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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 2001
Page
6
Tonight mostly clear with a low in the lower 60s. Light and variable wind. Friday partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and a high in the mid 80s. For more weather details see Page 2.
Farmers at the East Central Kansas Field Day in Ottawa focused on soybean research. Keith Janssen of the Kansas State Ag Experiment Station highlighted soybeans as a profitable main crop, with weather and late-season dryness likely reducing yields this year.
John R Powell bound over for arraignment on second degree murder in the beating death of Barney Riley. A Kansas Bureau of Investigation special agent testified Powell admitted to displacing Riley but said he was alive at the time.
Ottawa officials will pitch to the Kansas Humanities Council to host a permanent Chautauqua. The program would start in 2004 as part of the Kansas Sesquicentennial, featuring reenactors of Bleeding Kansas figures and prominent leaders. Ottawa aims to raise funds, secure volunteers, and hold events at Forest Park, with a four-site selection pending among Kansas communities.
Consul general Toshiyuki Fujiwara of Japan in Kansas City outlines Japan's postwar path from bitterness to rebuilding. He cites the bubble economy of the late 1980s and debt, Koizumi reforms, and growing U S J cooperation as he discusses future international conferences and regional ties.
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