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T HURSDAY, A PRIL 10, 2008
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Discovery
Center
Conference
Center
Mixed Use
Downtown Redevelopment - South
Officials Worry Proposed
Center Won’t Meet Expectations
By Tyler Sharp
Kansas State Collegian
The task for the proposed Flint Hills
Discovery Center that will be a part of
the southern Manhattan redevelopment
project might appear a daunting one.
The museum, which has been an
ongoing project for several years now, is
projected to draw between 70,000100,000 people per year - that is where
City Commissioner Bob Strawn's cautious approach originates.
"I'm not against the [Center]; I have
concerns about the merit," he said. "I
will worry if it'll achieve what's expected
out of it. Will it have merit and will
Manhattan adapt and support it as a hallmark of the community? Will it be a tax
strain? Will it draw what it's projected
to? Somebody has to show me it has
merit."
Proving the merit of the Center has
been an ongoing task since the Kansas
Department of Commerce approved $50
million in STAR (Sales Tax Revenue)
bonds to the City of Manhattan in
December 2006. According to the
Department of Commerce's Web site,
STAR bonds are provided to offer
Kansas municipalities opportunities
"…to issue bonds to finance the development of major commercial entertainment
and tourism areas and use sales tax revenue generated by the development to
pay off the bonds."
Of the soon-to-be allotted STAR
bonds, $11 million will be set aside for
construction, $3 million will go toward
consultants and related fees, $12 million
will go toward land acquisition, $3 million will go toward infrastructure, and
the final $11 million will account for
accumulated interest on the bonds.
In an initial feasibility study by
Canyon Research Southwest, Inc., a
Tempe, Ariz., based company, the Flint
Hills Discovery Center and the
Downtown Manhattan Redevelopment
District are forecasted to increase annual
out-of-town visitation to the Manhattan
area by 120,000 to 380,000 people. This
influx of visitors will increase the
demand for overnight accommodations
by approximately 20,400 to 64,600
annual room nights. The money generated by out-of-town visitors is forecasted
to account for approximately $50 million
of
the
Downtown
Manhattan
Redevelopment District's annual retail
sales. This information forms the basis of
city commissioner Bruce Snead's support of the Discovery Center.
"I've been on the city commission
throughout the downtown redevelopment project and I've seen the interest
folks have and the desire to increase
tourism in the Flint Hills," he said. "The
draw for nature-based tourism along
with the location of Manhattan and the
presence of K-State in the community all
"My observations of
museums indicate to me
that museums are notself-sustaining. They
require outside funding,
lots of it and consistently,"
"I am not aware of any
funding sources for this
museum beyond limited
admissions and city
funds, which must also
be applied to many
other things."
Associate Professor
Lauren Ritterbush
Museum Consultant
present itself as a natural choice along
with the STAR bond acceptance."
Featured exhibits in the Discovery
Center will include an aquarium, interactive exhibits in which students can experience the prairie and other exhibits that
will be determined by a consultant's
study, Strawn said. He also said an
exhibit has been purchased from the
Smithsonian Institution.
"It speaks to native prairie, though I
have not seen it myself," he said.
The Center will employ eight full-time
employees and 18 part-time employees.
Operating costs are estimated to run
from $600,000-$700,000.
Twenty-five thousand people visit the
Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art
annually, said Martha Scott, business and
marketing manager.
Abilene's Eisenhower Presidential
Library and Museum is visited by an
estimated 70,000 people every year, said
Linda Smith, archive specialist for the
museum and library.
Whether the center lives up to the
claims of success that have accompanied
it in preliminary studies is still up in the
air. Lauren Ritterbush, associate professor in sociology, anthropology, and
social work has served as a museum consultant in the past. She said she does not
think the Center will be able to survive
on its own.
"My observations of museums indicate to me that museums are notself-sustaining. They require outside funding,
lots of it and consistently," she said in an
e-mail interview. "I am not aware of any
funding sources for this museum beyond
limited admissions and city funds, which
must also be applied to many other
things."
The city commission is accepting bids
for consulting services to assist in the
museum's development. The consulting
service will help with exhibit and facility conceptual design. Proposals are due
to the city by April 14.
Strawn said the consultant will likely
come to K-State and inquireabout
aspects of the Center and whether or not
it has merits.
Snead said he knows many people
associated with K-State have knowledge
of the prairie and the science that the
attractions will portray, andhe said he
hopes they will provide their insight.
Strawn said if the consultants tell the
commission that the Center doesnot have
merit there will be "… a big argument
and I will be standingon a chair, yelling
lies."
But Snead said he has faith in the
Discovery Center.
"There are big challenges with the
project, but it is a uniqueopportunity to
help revitalize downtown and the community," he said.
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The City Commission held a work
session on Ethics Tuesday night.
Here is a letter given to the
Commissioners by City Attorney Bill
Frost about “Conflict of Interest.
The Free Press has contacted the
Kansas Ethics Commission on several issues in the past and we were told,
“Basically there is not a Conflict of
Interest unless money has changed
hands.” When the Free Press asked
why the law did not cover more we
were told, “This is all we could get
through the State Legislature.”
Here is the Attorney’s letter:
CITY OF MANHATTAN
MEMORANDUM
January 11, 2008
TO: Ron Fehr, City Manager
FROM: William L. Frost, City
Attorney
SUBJECT: Conflict of Interest for
elected and appointed officials
You have asked that I prepare a
memo that discusses “conflict of
interest” as it relates to both elected
and appointed officials that you can
use as a “refresher” to provide to our
Board
Members
and
Commissioners. The information I
set out in this memo applies equally
to both elected and appointed officials, except where I specifically set
out differences.
I would separate conflicts of interest into two separate categories.
Legal conflicts—-i.e., those types of
conflicts that are specifically
addressed by some legal authority—
-either statutory or court created, and
which have some formal legal rami-
fication if there is a violation.
Perceived conflicts—-i.e., circumstances where a governmental official has some relationship which
might appear to influence his/her
official actions, but the relationship
is not actually prohibited by any formal authority, and there are no legal
ramifications that can result.
Perceived Conflicts
This “conflict” is probably more
related to “ethics”, because the government officials, themselves, are the
ones who address this issue. An
example of this type of “conflict”
would be an employee of KSU serving on the Manhattan City
Commission, and acting on matters
in which the University has a vested
interest——i.e. the City/University
Projects Fund or franchise agreements between the City and the
University. There are no legal prohibitions against this type of action by
the City Commissioner, and no legal
ramifications if the Commissioner
acts on these matters; however, some
people might perceive a conflict on
the part of the Commissioner. It is
purely up to the individual official to
resolve this type of “conflict”, and
decide as to whether or not they can
participate in the matter before them.
I would presume that they will weigh
the “ethics” involved, as well as perhaps the political ramifications of
their decision.
Legal Conflicts
I would further separate Legal
Conflicts into 3 separate categories.
Statutory, i.e., those created by a legislative act. General, i.e., those creat-
ed by a court through common law.
And, Quasi Judicial, i.e., those
related to acts, such as zoning decisions, which require the due process
rights of parties to the action to be
protected.
Statutory Legal Conflicts
There is really only one set of statues, in Kansas, which specifically
address conflict of interest. That set
of statutes is found at K.S.A. 754304 and K.S.A. 75-4305.
The effect of those statutes
revolves around the relationship
between a public official and businesses in which they have a “substantial interest”. The term “substantial interest” is defined by the statute
and basically consists of five (5) different circumstances by which an
official could be deemed to have a
substantial interest in a particular
business, or combination of businesses. Those five (5) circumstances
are as follows:
a) The ownership, within the preceding twelve (12) months by an
individual or his or her spouse, either
individually or collectively, of a legal
or equitable interest exceeding Five
Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or five
percent (5%) of any business,
whichever is less.
b) The receipt from any business,
or combination of businesses, by an
individually or collectively, during
the preceding calendar year, of compensation which is, or will be,
required to be included as taxable
income of the individual and spouse,
See Conflict of Interest page 2
CIA Director To Give Landon Lecture
The director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael
Hayden, will present a Landon
Lecture at Kansas State University.
Hayden will speak at 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 30, in McCain
Auditorium. The lecture is free and
the public is welcome.
"K-State's Landon Lecture Series
has featured every president since
Richard Nixon, as well as some of
the top world leaders like Mikhail
Gorbachev," said Charles Reagan,
associate to the president and chair
of the Landon Lecture Series. "We're
pleased that Gen. Hayden will be
among this prestigious lecture series'
speakers, as he will be the first CIA
director to deliver a Landon
Lecture."
