Ottawa Herald (Newspaper) - March 26, 1975, Ottawa, Kansas V Mental Wheels Grind Away On Auditorium By DON LAMBERT Suggestions ranging from renovation of the Ottawa Memorial Auditorium to demolition of it and construction of a city center were presented Tuesday night to the Auditorium Advisory Committee members listed as persons representing a variety of interests presented ideas about what to do with the 55yearold auditorium that was closed several months ago for safety reasons and about how to best meet the cultural heeds of the as well as other The committee is to have its fourth and possible final meeting at 7 next Monday to determine its recommendation to the Ottawa City Through A Knothole Darkly Jack a planning consultant who has been working on the citys 701 Comprehensive brought up the possibility of a city center on the outskirts of the It was suggested that it include a new city a new city an auditorium and meeting room Although he didnt present any details of such a he said the committee should look into its He said many factors must be For he said that although it was once important that an auditorium and other city facilities be in the center of a the advent of the automobile has lessened the importance of that He quoted a preliminary cost study which indicated that renovating the auditorium would cost about he stated that it may actually cost twice that much after all elements are taken into He suggested that the committee should question whether that money could be better spent on a new The Ottawa City Hall has outlived its usefulness and the Ottawa Library is functioning at full he said We need to ask whether civic should be located in scattered areas or grouped on one He responded that he favors grouping them on one In he if business people wish to expand in the downtown the logical area is to the to possibly the space occupied by the Other alternatives he suggested were to build a facility in cooperation with Ottawa University or in cooperation with the high Beebes remarks prompted one committee member to ask whether the sale of the materials in the old auditorium would pay for its Beebe said that probably it Steve director of the Ottawa Recreation expressed disfavor at not being asked to be a member of the advisory A community building should come under the heading of a nonpolitical community oriented organization which is On 5 And How Green Is Envy we are We are jealous because with a population of about that is about an hours drive from does not have to go through the process of coming up with money for some kind of cultural In lola has one of the finest cultural centers around and it is nontax George director of tolas cultural told members of the Auditorium Advisory Committee Tuesday right about that citys Thomas Bowlus Fine Arts Thomas Bowlus was president of the Allen County State Bank for 52 And as Foreman explained because Bowlus was never he accumulated a large amount of nearly two million Bowlus died in 1960 and his will stipulated that a fine arts and cultural center be built at a cost of about Now in its the center is operated on the interest of the remaining of Bowlus trust The lola high school and junior both only about two blocks away from the modern use it for art and music About 750 students use the building each i MARCH KANSAS 66067 lift 10 Cents 16 Pages 2 By DE McGLASHON like a tapestry wall wove through their colors of the treads changed as they narrowed in places and at other points But standing looking at the tapestry of the total picture was The picture was about welfare and two who some years found the r only outlet for survival was to step aboard a which now they find increasingly difficult to step away The women along with social service worker Terri to Wednesday nights local meeting of the National Organization for Sitting on low stools and on pillows stacked in or on the the women bunched in one small room of the Up Front which has of something of a feminist Gradually as the coffee the small group warmed to each and later in the when an electrical fuse lacked fortitude to keep lights it caused hardly a ripple in the stream of The guests spoke candidly of their marriages that had the children they had by different both in and out of Not that it made any difference They were still wanting to join Girl Scouts or Boy needing new shoes to start a male companion to teach them about fishing and But it takes money for such They told about the grants they received from welfare to women who had been granted a different socio economical The grants of money are allotted according to a myriad of and some money withheld when a certain amount is so that they can do little more than keep one foot in front of the other on the Even church takes and a certain amount of grit to face the hypocracy one woman found I made up my mind I was going to hang in and I She devised over the an essential wisdom to combat being looked down on because she is a welfare You I understand Continued On S Candidate Roundup The Herald begins Us candidate roundup today with a look at those running in the three area school board 287 Pomona and 288 Central Heights and 289 Wells The roundup is carried on Page 10 of todays April 1 is election Breakthrough In Burglaries It appears that the majority of the recent burglaries in the Ottawa area have been according to Fred acting chief of the Ottawa Police Espinosa said that a 20year old man is being held in the Franklin County Jail and his name will be released upon formal filing of Another young man is being Espinosa explained that intensified patrol and surv has been conducted during the last week by officers of the police the Franklin County Sheriffs the Kansas Highway the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Miami and Douglas At about this Espinosa officers saw two men leaving the scene of a burglary at the Farm Bureau 114 Officer Tony DeLaTorre chased the men on foot and caught one of them near the corner of Third and The search continues for the other