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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1979
Page
7
FBI reports rising bank robberies and other crimes tied to economic conditions. projected 1979 fiscal year totals exceed 6,000 incidents, up over 13 percent from 1978, with banks expanding and branch access contributing to easier heists. officers warn focus shifts to white collar crime.
A Texas firm, Mesa Petroleum, cut 22 Meade County wells supplying KPL in Topeka over pricing disputes. About six million cubic feet daily were halted, impacting potential industrial customers while officials sought relief from the FERC and state regulators.
Obituary notes the late Matilda Tilly McFerren died Thursday with 3 p.m. Saturday services at Feltner Funeral Home Lyndon and memorial gifts to Lyndon United Presbyterian Church. Civil cases list Ottawa vs Douglas and Douglas, plus Waymire foreclosure. Local thefts, vandalism, forged currency, and a reported two-vehicle non-injury collision are recorded with details and losses.
Kansas Governor John Carlin and his trade delegation arrived in Peking for a full day of Saturday meetings with Chinese officials on agriculture imports education and oil. Duane Acker Kansas State University president noted lifestyle differences as the group toured Peking and prepared for further engagements and visits including the Great Wall Ming Tomb and a banquet.
Kansas Supreme Court ruled Baxter Springs beer ordinance banning dancing in taverns and a ban on shades or curtains on barroom windows are wholly unreasonable and unenforceable. The decision, written by Justice Robert H. Miller, unanimously held the ordinances not a valid exercise of police power and not reasonably related to public welfare.
Dance events at Quenemo City park and Saddleback Lounge mark a lively weekend with Marquee Band and Country Cookin Friday and Saturday. VFW and ELKS notices promote dances, chicken fried steak specials, and baseball trips to Royals. Local shops advertise back to school sales, reopenings, salvage groceries, and gardening stock plus roach fogger and plants.
Six boys entered the county 4 H tractor driving contest at the fair grounds. Their written test covered details like the difference between a plow bolt and a stud bolt and the nature of exhaust gases from the engine.
Two Richmond men, Dean Goddfrey and Danny Robertson, were sentenced in District Court for felony marijuana offenses after a four county raid on April 27. Goddfrey received one to two years with two years probation and a $300 fine. Robertson received one to five years with two years probation and a $300 fine.
The Library Line offers help beyond books with inquiries on poultry care rates, anniversary symbolism, Europe Asia boundaries, Ottawa population figures, tire lifespans, BBB contact details, and Kansas State Fair dates in Hutchinson. The clipping also lists upcoming entertainers and events linked to the fair week.
TOPEKA Kansas report says a record 402.80 million bushels of wheat were harvested this year by Kansas farmers, as the Crop and Live Stock department notes a peak in production and yield across the state.
MARAIS DES CYGNES VALLEY students must enroll from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. on August 24, not August 23 as previously printed. Also a correction notes John Bristow, 20, actually earned a degree from the Emergency Mobile Intensive Care Technology Program at KU Medical Center and works for the Johnson County Medical Action Agency. Predictions from the Reporting Service show a record grain year with 43.1 million bushels of soybeans, 162.4 million of corn, and 239.9 million of sorghum, supported by farm officials.
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