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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1981
Page
10
Kansas lawmakers ended the session with worries over school funding and budget cuts. Governor Carlin planned a severance tax push during a 19 day recess while Democrats question a $53 million property tax impact. House and Senate allied briefly on education funding amid talks of a veto and next steps.
Kansas Attorney General Robert T. Stephan ruled that the governor cannot strike line-item provisos in appropriations bills with his line-item veto. The opinion states the governor may disapprove an item but cannot reject the legislature’s expenditure conditions.
Topeka Kansas AP Speaker Wendell Lady criticized Senate leadership for deep budget cuts aimed at blocking a severance tax and shielding the oil and gas industry. He said cutting aid to protect profits harms those most in need and expressed frustration with the session.
Johnny Miller unveils a novel putting grip and joins the early Masters leaders on page 4. A dwindling legal defense fund draws mixed reactions from lawyers on page 7. A National House committee weighs limits on grain embargo influence for farmers, also on page 7.
President Reagan to leave George Washington University Hospital and return to the White House this weekend pending stable condition. Aide says discharge possible Saturday afternoon after morning exam. trip to Mexico canceled. no presidential travel for weeks. Ottawa Board of Education meets Monday at 7 30 pm with agenda on copying machines band program co op enrollment and school name decision.
Cape Canaveral Florida AP. The long awaited test flight of America’s rocketship Columbia was scrubbed for at least two days when a computer malfunction appeared as two astronauts waited. Officials halted the clock. hatch was opened and crew pulled back to quarters. Earliest reschedule is Sunday at 6 50 a m EST.
Terry Sullivan, a 3-year-old Lebo man, pleads innocent to charges in the March 17 abduction and slaying of 54-year-old Princeton truck driver Bill Welch. An arraignment grants pre-trial motions hearing and a defense investigator. April 30 pre-trial is set to challenge identification by photographs and suppress seized evidence.
The National Weather Service station at Ottawa Waterland reports a low of 61 and a high of 75 on Thursday morning and afternoon, with no rain. The forecast calls for partly cloudy, warm and humid conditions through Saturday with isolated thunderstorms late today or tonight. Lows tonight in the low to mid 60s. Saturday highs around the mid 80s with southerly winds 10 to 20 mph and rain chances under 20 percent tonight.
Ottawa planners examine a six year capital improvements draft totaling millions. Projects include a new softball complex dredging the Marais des Cygne River library overhaul and a south town fire substation with funding from tax revenue water and electric bills.
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