A gift not a sale in Kansas reform push
Editorial critiques Rep Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback for co sponsoring a bill to sell 33 000 acres of Kansas lakes parks and wildlife lands to irrigation districts and to Nebraska properties. The column argues the deal would be a giveaway not a sale, exposing federal government overreach and tainted motives.
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Pat Roberts
Sam Brownback
Kansas Wildlife Areas
Kansas
Nebraska
Roberts
Brownback
Topeka Capital-Journal
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
It's Your Quarter Forum Seeks Views on Highway and Toll Road
A community forum urges opinions on a proposed highway between Ottawa and Lawrence with opposition to a toll road. It highlights hardships for single parents and urges discussion of local improvements like park lights. Call 242-4700 to participate during listed hours.
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Ottawa
Lawrence
Letters to the Editor Policy
Readers are urged to send signed letters with the writer’s address and a telephone number for verification. Unsigned submissions will not be published. The policy emphasizes prompt verification and public signing to accompany publication.
Rumors and bank robberies span Ottawa’s history
A look back recalls 1895 hoax about an abduction turned out to be a bovine sighting. It then surveys Franklin County bank robberies from 1923 to 1933, noting a 1945 roundup by Lamar Phillips and counting three robberies in the current decade, including Ottawa’s First National Bank shootout where an officer was wounded and the robber killed.
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Ottawa
Ottawa Daily Republican
Ottawa Herald
Lamar Phillips
Franklin County
First National Bank
Princeton
Santa Fe
Rantoul State Bank
Peoples National Bank
Richmond
Hudelson
Huderson
Hensley
le Loup State Bank
le Loup Coop
Coop
First National
Bruce Hanson
Wellsville
Arkansas
Mark Mellman
White House
Princess di
Bill Clinton
Betty Ford
Nancy Reagan
Rush Limbaugh
Mellman
Tom Baum
Associated Press
Budget Burden and Brave Americans in Deficit Debate
The piece critiques deficit spending and calls for a balanced budget, citing Flynn and Bridges Byrd, noting a 1955 budget of 67.7 billion and 277 billion debt, then contrasts with today’s 1.4 trillion deficit and 5 trillion debt, urging political seriousness and thrift to avert ruin. It warns inflation and war as false cures and urges rooting out opportunists.
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John T. Flynn
Flynn
Republic
Bridges-Byrd
Eisenhower
Ernie Hemingway
Hillary Clinton Quietly Sheds First Lady Image Ahead of 1996
The AP reports Hillary Rodham Clinton shifts from controversy to a conventional role as 1996 nears. She trims high profile fights, travels with Bill Clinton, files papers in New Hampshire with Tipper Gore, and focuses on family and women issues while drafting It Takes a Village.
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Washington
Barbara Bush
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Clinton
Congress
Whitewater
New Hampshire
Tipper Gore
Clinton-Gore
Sheila Tate
Nancy Reagan
Bosnia
Tate
Stiil
New York
Yitzhak Rabin
Dolly Parton
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Jim Hitch
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Charley Reese
King Features Syndicate
Hillary Rodham
Tom Raum
Iter
England
Ann Lewis
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