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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1985
Page
10
Ottawa Middle School hosts busy times as area sports coverage highlights high school track efforts. The feature notes school events on Page 3 and broader regional farming policy context appears in coverage across Page 7.
An 81-year-old Pomona woman, Mary J. Raley, was injured when her husband's car struck a Santa Fe train at Richter crossing on K-68 six miles west of here. She remained in satisfactory condition at Ransom Memorial Hospital for observation of knee and elbow injuries. her husband Frank O. Raley, 88, was unhurt. The crash occurred around 11:20 a.m. as gates descended, with the car between gate arms. Train speed was 40 to 45 mph. crew noted no caboose in enforcement of a new railroad rule, delaying aid by about 10 minutes.
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts a Congressional Gold Medal from President Reagan and urges him to cancel plans to lay a wreath at Bitburg Cemetery where SS troops are buried. Wiesel, praising Reagan, pleads for another site, emphasizing reconciliation without collective guilt while recalling the Holocaust.
Governor John Carlin criticized the Kansas Legislature for neglecting farm aid and outlined a three point plan emphasizing federal action. He urged approval of low interest crop loan legislation, urged deficit reduction, and warned that agriculture now relies on exports and capital, not just labor.
Discovery returns to Cape Canaveral after a 2.5 million mile mission. Rain delayed landing and a tire blowout caused blue smoke as the shuttle touched down at 8:54 a.m. EST. Astronauts underwent medical checks while Sen. Jake Garn praised the mission as proof man is needed in space.
In Topeka Kansas AP reports eleven days before settling a sex discrimination suit against Attorney General Robert T Stephan he wrote a favorable letter to the father of the lawyer for the plaintiff Marcia Tomson. Stephan and Marge J Phelps deny linkage to the March 19 settlement. The case and defense costs about 14000 with confidentiality raise political controversy amid Stephan bid for 1986 governor. The letter supports demand letters as legal investigative tools in the Phelps Sr case before U S District Court in Kansas City Kaw.
National Weather Service station at the Ottawa Water Plant logged a low of 62 and a high of 96 on Thursday. Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight with a 30 percent rain chance and a low near 60. Saturday will be partly cloudy and windy with a 20 percent rain chance and highs in the mid 80s.
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