Hayden became the 18th director
of the CIA in May 2006. In his role,
he manages human intelligence operations and open source collection
programs on behalf of the director of
National Intelligence. Hayden previously was first principal deputy
director of National Intelligence,
appointed in April 2005. At that same
time, he also earned his fourth star,
making him the highest-ranking
intelligence officer in the armed
forces.
Hayden has held several leadership positions in the intelligence
community, including serving as
director of the National Security
Agency and chief of the Central
Security Service at Fort Meade, Md.,
from March 1999 to April 2005. He
also was commander of the Air
Intelligence Agency and director of
the Joint Command and Control
Warfare Center, both at Kelly Air
Force Base in Texas, from January
1996 to September 1997. From May
1993 to October 1995, he served as
director, Intelligence Directorate,
U.S. European Command, Stuttgart,
Germany.
In addition, Hayden has had senior
staff positions at the Pentagon,
National Security Council and the
U.S Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria. He
also has served as deputy chief of
staff for the United Nations
Command and U.S. Forces Korea.
Hayden entered active duty in
1969 as a distinguished graduate of
the U.S. Air Force Reserve Officer
Training Program. He earned a bachelor's in history and a master's in
modern American history from
Duquesne University.
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Ex-Vice President Al Gore
may not have invented
the Internet, but....
He did invent
Global Warming.
Jon A. Brake
Publisher
Manhattan Free Press
April 10, 2008
Big Weekend In Waterville
Follow Us Highway 77 north from
Manhattan to find the small town of
Waterville nestled in the valley of the
Little Blue River. There will be a
weekend of fun and entertainment to
be had on April 26 and 27. Get your
reservations now for the elegant
English tea at the annual Victorian
Day Celebration. This tea will be
served by reservation only in the former St. Monica’s Catholic Church
from 10am until 4pm on the 26th.
Reservations may be made by calling
785-363-2515. There will also be a
performance in the Opera House by
Wayne Kruse of Bremen, at 2pm and
4pm that day. The school children
will give a last day of school program in the Game Fork School
House in the park at 11am, 1pm, and
3pm. On Commercial Street you will
find an Art Show, A Quilt, Trunk, and
Tool Display, and shopping opportu-
nities. The local Lions and Leos
organizations will offer Buffalo
Burger Dinners and Ice Cream
Sundaes for your culinary tastes.
There will be a “Madhatter “ display
of vintage hats and clothing by Ann
Walter in the parlor and dinning
room of her home. The Samuel
Powell House, owned by Ward Allen
Minge will be on tour, and a drive by
tour can be made of several other
“Painted
Ladies”,
including
“Bankers Row” on Hazelwood
Street. The Railroad and Caboose
Museums will be open.
Complimenting Victorian Day this
year will be a visit by the “Bart
Plasterson Gang”. This troupe will
be staging reenactments along the
streets of Waterville thought out the
day and the Historical Marshall
County Railroad Society will provide rides by rail out to the site of the
gang’s constructed prairie town,
“NOWWHERE”. At the site the
“Gang” will stage some “Rootin
Tootin Cowtown Fun”. The Bart
Plasterson Gang” will return on
Sunday for more activities along the
rail, beginning with a church service
with circuit riders at 10am near the
caboose and continuing with the
“Fun” at “NOHERE” until 4pm.
Finnish your weekend in
Waterville with a Lasagna Dinner at
5pm at the Waterville Community
Center. This will be sponsored by
three “Relay for Life” teams;
Waterville Lumber, Fancy T’s and
More of Waterville, and Yungeberg
Drug of Blue Rapids.
To make reservations, purchase
tickets or for more information call
785-363-2515, or e-mail > [email protected] <
KANSAS NEWS
Conflict________________from page one
in an aggregate amount of
$2,000.00, or more.
c) The receipt from any business,
or combination of businesses, by an
individually or collectively, within
the preceding twelve (12) months,
without reasonable and valuable consideration, goods or services having
an aggregate value of $500.00, or
more.
d) The holding by an individual, or
the individual’s spouse, of the position of officer, director, associate,
partner or proprietor of any business,
other than one exempt from federal
taxation, under specified sections of
the United States Code. This provision applies irrespective of the
amount of compensation received by
the individual or spouse.
e) If an individual, or the individual’s spouse, receives compensation,
which is a portion or percentage of
fees, or commissions, paid to a business by a client, and the portion or
percentage amounts to $2000, or
more, in the aggregate in the preceding calendar year, then the individual
is deemed to have a substantial interest in the client.
K.S.A. 75-4302a requires elected
officials to file a “statement of substantial interest” setting forth all of
their “substantial interests”: 1) at the
time they file for their office; 2)
when they are appointed to fill a
vacancy; or 3) whenever a change
occurs in their “interests”. The
statute does not require appointed
officials, such as Board Members, to
file such a statement. However,
K.S.A. 75-4305 requires any official,
which would include Board
Members, “before acting upon any
matter which will affect any business
in which the officer has a substantial
interest, to file a written report of the
nature of the interest with the county
election officer….” It is somewhat
up to the official to make their own
determination as to whether, or not,
their action “will affect” a business
in which they have a substantial
interest. This determination is not
necessarily an easy one, and reasonable minds could probably differ on
this issue.
K.S.A. 75-4304 prohibits any public official from participating in the
making of a contract with any person
or business by which he or she is
employed or in whose business he or
she has a substantial interest. K.S.A.
75-4304 does not apply to contracts
let after competitive bidding or to
contracts for property or services for
which the price or rate is fixed by
law.
The phrase “participating in the
making of a contract” means doing
any act which assists in the furtherance of a contractual relationship
between the City and the subject
business.
It would probably be somewhat
unusual for Board Members to be
involved in the “making of a contract”; however, there are instances
where advisory boards make recommendations as to the hiring of a particular consultant or the purchase of
a certain piece of property, and, in
doing so, they would be “participating in the making of a contract”.
General Legal Conflicts
“General” conflicts of interest consist of those general circumstances
where a court would say that because
of the public official’s interest, he or
she is placed in a situation of temptation to serve their own purposes, to
the prejudice of those for whom they
are sworn to act. This circumstance
does not require that the public official exhibit any actual dishonesty, it
is only the possibility that the outcome could serve the public official’s own purposes, as opposed to
the citizens of the community, that
creates the conflict. It is difficult to
give you examples of this circumstance, since the few court cases that
have arisen in Kansas have all held
that no conflict existed. A possible
Obituaries
Bobby Joe Alexander
Bobby Joe Alexander, age 68, died
Sunday April 6, 2008 at the Geary
Community Hospital, Junction City,
Kansas.
He was born on February 15, 1940
in Monticello, Kentucky the son of
Leslie & Anna Mae (Bertram)
Alexander. Following High School,
he enlisted in the United States Army
and served from 1962 until 1968.
Upon returning to Manhattan, he
began working for Hunter &
Lundberg Construction. He was
proud of the fact that this was his
only job, retiring after 40 years.
Bobby Joe loved to fish, play with
his dog and being with his family
and friends.
Survivors include his daughters:
Lucinda Sparks of Chapman, KS;
LaDonna Johnson of Spring, TX and
Michelle Dewyer of Phoenix, AZ.
He is also survived by his brother:
Wallace “Logan” Alexander of
Indianapolis, IN; and 7 grandchildren.
Graveside Services will be held at
11:00 a.m. on Friday April 11, 2008
at the Sunrise Cemetery, Manhattan,
Kansas with the Rev. Neil Engle officiating. Visitation will be from 9:00
Douglas Zarger
R. “Doug” Zarger, age 51, of St.
George, Kansas, died Tuesday morning, April 8, 2008, at his residence
near St. George.
He was born on November 18,
1956, in Manhattan, Kansas, the son
of Robert G. and Patricia Anne
(Williams) Zarger. Doug was a lifetime area resident and 1974 graduate
of St. George High School.
Following high school he took training in Automotive Technology at the
Manhattan
Area
Vocational
Technical School, earning his diploma in 1975.
In 1974 Doug began working as a
machinist at the Bonawitz Machine
Shop. He became the owner and
operator in 2000.
Doug was an outdoorsman. He
enjoyed fishing, hunting, camping
and boating. He also was a skilled
wood craftsman, enjoyed hunting
mushrooms with family and friends
and was well known for his delicious
barbeque.
He was a member of the St.
George United Methodist Church
and past president of the St. George
Recreation Commission. He also
enjoyed announcing at the Rock
Creek Junior Varsity football games.
