Ottawa area braces for new jobs and training programs
Local agencies promote JTPA funded training with 12 month LPN courses and pre enrollment classes. New plants by Mid America Aerospace and Beacon Plastics promise 100 to 125 jobs each, while Leitch Industries expands staff. Unemployment could dip to 3 percent if plans proceed. Ottawa Chamber of Commerce president Bob Whitworth notes renewed industry interest and incentives.
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Paget
Ottawa
Bauer
Lawrence
Kansas City
Topeka
Neosho County
JTPA
Bright
Bob Whitworth
Ottawa Area
Walter Leitch
Leitch Industries
Commodore Home
Beacon Plastics
Leitch
Franklin County
Whitworth
Crack crisis fuels tougher drug laws and crowded prisons
Federal and state moves to curb drugs intensify as half of federal inmates are drug offenders and seven of ten are expected to be drug criminals by 1995. Experts cite harsher penalties, seizure laws, and shifting police priorities, while critics doubt law rigidity curbs abuse.
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Bureau of Prisons
Williams
Mark Kleiman
Harvard
Kennedy School of Government
Regents budget oversight debated by Kansas lawmakers
In Topeka the Special Committee on Ways and Means reviews how tightly the Legislature should supervise the Kansas Board of Regents budgets. Koplik defends current balance while lawmakers worry about too little detail, citing K-State’s rising enrollment and retroactive project approvals as examples. The Army seeks land for Fort Riley expansion, opposed by the Kansas Livestock Association.
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Kan
Kansas Board of Regents
Ways and Means
Stanley Koplik
Board of Regents
Kansas Livestock Association
Fort Riley
Kansas City
KLA
Flint Hills
U.S. Army
Geary County
North Iowa
State Building Construction Committee
Kansas
Legisla
Fred Gailin
R-Atwood
Koplik
Regents
Kansas State University
KSU
Kansas State
Jack Shriver
Arkansas City
Boy violinist Lewis to hold New York honor banquet
Brian Lewis, 21, a Kansas native now based in New York City, will perform at a banquet at Tavern on the Green hosted by Ottawa supporters. He trained under Dorothy DeLay and aims to be a concertmaster or soloist, balancing city life with his Ottawa roots. His parents Tom and Alice Joy Lewis will travel to attend.
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Brian Lewis
Goldberg
Lewis
New York City
Tavern On the
Kansas
Juilliard
Tom
Alice Joy Lewis
Hickory
New York
Brian
I T
Dorothy DeLay
Medicine Lodge
Kan
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Missouri
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National Conference of State Legislatures
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Riley
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State Bank
Kay Vogeler
Eric Hallman
Donna Eichenberger
Rt. 1
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Branson
Donna
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Peril
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