23rd St. zoning clash fuels Ottawa hearing
At a public meeting in Ottawa a dispute over rezoning land near East and West 23rd Street from general commercial to light industrial dominated discussion. developers urged broader uses while planners warned that special-use permits hinder quick decisions and questioned front-door land risks. The planning commission plans another study session to consider redefining uses or creating a new zoning blend.
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Bill Knoth
Knoth
Prairie Village
General Commercial
Joe McLiney
Overland Park
West 23Rd Street
Sandy Howard
Planning Commission
McLiney
Ottawa
Lou Atherton
Ottawa Area
City, county discuss fire truck transfer and jail costs
Ottawa officials consider OMS fate as a potential liability to downtown city and district. City and county agree on custody of a 28 year old fire truck to be housed in a township under a mutual aid pact. Fire Chief Towe said delivery and training will occur after June. Franklin County Sheriff Bowling outlined a $22.65 daily jail cost based on 30 percent occupancy, excluding utilities, medical care, and building costs. City Manager Lambers supports reimbursing actual housing costs and plans budget review.
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Ottawa
Richard Towe
City Fire Department
County Fire Association
Franklin County
Rex Bowling
Kevin Kimball
Bowling
Scott Lambers
Mass casualty shelling devastates U N held base in Tyre
UN liaison officer Hassan Seklawi describes scenes at the base after an Israeli offensive. Death tolls vary with 60 confirmed dead and 94 fatally wounded reported by a Tyre hospital. Police counts range from 68 to 70 fatalities and 117 to 120 wounded. Three Fijian soldiers were evacuated to Haifa for treatment as hundreds flee. Two buildings burned or damaged and 77 armored UN vehicles assisted in the rescue effort.
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Hassan Seklawi
U.N
Goksel
Tyre
Nabih Berri
Haifa
Israel
Sive
Beirut
Gokse
Qana
Meeker Award Recipients Highlight OU Banquet
The University receives 1996 Meeker Award honorees at a 7 p.m. Friday dinner in Mowbray Union. Recipients include Edward Freeman, Robert Palmer, Harold and Estelle Schock, and Jeannie Volker, noted for life of sacrifice service to the disadvantaged and humanitarian work with minorities.
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Itawa University O
Meeker
Mowbray Union
Jotham
Eleanor Meeker
Meekers
Jeannie Volker
Kodiak
Alaska
Central Baptist Seminary
Kansas City
Kan
Weather Tonight and Through Monday Forecast Update
The forecast calls for a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Saturday remains dry with low 40s and highs near 60s. Sunday brings a statewide thunderstorm chance late in the day in the northeast with highs from the 50s to 70 in the southeast. Monday may see showers and thunderstorms statewide with cooler lows and highs mainly in the 50s and 60s.
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Ottawa
Palm Sunday bombing memorials attract steady visitors
Visitors continue to honor bombing victims as wreaths and crude wooden crosses appear at the site. Gaily colored ribbons and fresh flowers mingle with palm fronds from Palm Sunday while onlookers, drawn by warm weather and the one year anniversary, gather near the scene per Sgt. Glen Holcomb of the Oklahoma City Police.
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Oklahoma City
Glen Holcomb
Building codes discussed at Franklin County meeting
Franklin County Planning Commission heard area contractors on Wednesday support for building codes countywide. Participants including John Wise Gary Colbern and Ken Morton discussed the need for clear standards, inspector cooperation, and potential delays from permits. A special board to mediate disputes and possible code limits to houses were proposed, while Morton opposed codes, urging reliance on basic workmanship and existing legal remedies.
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Bill Tellier
Herald
Franklin County Planning Commission
John Wise
W. 5Th
Gary Colbern
Wellsville
Performance Electric
Se Ombuckle
Marshall Road
Ken Morton
N. Cdr
Wayne Ledom
Oak
Ag Cultural
Dale O'Hara
E. Wilson
Ed Lammers
LeRoy Hildebrandt
Jim Grogan
County Planning Commission
Planning Commission
Franklin County Commissioners
Hombuckl
Sae J . Hombuckle
Douglas County
Grogan
Paul Frevert
Morton
Mortin
Colbern
Sick leave woes after RMH transfer in Franklin County
Franklin County commissioners heard nurses employed by Ransom Memorial Hospital and previously by the Franklin County Home Health Agency argue their sick leave did not transfer with the agency sale. RMH requires three months of employment before sick leave accrual, delaying benefits and prompting questions about continuity of county benefits.
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Franklin County’ Home Health Agency
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Franklin County
RMH
Charles Mavity Jr
Commissi Ner
Jore Weigand
Cholesterol Clinic and Community Ads collage
Saturday events include a cholesterol clinic by Fr. Co. Heath Dept at 229-9690 and a dance featuring VEW Blue Swayed on 4/20. Also advertised are a huge sporting goods sale on 4/20 at Fr. Co. Annex Building Ottawa with 14266 Main, and Messengers Home Furnishings touting 25 entertainment centers and a nail special.
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Gm. Fr. Co. Heath
Fr. Co. Annex
Main
Ottawa
Ottawa Herald Classified Rates and Subscriptions
The text lists delayed OCR fragments of subscription costs for Kansas and Ottawa Herald rates. It mentions monthly and yearly amounts, state sales, and advance payment terms. Names and exact figures are partially garbled but indicate varying rates for three months and one year, with references to Douglas and Anderson Counties.
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Ottawa
Carter
Chang Suga
Ge One
Srace
Douglas
Anderson
Kanaga
The
Ottawa Herald
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Volker
Central Baptist Theological Seminary
National Ministries
American Baptist Churches USA
Shawnee
Louisburg
Kodiak, Alaska
Baptist Mission
ABC/USA
Board of Christian Education
Kansas
BYF Board
Roger Williams Fellowship Board
Central Region of American Baptists
Palmer
Freeman
Atlanta
Clark College
U.S. Army
Kansas State Convention
National Baptist Congress of Christian Education
Baptist World Alliance
Shhocks
Yakima
Washington
Berkeley, Baptist Divinity School
California
Estelle
U.S
Shanghai
China
Steno
Nevada
Burma
American
Baptist Foreign Missionary, Society
Christian Center
Hong Kong
Harold
Wu Qix Christian Center
American Baptist Seminary of the West
Haroldy
Queen Elizabeth Gd
Sechuan
Harold and
Estelle Schioek
Clinton
Hillsdale
Malvern
Pomona
Valerie Wolf
Guents
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Cindiot
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Oitawe
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