Doug Zarger
Doug was united in marriage to
Pamala Sue Moody on September
29, 1979, at the All Faith’s Chapel at
Kansas State University; she survives of the home. Also surviving
are three sons: Christopher G. Zarger
and his fiancée Abby Sklenicka of
Manhattan, Justin M. Zarger of the
home and Nicholas R. Zarger and his
fiancée Monica Martinez, also of the
home. One brother, David Zarger of
St. George, Kansas, two uncles: Rod
Williams of Manhattan and Fred
Williams of Columbia, South
Carolina and a brother in friendship,
Dudley Torrey of St. George,
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MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008
a.m. until 10:30 on Friday at the
Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral
Home 1616 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan,
Kansas 66502.
Online condolences may be left for
the family through the funeral home
website at:
www.ymlfuneralhome.com.
Memorial contributions may be
made to the Terry C. Johnson Center
for Basic Cancer Research in care of
the
Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen
Funeral Home 1616 Poyntz Ave.,
Manhattan, Kansas 66502.
Kansas. Doug is also survived by
numerous nieces, nephews, additional family and countless friends.
He was preceded in death by his
father in 2000 and by his mother in
2007.
Funeral services will be held 10:00
a.m. Monday at the YorgensenMeloan-Londeen Funeral Chapel
with Reverend Leslye A. Haller officiating. Interment will be in the St.
George Cemetery, at St. George,
Kansas.
The family will receive friends
during a visitation from 7:00 until
8:30 p.m. Sunday evening at the
Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral
Home.
On-line condolences may be left
for the family through the funeral
home website located at www.ymlfuneralhome.com
A memorial has been established
with the First National Bank of
Wamego as a relief fund for the
Zarger family. Those checks may be
made to the “Doug Zarger Fund”. A
memorial has also been established
for the St. George United Methodist
Church. Contributions may be left in
care of the Yorgensen-MeloanLondeen Funeral Home, 1616
Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas
66502.
example might be a circumstance
where a Commissioner owned property that existed within a proposed
benefit district. Certainly the prudent
position in such a circumstance
would be for the commissioner to
refrain from participating in the creating of that benefit district.
However, there is case law in
Kansas to the extent that such a circumstance is not a conflict of interest. Each case would probably have
to be evaluated on its own merits.
Quasi-Judicial Conflicts
Finally, a conflict of interest could
arise when a Board, or the
Commission, considers quasi-judicial acts such as zoning, where the
due process clause of the United
States Constitution, as well as the
Constitution and laws of the State of
Kansas, guarantee that the parties
have a fair, open and impartial hearing, and that the public officials who
hear the case are unbiased and
impartial. The statutory prohibition
in K.S.A. 75-4305 would prevent a
City Commissioner or a Planning
Board Member from participating in
a zoning decision that had any affect
upon a business in which the
Commissioner had a substantial
interest, until the disclosure statement, or the report, has been filed.
However, simply filing the disclosure statement may not eliminate
totally a conflict of interest that
might exist in that circumstance.
There are no specific zoning cases
in Kansas which set forth criteria
upon which we can judge whether or
not a relationship of the public official with an interested party is sufficient to cause bias on the part of the
official. The Kansas cases dealing
with conflicts of a public official do
say however that each case is to be
determined on its own facts and circumstances. Since there are no specific cases, it is difficult for me to
know the exact factors upon which a
reviewing court will rely in order to
determine whether or not bias exists.
Nevertheless, in the past, I have
attempted to formulate factors which
I believe a court would consider in
making that determination. Those
factors are as follows:
1) The nature of the relationship
between the zoning official and the
interested party, and whether or not
the zoning official has any direct
financial interest in the interested
party. (This factor is related to the
requirement in 75-4305 of filing a
statement of substantial interest.
However, as I indicated above,
simply the filing of that form, may
not remove the bias that would exist
in a quasi judicial circumstance.)
2) The nature of the interest that
the interested party has in the issue
before the zoning officials.
3) Whether or not the relationship
between the zoning official and the
interested party will be affected by
the action of the zoning official.
4) Whether or not the interested
party has taken an active position on
the issue before the board, and if so,
whether or not the zoning official
was involved in formulating that
position on behalf of the interested
party.
5) Whether or not there have been
discussions, outside the public hearing, between the interested party and
the zoning official concerning the
issue before the board.
6) Whether or not the zoning official himself feels he can be impartial
in deciding the issue, and base the
decision solely upon information
from the public hearing.
7) Whether or not the public
record completely discloses the relationship of the zoning official and
the interested party.
I would suggest that in any circumstance in which the appearance
of a conflict exists, the above-mentioned criteria should be reviewed,
and if after such a review, a reasonable person would believe that the
public official could act impartially
upon the issue, then I am comfortable that a reviewing court would not
invalidate the proceedings, assuming
the substantial interest filing required
by 75-4305 has been complied with.
The responsibility for knowing
whether or not a given set of circumstances creates a conflict of interest
lies totally with each individual commissioner or board member.
The Legal Department will be glad
to provide advice concerning any
possible conflict of interest in any
given set of circumstances. It would
be helpful if the Legal Department
had as much advance notice as possible of a possible conflict of interest.
It is sometimes difficult to evaluate
all the facts and circumstances
involved in a question concerning
conflict of interest when the question
is raised only a few minutes before
the applicable meeting.
I hope this memo is adequate to
serve as a “refresher course” to all
board members and commissioners.
If there are any questions, please let
me know.
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Brown Pine Trees
By Gregg Eyestone
Our lonesome Scots pine fell victim to pine wilt last summer.
During fall clean up around the
yard, it was cut down and burned to
prevent the pine sawyer beetle from
migrating to new pine trees. The beetle carries the pinewood nematode
that causes death. To reduce the
spread of the beetle, dead pines
should be cut down and the wood
burnt or chipped by the end of April.
A new alternative is to inject the
tree to prevent infection.
Research has shown this to be fairly effective. Unfortunately, once a
tree is infected there is no cure.
There is a cost to having trees injected and it needs to be done preventatively every 2 years, before May 1.
Contact a professional applicator for
pricing.
While pine wilt is a relatively new
disease to the area, Diplodia tip
blight and Dothistroma needle blight
have been around as long as we have
been planting pines in Kansas. The
results from these diseases are brown
dead tips and needles. Location, age,
tree health and genetic make up of
each tree will influence the severity
of these diseases.
Living with these symptoms is the
Gregg Eyestone
most common situation.
However, suppression of these diseases can occur with timely applications of labeled fungicides.
Beginning around the 3rd week in
April, copper-containing or other
labeled fungicides are applied to the
new growth (candle) to prevent
infection. A second application is
made to protect the further growth of
the candle. This is for the tip blight.
Application equipment to apply
treatment to provide thorough coverage is necessary. A hand sprayer to
reach a 30 feet tree won’t work. Most
likely, a commercial applicator will
be necessary. Timing is critical for it
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Needle blight prevention follows
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Protecting the needles as they
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around mid-May and may require
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They still have a place in the landscape. Be aware that they are not as
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HISTORY
moved into Beach House!! 2.50 pr
month!
Tuesday, April 16, 1878
Made a Martin Box & fixed up an
Old one. Swept out Dearbon House
& touched some places with paint.
Went to evening train & brought up
G.W. Cheney & wife & wife’s mother, Mrs. Boote. Prospect of Storm.
Set Old Whity!! Hen No. 7, Griffing
Eggs!
The Goodnow Diary gives a glimpse into the life of Isaac Goodnow, a
leader in the free-state movement and one of the founders of the town of
Manhattan. He later established the college which became Kansas State
University. A prominent farmer and successful businessman, Goodnow
and his wife, Ellen, built a unique stone farmhouse in the 1860s. Isaac's
and Ellen's interest in education and nature is reflected in the hundreds
of objects they collected.
Visiting Goodnow House Location: 2309 Claflin Road in
Manhattan, Kansas Hours: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday - Friday
2 - 5 p.m. Saturday - Sunday. Subject to staff availability.
1878
The Miller’s on hand to Spend the
Sabbath as usual.
Saturday, March 30 1878
Failed to meet Pierce. Returned to
Manhattan at 11 A.M. Dined with
Sawyer. Talked over Bank business,
&c. Rode home, Whitney. P.M. visited at Rollins &c. Wrote Goss &
Dickson on the Potters. To bed at 12
M. W& Ben Miller here. Wrote
A.W. Rinehart, A.C. Pierce.
Sunday, April 7, 1878
Pleasant day. 11 A.M. Sermon by
Rev. Gill. Goodnow, Miller went to
church with us. Read some.
Sunday, March 31, 1878
Went to Church. Heavy Frost last
night! Ice 3/16 inch thick! A.M.
