Ottawa on the move signs of revival and growth
Editorial notes a year of job losses followed by renewed development in Ottawa and Franklin County. Wal-Mart plans a distribution center and a new super store, firms like Lester Builders relocate, Golden State Porcelain eyed, and multiple local businesses open or expand. New housing spreads, in-fill projects rise, and industrial expansions hint at sustained growth ahead.
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Ottawa
Wal-Mart
Parmelee
Mid-America Aerospace and
Allied Signal
Lester Builders
Mid-America
California
Golden State Porcelain
Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Inc
Ottawa Transmission
South Star Chrysler
Feldkamp’s Furniture
Woolworth
Holiday Inn Express
Town & Country Supply
Waymire
William Burks
South Main
Steven Thompson
Earl Devore
Kanza Park
South‘ Elm
Pin Oaks Estates
West 15Th
Franklin County
Greenwood Estates
Havens Steel Co
Midwest Cabinets
Rome Associates
H.D. Lee Designer Products
West 17Th
Air Technologies
Ottawa Truck
Ottawa Herald flashbacks mix old and new Ottawa events
A retrospective column recalls 1894 Ottawa school discipline reforms and stock tank lime tips, 1944 calendar shortages during World War II, and 1969 Nativity scene theft in Ottawa. The item ties past headlines to present concerns, highlighting enduring local issues.
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Weekly Herald
Ottawa Herald
War updates mark major WWII shifts across fronts
Fifty years ago today German forces blown dikes along the lower Rhine floodin g the Dutch lowlands southwest of Arnhe and forcing a Canadian retreat. American troops cross the Saar River in several more spots on the French German frontier. In the Philippines a U S destroyer is sunk and two damaged west of Leyte. Indian troops reach the Chindwin River at Kalewa in Burma.
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Lower Rhine
Arnhe
Saar River
Philippines
U.S
Leyte
Chindwin River
Kalewa
Burma
Travel times for six animals from New York to Los Angeles
Top speed travel report lists six animals and their durations to cover the New York to Los Angeles route. Cheetah completes in one day sixteen hours while elephants and other species vary from four days one hour to three days twenty two hours.
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N.Y
L.A
Dole defender denounces GATT attack as false
David A. Lee defends Senator Bob Dole and GATT against Trisha Katson's accusations in The Herald. He argues GATT safeguards sovereignty, recalls Dole’s wartime service, and labels Perot’s claims as false while criticizing electronic media influence.
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Trisha Katson
Liberty
U.S
Bob Dole
Herald
Germany
WTO
Senator Dole
Topeka
United States
Ross Perot
David A. Lee
Hickory
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