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The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 2

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Caught Again by Urban Renewal WYANDOTTE THE KANSAS CITY STAR Friday September 26 1969 NEW TV STATION HERE OCTOBER 19 Independent Commercial Group to Begin Oper- ations ell was county attorney He died in 1967 The business prospered and though hampered by the absence was a little store with one floor and the family lived in an apartment Moe Deutch recalled BONDS ASKED FOR PAPER BOX PLANT Commissioners Hear Request for 2-Million-Dollar Financing ON UHF CHANNEL 50 KCIT Plant to Offer Wide Variety of The first crisis occurred in of Moe and Harry who served in 1932 when bandits shot and fatal- the military forces during World ly wounded Louis Deutch One of War II the family expanded the the men was captured a few business so that by 1944 four years later convicted and sen- store buildings two on the north tenced to life imprisonment I side and two on the south side of used to write to us occa- Minnesota-were in operation Moe Deutch said There they stayed until they we heard from him for a encountered urban renewal in long 1961- On the death of the elder for look Deutch the brothers Moe Al t0 But he and Harry took over operation of SJ'ornmun the store" It was in the middle of a Though respecting the lofty idea of progress the Deutch brothers Moe and Al operators of the Economy Furniture company at 528 Minnesota avenue Kansas City Kansas find themselves impatient with urban renewal It was only eight years ago when they first were forced to move because of urban renewal It was the Gateway Urban Renewal project then that took their four store buildings in the 400 block of Minnesota They overcame that problem by building a 7-story air-conditioned structure at their present address on Minnesota Now with the Center City urban renewal project they again find themselves forced to look for new quarters i Latest in Series It is a problem but just another of a series of crises the family has weathered in its 47 years in business on Minnesota avenue It was in 1922 that Louis Deutch moved from St Joseph Mo with his family to set up a second-hand furniture business in a small store building at 441 Minnesota ication between the businessmen the depression and times were Dr Mary Calderone SexEducation Experts to Speak in Area I on Minnesota and the urban re-J newal agency used to cover junk yards Qur biggest problem now is for old stoves which we rebuilt wbat they are going to give us and sold cheap so people could for our building and the time have something to heat their schedule Moe says Moe is a pleasant man active The brothers were still in jn religious work a two of them in junior det 0f the synagogue of Ohev when their father was sholom and he does not like to killed speak harshly Only One Makes It have customers who are got Harry through col- children and grandchildren of lege but I never made it older customers who come from Moe said All the broth- a 50-mile Independence ers and their two sisters were Raytown Johnson and graduated from Wyandotte high we want to stay close to this lo-school ication but we need to know Harry served for a time as an he said assistant Wyandotte County at- even given us a first torney when Joseph McDow- i price DISPLAYING SOME OF THE ITEMS to be sold from 2 to 9 Sunday at the first annual fall festival at Mount St Joseph home 2601 Ridge avenue Kansas City Kansas are Sister Mary Adolph teacher of arts and crafts at the home and Mrs Mary Shannon a resident of the home Proceeds from the festival will be used for the expansion of facilities and care for the aged It has been a lpng wait but Kansas Citians finally will have the opportunity of choosing programing from a fourth commerical television station here KCIT-TV the first commercial ultra-high frequency (UHF) television station in Kansas City in the last decade will begin operation on channel 50 the week of October 19 It will be an independent station which means it will not be affilated with any network and will offer programing seven days a week from midmorning to midnight (The first UHF station in Kansas went on the air in June 1953 and lasted less than a year It began as an independent station was later purchased by the now defunct Dumont network and failed largely because of the lack of UHF receivers in the hands of viewers at the time) Because KCIT is an independent station it will have the op tion of telecasting all network programing whether CBS NBC or pre-empted (not shown) by the network affiliated stations in Kansas City This means that the network movies not currently shown in Kansas City as well as series PRISON