Sermon by Rev. Gill, our new
Preacher. Wrote Mr.& Mrs. L.H.
Whitney, G.W. Quereau. P.C. H.W.
Cheney. W.G. Leduc, B.&W. Miller
Spend the Sabbath with us.
Monday, April 1, 1878
Helped Hattie about washing.
Spaded up by House, trimmed trees,
&c. Called on Soupene; fixed walk
at Dearbon House. P.M. Went to
town; got Wagon mended. Home at
dusk. Evening read in Ridpath’s
History of U.S. Bought Paint of
Purcell.
Damp & rainy. Paint-Square room
in L. Set out 2 pear trees (Bartlet).
Hoed Horse [ra—-?]. Went to
Dearbon House. King moved today.
Hoed drains in road.
Wednesday, April 3, 1878
Tore off plastering, Dearbon
House. Fixed up Barn loft. Went to
town. Wrote H.B. Henson, J.M.
Spence, N. Taylor. Mostly pleasant
but flying Clouds with wind. Visited
at Rev. J. Griffing. Miller’s came &
Spend the night.
Thursday, April 4, 1878
Worked at Dearbon House.
Planted Early Kent. Peas. Rode to
town, P.M. Letter from Goss. Ret‘d.
home & got Geo Platte to drive me to
the Cars. Went to Junction &
stopped at Pacific House.
Friday, April 5, 1878
Up at 3 A.M. & went to N. Falls.
Called on Goss & Dickson
Consultation on Potter & wife. Capt.
Houghanout took me to Gardner
farm to See Potter. Pleasant Call on
him & wife. Supper at De Mars.
Eve. Train to Junction City at 12-20,
Midnight. Beautiful day.
Saturday, April 6, 1878
Called on Pierce, $20. Returned to
Manhattan at 11 A.M. French took
me home. Whelan plastered in
Dearbon House = 2.50. Painted in
wood L. Wrote Mark Staple, Upton,
J.M. Spencer. Beautiful weather.
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Painted in Back room. Shook put
down two Carpets in our Sleeping
room & in the Palor Chamber.
Reynolds laying Wall. Clark hauling
Stone. Getting ready for G.W.
Cheney & wife & pigs! Wrote W.P.
Boreland & R.W. Randall.
Painted at Dearbon House. Went
to the Woods with Johnson & Set
him to trimming up tree. Helped
about putting down carpets. Set 3
hens!!! Painted in L. &c. Tired.
Painted at Dearbon House.
Whelan Whitewashed, $1.25. Went
to town to meet folks. Now Came!
Wrote H.B. Henson, & again enclosing Draft on N.Y. for $139,50. Wrote
Clark, Dodge, & Co. for Bond.
Went to Manhattan with Rev.
Griffing. Wrote A.M. SommersJacob Winzeler. Returned at 1 P.M.
Worked on flower beds. Col. Goss,
W&B Miller & families Spent the
night with us. Old fashion. Eve—
Set a hen east of 2 others.
Millers & families left. Rode with
Col. Goss & Ellen to Rocky Ford,
Calling at S. Whitney’s &
Manhattan, bringing home, Mudge
to Dinner. Whitney here. P.M. took
Goss to train. Clark hauled Stone.
Wrote H.B. Henson. Set 5th Hen!
S.W. came.
Finished painting Kitchen to
Dearborn House. Planted Radish
Seed—Patent Office Seed. Hail &
rain 5 ¼ P.M. 6 P.M. Went to town &
got wall paper. Muddy. Wilbur did
not come. Set Hen No. 6 with Mrs.
Griffing’s Eggs. Single High Box on
East Side.
Sermon by Rev. Gill “the Bush
was not Consumed”. Called on Prof.
Mudge.
Cloudy day.
Read
Trans/Herald &c.
Campbell papered Dearbon House
3.25. Settled with Reynolds; Paid
him $7.70. balance due him. Good
day. Painted & plastered Some.
Wrote Warren Tyler. Mr. Johnson
Fine rain last night, some showers
during the day. Rode to town with
Wilbur Cheney & Son about his load
of hogs & goods. Fixed the hogs in
Stable, &c. Henry M. Laurens
along. Mr. Allen decides to take hog
pasture. P.C. H.D. Dickson. J.J.
McBride, Wrote him.
Went to town with Wilbur Cheney
who move his goods from Car to
Dearbon House. Painted Some &
glazed at Dearbon & Beach House.
2 lb. Visit at Rev. Gill’s. Sent him
$2. pd through lb. Mail.
Went to town twice after Hiram.
Train delayed by a wrecked freight
beyond Brookville till 10 O Clock.
P.M. Tinned up Mouse holes in
Dearbon House.
P.C. Frank
Goodnow, J. Denison, R. H. Wood.
Beautiful day. Mrs. Kingrick.
ished 2 posts. Elisha gave us 2 fish!
Call from Wilbur & wife, Ben Miller
& wife.
Clark continued his ploughing. J.
Griffing brot “Marker”. Harrowed 4
½ Acres Garden Spot to Reynolds.
Went to town & got 1 Bu. Lime for
pointing wall. Hiram experimenting
on planters. Fine weather. Webster
quarried for Todd. Hiram planted
Wm’s
. Sweet Corn, Beans, & Marrowfat
peas. Sent Henry to Lawrence for
silk. $14.00. Washed!.
A.M. Sermon by Rev. Lloyd.
Carried G.W., T. Cheney & wife to
church with Hattie & Ellen. Prof.
Hougham also. Read Nationalist &
in National Repository.
Henry
Laurens Called in the evening. Gave
“Jim” a bite in the Pasture!
Sent Em Nat‘l. Bank Draft on
Martin Bank $125. Willie ploughed
5 hours. Hiram & Webster planted
cane 4 hours. John Griffin ploughed
& harrowed. H.&W. burnt Stalks,
&c. Made Some repairs. Chickens
hatched (21). 3 new. Set Whity No.
1 and the last of Buff Bochins?
Some rain and hail!
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Wednesday, May 1, 1878
Wrote H.B. Cullom & A.W.
Rinehart. Called at G.W. Cheney’s.
Nailed on Boards &c; rode to town
too late for train, Dr. Vail. Webster
finished grass in Walks! Hoed out
ditches on road. Harry Hougham’s
Two Colts put in pasture, yesterday.
Fine rain in the night.
Clark marked out 4 ½ Acres cane
land ½ day.
Willie Whitney
ploughed 4 ½ hours, 4 horses.
Wilbur planted theirs A.M. 4 ½
hours. P.M. Henry &co.. Burnt
Stalks, raked by Wilbur & Billy.
Reynolds pointed up Wall 8 hours.
Fine day. Wrote E. Makins, due
$25.14.
Went to town early & brought up
H.S. Denison & Webster & trunks,
All eight. Took up wood to G.W.
Cheney &c. P.M. Went to town with
Cheney & attended to his broken furniture.
PHYSICIAN-SUPERVISED WEIGHT LOSS
BUFFALO
MEAT
A.M. Sermon by Rev. Gill. “Thy
word is a lamp &c”. Excellent! P.M.
Read Herald &c. Eve— long talk
with Hiram. Laurens & Webster
killed rattlesnake. 10 rattles! Land
receipts $144,30.
Orientation
General Seminar
All natural,
No hormones,
Grass fed,
Low cholesterol.
Wrote A.C. Pierce, H.D. Dixon.
P.C. L.T. Heritage. Went to town
A.M. & P.M. G.W. Cheney Settled
with Harvey for damages on his
goods; $90.00. Brought up Prof.
Hougham from town. Pleasant.
Tuesday, April 15
5:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, April 22
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Wrote Clark Dodge & Co. & Sent
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Hiram cutting Stocks, Webster hoeing onions for Clark. Reynolds cutting stone. P.C. E. Makins. Went to
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French. Called with Ellen at R.
Kimbal’s; Pd. him $2.00. P.C. C.W.
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Thoughts
From The
Prairie
Another Big Bang
According to a NASA news
release, their Swift satellite detected
the gamma rays from the latest big
bang at 2:12 a.m. March 19, 2008.
This stellar explosion that shattered
previous records for the most distant
object that could be seen on earth
was an exploding star 7.5 billion
light years away and 40 times the
size of our sun. This star, named
GRB
080319B,
was
44,250,000,000,000,000,000,000
miles from your driveway. The news
release stated the star exploded at “A
time when the universe was less than
half its current age and Earth had yet
to form. This is more than halfway
across the visible universe.”
