Ottawa Herald, The (Newspaper) - August 29, 1997, Ottawa, Kansas INSIDE OUTSIDE BIG 12 IN WIN COLUMN The Big 12 claims its first victory of the fledgling football thanks in big part to Kansas linebacker Patrick Brown see page A 30 chance for thunderstorms in the morning then becoming partly cloudy with a high around 90 and south wind 10 to Opinion 15 The Ottawa Herald INDEX Advice 4B 6B7B 2A 4A 2A Sports 1B2B 3A FRIDAY August 1997 Kansas 101 Cents National Nichols targets DENVER AP Michael and Lori whose damaging testimony helped convict Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City may have a diminished role during the upcoming trial of Terry The told jurors that the decorated Gulf War veteran advised them in advance of his plans to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma They also testified that McVeigh said Nichols was helping District Judge Richard Matsch told attorneys at a hearing Thursday he would monitor the testimony carefully and limit any based on hearsay or state ments that McVeigh made about alleged In an effort to put as much distance as possible between the two Nichols attorneys also asked Matsch to restrict evi dence about alleged bombing preparations and Nichols antigovernment of is scheduled to stand trial 29 on mur conspiracy and counts in the April bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal The blast killed 168 and injured more than 500 was convicted of identical counts in June and sentenced to General to command 35th AP Lloyd Gene Krase of Topeka will become commander of the 35th Infantry Division next the state Adjutant Generals Department now assistant division comman der for was selected as the new commander during a meeting of officers of the six states that encompass the 35ths region Illinois and Headquarters for the division is at Fort whose civilian job is deputy tor of the state Division of Emergency Man called his election a serious responsibility to serve the great soldiers of the 35th Division as their Last of five sentenced AP A Wichita woman has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role in a sub shop robbery that left a 19yearold college student District Judge Monti Belot on Wednesday sentenced Gracie to serve two years in federal prison for helping plot the She was the fifth and last defendant to be Ginyard had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit Prosecutors said who worked at the sub had agreed to let the rob bery take place on her shift but was not there when it Amie a Wichita State Uni versity was shot and killed during the Sentenced last week were Eric He was sentenced to life without Authorities say he was the master mind of the Dominic one of two men recruited to rob the was sen to 30 years in Courtney the alleged gun was sentenced to 23 Deborah another was sentenced to nine years and nine months for also giving the suspects infor Chuck Shepherds NEWS OF THE WEIRD Government in Action In to publicize the fact that it would soon resume bulk trash pickups suspended for several months because of budget the District of Columbia Department of Public Works paid to make TV public service announcements demonstrating that its crews were at according to the Washington Business fresh bulk trash was brought at additional to give the ads the proper despite the fact that residents had a huge backlog of the same items that they were perfectly will ing to put out on the curb for In an severely cannibalized 1974 Dodge which had been sitting on the side of 68 near since was finally During that the state gov and Jessamine County each relentlessly argued that removing it was the others Send your Weird News to Chuck Box Latest poll gives OSH high marks AP Osawatomie State Hos criticized earlier this week by a former employee and under investi gation by a watchdog scored high marks in a just completed accreditation sur state officials Randy dent of the hospital for the mentally said Thursday the survey team of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations considered report very The made up of a nurse and hospi tal gave the hospital an overall rating of 91 In its last survey three years Osawatomie was given a 77 percent Proctor said the nary results of the which are not expected to change when a final report is released in about 45 showed the hospital met national standards in 574 out of 578 The the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services said in a is that See OSAWATOMIE page 3A Mountain of fun Photo By Steve Morse Children enrolled at Village Child 1120 had fun Thursday in helping out the The center recently received a truckload of wood chips to use as a cushion under playground It was decided to allow the children to play on the mounds and thus distribute the chips around the Among the chip distributors were from left Aubree Rachel Hiatt and Meagan all Prominent Ottawans travel far Long love of rugby takes Wint Winter to African continent By BLAKE SPURNEY Herold Staff Writer Fifty years Wint Winter began his college football career at the University of but hes