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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1989
Page
6
A Media General AP poll finds half of Americans expect another world war within two decades and fear it could turn nuclear. Six in ten worry a Nazi-style Holocaust could recur, with 49 percent anticipating a future war and 61 percent of this group foreseeing WW III within twenty years.
Faculty gathers in Cyclone Room for orientation at U.S.C. 290 campus as Jack Maxwell, Ottawa school board president, announces contract news and a 1990 bond issue plan. He vows to modernize with new technologies while welcoming new staff and anticipating a kindergarten start for his daughter.
Regents and university officials appeared before the State Building Construction Committee in Topeka seeking retroactive approval for Kansas State University and Fort Hays State University projects. Corman cited a lapse of $960,000 intended for Sheridan Coliseum renovations and urged quick legislative action to reappropriate funds. The panel gave no immediate decision and asked for a formal stadium program statement.
Medellin, Colombia saw ten bank branches blown up in a cocaine producing hub as the justice minister Monica de Greiff faced unconfirmed resignation rumors amid a nationwide crackdown. Reports say the minister fled to the United States while an appeals court revoked an arrest order against a top drug kingpin. Police said a young man died while planting a bomb and security was tightened citywide.
Postmaster General Anthony F rank said on NBC Today the first class stamp could rise to 28 to 32 cents early in 1991, after a 25 cent rate since 1988. The increase, about 20 to 25 percent, must pass the Postal Rate Commission in a lengthy process, with no taxpayer funding involved.
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