Then a Reuters story this week
reported that a British physicist,
Peter Higgs, predicts it should soon
be possible to prove the existence of
a force which gives mass to the universe and makes life possible. Higgs
said he believes a particle named the
“Higgs boson,” that some have
dubbed a “God particle”, which originates from the force, will be found
when a vast particle collider at the
CERN research centre on the
Franco-Swiss border begins operating fully early next year. The article
claimed the existence of the invisible
field is widely accepted by scientists,
who believe it came into being milliseconds after the Big Bang created
the universe some 15 billion years
ago.
Dick Miller
We live in a very dynamic and
sometimes dangerous universe. It’s
enough to give a person the heebee
geebees. No wonder 81 percent of
Americans don’t like where things
are headed. Reckon it has a lot to do
with the worldview of people and
politics. The secular activists have
convinced us we are a bunch of random particles extruded out of nothingness given mass after passing
through an invisible force with no
design at the beginning and a black
hole in space at the end. What a deal!
Think I won’t have some.
Our second president, John
Adams, had a good idea: “[R]eligion
and virtue are the only foundations,
not of republicanism and of all free
government, but of social felicity
under all government and in all the
combinations of human society.”
Religion not only provides a foundation for life, but true religion and true
Ann
Coulter
Obama’s Dimestore
“Mein Kampf”
If characters from “The Hills”
were to emote about race, I imagine
it would sound like B. Hussein
Obama’s autobiography, “Dreams
From My Father.”
Has anybody read this book?
Inasmuch as the book reveals Obama
to be a flabbergasting lunatic, I gather the answer is no. Obama is about
to be our next president: You might
want to take a peek. If only people
had read “Mein Kampf” ...
Nearly every page — save the
ones dedicated to cataloguing the
mundane details of his life — is bristling with anger at some imputed
racist incident. The last time I heard
this much race-baiting invective I
was ... in my usual front-row pew, as
I am every Sunday morning, at
Trinity United Church of Christ in
Chicago.
Obama tells a story about taking
two white friends from the high
school basketball team to a “black
party.” Despite their deep-seated,
unconscious hatred of blacks, the
friends readily accepted. At the party,
they managed not to scream the Nword, but instead “made some small
talk, took a couple of the girls out on
the dance floor.”
But with his racial hair-trigger,
Obama sensed the whites were not
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Ann Coulter
comfortable because “they kept smiling a lot.” And then, in an incident
reminiscent of the darkest days of the
Jim Crow South ... they asked to
leave after spending only about an
hour at the party! It was practically
an etiquette lynching!
So either they hated black people
with the hot, hot hate of a thousand
suns, or they were athletes who had
come to a party late, after a Saturday
night basketball game.
In the car on the way home, one of
the friends empathizes with Obama,
saying: “You know, man, that really
taught me something. I mean, I can
see how it must be tough for you and
Ray sometimes, at school parties ...
being the only black guys and all.”
And thus Obama felt the cruel lash
of racism! He actually writes that his
response to his friend’s perfectly
lovely remark was: “A part of me
wanted to punch him right there.”
Listen, I don’t want anybody
telling Obama about Bill Clinton’s “I
Reporting
The
Truth
as we see it.
science are in total coalescence and
are mutually beneficial. Both an evolutionist and a creationist worldview
have a single-point origin, be it a Big
Bang or the spoken word of a
Designer.
Dr. Donald Barnhouse, in his book
The Invisible War, succinctly
describes a scenario that reconciles
the dilemma of an old universe and a
young Earth by piecing together bits
of the puzzle found in Genesis,
Isaiah, Ezekiel and John. Barnhouse
describes a colossal war in which the
CEO of the universe, I’ll call him
Ludicrous, rebels against the
Designer. The result is that
Ludicrous is exiled to a shapeless,
dark mass we later find out is called
Earth. It’s as if the Designer says,
“Okay, Ludicrous, you think you are
my equal, see what you can make out
of the dark chaos on Planet Earth!”
Eons pass, chaos remains on
Planet Earth, the Designer appoints
Begotten as the new CEO and says,
“Go bring order out of the chaos on
dark Planet Earth. Ludicrous hasn’t
been able to get the lights turned on.”
So a few thousand years ago
Begotten stepped out on the rim of
the universe and says, “Let there be
light” and the Earth got a dramatic
face-lift in the span of seven days.
So, if scientists are correct that
Star GRB 080319B preceded Earth
by several billion years, the colossal
explosions are an orderly sequence
of birth, death and rebirth on a cosmic scale. Now science and religion
can be partners. Scientists have a
universe that’s very old and creationists have an awesome Designer, a
purposeful beginning, a reconditioned Earth and a magnificent
future. Now that’s a deal worth considering!
feel your pain” line.
Wanting to punch his white friend
in the stomach was the introductory
anecdote to a full-page psychotic
rant about living by “the white man’s
rules.” (One rule he missed was:
“Never punch out your empathetic
white friend after dragging him to a
crappy all-black party.”)
Obama’s gaseous disquisition on
the “white man’s rules” leads to this
charming crescendo: “Should you
refuse this defeat and lash out at your
captors, they would have a name for
that, too, a name that could cage you
just as good. Paranoid. Militant.
Violent. Nigger.”
For those of you in the “When is
Obama gonna play the ‘N-word’
card?” pool, the winner is ... Page
85! Congratulations!
When his mother expresses concern about Obama’s high school
friend being busted for drugs,
Obama says he patted his mother’s
hand and told her not to worry.
This, too, prompted Obama to
share with his readers a life lesson on
how to handle white people: “It was
usually an effective tactic, another
one of those tricks I had learned:
People were satisfied so long as you
were courteous and smiled and made
no sudden moves. They were more
than satisfied, they were relieved —
such a pleasant surprise to find a
well-mannered young black man
who didn’t seem angry all the time.”
First of all, I note that this technique seems to be the basis of
Obama’s entire presidential campaign. But moreover — he was talking about his own mother! As Obama
says: “Any distinction between good
and bad whites held negligible meaning.” Say, do you think a white person who said that about blacks would
be a leading presidential candidate?
The man is stark bonkersville.
He says the reason black people
keep to themselves is that it’s “easier
than spending all your time mad or
trying to guess whatever it was that
white folks were thinking about
you.”
Here’s a little inside scoop about
white people: We’re not thinking
about you. Especially WASPs. We
think everybody is inferior, and we
are perfectly charming about it.
In college, Obama explains to a
girl why he was reading Joseph
Conrad’s 1902 classic, “Heart of
Darkness”: “I read the book to help
me understand just what it is that
makes white people so afraid. Their
demons. The way ideas get twisted
around. I helps me understand how
people learn to hate.”
By contrast, Malcolm X’s autobiography “spoke” to Obama. One line
in particular “stayed with me,” he
says. “He spoke of a wish he’d once
had, the wish that the white blood
that ran through him, there by an act
of violence, might somehow be
expunged.”
Forget Rev. Jeremiah Wright —
Wright is Booker T. Washington
compared to this guy.
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School Program Stopped Weight Gain In Two Years
By STEPHANIE NANO
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) _ Five
Philadelphia elementary schools
replaced sodas with fruit juice. They
scaled back snacks and banished
candy. They handed out raffle tickets
for wise food choices. They spent
hours teaching kids, their parents and
teachers about good nutrition.
What have they got to show for it?
The number of kids who got fat
during the two-year experiment was
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in schools that didn’t make those
efforts.
`Ìt’s a really dramatic effect from
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became overweight compared to the
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The 1,349 students in the study
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or subsidized meals.
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6a
April Marks 35th Anniversary Of The Cell Phone Call
Remember when cell phones
weighed a few pounds, cost thousands of dollars, and service couldn’t
be guaranteed? That was the mid1980s, in the early days of cellular
service, when the technology was an
expensive and cumbersome commitment. Cell phones have changed dramatically since the first cell phone
call was made in April, 1973. They
have transformed from 2-pound
“brick” phones to the size of credit
cards that weigh only a few ounces.
Today’s smartphones send and
receive emails, take photos and
video, as well as provide your own
music playlist, directions, news and
weather updates.
Martin Cooper, known as the
father of the cell phone, made the
first cell phone call 35 years ago
using a “brick” phone in New York
City. Ten years later, the 1½-pound
DynaTAC phone became available
to the public and sold for $3,500, for
one hour of talk time and eight hours
of standby time.
During the 1990s, the popularity
of cell phones started to rise. The cell
phone went from being rare and
expensive equipment of the business
elite to a pervasive, low-cost personal item. With smaller hand held
devices, made possible with energyefficient electronics and more cellular sites, wireless subscribers in the
United States grew from 7.5 million
in 1992 to more than 255 million in
2007.