TERMS TO FOUR Dr Mary Calderone of New York executive director of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (S I will head a group of state and national authorities who will be guest at a symposium on sex education next Thursday and Friday at the University of Kansas Medical Center Others on the guest list will be Dr Carlfred Broderick of the faculty of Pennsylvania State FORMAL PLEA TUESDAY New Facility Could Employ 125 iPersons With an $800000 Payroll A request for 2 million dollars in industrial revenue bonds to finance construction of a paper box manufacturing plant on a 10-acre site at Fifty-first street and Kansas avenue will be made Tuesday to Kansas City Kansas Commissioners In a letter today Edens president of Southwest Forest Industries Inc Phoenix Ariz said the firm operates a small plant in North Kansas City which he said would be closed if larger facilities are built in Kansas City Kansas Edens said the plant would employ about 125 persons with about 100 of those production workers 15 administrative personnel and 10 sales representatives The annual payroll would be about $800000 he said anticipate the production capacity of this plant will require the inbound movement of approximately 500 rail cars a yaar of rolled paper stock and the outbound shipment of more than 5000 truckloads of finished Edens said Under the proposed agreement the city would issue revenue bonds for construction of an industry the firm would pay the city rent and the city would use the rent to pay off bonds and interest The city is not obligated xin fact Charles Brenneisen jr city attorney says it cannot to pay off the bonds and interest except from money received as rent The firm also would agree to pay the city $22500 annually instead of taxes for 10 years starting the first year after the issuance of the bonds Edens also said: a further part of our request and application our company agrees to wholeheartedly support available municipal state and federal programs for the training of the disadvan- I OPEN TODAY 9 TO 9 PM CLOSED SUNDAY PROFESSIONAL STEREO SYSTEMS AT NON PROFESSIONAL PRICES Attorney Fills Two More Staff Openings By Robert Clark (The Star's Topeka Correspondent) Topeka-Edward ofjday by Judge Herbert Wal-Topeka and Roger Weather- Johnson County District by of Lawrence today were ap- 01athe pointed assistant United States district attorneys for Kansas by Robert Roth attorney Roth said he received a joint communication from sena- tors James Pearson and Bob Dole stating that the attorney solved in an accident last De-general had approved the ap- cember in which two persons Dennis Ray Dunnivan 21 of Eudora Kas was sentenced to two years on a fourth-degree manslaughter charge Dunnivan was the driver of a pickup truck WITH PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION THROWN IN KANSAS JOBLESS PAY UP Compensation Rises for Unemployed in September Topeka Unemployment university University Park Pa among Kansans covered by the and Dr Clark Vincent direct- state compensation program in-1 or of the Behavioral Sciences creased slightly in the week end-center at the Bowman Gray jng September 13 the Kansas school of medicine Wake Forest i Empi0yment Security division university Winston-Salem sajd today Supporting these guests at the It said 14 per cent of those 15th annual school health pro- covered were out of work that gram of the department of post-1 week compared with 13 per graduate medical education will cent the preceding week and 11 be state health and education i per cent a year ago leaders faculty members of the rnAJirvnirTiTFrT medical school and a Prairie LHAKG-LD KV LAK lrlhrl Village minister 5995 to $29995 UP TO pre-empted by the local stations are likely to be picked up by YOU SAVE AVERAGE 29 There's no secret in buying quality electronics at low discount prices we here at Bargain City buy from the world's qualify makers then take a lower profit margin to sell it for less Choose from complete music systems or components from 10 watts to 175 wotts Examples: 10 wott Zac System and amp tuner ond two speakers $5995 100 wott Stereo Music Center including tunerompli-fier with built in Garrard changer plus 2 air suspension speakers only $12995 Also combos including 8 frock or Cassette players wStereo were killed William Eugene Stroble 22 of 24 Wilson street and Danny Edward Ramirez 22 of 1112 Mer-riam lane both of Kansas City Kansas were sentenced to five years each in the reformatory on charges of grand larceny They were arrested for the May 15 theft of a television set from the Andy Hofer residence at 15900 West Seventy-ninth street Lenexa pointments which will become effective immediately Johnson 45 is a native of Clay Center Kas and