols will be moved to Colorado as soon as their case shifts to Denver, U.S. District Judge, Richard Matsch ordered the move Tues-j day after a hearing on more than a dozen motions challenging the indictment of the sus-! pects on procedural and consti-j tutional grounds. I I Matsch moved the case last week to avoid intense media coverage in Oklahoma. He turned down a request to leave! McVeigh in Oklahoma. When' and where the defendants will be moved had not been deter mined, Deputy, U.S.

Marshal James Murphy said. A trial date has not been set. Matsch ordered McVeigh and Nichols moved to Colorado sometime their attorneys said. McVeigh and Nichols arej the only ones charged in the bombing of the Alfred P. Mur-j rah Federal Building, which killed 169 people and injured more than 500.

Both men could face the death penalty if convicted on federal murder and conspiracy charges. During the hearing, Matsch refused to turn over transcripts of 1 grand jury testimony. Defense lawyers asked for the! In sincere appreciation for our beloved mother and grandmother, Hilda M. Siefker, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to all of her family and friends who shared in our great loss. We especially want to thank Dr.

Singer, the and other staff at Allen County Hospital; the ambulance crew who took her to the hospital; Marsha Kumalae and her great staff at Moran Manor, where she had such wonderful care. Also a special thanks for the Rev. Waylon Ingle for the lovely funeral service, Lloyd Houk for the! beautiful music, the ladies of First BaptistJ for the wonderful meal, and eveiyone else who had a part in making her last days so comfortable with visits, flowers and cards. Your thoughtful expression of sympathy and comfortj is deeply appreciated. the family of Hilda M.

Siefker material as a sanction against the prosecution for government leaks about the case. Matsch denied a motion to dismiss the indictment based on that accusation, saying he was not convinced the material came from the grand jury, i In a separate! motion, the defense maintained the indictments should be dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct and because one grand juror violated his secrecy oath by talking to a reporter. Matsch agreed to review the instructions given to the grand jury but said he was not per- suaded that the issue merited much further review. He deferred judgment on several other challenges to the indictment, saying he would issue written orders later on some and resolve others when attorneys for both sides hold a charging conference to decide how the case will be presented to the jury. I Also Tuesday, the Justice Department contributed $200,000 to a drive to raise funds so victims and families can attend the trial in Denver.

Aileen Adams, director of the Office for Victims of Crimes, said the $200,000 will come from offenders penalties and ifines, not taxpayer dollars. 60.00-63.10; 600-700 lb 55.00-59.00; 700-800 lb 55.00-58.00; 800 to 900 lb 55.75-56.60; 900-925 55.00-56.35. Heifers: medium and large 1 458-492 lb 51.50-54.50; 500-600 lb 50.00-53.25, blk-blkwf 55.50-55.60; 640-700 lb 48.00-51.60; 729 to 800 lb 50.00-54.75. Hogs: estimated slaughter receipts: 1,000. Compared to Tuesday, barrows and gilts steady; 1-3 230-270 lb 47.50-48.00; 2-3 package 270 47.50; 1 -2 few 225-227 lb 47.50-48.00.

Sows steady; 1-2 300-500 lb 33.00-33.50; 1-3 500-550 lb 34.00; 550-700 36.00-37.00, package 37,50. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Wheat 144,312 bushels: cent lower to 7 cents higher; No. 2 hard 5.47-5.64n; No. 3 5.36-5.63n; No.

2 red wheat 5.52-5.90n; No. 3 5.41-5.89n. Com 207,220 bushels: unch to 6 cents higher; No. 2 white 4.30-4.40n; No. 2 yellow 3.94-4.04n; No.33.7414-4.03n.

No.2milo6.69-6.87n. No. 1 soybeans 7.36-7.49n. Hoppers 115.00-118.00. READERS ARE LEADERS I THE CENTER FOR THE BOOK ATTENTION C.D.

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APY-interest cannot remain on deposit; periodic payout of interest required. Edward D. Jones Co. Mmbw New York Slock Eichongt tnc and Socuntws Investor Protection Corporation i 110 S. Washington Iola, Kansas 66749 (316) 365-5175 1-800-995-1297 1 NEW YORK (AP) The spot month contract for light sweet crude was $19.22 per barrel at 12 p.m.

Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP)-Quotations for Wednesday: Estimated feeder cattle receipts: 2,500. Compared to Wednesday of last week feeder steers and heifers steady to 1.00 higher, most advance on heifers.

Steers: medium and large 1 500-520 64.60-6625; 550-600 I I.