City Commission Reviews Budget and Revenue Shares
Ottawa officials weighed revenue sharing requests totaling 15 000 to 17 000 while scrutinizing the 1978 budget. The city plans 201 000 for revenue sharing, with library requests of 7 000 and county funds sought for 6 000, plus recreation and historical society asks for various facility upgrades. The commission will decide on these formal requests after further review and an upcoming budget adoption.
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Diane Yeamans
Ottawa City Commission
Public Works and Public Safety Departments
Ottawa Library
Commission
Ottawa Recreation Commission
City Commission
Martin Owens
Recreation Commission
Forest Park
Orlis Cox Field
Historical Society
Berkowitz Pleads Insanity Innocence at Arraignment
David Berkowitz entered an innocence plea at his Brooklyn arraignment on murder and assault charges in the Son of Sam case. Doctors will determine if he is competent for trial after psychiatric exams at Kings County Hospital. he was remanded for continued evaluation.
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NEW York
David Berkowitz
Sam
State Supreme Court
Leonard Yoswein
Brooklyn
Berkowitz
Kings County Hospital
Mark H. Heller
Leon Stern
Stacy Moskowitz
Robert Violante
Carter seeks Ford Kissinger backing for canal pact
The Carter administration briefs former President Ford and Henry Kissinger on the Panama Canal treaty to win Republican support in Senate ratification. Linowitz and Gen. George Brown meet Ford in Colorado while Kissinger weighs backing after a Monday call. both emphasize defense of U S canal access and continuity with Ford era negotiations.
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Carter
Ford
Kissinger
Pact
Washington
Gerald R. Ford
Senate
Henry A. Kissinger
Sol Linowitz
Air Force
George Brown
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Vail
Colo
Linowitz
Brown
Colorado
White House
Panama
Powell
United States
Taxpayers Bear Loss From Federally Guarantied Loans
The GAO reports nine-year losses on defaulted federally guaranteed student loans exceeding 400 million dollars, with one in six borrowers not repaying. Between 1968 and 1976 four million loans worth 4.5 billion were guaranteed, resulting in 287 million reimbursed to lenders for over 280,000 defaulters. Defaults are projected to rise to 436 million with only 33.8 million recovered by year's end, prompting calls for stronger debt collection and nationwide U.S. attorney actions.
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Washington
General Accounting Office
GAO
Office of Education
Justice Department
U.S
Education Agency
Germans Refuse Extradition Of Nazi War Criminal
West Germany may refuse Italy’s request to hand over a Nazi war criminal who escaped from hospital in a suitcase, citing a constitutional ban on extraditing German nationals. The case involves Herbert Kappler, former Gestapo chief in Rome, whose escape disrupts planned talks between Italian Premier Andreotti and West German Chancellor Schmidt. Kappler’s wife reportedly wheeled a large suitcase from Celio hospital as guards watched.
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Bonn
West Germany
Italy
Justice Ministry
Herbert Kappler
Gestapo
Rome
Giulio Andreotti
Helmut Schmidt
Verona
Andreotti
Schmidt
Kappler
Germany
Celio Military Hospital
New Assistant For City Manager In Ottawa
David Watkins begins a 12 month internship as administrative assistant to City Manager Robert Mills in Ottawa. A University of Kansas master of public administration student from Birmingham Alabama, Watkins will assist with reports grants personnel and department projects earning 10500 dollars annually while familiarizing with city operations.
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Ottawa
David Watkins
University of Kansas
Watkins
Robert Mills
Mills
Birmingham
Ala
Ottawa City Commission Agenda Highlights 1978 Budget and Planning Items
The Ottawa City Commission meeting agenda includes adopting the 1978 city budget, auditorium bid recommendations, contracts, sewage plant modifications, weed abatement charges, annexation Pinehurst Estates final plat, Southview Addition zoning change, and a Planning Commission report. It notes a weather forecast of cloudy skies with possible rain and cooling temperatures. A local official comments on Kansas local government and city manager Robert Mills, with former Birmingham Planning Commission experience mentioned.
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eTo
Kofo Radio
Planning Commission
Pinehurst Estates
Southview
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Ash
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Philip Peltz
Peltz
Brooklyn Criminal Court
San Francisco
Miami
Feodore Demyanovich Fedorenko
Miami Beach
Vincent Antle
Fedorenko
Europe
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Miami Herald
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Maidanek
Poland
Herald
Waterbury
Conn
Federal Criminal Office
Wiesbaden
Ardeatine Caves
Auburn University
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