received his degree from Yale university in 1947 and his law degree from Washburn university in 1951 He previously served as an assistant attorney for Kansas from 1956 to 1960 and was general counsel for the Kansas Corporation commission from 1964 to 1968 going to pick up everything we can get our hands said Bill Wormington general manager of the new station far contracted the networks to pick up the Monday Wednesday and Thursday night movies not carried here and also going to carry The Brady Bunch a new ABC half- cuco awnv in her car hour comedy starring Robert Dr Broderick first talk will Doynaid Rav Carri2er 30 who Reed and Florence Henderson) be on and Jna Ilfeoi West Name of the Game Friday the group will discuss seventh strS Shawnee pre-empted on WDAF-TV) The the history and controversy over rested after he wasfLnd Joey Bishop show (pre-empted sex education programs and sIeLinS tn a car at 139th street by KMBC-TV Letters to Laueh- methods used to dscred1 sex Tveuue The woi Weatherby is 28 a native of Michael Letcher 18 of 3745 Neodesha Kas was a Wash- street was sentenced to 18700 Troost burn law graduate and practiced five years on an armed robbery In a new daytime show on NBC education programs Nursing mang car wag ked nearbv faged and hardcore unemployed law in Wichita before becoming charge Letcher was arrested starring Gary Owens: Days of and medical students will parti- Carri was charged citizens of Kansas Citv Kansas a staff attorney for the Kansas with two other men for the Our Lives: Meet the Press and cipate in some panel discus- ted and al regardless of race color or Highway commission special- March 6 robbery of Dr and Mrs the Sunday night Harry Reason- sions theft er and the news program with izing in right-of-way acquisition Don Miller 2115 West Sixty first terrace Mission Hills All four men were denied He said the firm expects con-and civil trial work Both John-tinued growth and additions to son and Weatherby will be facilities and personnel i assigned to the Topeka office Lips Should Be Unchapped But May Never Touch When not carrying network the coming months include Lau-j programing KCIT will run el and Hardy films Humphrey syndicated shows available for Bogart films and a dozen Char-local purchase movie packages lie Chan films land will begin producing local Syndicated shows scheduled shows to fill the time slots ifor telecast include series never far purchased quite before seen in Kansas City such: a few syndicated shows like Big as the John Gary show and Valley Judd Daniel Boone The Playboy After Dark Prisoner 12 High Alfred intend to be locally re-Hitchcock Presents The Lucy sponsive to what the community 1 show and The Beverly Hillbil- wants in Worm-! lies ington said people behind also bought quite a the station are local sharehold-j BUY ONE at the Regular Price GET ANOTHER for ONLY1 cent ers and they are not in it for im- mediate gain They want to supply good broadcasing in the number of movie Wormington added Some of the film packages that will be seen over KCIT in the special facilities in the stadium at the University of Kansas by I who were special guests at games University officials strongly denied the charge Frizzell said the state law expressly prohibits drinking intoxicating liquor on state-owned property presence of a building owned by an athletic corporation on real estate owned by the state may insulate its occupants from the weather but not from this statutory proscription against consuming liquor on property owned by the the opinion stated Harper also had asked whether real estate owned by an athletic corporation was properly exempt from taxation because of the educational THE ATTORNEY GENERAL said earlier court decisions have held that athletic dramatic and musical events at public institutions are deemed part of the educational activities carried on by our tax-supported educational institutions and the fact that an admission fee is charged does not render- them less Such holdings then would appear to be tax exempt it was inferred The opinion suggested that a legislative committee probe the operations of such athletic corporations if there are questions of whether they are fulfilling a proper role under their articles of incorporation as tax-free and nonprofit By Robert Clark (The Star's Tooeka Correspondent) Guests at university football games in Kansas may be properly insulated from the cold in special facilities constructed by the state athletic corporations but not from alcoholic liquor Kent Frizzell attorney 'general held in an opinion yesterday Frizzell was replying to a query from Rep Jerry Harper (R-Wichita) who has had a running feud with uni-: 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