Remembering the Champs of 1976
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SAVINGS SALUTE THE HOLTON When you subscribe , TOPEKA, KANSAS you save nearly 50% o Hometown of the newsstand price! Curtis Strawn Holton Recorder subscriber for more than 50 years. RECORDERServing the Jackson County Community for 149 years Volume 149, Issue 16 HOLTON, KANSAS • Wednesday, February 24, 2016 14 Pages $1.00 Primary election set for Tuesday REMEMBERING THE By Ali Holcomb Holton voters will head to the polls on Tuesday for a primary election to narrow down the field CHAMPS OF 1976 of candidates that have filed for the position two seat on the Holton City Commission. A total of four Holton residents, Christina Murphy, Christina Co- bler, Mike Meerpohl and Rodney Miller, have all filed for position two on the commission, forcing the primary. All four names will be included on Tuesday’s ballot, and the two candidates who receive the most Voters are reminded to bring some votes during the primary will ad- form of photo identification to the vance to the spring election set for polls that day in order to vote. April 5, it was reported. A total of 2,024 Holton residents Profiles of all four candidates are registered to vote in the county. were included in Monday’s edition Holton City Commissioners serve of The Holton Recorder. three-year terms and meet the first The polls will be open from 7 and third Mondays of the month at a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, and all 7 p.m. at Holton City Hall. registered Holton voters will cast For more information about the their vote at the Holton Veterans election, call the election clerk’s Club, 926 W. 6th St. office at 364-2891. City planners approve N-O zone amendment By Brian Sanders Homestead President and CEO Plans to amend Holton’s neigh- Tom Bishop said plans for the borhood office zoning regulations former Word of Encouragement to include residential living space church property, which was placed were not intended to turn Holton under N-O zoning in August of into a city with too much rental 2012, included setting up new of- housing, the Holton Planning Com- fice space for Homestead and other The 1976 Jackson Heights Lady Cobras basketball team, shown above from a Holton Recorder file photo, will be honored at half- mission noted during their regular neighborhood organizations in a time of the JH varsity boys game here Friday night, along with coaches and managers, on the 40th anniversary of the team winning meeting on Monday. metal building on the property. As the Kansas Grand State Girls Basketball State Championship. The photo above was taken after the team won the Class 1A State While reviewing an application for the church building, described Title, which qualified them for the Grand State tournament playing the Class 2A, 3A, 4A and 5A state winning teams that season. from Homestead Affordable Hous- by Bishop as a “framed, residential Those shown in the photo are front row, left to right, regular starters Kirby (Hossfeld) Wittenbach, Kim (Cochren) Bethell, Connie ing of Holton to amend the city’s building,” Homestead’s plan was (Brown) Barnhart, Myla (Spencer) Cole and Brenda Holaday. N-O (neighborhood office district) to turn it into rental housing. Back row, left to right, coach Ken Thomas, Cindy Ideker, Sheri (Oxandale) Dibbern, Connie (Minner) Barnhardt, Mary (Troxel) Tin- zoning regulations, planners heard While Homestead was consid- kler, Sherri (Hasenkamp) Bugner, Sherry (Gerhardt) Streeter and Lori (Humphreys) Fickle. concerns from city residents about ering purchasing the property, rental housing in the city regarding Bishop said, he had been told by overcrowding and rental property the city that it was fine to use the maintenance, it was reported. building as single-family hous- Grand State champion team to be honored Considering the former concern, ing, since the now-defunct church the application to amend the zon- had used it that way. But when the By David Powls for boys. Dave Henry. Members of the team Westmoreland two weeks earlier in ing regulation to turn part of the Kansas Housing Resource Corpo- For a short time, Kansas had its own Wichita North (featuring girls bas- were Sherri Hasenkamp, Kirby Hoss- regional competition at the Cobra former Word of Encouragement ration, which provides Homestead version of the “Hoosiers’’ story made ketball legend Lynnette Woodard) feld, Connie Minner, Sheri Oxandale, court. Family Church property at Sixth with funding assistance for its rent- popular by a movie with the same was the Kansas girls Grand State Brenda Holaday, Sherry Gerhardt, The Recorder reported that a crowd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, al