Waits Cemetery in Douglas County Called Out
Local notes confirm the Sauers Cemetery also known as Union or Waits Cemetery lies in Douglas County on the county line road. It won’t appear in Franklin County records, and the Douglas County publications cover it. The writer shares snake-season cautions and reflections on local history and archival material.
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Sauers
Union
Waits
Douglas County
Fort Lamed
Colorado
Park Service
Ottawa Herald
Cassie Coe
Marais Des Cygnes
Peoria
Housing budget cuts hit low income housing in 1980s
Housing '90 and Economic Policy Institute flag reduced federal support for low income housing amid rising shelter costs. Coalitions cite $51 average housing tax burden and 42 percent rise in shelter poor 1980 to 1987 with Congress considering a $3 billion increase next year. Among critics are Greg Specter and Larry Sadler of NCOR and Housing 90 officials.
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Coalition
Greg Specter
National Priorities Project
NPP
Congress
White House
Larry Stadler
The
Association of Community Organizations For Reform Now
Economic Policy Institute
University of Massachusetts
Boston
Michael Stone
Magellan spacecraft regains contact after crisis near Venus
Magellan radioed Earth after a 21 1/2 hour outage as NASA engineers probe causes. Scientists cite possible solar particle disruption and potential hardware or software faults, while mission teams rewrite programs and retry data transmission. The $744 million Venus mission, launched from Atlantis, faces delays pending fixes.
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Pasadena
Calif
Earth
Steve Wall
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lab
Alan Wood
Magellan
Wall
Ed Sherry
Tommy Thompson
Magellan Science
Venus
Atlantis
No big Lotto America winner pushes prize to 10 million
In Des Moines and Topeka reports, no one matched all six Lotto America numbers 7 14 27 43 48 51 for Wednesday’s 5.1 million prize, though 87 players hit five numbers for 863 and 4 377 hit four for 41. Kansas Cash Lotto saw no jackpot win with 210 000 est prize. 39 winners matched five for 90 and 1 152 matched four for 5.
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Des Moines, Iowa
Sue Bilstad
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
TELENET fall courses offer wide range in Ottawa area
Ottawa residents can enroll in TELENET college credit courses from Emporia Fort Hays and Kansas State through a 37 site statewide audio network. Courses include Black Families Kansas Heritage Abnormal Psychology midlife studies and reading updates with varied meeting times from August through December at the Adult Education Center 1418 S Main.
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Ottawa Area
Emporia
Fort Hays
Kansas State
Telenet
S. Main
KSU
FHSU
ESU
Kansas Heritage
Ing
Guam Abortion Law Struck Down By Federal Judge
U S District Judge Alex Munson ruled Guam’s near total ban on abortion unconstitutional citing Roe v Wade. The measure signed by Gov Joseph Ada on March 19 would have criminalized abortions with limited life of mother exceptions and carried jail and fine penalties for providers and soliciters.
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Agana
Guam
U.S
Alex Munson
Supreme Court
Joseph -Ada
Munson
Guam Society of Obstetricians and
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Local Forum
John Mark Lambertson
Franklin County
Deborah Barker
House
Senate
Sadler
W. Tacumsah
Ottawa
L Insurance
Dave Salish
First National Bank OF Ottawa
F.D.I.C
H&a
Main
Plaza Cinema
John Ritter
Wan
S. Mainee
Ginger Hobbs
FDIC
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