Gates Corporation, which has a hose manufacturing plant in Iola, and Tomkins PLC of London, England, announced the signing of a definitive contract for Tomkins’ acquisition of the Gates Rubber Company. The choice of Tompkins caps a nine-month search by the Gates family of Denver, Colo., the primary shareholders of the Gates Corp.
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The east platform of the Marsh arch bridge west of Iola on U.S. 54 Highway was taken down Tuesday by a Mayes Construction worker, David Orear, who has demolished about half a dozen such bridges and said the structure was unsafe and due for demolition.
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HUMBOLDT — Little Mindy Vincent might have saved her family early today. The Roger Vincent home at 421 S. 11th in Humboldt was destroyed by a fire that started sometime before 4 a.m. Mindy sensed the smoke, her family said, and woke them to escape the blaze.
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HUMBOLDT — Steve Weilert of Humboldt learned recently that his mounted deer was the largest whitetail buck ever killed by bow in the state. Weilert slayed the deer in November, 1994, but didn’t have it scored until earlier this year. The buck was scored at 193-plus points, seven above the old state record. It ranks the ninth largest in the world and the third largest ever killed in Kansas by bow. Weilert had the head with its massive antlers mounted.
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Many law enforcement officers are shot with their own weapons, Allen County Sheriff Ron Moore said. That and other considerations lead him to think that giving Kansans the right to carry concealed weapons would not be good for society.
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Longtime community leader Dudley Lowell Henderson died today. He was 91 years old. He was born and raised in Iola and returned here in 1948 after military service and working in the Veterans Service. He was managing secretary of Security Savings and Loan in Iola 1948-1967. In 1955, the Hendersons platted Henderson’s Meadowbrook, the first of the additions to Iola not built upon the grid plan.
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City commissioners voted to pay the cost of air conditioner repairs at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, but more important, they decided to work on a formula to provide annual support for the Center, which serves many of the purposes city auditoriums provide in other cities.
