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WEDNESDAYMay 162001

Volume 69, Number 97 Eight Pages Goodland, Kansas 67735

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1 p.m.Boy convictedin shooting

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. —A jury convicted a 14-year-old boyof second-degree murder today forshooting his English teacher, re-jecting a more serious charge thatcould have put him in prison forlife.

Nathaniel Brazill, who insistedhe accidentally shot the popular35-year-old teacher on the last dayof school a year ago, also was con-victed of aggravated assault forpointing the silver .25-calibersemiautomatic pistol at a mathteacher as he fled.

The teen, an honor roll studentwithout a previous criminal re-cord, faces 25 years to life in prisonfor the shooting death of BarryGrunow.

The jury began deliberationsMonday and spent 14 hours beforereturning the verdicts. Sentencingwas set for June 29.

Base set for VanGogh paintingEasel construction begins;erection expected in June

Ten, nine, eight, seven ...

Ric Schlosser aligned eight of the 3-foot long bolts thatwill keep a giant replica of a Van Gogh sunflower paint-ing in place, before they were sunk into a hole filledwith concrete and attached to a steel base. Schlosser

volunteered Tuesday to help build the base for thegiant sculpture, which is scheduled to be erected nextmonth.

Photos by Rachel Miscall/The Goodland Daily News

Rick Murray, with Schlosser Con-crete, poured readymix into a 30-foot-deep hole near the CherryStreet-Business U.S. 24 junction onTuesday, creating a base for a giantpainting that will be erected thissummer.

See PAINTING, Page 4

Antique Warehouse plans Saturday opening

By Rachel MiscallThe Goodland Daily News

Volunteers helped fill three 30-footdeep holes with concrete Tuesdaymorning, finally setting the base for agiant replica of a Van Gogh sunflowerpainting near the Cherry Street-Busi-ness U.S. 24 junction.

They’re just concrete-filled holes inthe ground now, but Darin Neufeld, anengineer working with other volunteersto erect the 80-foot sculpture, said in amonth they will serve as a base for the24- by 32-foot painting.

The attraction — the brainchild ofCanadian artist Cameron Cross — willface I-70 and community leaders hopeit will draw at nearly 90,000 visitors tothe High Plains Sunflower Capitol eachyear.

Neufeld, with Evans, Bierly, Hut-chinson and Associates, said the ce-ment must harden for 28 days before itwill be strong enough the support thepainting, which will be welded to theeasel before a crane lifts it into place.

The engineer said if everything goesas planned, the gigantic replica will beplaced during the week of June 11. Hesaid Gary Farris, owner of Farris Manu-facturing, will start welding the three-legged easel together this month.

Volunteers have spent the past yearjumping hurdles, but the finish line isin sight. As Neufeld walked away fromthe site, where he and four helpers spentmore than three hours Tuesday, hesmiled and said “Thank God.”

Sunflowers U.S.A., the non-profitgroup organizing and gathering moneyfor the project, has run into one delayafter another — the most recent beingthe death of the 69-year-old contractorwho agreed to drill the holes. The grouporiginally thought the sculpture wouldbe up before the end of 2000.

The death of Bob Bartell, the Winonacontractor who planned to drill theholes, set the project back another twoweeks, but Neufeld said the con-

tractor’s son agreed to step in. KyleBartell and one of his father’s formeremployees from Burlington drilled theholes Saturday.

Ric Schlosser, who does custom con-crete, volunteered to help with the ce-

GOP wants to moveon Bush energy plan

Fifth grade students at North Elementary, with the help of teach-ers, shot off rockets this morning which they had made in class. Fifthgrade teacher Myron Tedford helped Jessica Hatfield connect thebattery clamp to a rocket launcher before she shot off her model.

Photo by Janet Craft/The Goodland Daily NewsSee ANTIQUE, Page 4

By Janet CraftThe Goodland Daily News

After nine months of remodeling, theAntique Warehouse at 17th and Mainshould be open Saturday.

Owners Kim Acuff and Shane Ritterbought the historic B.E. Bridges build-ing in August and have spent thousands

of hours restoring the building, whichwas built in 1922.

“Basically we have tried to restore itlike it was,” Acuff said.