“The advancements in cell phone
case a cell phone is lost or they
choose to upgrade to a new cell
phone.
“The cell phone is no longer just
for placing calls,” adds Winger.
“Wireless users can find their way to
an appointment with GPS location
based
services,
like
Your
Navigator™, answer emails on the
go, personalize their phones with a
favorite song and take pictures to use
as their screen’s wallpaper. The
opportunities for information are
endless with access to the Internet.
Cell phones have become an essential tool that keeps us connected with
loved ones and our daily routines.”
U.S. Cellular is the nation’s
sixth-largest wireless service carrier,
providing wireless service to six mil-
Motorola DynaTAC 8000: the first
“brick phone” introduced in the
early 1980’s.
technology and network improvements allow customers to make a call
anytime, anywhere,” said Roberta
Winger, U.S. Cellular director of
sales in Manhattan. “Wireless communications continues to evolve and
change to meet the growing desires
of wireless customers that want
access to friends, family, and information.”
Early cell phones could only store
up to 20 numbers. Today, cell phones
lion customers in 26 states. The
Chicago-based company employs
8,000 associates and operates on a
customer satisfaction strategy, meeting customer needs by providing a
comprehensive range of wireless
products and services, superior customer support, and a high-quality
network.
Here are some current cell phone
facts from the wireless industry
group CTIA:
* There are more than 255 million
wireless subscribers in the United
States. Wireless Service was once
projected to be a niche market,
appealing to a maximum of 900,000
customers in the year 2000. As a
matter of reference in 1992, there
were only 7.5 million wireless sub-
scribers in the United States. This
represents a year-over-year increase
of more than 22 million subscribers.
* During the first six months of
2007, customers logged 1.95 trillion
minutes of usage, which collectively
equates to 1.6 million years spent on
the cell phone.
* Text messaging continues to be
enormously popular, with more than
48 billion messages reported for the
month of December 2007 alone—1.6
billion messages per day. This represents an increase of 157% over
December 2006.
* More than 12 percent of U.S.
households have “cut the cord” completely and rely solely on wireless
phones instead of landlines, up from
7.7 percent in 2005.
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By Jane Marshall
KSU News Service
Gayle Appel Doll has been an elementary art teacher, a YMCA fitness
leader, a professional quilter and a
Kansas State University Research
and Extension project manager.
But, when she trained to teach an
older adult exercise class, she found
her niche. She became a gerontologist.
Doll, who has been promoted to
assistant professor , has been named
director of the Center on Aging in KState's College of Human Ecology.
The appointment becomes effective
June 15. Doll had previously served
as the center's interim director and
was appointed to the director's position after a nationally competitive
search.
As director, she will coordinate
and develop educational and training
programs in aging, stimulate aging
research, coordinate outreach activities and guide the center to become
the top referral center for information on aging resources in Kansas.
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"Our focus is primarily on the
range of care giving services, both
informal and formal, for frail elders
in Kansas. We try to help people find
the opportunities that afford the best
quality of life possible as people
age," Doll said.
According to Doll, in the Midwest,
82 percent of the counties exceed the
U.S. proportion of population 65 and
above.
"Aging has a number of socioeconomic implications both at the
national and local levels of social
organization, including its impact on
further demographic change, elderly
well-being and poverty, community
development and economic growth,"
she said.
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VOLUME 16, N UMBER 71
T HURSDAY, A PRIL 10, 2008
Hello!
Central?
By Jon A. Brake
Linda and I took TomTom for
another drive last Saturday. Now, I
do know how to get to Abilene from
Manhattan or even Blue Rapids but
we need to practice with TomTom to
make sure we understand each other.
TomTom did just fine. I on the other
hand had a hard time explaining to
Linda why I wanted to drive on that
dirt road. She thought I missed the
turn when TomTom was saying
“Turn Left, Turn Left.”
We did come into Abilene from the
West and on the North like we had
planned but TomTom adjusted and
gave us directions right through
town.
The Heritage Center of Dickinson
County is on the back side of the
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential
Library & Museum . It is a Museum
displaying the history of Dickinson
County.
It looks to me like the Heritage
Center is make up in three parts. The
Historical Museum shows the history
of Dickinson County from the days
of the American Indians until now.
The Museum of Independent
Telephony is the history of the telephone and the “Back Door” displays
show shops from old Main Street.
We were impressed with the way
the Museum was set up. You started
at the beginning of time in Dickinson
County. Display show the American
Indians and how they lived. The
Explorers and Cowboys have their
place in history and in the Museum.
The Historical Museum has a lot to
see and it will take some time to see
everything.
For years I have seen billboards
for the Museum of Independent
Telephony and wondered why it
would be in Abilene, Kansas. The
answer is simple. Abilene is where
Sprint was born.
C.L. Brown built an independent
telephone company in Abilene in
1898. You will see many, many
ringy-dinges in this display. There
are large displays of wall phones,
desk phones and the operator desks.
Most from our generation recall
standing up to the wall phone (on a
chair) and saying “Hello! Central?
It is all on display and it is impressive.
Out the “Back Door” are old buildings showing what life would have
been like in the late 1800’s. A meat
shop, a school house, a barn and a
log cabin. Each is filled with items of
memories.
And then you have the Carousel.
What a joy. Built before 1928 by
C.W. Parker, who started a amusement devices company in Abilene, it
returned to Abilene in 1976.
“The Abilene carousel is a trackoperated machine consisting of 24
horses, in 12 pairs, and four chariots
on a fifty foot platform. It has it’s
original steam engine. The carousel
is not of the type that most people
relate to. Because of it age, it redates
most of our memories. Instead of
being mounted on a pole, the horses
are mounted on a rocking mechanism on the platform. It has been
placed under a ten-like building on
the grounds of the DCHS museum.”
The carousel is on the National
Landmark list. All of the horses have
been repainted, repaired and
received new leather reins and horsehair tails.
Children of all ages will enjoy a
Colored glass insulators of all kinds make up a large display.
ride. We sure did.
The Heritage Center of Dickinson County's
412 South Campbell, Abilene, Kansas 67410 -directly east of the Eisenhower Center.
Phone: 785-263-2681 e-mail [email protected]
Open daily all year.
Winter Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 AM to
3:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM --- Sunday 1:00
AM - 5:00 PM
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Color was added to the desk and wall phones.
What is a “Telephony”?
A later wall phone.
Photos By
Linda L. Brake
and Jon A. Brake
The wall phones are on display.
A 1919 desk phone.
NEWS
Figures Don’t Lie...the just change
The City of Manhattan staff gave
the City Commissioners a Feasibility
Study on January 30, 2007 showing
the Plan for financing the Downtown
Development. Total cost of the project was going to be $194,000,000.
In March of 2008 the Staff gave
the City Commission a “Downtown
Redevlopment Finance Overview.
Changes? Yes the tolal cost has
gone down to $182 million.
In January of 2007 the City would
not use property tax to pay for the
project. In 2008 a sixteen percent in
property tax will be needed.
What is funny is that in 2006 the
cost of constructing 4th Street was
$3 million, in 2008 bids came in at
$8 million.
The cost of 4th Street has gone up
almost 3 times but the cost of the
complet project has dropped.
The State of Kansas needs to
investigate the financing of the
Downtown Redevelopment Project.
Here is the 2007 Sutdy and the the
right is the 2008 figures.
Feasibility Study –
January 30, 2007 15
City of Manhattan, Kansas
VI. Plan of Finance
This Plan of Finance is preliminary based on the various project and
financial factors known at this time.
This Plan of Finance will become
more final in the months ahead as
additional information is provided,
among other factors the completion
of an independent market study of
the project’s public revenues.
The Plan of Finance will center on
the State’s approval for the issuance
of Sales Tax Revenue Bonds
(STAR). The State’s approval has
limited the total principal amount of
the STAR bonds to $50M, and
requires the amount of STAR bond
financing not to exceed 50% of the
total costs of the Flint Hills
Discovery and Visitor’s Center and
the
South
Development
Entertainment Area Project upon
completion.
The projected sources and uses of
funds involves the estimated types of
financings described below. The City
is not limited by the described
financing methodologies. The City
will ensure that each financing meets
statutory requirements and follows
the State approval described above.
A Sales Tax Revenue (STAR)
Bond will be issued (estimated to
occur on 5/1/2007) to provide
$41,000,000 of net proceeds to pay
project costs. The projected security
for these bonds includes an annual
appropriation pledge of the City to
replenish the debt service reserve
fund, if drawn on.
