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...Short of a first-rate meal," says History Professor Martin A. Reif of Wichita State, "you can get just about anything you want here...
With economic troubles in hand, Wichita is attending to its quality of life...
...addition to its own funding program, Wichita has received more than $27 million in grants since 1969. Some federal money is being used to develop six mini-city halls, one of which is already in operation. Scattered around the city, they will provide recreation facilities, meals for the elderly, library services, medical assistance, job team training and water-and electricity-bill-paying centers at the neighborhood level. When a survey showed bicycle paths to be a top priority, 86 miles of them were added to Wichita's parks...
...keeping all the hordes east of the Mississippi out of their beautiful country. When asked what they like about their city, most Wichitans cite intangibles such as the sense of community and quality of life. Grover McKee, the budget director who engineered the industrial-development program, came back to Wichita after ten years on Wall Street. "When I was in New York I was spending $200 a month commuting two hours each way. Now I'm 14 minutes door to door, and I live on a farm." Adds Mayor Porter, who in a neat reverse moved to Wichita from...
Smoke Signals. Wichita is also well aware that its present heady prosperity is partly a matter of luck and geography, of being relatively uninvolved in those sectors of the U.S. economy that are in trouble and of participating heavily in those that are still flourishing. As a major regional market and processing center for the farm belt, it is riding with wheat and other farm products in their continuing record prosperity and with Kansas oilmen in the higher prices for their petroleum...