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Task Force Hires Finishing Work On Damage To Flower Michaelis Tells Ilotarians Mercury Spill Clean-up Pots Totals $380 About KSU Foundation Says Some Top al-Qaida, Taliban Leaders Coordinator For A toxic waste crew from Kansas Damage to five large and medium : Pat Michaelis, who was with Em­ Anti-Drug Program City was expected to finish work size flower pots at the Tim Tyner prise Bank while a resident of Killed, But No Evidence On bin Laden by this evening to clean-up a mer­ home, 414 Columbia Street, Council Grove, presented informa­ Cynthia Engle has been hired as cury spill in a garage at 726 West amounted to $380, according to the tion on his duties as director of de­ WASHINGTON (AP)-U.S. air- U.S. ground troops will play a rebels on the southern island of the fulltime project coordinator for Main Street. offense report released by the police velopment, eastern United States, strikes on two buildings in Afghani­ role in the new phase of the battle, Basilan. , ; the $47,917 Drug Free Communi­ Gary Conrad said he and a helper department. The incident was be­ for the Kansas State University stan killed some senior leaders of the but how many and what kind ex­ Still held are missionaries Gracia ties Support Program grant awarded were raking leaves in the yard and tween Nov. 1 and 10. Foundation, when he spoke Wed­ Taliban militia and al-Qaida terrorist pends on whether the Taliban and al- and Martin Burnham of Wichita, recently to the Morris County Anti- cleaning out the garage when the If you have information on this nesday noon at a meeting of the network, spokes­ Qaida collapse completely, flee the Kan. Drug Task Force. helper noticed silver beads under criminal damage to property case, Council Grove Rotary Club. woman said Thursday. country or regroup in mountain She will implement, evaluate and leaves that had blown into the call Crime Stoppers, 767-7777. He is involved in contacting K- "One of our primary objectives caves to fight a guerrilla war. Was To Be 20th Hijacker sustain prevention programming in garage. You will remain anonymous and State alumni living east of the Mis-, over the last few days has been to go A senior U.S. official said Taliban WASHINGTON (AP)-A Yemeni Morris County. Conrad realized it was mercury and could be eligible for a cash reward. sissippi River,: raising funds the after command-and-control - Taliban defections in recent days have num­ man who tried but failed repeatedly Her responsibilities will include called Wayne Brooks, emergency The calls are not recorded, and there KSU Foundation uses for buildings, and al-Qaida leadership," said Victo­ bered in the hundreds, providing to get into the United States was carrying out terms of the five-year preparedness coordinator. When the is no caller ID on the Crime Stop­ equipment, technology, etc. ria Clarke, spokeswoman for De­ American and anti-Taliban fighters supposed to be the 20th hijacker on strategic plan and grant proposal; Kansas Department of Health and pers telephone line. Michaelis noted that K-State is fense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. with significant new sources of in­ Sept. 11, the FBI said. The man is ensure that the goals and objectives Environment was called, it referred No. 1 in the Big 12 Conference and Speaking with reporters, she said the formation. now the focus of a worldwide man­ are implemented; coordinate with the matter to the Environmental Warm, Dry Weather No. 4 in the nation in the percent of strikes on buildings near Kabul on hunt. city officials, school district person­ Protection Agency in Kansas City. Hurting Wheat Crop alumni making contributions. The Tuesday and Kandahar on Wednesday Analyze Tail, Turbulence Ramzi Omar, also known as nel, community agencies and orga­ Conrad said a pint-size jar that WICHITA (AP)~Unseasonably KSU Foundation raised $44.5 mil­ had resulted in the deaths of senior NEW YORK (AP)--Crash inves­ Ramsi Binalshibh, is believed to nizations, and other potential part­ contained the mercury apparently had warm, dry weather is hurting the lion during the past year, and has members of both groups. tigators are analyzing the makeup of have intended to be part of the hi­ ners on prevention initiatives; and been left in the garage at some point Kansas wheat crop, Kansas Agricul­ almost $300 million in total assets. "There was some senior leader­ the tail of American Airlines Flight jacking team that commandeered