The Allen County Health Facilities Planning Council has recommended a new wing be added to Allen County Hospital, increasing bed capacity from 42 to 56. The council also agreed with conclusions reached in a six-month study directed by the Kansas Health Facilities Information Service.
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A new rock crusher, costing $62,500, has arrived for Allen County in Chanute and will be first located at the quarry on the Elder Thomas farm seven miles south of the drive-in theater, Charles Burrows, chairman of the board of county commissioners, said today. Allen County will not sell crushed rock to the City of Iola, the county commissioners said.
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One of the major problems facing Iola is the loss of population in the age bracket of 15 to 34 and the increase of population in the 65 years and older bracket, according to a comprehensive plan for the city completed recently by Butler and Associates of Springfield, Mo. A population study is only part of the report which also includes a land use plan, a thoroughfare plan, a community facilities plan and a capital improvements program.
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Allen County will not sell crushed rock to the City of Iola, the county commissioners said. A letter from Attorney General William Ferguson pointed out that political subdivisions may not conduct commercial enterprises in competition with private business. In his letter to Charles Apt, city attorney, Ferguson noted the city is part of the existing market for private sellers of gravel and the county would be selling in competition with those sellers.
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Plans were laid last night for a new Iola group that will be organized more formally in the next few days and weeks as the “Mustang Spur Club.” It is a proposed organization of adult sports followers for concentrating and demonstrating more moral support for Iola High School athletic teams, the football squad at this particular time. Robert Talkington, attorney and KU football letterman, presided. It was decided to order western style hats, light blue or turquoise, for the members to wear at IHS games.