certainly not living off past The 67yearold bank executive recently returned from a South Africa rugby exhibition with the Kansas Jayhawks Rugby Football According to the switch from being a lineman to playing on the second row wasnt very most people dont pick up a contact I sport in their mid Im not going to I hold myself out as the worlds great est rugby player by any stretch of the he I But I like to play the The South African press took note of an elder statesman playing a sport usually reserved for men more than half his He was fea tured in a pair of articles during his though one was writ ten in one of South Africas official During one Winter Winter thought he was getting recognized by the large South African I was playing and kept hearing the Brits Wint this and Wint that and Wint do he I couldnt understand how they knew who I was because Im no big He later learned that the fans were cheering for Peter an Englishman who is Michael type figure in his After the Winter got a big thrill when he was introduced to Winterbottom in the London Harle quin Old Boys locker The trip had plenty of other high including a tour of a national wildlife Winter also attended a church service in Sowe a black township outside Johan that was thrust into the spotlight during The was in and the choir was from Winter A tour guide took Winter and sev eral others through and they got a chance to witness some horrific living Im a child of The and Ive never seen anything like that or living conditions that he We dont have any thing like Theres nothing like that in the United No one who will read your paper has every lived like Residents are jammed together in tin shacks that have no They share chemical toilets that are See WINTER page 3A KU prof set their own itinerary on sojourn to Russia By TELLIER Herald Staff Writer Franklin County Attorney Larry Wright recently spent nine days vacationing in including stops at Moscow and I always wanted to see it and never dreamed Id have the oppor to Wright Wright traveled with John a professor at the Universi ty of Kansas who teaches Wright also speaks some The two men decid ed to set their own rather than go as part of a prearranged Wright said that in Moscow will cele brate the 850th anniversary of the founding of the As a the city is undergo Wright ing a large cleanup Theyre going all Wright Buildings that havent been painted for years are being cleaned up and Wright said one surprise for him was the number of churches and cathedrals now open in Under the Soviet many churches were used as museums to Wright Every church I saw in Moscow I want to emphasize this every church is undergoing some kind of renova And these were not just cos metic Many of the church es I I saw liturgy worship services going And not just the old Men and women of all Wright said he got to talk to many Russian people on the He said capitalism was alive and well in There are signs of it every Wright But the aver age the man on the has especially the people on fixed the because of the rate of They dont have the safety net that existed under the I didnt see anyone starving on the but there were some Wright said some western tech nology was such as lar phones and He added that there was a commonly held western idea that under the Soviet Russians had money but no products to but now they have products available but no Thats an oversimplification of the effects that moving to a freemar com with high inflation has had on people he Wright said reports of crime in Russia were probably See WRIGHT page 3A Ottawa powwow this weekend Holiday closings By ELIZABETH TILDEN Herald Staff Writer The Ottawa Indian Cel and Powwow begins but some participants have been here since Some people have been moving in all week to said Sharla chairperson of the weekend Of the rest of them had to work and will come in Friday night so they can play this Activities will be at Adawe Indian located five miles east and one mile south of The Ottawa Indians Adawe is an early pronunciation of Ottawa occupied Franklin Kansas in 1832 under grant ed land from the federal government and then later It is they from whom and Ottawa University got their Additional camp spaces have been added to the Miami Other improvements include fully operational an enlarged conces sion stand and a covered dance arena free of debris and dust for the benefit of the Weekend activities began at 10 today with a health fair that tested general such as cholesterol and blood sugar On Saturday and Sunday approximately 200 dancers will gather for a stomp dance each The stomp dance will last most of the night until Dawes Several competitions and games will occur including horseshoe Indian football foot races and volleyball tour At noon the entire camp will gath er for a camp feast in memory of Ottawa Tribe See POWWOW page 3A Labor Ottawa City County State Federal District Ottawa post office lobby Ottawa Drug open 10 rest The Franklin County Board of Commissioners will not meet Monday because of the but it will meet The Ottawa Herald will not publish a news paper on