A tax increment revenue bond
2B
Funding Sources
Total Project Costs
STAR
TIF A
TDD North
TDD South
City Obligation
Dial
North Redevelopment
North Land Acquisition
North Site Preparation
North Tenant Relocation
Plaza
Infrastructure / Utilities
3rd St / Osage
3rd / Leavenworth / Humboldt Opening
Leavenworth / 4th St / Tuttle Creek Blvd.
Moro Street
TCB Sidewalk from RIRO to Bluemont
Bluemont Sidewalk from 4th St. to TCB
Right In / Right Out
North Retail
North Residential
15,800,000
500,000
15,800,000
2,060,000
260,000
950,000
780,000
130,000
475,000
850,000
1,188,000
125,456
735,000
68,744
850,000
1,188,000
517,000
735,000
68,744
70,683
825,000
25,750,000
25,750,000
Total North Redevelopment Project Costs
780,000
130,000
475,000
391,544
70,683
825,000
25,750,000
25,750,000
74,824,427
-
16,300,000
15,780,000
1,500,000
11,000,000
5,000,000
3,000,000
12,000,000
3,792,200
-
1,847,227
52,885,000
1,890,000
750,000
1,890,000
750,000
South Redevelopment
South Land Acquisition
South Site Preparation
Discovery Center Construction
Discovery FF&E
Discovery Center Consulting Fees
Infrastructure / Utilities
Intersection - 3rd St. and Fort Riley Blvd.
3rd St. from Fort Riley Blvd to Pierre Street
Colorado St. from 4th St. to 3rd St.
Warren Theater Parking Lot
Pierre St. from 3rd St. to 4th St.
K-177 / 3rd St / Pierre St (Including streetscape)
Private Utility Relocation
South End Water (Improvements related to redevelopment)
South End Wastewater (Improvements related to redevelopment)
Connection to Depot
Public Acre Park
Parking Garage
741,600
1,674,162
836,620
437,091
692,936
3,328,249
882,987
812,000
340,000
819,545
1,214,184
8,000,000
Total Project Costs
5,000,000
3,000,000
Manhattan Realty
Service
741,600
1,674,162
836,620
96,392,424
Duane L. McKinney
Broker-Appraiser-Inspector
437,091
692,936
3,328,249
441,494
719,821
92,179
340,000
441,494
819,545
1,214,184
4,000,000
728,000
STAR
TIF A
TDD North
TDD South
404 Humboldt St, Suite D
Manhattan, Ks 66502
APPRAISALS, BLDG INSPECTIONS,
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Phone: 785-776-1010
Fax: 785-539-1026
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3,272,000
City Obligation
Dial
PURPLEWAVE AUCTION CO.
(PURPLEWAVE.COM
9,500,000
9,500,000
15,450,000
4,243,600
530,450
8,487,200
2,121,800
Total South Redevelopment Project Costs
Therefore the maximum amount of
Project Costs which can be funded
from Project
Benefits
is
estimated
at
$112,641,941.
The
difference
between this estimate and the total
revenues are costs of financing,
namely interest costs, coverage
requirements, etc.
The estimated TIF/TDD/STAR
eligible expenditures, the Project
Costs,
are
$95,141,941
—
$59,404,592 for the South Project
and an existing $35,737,349 for the
North Project. An additional
$17,500,000 of expenditures are
obligations of the City/Developer but
are not TIF/TDD/STAR eligible
expenditures.
(Editor’s Note: This is not the
complete study, just part of the
financing.)
11,000,000
Funding Sources
Conference Center
Hotel
Restaurants
Retail
Theater
Residential
nanced with special obligation bonds
.VII. Conclusions
The amount of funding which can
be supported by these resources over
the 20-22 year term is summarized as
follows:
STAR Bond principal $50,000,000
TDD North Bond principal
$4,715,000
TDD South Bond principal
$1,100,000
TIF A Bond principal $21,820,000
TIF B Bond principal $9,435,000
Investment Earnings $3,727,902
Tax
Collections
During
Construction $2,400,000
City/Developer Contributions –
TIF/STAR/TDD $1,943,939
City/Developer Contributions –
non-TIF/STAR/TDD $17,500,000
Total $112,641,941
15,450,000
4,243,600
530,450
8,487,200
2,121,800
38,919,930
-
-
728,000
22,829,951
33,914,544
4th Street
South 4th St. and Fort Riley Blvd. Intersection
South 4th St from Fort Riley Blvd. to Pierre Street
North 4th Street from Leavenworth to Moro
Manhattan Marketplace Waterline E (Pd from Water Fund)
North 4th St. 16" Water line
North 4th St. Sanitary Sewer
4th St./ Bluemont Roundabout
Land Acquisition - 4th St. Roundabout
Tenant Relocation - 4th St. Roundabout
Building Relocation - 4th St. Roundabout
Total 4th Street Project Costs
483,000
1,182,000
2,800,000
80,709
181,269
940,000
1,769,980
440,000
60,000
500,000
483,000
1,182,000
2,800,000
80,709
181,269
940,000
1,769,980
440,000
60,000
500,000
8,436,958
-
-
-
-
8,436,958
-
Other Related Projects
South End Stormwater (Project 15 in Master Plan)
South End Water (General City improvements)
South End Wastewater (General city improvements)
2,018,000
186,000
372,000
2,018,000
186,000
372,000
Total Other Related Project Costs
Total
(TIF A Bond) will be issued to refinance the existing North Project
obligation at the same time. The projected issuance of this bond includes
City annual appropriation support
with revenues exceeding debt service
1.35 times. The current estimated
financing will not fully refund the
existing North Project bond. The
City and/or the Developer will need
to come up with approximately $2M
to retire the obligation in full. This
will enable the pledge of South
Project local sales tax revenue to be
released, and be used as repayment
for the STAR bond.
An additional TIF supported bond
(TIF B Bond) may be issued pledging revenues subordinate to the TIF
A Bond described above. This bond
will reimburse the City for TIF/TDD
eligible public infrastructure and
2,576,000
-
-
-
-
2,576,000
-
182,229,809
38,919,930
16,300,000
3,792,200
728,000
35,690,136
86,799,544
parking expenditures in both the
North and South Project areas. The
City plans to finance certain project
costs upfront through their standard
public infrastructure financing methods (which may include general obligation bonds). The reimbursement of
any TIF eligible costs financed initially by the City is an eligible use of
property and sales tax increment
received throughout the term of the
Downtown Redevelopment District.
Two additional bonds will be
issued to pay for transportation related expenditures supported by the
TDD sales tax. The transportation
related bonds will be issued in multiple series to correlate with the City
approval process.
The revenue to service each of
these bonds will be limited to the
projected revenue streams and are
projected to include a limited obligation of the City for repayment (a
promise to annually appropriate revenue to replenish the debt service
reserve fund if it has been accessed
to pay debt service due to insufficient project revenues).
All special obligation bonds
described in this document have
been structured with estimated security components normally expected
by the bond market, namely, coverage and debt service reserves, and
are further based on the current interest rate environment and do not
reflect a firm underwriting commitment. If the City finances certain
public improvements that are eligible
to be paid from tax increment financing with a City general obligation
note, the City plans to structure the
note so that the note can be refi-
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas –
Freshman forward Michael Beasley
was selected as a first team AllAmerican by State Farm and the
National Association of Basketball
Coaches (NABC) at a luncheon during the NABC Convention at the
Hyatt Regency on Saturday afternoon.
Beasley was joined on the first
team by Texas’ D.J. Augustin,
Memphis’ Chris Douglas-Roberts,
North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough
and Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody.
The second team consisted of
Indiana’s Eric Gordon and D.J.
White, Tennessee’s Chris Lofton,
UCLA’s
Kevin
Love
and
Georgetown’s Roy Hibbert, while
Memphis’ Derrick Rose, Kansas’
Brandon Rush, Vanderbilt’s Shan
Foster, Stanford’s Brook Lopez and
Duke’s DeMarcus Nelson composed
the third team. The 15-member team
was selected and voted on by the
member coaches of the NABC.
The honor was one of many that
continue to roll in for the freshman
who is already the first player in
Kansas State history to earn a
National Player of the Year award.
In addition to earning Player of the
Year accolades from both CBS
Sports.com and Rivals.com, Beasley
has been named a finalist for both the
prestigious John R. Wooden Award,
which will be given out on April 11
at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, as
well as the Naismith Player of the
Year Award presented by AT&T and
the Atlanta Tipoff Club, which will
be presented on Sunday at the NABC
Guardians of the Game awards program.