properties, looked at the build- name in which a small town basket- Champion in 1975. Mary Troxel, Connie Brown, Myla of more than 500 Lady Cobra boost- now owned by Homestead, in- ing, it was suggested to split it into ball team in Indiana (Hickory) takes Jackson Heights was the Kansas Spencer, Kim Cochren, Lori Hum- ers traveled all the way to Hays to volved allowing multiple-family a duplex. on and defeats basketball teams, in a girls Grand State Champion in 1976. phreys, Cindy Ideker and managers watch the team also win 43-34 over housing as an acceptable use under “It’s almost 2,000 square feet,” state tournament format, from much On Friday of this week, at halftime Sally Askren and Rhonda Smith. Wilson and 40-28 over Norwich. N-O zoning. Assistant City Man- Bishop said of the residential area. bigger towns. of the Cobra boys varsity basketball Connie Brown led the Cobras in By winning the Class 1A State Ti- ager Kerwin McKee said this was “You could serve two families in The 1986 “Hoosiers’’ movie was game, the 1976 Lady Cobras players, scoring and rebounding in Class 1A tle, Jackson Heights became the first the main concern for those in at- that space instead of just one.” coaches and managers will be recog- state competition and was named to team in Class 1A girls basketball his- based on a true story about how in th tendance on Monday. But many present in the audi- 1954, the small Milan High School nized on the 40 anniversary of its the all-tourney team. Myla Spencer tory to go 24-0, it was reported in The Instead, planners made a rec- ence for Monday’s meeting were (student enollment of 161) won the rare Kansas prep sports achievement. was an honorable mention pick to the Recorder. ommendation to add R-2 (two- concerned that the duplex would Indiana prep basketball title by de- Also that evening, some memora- all-tourney team. At this point in the 1976 season, the family dwelling) zoning as an ac- end up serving more than two fam- feating teams from the cities of Terra bilia from the Lady Cobras’ Hickory- It was the first-ever statewide class Lady Cobras were already laden with ceptable use in an N-O zone to the ilies, and Bishop said he agreed Haute and Muncie in the state finals. like basketball season will be on dis- basketball championship for Jackson more honors and trophies than they Holton City Commission. McKee with those concerns, adding that he In 1975 and 1976, the Kansas State play in the hallway near the entrance Heights and it had been achieved in could carry. And they were not done. said the city commission will take intends to make sure that any and High School Activities Association to JHHS. just the seventh year of the school’s The Grand State girls tourney field up the matter at one of its regularly all Homestead rental properties are Jim Dodson, a local organizer for history. was made up of Class 1A champ sanctioned what was called “Grand th scheduled March meetings, which well-maintained, inside and out. State’’ basketball tournaments in the 40 year recognition event, said The previous two seasons, the Lady Jackson Heights (24-0), Class 2A are set for Monday, March 7 and which five statewide class winners most of the 1976 team’s players, Cobras had reached the Class 1A champ Hill City (25-0), Class 3A Monday, March 21. Continued to Page 14 competed in a tourney to determine coaches and managers plan to attend State semifinals and finished third champ Buhler (22-3), Class 4A an overall “Grand State’’ winner. the event Friday. both of those years. champ Liberal (19-1) and Class 5A Grand State basketball tournaments Jackson Heights’ Lady Cobras en- By winning the Class 1A State Bas- champ Hutchinson (21-3). were offered just one year for boys tered the 1976 Class 1A State Basket- ketball Title, the Lady Cobras earned In the first round of competition, Cases against stabbing (1975) and two years for girls (1975 ball Tournament at Hays with a 21-0 the right to compete in the Kansas back at Hays, Hill City beat Liberal and 1976). record, according to news stories in Grand State girls basketball tourney. 54-40 and Buhler beat Hutchinson Highland Park of Topeka was the The Holton Recorder. At Class 1A State, Jackson Heights 52-37. suspect moving forward Kansas boys Grand State Champion The Cobras were led by head coach beat Westmoreland in the title game, in 1975, the only year it was offered Ken Thomas and assistant coach 40-36. The Cobras had defeated Continued to Page 14 By Brian Sanders The most severe of the charges A Mayetta resident accused of the against Noriega is a first-degree November stabbing death of a May- murder charge that stems from the Items purchased for county’s etta woman will enter a plea on that Nov.