An article in the Oct. 19, 1922, issueof the Western Kansas News, said “adescription of the building can hardlydo it justice. One must visit the place to

realize its true worth and immensity.”Acuff said she thinks the quote fits

the place.She said that from 1922 to 1952, the

36,000-square-foot brick buildinghoused the biggest wholesale grocerybusiness between Kansas City andDenver, serving a five state area. Items

were brought in by train and unloadedon the back dock.

The building still retains some of the16-by-30-foot coolers, a scale and a six-ton ice machine.

“We want to keep the history of thebuilding alive,” Acuff said.

She said they wanted to take the in-

side back to the original bricks, whichhad many layers of paint on them, onall three floors. They sandblasted thebricks, which Acuff said took them twomonths. It took them three months toclean up 30,000 pounds of sand.

“That was our major project,” shesaid.

In the cleanup process, they shoveledthe sand into wheelbarrows and hauledit out of the building. Then they hosedthe walls and ceilings down and sweptand vacuumed before sealing thebricks.

The building’s entry will display pic-tures and memorabilia showing how itlooked when it was a grocery ware-house.

Acuff said if anybody has anythingfrom the original warehouse that theywant to sell or loan for display, theyshould contact her or Ritter.

There will also be pictures of the re-modeling process and a scrapbook forpeople to write down any memoriesthey might have about the building.

New awnings on the north side of thebuilding were designed by Acuff andRitter, and built by Dennis Bentzinger’swelding class and a couple of carpen-try students from the Northwest Kan-sas Technical College in Goodland.

The business will house over 30 lo-cal and out-of-town dealers selling an-tiques, collectibles and gifts. A few ofthe antiques for sale include furniture,glassware, primitives, quilts, tools andjewelry. Space is rented out by the foot,Acuff said, Vendors set up their itemsfor display and will restock their space,while Acuff will handle all sales. Shesaid dealer space is available and shealso takes consignment items.

Gift items include handmade quilts,stained glass, gift baskets, floral ar-rangements, candles, jewelry, rustedlawn ornaments, collectible dolls andTy Beanie Babies and stuffed animals.

“The dealers bring in new things ona daily basis,” she said, “so, there will

NoonCurrent wheat — $2.90 bushelNew wheat — $2.92 bushel

Posted county price — $2.94Corn — $1.80 bushel

Posted county price — $1.71Loan deficiency payment — 28¢

Milo — $2.85 hundredweightSoybeans — $3.93 bushel

Posted county price — $3.93Loan deficiency payment — 97¢

Millet — $6.00 hundredweightSunflowers

Oil current crop — $6.65 cwt.Oil new crip — $5.90 cwt.Loan deficiency pmt. — $2.94Confection current — $15/$7 cwt.

Pinto beans — $14 (new crop)(Markets provided by Mueller Grain, Sigco

Sun, Frontier Equity Co-op and 21st CenturyBean. These may not be closing figures. )

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Awaitingan energy blueprint from the WhiteHouse, Senate Majority Leader TrentLott promised to move quickly, hopingCongress can complete action beforethe end of summer.

But Lott said Wednesday that someof President Bush’s expected recom-mendations, such as expanded drillingon federal land and taking private landfor power lines, “will be hotly debated”on Capitol Hill.

Democrats launched a pre-emptivestrike Wednesday, saying the Bush en-ergy package will do little to addresssoaring gasoline prices, the West Coastpower crisis and the need to get Ameri-cans to use less energy.

“The president seems almost totallyindifferent” to soaring electricity prob-lems and blackouts in the West, saidHouse Minority Leader RichardGephardt, D-Mo.

White House press secretary AriFleischer insisted that the president’senergy task force, while focusing onlong-term energy problems, also willhave measures that “will help in theshort term.”

The “comprehensive approach” tobe outlined by the president’s energyproposals “will help consumers” thissummer, said Fleischer, who didn’t pro-vide details.

Other government sources said the

task force recommendations will directEnvironmental Protection Agency Ad-ministrator Christie Whitman to lookinto ways to give refiners more leewayin blending gasoline to spur supply andease distribution.

The task force will ask the agency totry to get states to abandon require-ments for “boutique” gasoline blendsas part of their air pollution controlstrategies.