In addition to his National Player
of the Year awards, Beasley has been
named National Freshman of the
Year by five organizations, including
CBS Sports.com, Rivals.com,
CollegeHoops.net, The Sporting
News and U.S. Basketball Writers
Association (USBWA). He has also
Michael Beasley AP All-American
been selected a first team All- as Beasley averaged 26.2 points on
American by numerous outlets, 53.2 percent shooting (307-of-577),
including The Associated Press, John including 37.9 percent from 3-point
R. Wooden Award, CBS Sports.com, range, with 12.4 rebounds, 1.6
Dick Vitale, ESPN.com, Rivals.com, blocks, 1.3 steals and 1.2 assists in
Sports Illustrated, The Sporting 31.5 minutes per game this season.
News and U.S. Basketball Writers He posted the second-most rebounds
Association. In addition, he was (408) by a freshman in NCAA histochosen as a first team Freshman All- ry, trailing just the record of 462 set
American by CBS Sports.com and by Nevada’s Pete Padgett in 1972Rivals.com.
73, while he collected the third-most
The former No. 1 high school points (866) by a freshman behind
recruit posted one of the greatest sea- LSU’s Chris Jackson (965; 1988-89)
sons by freshman in NCAA history, and Texas’ Kevin Durant (903; 2006-
07). As of the last NCAA ranking,
he still was rated among the top-5 in
the nation in both scoring (third) and
rebounding (first). He leads the
nation in five categories, including
double-doubles (28), 40-point games
(three), 30-point games (13), 20point, 10-rebound games (23) and
30-point, 10-rebound games (13).
He is just the 11th player in NCAA
Division I history to post 28 or more
double-doubles in a season and the
first since Wake Forest’s Tim
Duncan collected 29 during the
1996-97 season.
Beasley already holds 30 Kansas
State career, single-season and freshman records as well as 17 Big 12 single-game and single-season marks.
He is both the school’s and conference’s all-time single-season leader
in scoring average (26.2 ppg.) and
double-doubles (28), while he owns
school single-season marks for
points (866), rebounds (408), most
30-point games (13), most 20-point
games (26), field goals made (307),
free throws made (216) and free
throws attempted (279).
Beasley and company helped
Kansas State post a 21-12 overall
record in 2007-08, including a thirdplace finish in the Big 12 with a 106 mark. The Wildcats advanced to
the NCAA Tournament for the first
time in nearly 12 years and captured
its first NCAA Tournament win since
1988 with their 80-67 victory over
USC in the first round of the
Midwest Regional in Omaha, Neb.,
on March 20. The team has now
posted back-to-back 20-win seasons
for the first time in nearly 20 years,
while the 10 conference wins tie the
2006-07 squad for the best league
record in the Big 12 era. The thirdplace finish is the best since the
inception of the Big 12 and the highest since the 1988-89 team finished
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Kansas State women’s tennis will
travel to the Lone Star State this
weekend to face a pair of ranked
teams, No. 33 Texas A&M on Friday
and No. 20 Texas on Sunday.
K-State (6-10, 2-5 Big 12) dropped
a pair of 5-2 decisions last weekend
to end its five-match homestand with
a 1-4 mark. A pair of freshmen have
improved their play over the last four
matches, as Antea Huljev and
Pauline Guemas have tallied two
wins during this span. Huljev is 2-2
in her last four matches, defeating
Yawna Allen of Oklahoma State and
No. 28 Taylor Ormond of Baylor.
The win over Ormond by Huljev is
her first career win over a ranked
opponent.
Guemas is 2-1 in her last three performances, including her first
straight set win since Sept. 23. The
product of St. Fort, France defeated
Natalie Holmes of Baylor, 6-4, 6-1 to
improve to 2-1 in Big 12 play. Texas
A&M (12-6, 6-1) has three players
among the Big 12 wins leaders at
Sports Potpourri
By Mac Stevenson
This is a time to gloat, regardless
of the outcome of Monday night’s
NCAA championship game. KU
basketball fans should send a courteous letter to North Carolina’s AD,
Dean Smith, and thank him for taking Roy Williams back to NC. If it
wasn’t for that, KU wouldn’t have
Bill Self.
For many KU followers, last
Saturday’s 84-66 win against NC
was the best ever. That’s saying a
lot. It was fitting for a season filled
with Dick Vitale and Dick Phelps
and their East Coast colleagues
telling us how NC and the ACC were
much better than KU and the Big 12.
Williams could have left KU for
NC with no hard feelings, but he and
Smith dominated the news media
just before the 2003 Syracuse-KU
game for the national championship.
Williams loves center stage and he
put that ahead of his team and the
championship game. And Smith
could have waited until the tournament was over before making his
recruitment of Williams public. But
they chose to take the low road
instead of the high road.
Bill Self is perfect for KU. The
guess here is that he’ll stay for a long
time.
Coach Self is smart enough to realize that he has a chance to become a
coaching legend if he remains at KU.
In years to come, Self would rank
with KU’s greats, including Phog
Allen.
As long as Bill Self is at KU, the
Jayhawks will be a national power.
He is a superb blend of recruitingand coaching ability.
From all reports, it appears that
Brandon Rush and Darrell Arthur
will leave early for the NBA. Arthur
could improve his draft position
immeasurably with one more year,
but he’s probably going to leave.
The big question is whether or not
guards Mario Chalmers and Sherron
Collins will leave or stay. The hunch
here is that Chalmers will come back
for his senior year, but maybe not.
Collins would profit greatly from
one more year, but that too is open to
conjecture.
If Chalmers and Collins return,
look out. Kansas would have the
start of another exceptional team
with these two guards and Cole
Aldrich at center. Add the outstanding recruiting class and the Jayhawks
would be potent again next season.
But now isn’t the time to worry
about next season. The only thing
missing last Saturday were some
tears from Roy. This is a time to
gloat.
It took some time, but evidently
Kansas State football coach Ron
Prince has learned that Bill Snyder
knew what he was doing when he
coached the Wildcats.
Kansas State dumped Fresno State
from the 2008 schedule and replaced
them with a patsy, Montana State.
Prince has problems with his football program. K-State has hired 16
assistant coaches in the past three
years. That’s too many. Every college coaching staff has frequent
turnovers, but the successful teams
keep them to a minimum.
Wildcat fans are having a hard
time forgetting K-State’s complete
collapse during the last four games
of the 2007 season. Prince’s team
lost at Iowa State (31-20), at
Nebraska (73-21), at home to
Missouri (49-32), and on the road to
Fresno State (45-29).
K-State’s offense wasn’t that bad,
but the Wildcats’ defense was shredded in all four games. During that
horrendous homestretch, K-State’s
defenders gave up an average of
506.5 yards per game and a total of
198 points. That’s unacceptable.
Kansas State lost two of their
most-productive offensive players to
graduation: WR Jordy Nelson and
RB James Johnson. Nelson had a
great 2007 and he’ll be difficult to
replace. QB Josh Freeman is poised
to emerge as one of the best quarterbacks in the nation, but he’ll need
some quality receivers.
Coach Prince needs to put a team
on the field in 2008 that is markedly
improved; otherwise, there’s going
to be a rising tide of discontent
among the Wildcat faithful.
Prince has already been criticized by some for getting rid of the
Fresno State game, but he was smart
to do it. When questioned about the
move by the media, Prince said,
“Whatever schedule we have, we’ll
play it to the best of our ability.”
That rejoinder will suffice for now.
K-State is going through spring
practice with the spring game scheduled for April 19 (6:30 p.m. kickoff). The potential of the 2008 team
will remain a mystery until fall drills
because of the unknown quality of
the incoming junior college recruits.
Prince is going to be at a big disadvantage to have to count on so many
new players; most of them will have
just a few weeks of practice before
the first game.
One thing is certain: The 2008
season will be a decisive turning
point—north or south—for Ron
Prince and his coaching staff.
their respective lineup positions and
a doubles team leading the conference. At number one singles, the
Aggies are paced by Elze’ Potgieter
with a 6-1 mark to rank second in the
league. At number three singles,
Texas A&M is led by Anna
Blagodarova with a 4-1 record. At
number five singles, Morgan Frank
leads the conference with a 5-0
record.
The doubles pair of Stephanie
Davidson and Morgan Frank leads
the league at number three doubles
with an unblemished mark of 7-0.
Texas (12-4, 6-0) has three players
and two doubles teams with unbeaten league records, led by number one
singles player Vanja Corovic with a
4-0 mark. Right behind Corovic is
Courtney Zauft at the number two
position with a 4-0 record. The
Longhorns’ final unbeaten player is
number five singles player Sarah
Lancaster at 4-0.
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