Lane Fair Parade Delights Crowds With Pony Teams And Floats
Crowds lined streets and rooftops for Lane Fair parade. It started late at 7:30 after delays, featuring 11 pony teams, Lambda Beta and Pottawatomie Valley 4-H floats, and costumed clowns including a Snoopy child. An accident victim on a bicycle warned against drinking and driving as exhibits drew interest after the parade. Livestock exhibits show 33 sheep, 37 beef, 10 dairy, 15 pigs, and 25 rabbit pens. horse show set for Wednesday at 1 p.m.
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Lambda Beta
Pottawatomie Valley
Landfill Hours Change With New Weekly Schedule
Franklin County Commission announced new landfill hours: 8 am to 5 pm on Monday Wednesday Friday and Saturday, 8 am to 12 noon on Tuesday and Thursday. Previously Tuesday Thursday and Sunday afternoons were open. Location is a mile north of K-68 northeast of Ottawa. Also approved bids for Hickory Creek bridge plans with openings on Sept 27.
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Franklin County Commission
Jack Davis
Ottawa
Hickory Creek
Peoria Township
Joe Ferns
Commission
REACT
Franklin County
Mid-America
Hearing on City Budget for 1977 Proposed
A special hearing on the proposed city budget for 1977 will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall. Anyone interested in speaking out on the budget may attend the meeting before the city commission can approve the budget.
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City Hall
IOOF Deaths Eyed Too in Philadelphia Conve ntion Aftermath
Health officials review reports on several deaths after the 1974 Odd Fellows Convention in Philadelphia amid the regionnaires disease outbreak. Officials cited three to five potential deaths, with seven hospitalized in serious condition and no new cases or lab findings. CDC investigators are contacting attendees for more details, noting a nonspecified viral pneumonia in the outbreak.
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Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Denis Lucey
Lucey
David Fraser
Federal Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
CDC
Odd Fellows
School Budget A Breeze By DON LAMBERT
The U S C 200 Board of Education approved a 1976 77 budget of 3 9 million, a mill levy of 51 12, with a 5 0 vote as two members were absent. Debate touched on adding baseball to the high school program, athletic policies, and improved school parent communication. Two new staff positions were announced and a food service contract approved without discrimination. Police reported a 16 year old found a 2 338 million check in downtown Topeka alley, drawn on the state of Kansas and signed by state Treasurer Joan Finney.
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Don Lambert
U.S.C. 200 Board of Education
Howard Doyen
Jack Bushman
John Reynolds
Jim Allen
Allen
Dan Neuenswander
Harold Wallace
Ottawa High School
Parsons
Topeka, Kan
Topeka
State of Kansas
First National Bank of
Joan Finney
Delinquency petitions filed in Blevins homicide case
Two 16 year old girls, Penny Blevins and Sheila Morrison, are held in Franklin County jail on delinquency charges connected to the homicide of Ralph Blevins. The case, pursued by Anderson County Attorney Terry Solander, stems from statements implicating the youths. A court hearing is set in Anderson County within two weeks with juvenile judge L M Selanders presiding.
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Don Lambert Garnett
Ralph Blevins
Franklin County
Ottawa
Penny Blevins
Garnett
Sheila Morrison
Kincaid
Terry Solander
Anderson County
Blevins
George Hoffman
Miss Blevins
Miss Morrison
L. M. Selanders
Morrison
Solander
Kansas Bureau of Investigation Crime Laboratory
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Met
Ingalls
Snoopy
Carrie
Woebegone Snoopy
Joan Istas
Kansas
Wallace
Ken Woods
Neuenswander
Jack Summers
OHS
Ann Fowler
Lincoln School
Eldon Easdale
California
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