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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1997
Page
6
Ottawa High School opened fall practice across soccer, football, volleyball and cross country with students reporting this morning. Weather outlook calls for a 50 percent chance of morning thunder storms Tuesday, otherwise warmer and partly cloudy with highs around the middle 80s and southeast wind 10 to 20 mph.
The FDA approved the Freehand System by NeuroControl Corp, the first surgically implanted electronic hand. It helps some quadriplegics with partial arm movement to open and close their hand enough to write, feed themselves, or paint, improving daily tasks for most test subjects. About 54,000 Americans could be eligible.
Secretary of Defense William Cohen will visit Kansas next month for a London Lecture at Kansas State University and tours of Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley. Senator Pat Roberts announced Cohen will speak in Manhattan and visit the two forts on September 11 and 12, as part of defense discussions.
Kansas Wesleyan University plans to appeal a Wichita federal jury decision that awarded Garry Adam 100000 for gender discrimination after he was denied readmission to the nursing program. The Salina campus, affiliated with the United Methodist Church, has about 730 students. the trial cited Title IX and a committee of women.
The December Bangkok plant riot by 2000 Sanyo workers over a three month bonus damaged the eight story headquarters and factory stock. Other incidents include a live pig thrown at the Massachusetts Bar Association in Boston, rotting bison entrails shown to Dan Glickman in Gardener Montana, and protests in Seoul Jerusalem over politics and mixed gender praying.
Mir's main computer failed during a cargo ship docking, leaving the station in chaotic orbit. Russian officials said the risk to the three-crew was not life threatening, power is conserved, and control is limited to thrusters from the Progress ship and Soyuz capsule.
NASA canceled a planned Earth return for space shuttle Discovery and its six astronauts due to possible fog at the Florida Kennedy Space Center. The crew stayed aloft an extra day with a single sunrise landing chance, but the morning cleared and landings remained possible at Kennedy.
The Teamsters and United Parcel Service recessed talks after 76 hours of mediation amid President Clinton’s optimism. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman stayed to monitor progress as a midnight break ended with no firm agreement, with momentum appearing uncertain and negotiators set to resume at noon EDT.
Postmaster Dave McBride says the Ottawa office handles a 60 percent rise in parcel volume and 50 percent more priority mail as UPS strike persists. We work longer hours and stretch vans to overflowing, aiming to keep up and hope to retain some of the surge after the strike ends.
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