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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1980
Page
11
Nearly 800 Ottawa students in grades 2 4 6 8 and 11 will take reading and mathematics tests during the weeks of April 14 and 21. The statewide final phase covers 174 000 students as part of a two year competency based education program mandated by the 1978 Legislature. Exceptional students in special education won't be required to test.
The project results will form a report to the Legislature later this year by the state Board of Education. Tests will not affect student promotions or school evaluations. Local results will be provided by Sept 1. This is the first year students in the district take the tests, which were optional last year during a pilot program.
U S officials urged Israel to pull back from southeastern Lebanon after Defense Minister Weizman met with the U S charge d affaires William Brown. U N sources cited a possible early withdrawal and Waldheim spokesman noted indications of a start.
Wellsville City Council sets a four thousand dollar cap for shelterhouse improvements funded by leftover Bicentennial Commission money plus city funds for concrete and decorative facing. The council revisits burning limits inside and outside fire districts with conditions and container use. Dog tags must be renewed by May 15. swimming pool patch proposal re season pass identification is under consideration. Israeli forces push across the northern border to curb guerrilla raids as Begin plans Washington visit.
Pauline Yockey 56 filed petitions to place her name on the Republican ballot for Franklin County Clerk. Laura Sutton the Democrat county clerk plans to run again this November. Filing deadline is June 20. Wendall Barker Republican filed for county attorney. Marilyn Talbott and Sherrie Capper said they will run again. Sheriff Rex Bowling plans to run again.
Dams were questioned by about 15 landowners at the Marais des Cygnes Drainage District No. 1 meeting Monday. Landowners asked dam locations and land acquisition methods. The board chair said no dam would be built without owner consent. The plan would prioritize ditch cleaning over dam construction early on. Federal funding for dams was unlikely, so local funding must be found first. Next meeting set for 8 p.m. May 5 at the Franklin County ASCS office.
Wellsville High School senior Rebecca M. Alexander is among 1,500 corporate sponsored four year National Merit Scholars. The award supports undergraduate study with Marsh McLennan Companies sponsoring her Merit Scholarship. the total program will award over 4,500 scholarships nationwide totaling nearly $14 million. Alexander plans liberal arts study and has strong records in math, band, and athletics while serving as class scholar.
Elvin N Armstrong 58 of Carbondale died Wednesday in a Topeka hospital. Funeral at Grace Chapel with burial in Carbondale Cemetery. He was born January 29 1922 in Frankfort and moved to Carbondale in 1951. A WWII infantry veteran, he retired in 1973 after serving as a nursing assistant at the Topeka Veterans Administration Hospital. He married Beulah Christesen in Bentonville Arkansas in 1948. she survives along with six children and other relatives. Funeral home Greenwood Roberts Overbrook in charge.
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