Conway Library Tape 41
February 1987 – March 1988
Tape log from 11/23 & 11/24
KAKE-TV, Hutchinson Newsroom Stories, Part One
Mike Conway, reporter, photojournalist
-this tape was redigitized in 2024 and it fixed the Delos Smith issue
00:12 Hutchinson’s Sammy Salthawk, Brad Beal 2/87 (2:00)
Hutchinson High School mascot
02:11 NJCAA Music Essay 3/22/87 (2:15)
Hutchinson Juco Basketball tournament
04:29 Mennonite Quilt Auction 4/11/87 (1:30)
State Fairgrounds, Hutchinson,
06:10 St. Jude’s Kid 2/19/87
Visit to St. Jude’s in Memphis, TN, Ryan Price
08:48 Dr. Barnard’s Patient 3/28/87
Paula Rodenbaugh, Open Heart Surgery as a child, done by Dr. Christian Barnard when he was young doctor in Minneapolis
Dr. Christiaan Barnard -first heart transplant surgeon
10:48 Historic Building 4/19/87
Ken & Leslie Phillips renovate 1890s Hutchinson home
Commerce Bank Building renovation incentives
City looking at incentives to save historic buildings
12:42 New York Visits Great Bend 5/8/87
NYC 4th graders visit pen pal students in Great Bend
Grain elevators, Kansas Cosmosphere, chicken farm
14:32 *Home Wheat 5/15/87
Charles McGinn (sp) left his family & moved from New Mexico to apartment in
Hutchinson to promote the idea of keeping wheat in the basement for the next Wall
Street crash, he calls itProject Joseph,
Kansas Association of Wheat Growers won’t endorse it
16:18 Sylvia, KS Centennial 5/23/87
Parade and festival
George Marshall, antique car collector
18:33 Fairview Cemetery Memorial Day, west of Hutchinson 5/25/87
Idea was to go to a small cemetery in middle of nowhere and see who shows up on Memorial Day. After a few hours, was worried no one would show. But they did
20:10 *Lakewood Fisherman 6/9/87
Jake & Becky Eckert buy the front entrance of Lakewood Country club, north of
Hutchinson at a tax sale. He’s out of work and she works at a junkyard and they have six
Kids. Their land includes the Lakewood sign and a lake. He wants to move their mobile
home there.
22:20 Hutchinson Grain Elevators 6/12/87
13 grain elevators in city of Hutchinson
One is being demolished near downtown
Built in 1914, was an idea of turning it into a restaurant
24:13 World’s Longest Grain Elevator in Hutchinson 6/18/87
With one headhouse, almost a half-mile long, can hold 16 million bushels of grain
Owned by Union Equity, harvest time
25:53 *Lakewood Fisherman, part two Jack Nolde 6/19/87
Farmer Jack Nolde in Kinsley, helps Jake Eckert with his back taxes because he was going to lose the front entrance to the Country Club. Nolde told Jake it would be a good spot for a hog farm.
27:41 Camp Hope 6/25/87
Camp for kids with cancer in Barton County, Camp Aldrich
29:14 Kansas State Fair History, part one 9/9/87
For 75th anniversary of State Fair, a look at the history
Bob Gottschalk, Kansas State Fair
31:00 Kansas State Fair History, part two, 9/10/87
Historic KAKE-TV footage, 1968, w/ old Kansas State Fair song
Bob Gottschalk, Kansas State Fair
33:00 Ricky Skaggs at the Kansas State Fair 9/19/87
Interview & “San Antonio Rose”
“Crying My Heart Out Over You”
35:00 Santa Fe Trail Ruts & Trail Exhibit 9/24/87
Ralph Abernathy, lives near Santa Fe Trail in Rice County
37:00 Henry Steele Commager, Amherst Historian, visits Hutchinson 10/16/87
History and Future of the Constitution
38:29 Delos Smith, Jr., actor opens a Senior Center in Hutchinson, his hometown 10/17/87
Includes clips from One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band
41:10 Kansas Peanut Farmer 10/26/87
Clinton Pierce, Reno Co. Farmer, he says the peanuts talk to him, resonate
Not allowed to sell the peanuts because he doesn’t have permission
42:45 First morning of the Kansas State Lottery 11/12/87
“Scratch It Rich” truckstop south of Hutchinson
-first lottery license.. and first people in line
44:19 Hutchinson Blue Dragons Juco Basketball 11/24/87
Beginning the season 4th in nation
Maurice Brittain, player
Reggie Morton, player
Dave Farrar, Hutchinson Coach
45:50 Underground Vault & Storage, 1/7/88
Located in Hutchinson salt mine
Carey Salt Mine, always 68 degrees, 50% humidity
Hollywood movie original films
48:05 Dutch Mill Bakery 1/14/88
bakery in Yoder, KS, an Amish community
Don & Linda Miller, owners, are Mennonite
49:50 KHCD Public Radio in Salina, KS signs on the air 1/28/88
Roger Morrison, Salina raised money for the station
KHCD is a repeater station for KHCC, NPR affiliate in Hutchinson, KS
Nancy Finken, news reporter
51:30 Drunk Driving Victim 12/31/87
Lloyd Gottschalk, photojournalist
Hutchinson girl, Sarah Scantlin, who was hit by a drunk driver in 1984 at age 18 and has
been basically in a coma since, her mother, Betsy Scantlin, talks about her
*she later came out of the coma, in 2005
54:04 Hutchinson Basketball -Midseason 2/10/88
Ranked 4th in the nation
William Davis, player
Steve Fritz, player
Dave Farrar, coach
55:50 Hutchinson Basketball Wins Region 6 3/8/88
Hutch beat Independence, KS in their gym, sold out crowd
Bobby Cremins, Georgia Tech-interview, Larry Brown-Kansas, Eddie Sutton, Kentucky-
interview, in crowd
fight in the stands,
Dave Farrar, Hutch coach
58:03 Hutchinson Blue Dragon Basketball Juco National Championship rally and parade
3/29/88
Rowdy Meeks, player
Dave Farrar, Coach
Shaun Vandiver, player