This officers conducted a search of an apartment at Patty 803 where the suspect now in custody had been Found there were items stolen earlier this week from Montgomery Ward Fifth and South Main and Scotts Drive 109 Espinosa said he expects that the arrest of the man in custody and the one being sought will clear the more than 20 burglaries of local Several businesses outside of Ottawa and downtown ones have been burglarized at three different occasions in the last two Amounts of cash of up to and small quantities of except at were reported In most of the physical force was used to open Contents were sometimes scattered and drawers were often rummaged The building has a large auditorium 750 a smaller concert hall with 150 movable a piano lab similar to a language listening and 11 Steinway grand The facility has a operating budget per year and brings in cultural Last for the list of events included Guy the Paul Chamber Or the Vienna Boys Choir and a puppet group from New Seats at these events ranged from to In the new facility has sparked a successful community theater effort that just finished performing The Music Man to a packed audience and the group actually made money on the who is in charge of scheduling and said it has become a source of community And it has assisted in developing other areas of the he With no prospects of a similar situation occurring members of the committee listened quietly to some asked how they can get tickets to lolas events and others stared in USD 290 Candidates Air Views OPD Officers With Stolen Items Recovered This Morning Arabs Mourn Fallen King Faisal Lebanon AP Thousands of wailing Arabs mobbed the coffin of King Faisal before the worlds richest monarch was buried in an unmarked grave It was the only public portion of the simple funeral rites proscribed by the Wahabi sect of Bathed by Moslem holy shrouded in a seamless white body lay in El Eid mosque in Ri the capital of Saudi while princes and com chanted Allah God is the new 62 yearold King wept as he prayed over the He was flanked by members of the royal family and 16 other presidents and Radio stations in Syria and the United Emirates hooked in with Riyadh state radio to broadcast live coverage of the The wailing of the crowd out side the mosque could be heard over the chants of the the Moslem He intoned Regard not as dead those that are killed for the sake of 0 ye tranquil return to thy God willingly and join my slaves in King Khaled and his 53yearold Crown Prince received pledges of allegiance from princes of the royal military com Moslem religious Bedouin tribal chief tains and By JEWEL SCOTT A few votes probably were won and a few but nearly 80 persons got a good look at the opinions of the 290 Ottawa Board of Education candidates Tuesday The candidates spoke briefly and then answered questions at a forum jointly sponsored by the Greater Ottawa Chamber of Commerce education and legislative affairs committees and the Ottawa Education All of the eight who are vying for the four open positions on the board expressed an interest in the schools and the education provided in It was their ideas on means for providing a sound education that in several instances Burt 1314 drew the first spot on the Brewer told the group that during the last 14 years he has covered the school board meetings for the local radio station and has become familiar with and sympathetic to many of the problems faced by the His interest in running for the board was whetted even Brewer when he served on a board task force for development Brewer said he would like to have input in some of the snow is the birds are moving the sun is out and the river lies but even these springtime happenings do not mean that it isnt cold out The chilly temperatures and winds of the last few days are enough to convince anyone of The weather is expected to last for a so winter clothes are still a good decisions facing the We are getting into a critical time and we need some real guidance and he Brewer said he also would like to see additional long range planning by the district and a closer relationship with the Jim Ottawa RFD is seeking his third term on the The Ottawa who said he has missed just one board meeting in the eight years he has has been a part of the teacher salary negotiations team for five One of the greatest reasons he is running for a third Allen is the Allen said that he feels that teacher salaries must Allen said he also would like to be a part of the board and its decisions whether a proposed bond issue in which case the sky is the or in which case he foresees big problems to Allen pointed out that it is important to remember the board members are elected at He also said that since his first term he has I first ran people talked about you had an ax to I dont think thats necessarily He I Im elected to provide the best education possible with the tax dollar Jim 936 said he is a native of Holland and came to the United States when he was 19 years The father of three said he has been active in working with the Little League and Since coming to Ottawa six years Ryssemus he has worked on several boards and committees of I am Ryssemus and I think I can ask the right Ryssemus closed by saying he wants to contribute his energy and efforts to the school Judy is seeking her second full term on the 35 Rockwood told about when she first was appointed to the school To me it was the most tremendous Chandler I dont feel like Im finished Chandler said she has a basic understanding about the financial details of operating the but that she leaves the nitty gritty of the financial operations to other members more qualified in that area and concentrates in Continued On Page 5 Weather COUNTY storm watch tonight and windy aria cold with rain likely changing to snow tonight low In the upper 20s to lower gusty east winds 15 cloudy windy and cold with snow likely Thursday possible heavy snow with blowing ana drifting high Thursday low to mid precipitation probabilities 60 per cent tonight and
