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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1978
Page
6
Global markets react to the Fed raise from 7 1 4 to 7 3 4 percent. The dollar gains against yen and European currencies while gold retreats above 205 an ounce. Traders await further Carter administration steps amid nervous trading and mixed regional moves.
Budge's Sport Center promotes football shoes to prevent sore feet ahead of practice. Ottawa Country Club reminds members to pay by August 23 to keep Aug 26 reservations for the Luau, noting a waiting list exists.
Funeral services for Charles Delbert Foster 61 of Ottawa RFD 4 will be at 2 pm Wednesday at Robson Towner Chapel with Rev. Leon Nelson officiating Burial follows at Woodlawn Cemetery Pomona He was born April 9 1917 in Franklin County son of Walter V and Amanda Foster a WWII Army veteran farmer and VFW member He married Doris Jean Ogle June 9 1951 Ottawa survivors include wife son Delbert two daughters Amanda and Janice five grandchildren and several siblings and in laws Friends may call 7 30 to 8 30 pm Tuesday
Ottawa notices include high school yearbook pickup in Room 501 on Wednesday August 23 from 8 p.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m., a correction about Mrs. Opa Tallman’s surviving sister Mrs. Dorothy McKenzie, a Modern Woodmen watermelon feed at Forest Park, and updates on military and public safety matters. The section also lists admissions and dismissals, births, divorces, and local crime and court actions.
Citizens from the area extinguished a bridge fire on the Peoria Bridge over the Marais des Cygnes River likely set with gasoline. The bridge is reopened to traffic with some wooden plank repairs needed. no damage estimate reported. Five local residents helped carry water to the blaze before deputies and firefighters arrived.
In Prince William County Virginia Prosecutor Paul Ebert announced no charges against former White House drug adviser Peter Bourne for writing a prescription under a fictitious name. He ruled Bourne likely did not violate Virginia law and noted the conspiracy statute does not apply to interstate drug violations.
Eight U S congressmen flew to Hanoi for a six day visit to Vietnam and Laos with stops in Ho Chi Minh City and Vientiane The delegation led by Rep G V Montgomery says the trip could smooth relations and marks the first official visit to Saigon since its 1975 fall Montgomery notes Vietnamese openness to normalization while selecting members who have opposed it to influence Congress
Kansas officials dispute a Health Education and Welfare finding that Kansas had high federally financed abortions March through June. They say a four month span and differing state rules skew the figure, noting a lower annual total and a projected 1978 abortion funding of about 250000.
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