Forty years ago
December 1978
Gary Cleaver, who lives northwest of Iola, trapped a 26-pound male bobcat earlier this week. Cleavers cat is one of several which have been trapped in this area this year.
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Talks between the school boards and citizens groups in the county will be held to see if there is any interest in consolidating districts, it was decided last night at the USD 257 board meeting. The steering committee of the citizens groups studying USD 257 needs appeared before the school board at the boards request and said they felt the school patrons in Moran and Humboldt should be given a chance to consider forming a single district before one of the districts builds a new high school and the possibility of consolidation fades.
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Iranian students at Allen County Community Junior College joined others across the nation yesterday demonstrating against United States support of the Shah of Iran. Students placed leaflets on car windows at the college and yesterday afternoon demonstrated briefly in downtown Iola, wearing black armbands and handing out leaflets to passersby. Dr. William Spencer, president of the college, said he visited at length with the students and said only two of the 32 Iranians enrolled supported the Shah.
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Gordon Conger of rural Iola was elected to the Kansas Soybean Association Board of Directors at the associations annual meeting this week in Ottawa.