The industry has blamed the require-ment for many different blends forsome of the refinery and distributionproblems, a claim disputed by environ-mentalists.

The task force also will call for in-creased funding of the federal programsto help low-income families pay forcooling and heating costs, said thesources.

Both Republicans and Democrats inCongress agree those funds should bebeefed up.

Lott, R-Miss., speaking to reporters,said he hoped to bring an energy bill tothe Senate floor next month and haveit to the president by July 4 “or certainlythis summer.”

As for Democratic criticism that theGOP approach tilts too heavily towardproduction, Lott said, “I don’t believewe can conserve ourselves into (meet-ing) the energy needs we’ll have in thefuture.”

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Practice makes perfectPainting close to finish

ANTIQUE, from Page 1

PAINTING, from Page 1

Hazen Deeds, a second grader (left), and Ryder Kling, a first grader,used a Gatorade bottle to practice for the 4 x 25 meter relay on Sat-urday at the high school track. The City-County Recreation programand Kiwanis Club held a free track meet for students in kindergar-ten through sixth grade. Photo by Rachel Miscall/The Goodland Daily News

ment work. His brother, GarySchlosser, owner of Schlosser Con-crete, supplied the readymix.

The holes are 28 feet deep, Neufeldsaid, but the crew placed 2-foot metalrings over the openings to raise the topof the base. He said the barrels will endup surrounded by earth, as a new roadthe city is building just west of the sitewill be about five feet higher, slopinggradually to the east.

The road, connecting Cherry Streetand Business U.S. 24, will be built thissummer. Neufeld said workers willbegin building up land around thepainting site in the next two weeks.

After the crew — including RonHarding, Chamber of Commerce di-rector, and Wayne Aten, owner of AtenDepartment Store — smoothed overthe top of the holes, each about 3 feetacross, they used a fork lift and 2-by-4wooden boards to set eight bolts and asteel base into each one.

Neufeld said the 24 bolts, three feetlong and 1 1/2 inches in diameter, willsecure the square steel base, about 1 1/2 feet across, to the concrete — which,when dry, can withstand 3,500 poundsof pressure per square inch.

Farris, who has the giant, framedpainting sitting behind his shop onBusiness U.S. 24, will start welding the

easel together next week. He said hewill attach wheels to two of the easel’slegs, then use a fork life to pull the35,000-pound sculpture to the site, lessthan a mile away.

Meanwhile, the attraction will takeup almost every inch of the yard behindFarris’ shop. But he said he doesn’tmind.

“It’s kind of neat,” he said.The day a 100-foot crane lifts the

replica into place, Farris said, he willweld the easel legs to the steel base.Neufeld said the painting should standup to high winds and harsh weather.

He said a structural engineer inWinnipeg, Manitoba, where Crosslives, designed the easel and base.

The Canadian artist plans to painthuge Van Gogh replicas for seven cit-ies around the world. His first two com-pleted paintings from Van Gogh’s sun-flower series, in Canada and Australia,were erected according to that design,Neufeld said, but he modified it a bit.

Instead of welding the steel base tothe easel, he said, he and Farris decidedto place the painting, and then do thewelding. Neufeld said that way theyknow the steel base and bolts are linedup correctly.

Harding said the public will be in-vited to the raising, and a formal dedi-cation ceremony will come later thissummer.

Student falls from dorm windowLAWRENCE (AP) — A University

of Kansas student was hospitalizedTuesday after falling out an eighthfloor window of a dormitory.

Matthew Ward, a freshman fromKingman, was life flighted to OverlandPark Regional Medical Center after theincident, which happened about 1:35

a.m. He was listed in fair condition af-ter undergoing surgery.

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always be something new.”Acuff said that plans are eventually

a year-around Christmas room will beadded and she will have her collectibleSantas and snowmen for sale.

The warehouse has an area wherepeople can sit down and enjoy coffee,tea, soft drinks or snacks.

In the future, Acuff said, they willrefinish the basement and may add on.She said the warehouse has the capac-ity to hold hundreds of dealers.

Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Saturday and “bychance” on Sunday.

Acuff and Ritter invite everyone tocome in and enjoy the atmosphere thebuilding has to offer and take a look atthe antiques and gifts, or just sit withfriends and have a cup of coffee.

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