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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 2001
Page
9
A weather forecast notes very windy conditions in the evening with a southwest wind 25 to 35 mph diminishing to 15 to 25 mph after midnight. Temperatures fall to around 45 degrees with a breezy morning on Thursday and a high near 60. Page 2 has more weather details.
Storms battered Franklin County and surrounding areas with up to 60 mph winds late Tuesday night and early Wednesday. Homes and outbuildings suffered damage including a carport crashing into a living room window, while trees and power lines fell and outages occurred. Reports centered on Pomona and Williamsburg with insurance claims noting sheds and shingles damaged. Weather officials warned of continued windy conditions with gusts up to 50 mph statewide.
China agreed to release 24 crew members of a U S spy plane ending an 11 day stalemate. The move followed a U S apology for the plane's unauthorized landing and a Chinese pilot's death. Officials said the crew would be released on humanitarian grounds once travel procedures are complete.
Harris district board members charged nearly seven thousand dollars on cell phones last year for personal calls, with Jean Schodorf, now a state senator, making nine campaign related calls. The Haysville board spent over seventeen thousand dollars to attend a San Diego conference, while a superintendent ran monthly charges up to sixteen thousand on a district card. Legislators call the incidents damaging but see them as isolated while urging accountability and cost cuts in education funding.
Ottawa High School senior Harrison features MIG welded metal pieces inspired by flame and abstract forms as part of the Ottawa University Art and Science Fair. Families tour works by students from Franklin County communities while judges decide and ribbons run short.
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