support the vision and mission of during the years by a previous tural Statistics Service said Tuesday. Michaelis said many K-State grad­ ship. ... No evidence that it was 587 and the possibility that turbu­ United Airlines Flight 93, which the Morris County Anti-Drug Task owner, and he didn't know the jar In its weekly crop weather report, uates give for- athletics when first ," she added. lence from another jet caused the air­ crashed in southwestern Pennsylva­ Force. was in the back of the garage. the agency reported that dry condi­ out of school, and later begin giving Asked whether bin Laden is still liner to break apart moments after nia. Engle will be available to provide Cats apparently had knocked over tions are keeping some fields from to their college within the uni­ alive, Clarke replied: "We've heard takeoff, killing 265 people. programs to all groups in Morris the jar, the lid was not tight and emeiging and casing a decline in the versity. nothing to indicate otherwise." Is he The use of composite materials in Husband In Record-Long County. She will have an office in some of the mercury leaked out on overall condition of the wheat. Judge David. Plat?:, Dale Rein, still in ? "We don't have the Airbus A300's tail and wake Marriage Dies At 103 him." the Morris County Health Depart­ the floor of the garage. It is not Wheat diseases are appearing. Bob Burr and Chris Carlin were turbulence from a Boeing 747 arc GREENVILLE, Ohio (AP)-Harlcy ment building, 221 Hockaday Street. known how long the jar, which still Speckled leaf blotch, leaf rust and guests at Wednesday's meeting. Clarke said there would be no halt considered to be principal factors in Utz, who got married when rcnLs The project coordinator worked at was approximately one-fourth full wheat streak mosaic have been found Tasha Hamilton, Diana Heideman in the bombing over the Muslim the crash, investigators said. were $19.50 a month, has died, five Four Winds Hospital in Kalonah, when found this week, had been in the central third of the state, and Mindy McDiffett, .seniors at holy time of Ramadan, which be­ All 260 people on board died months after he and his wife cele­ N.Y. from 1995-1997 as an intern leaking. KASS said. Infestation levels are Council Grove High School, were gins this weekend. "The terrorists Monday when Flight 587 crashed in brated their record 83rd anniversary. in the "Choices" program. She still light. Junior Rotarians for the week. don't take a break, we don't take a a Queens neighborhood three min­ He was 103. worked with adolescents and adults SaysRefigious Faith Helps KASS rated the declining wheat break," she said. utes after takeoff from Kennedy In­ Utz died Monday at the nursing in early recovery, and their families. Prevent Substance Abuse condition as 12 percent very poor or Twenty-one Braves Modest numbers of U.S. special ternational. Five people on the home where he and wife Sylvia, Her responsibilities included group NEW YORK (AP)-Pcople with poor, 27 percent fair, 51 percent Letter In Football operations forces are in the south of ground were killed. resided. - therapy and individual therapy ses­ religious faith are markedly less Afghanistan, continuing such activi­ good and 10 percent excellent. Twenty-one members of the sions, as well as performing as­ likely to abuse alcohol and illegal ties as roadblocks and searching out Release Seven Hostages About 5 percent of the acreage is Council Grove High School football Plan Community sessments for those seeking admis­ drugs than non-believers, a Colum­ potential havens of opposition activ­ ISABELA, Philippines (AP)-- now under grazing, a number that is team earned letters this fall, it has sion. bia University research report issued ity. Clarke declined to be more spe­ average for the state, KASS said. He been announced by Rick Blosser, Muslim extremist guerrillas who Thanksgiving Service From 1964-1997, Engle taught in Wednesday says. cific on the number. have been linked to Osama bin said wheat seeding is now complete head coach. The list includes 12 A time change has been an­ the Ardsley Union Free School Dis­ The report from the university's and the crop has come up on 96 per- The chairman of the Joint Chiefs Laden released seven of their last 10 nounced for the Community seniors, three juniors and six soph- —°—•- trict, Ardslcv, N.Y., where she also National Center on Addiction and CF»NL NF LHP NLNNT^RL ARRNC of Staff. Gen. Richard Myers, said HNGLTICRPG IPQWINRR THFLM »