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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1997
Page
4
Angelia Pickett, age 17 from Glasgow Kentucky, is among the first 31 women to attend Virginia Military Institute. She enters the barracks amid reporters and cameras and will receive the same haircut as male cadets, marking a historic equal treatment initiation.
Alumni of The Citadel and VMI plan a $100 million private Christian military college to preserve Confederate traditions and enroll about 1,000 cadets as early as 2004. The effort follows the Supreme Court ruling that VMI must admit women if funded with tax money.
Timothy McVeigh declined to admit guilt in the Oklahoma City deaths and criticized the death penalty, telling The Buffalo News during a Florence Colorado interview that the U.S. justice system and government set an example for the public. He said he would not rejoin any militia group and reflected on his sentencing and appeal prospects as slim to none.
Federal researchers say feeding water to infants with breast milk or formula is unnecessary and potentially dangerous. A 1993 survey found one in four mothers gave water to newborns at least three times weekly, with higher rates among formula users, less educated, and lower income mothers. water intoxication can cause seizures, low body temperature, and bloating.
The ELCA backed full communion with Presbyterian Church USA Reformed Church in America and United Church of Christ by wide margins. An attempted clergy-sharing with the Episcopal Church failed narrowly. Delegates sang The Church's One Foundation as they approved unity after 40 years of prayer.
Skateboarding teens in Reading, Pennsylvania discover $2900 in a woods stash, about $1000 in quarters, from a bingo parlor burglary. They haul the money on skateboards to hand it to authorities, who suspect the thieves dropped the cash while fleeing. Zachary
Two youths, Watkins aged 15 and Laird aged 13, found a stash of quarters hidden in three Tupperware containers after a bingo haul. They refused to touch the loot at first, but ultimately turned it in. The Beebes paid each boy $120 for their honesty to fund skateboard upgrades.
Ottawa Kansas notices announce a September 10 1997 public hearing before the City Planning Commission to review and amend zoning provisions and to consider a rezone of properties on South Main Street and Hospital Addition. Also listed are court actions including foreclosure proceedings, estate settlement notices, and a final settlement hearing for the Rogers estate.
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