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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1997
Page
6
In Ottawa, both boys and girls basketball faced a giant challenge but the giants prevailed on the night. Weather outlook calls for drizzle turning to snow late with a low in the lower 30s and a high near 35, with a northeast wind 5 to 15 mph. Snow is expected Tuesday morning, tapering to flurries in the afternoon.
A 19 year old Ottawa man, Robert Harris of 719 S. Sycamore, was dragged several feet when his wheelchair became entangled with a parade float. The incident occurred at about 1 20 p.m. while he was being pushed by an unidentified girl. Harris was taken by ambulance to Ransom Memorial Hospital and released. Frank D. Yates, 54, of 1446 Eisenhower Ave., drove the tractor pulling the float and said he heard screams before seeing Harris in the roadway.
Rep Ralph Tanner R Bald win was named to the Joint Advisory Committee on Governance by House Speaker Tim Shallenburger. The 1994 formed panel includes four members from the Kansas Board of Regents and Board of Education, a senator, and Gov Bill Graves to oversee student transition to college and boost education cooperation.
Dr Dee Ann DeRoin a Native American physician from Lawrence has been named the 1997 William I Koch Outstanding Kansas Woman of the Year she is the third recipient of the Koch founded award. She will be honored at a 6 am dinner at the Bradbury Thompson Center Washburn University Topeka DeRoin serves as president on the Haskell Foundation Board and is staff physician at the Watkins Student Health Center Kansas University.
Brittany Michelle Nease, born July 22 weighing under 13 ounces, left the neonatal unit for home in Topeka Kansas with her parents Elizabeth and Jerry Nease and her siblings twins Michael and Autumn Brooke after a survival odds defying four month NICU stay.
Carlos Manuel Perez, 21, jailed in Anniston after a stolen car stop near a government building. He tried to obtain a non photo ID, offered a forged Social Security card and birth certificate under another name, prompting Sheriff Amerson to remark on the odd deception. In Virginia, Army MP Daniel Bowden, 20, was arrested for trying to deposit nearly 3,000 dollars while linked to a prior bank robbery.
City officials consider a resolution of intent to extend 20 year nonannexation tax agreements with Boeing Cessna and Raytheon beyond 1999 2000. Expanding the tax base loss would raise taxes on other property owners while aircraft firms would face higher taxes after exemption ends.
Snow blanketed Ottawa and Franklin County during the night with warm temperatures keeping roads ice free. The Ottawa station logged two inches of snow and .46 inch moisture, while other areas reported up to four inches. No road closures reported as crews salted, sanded, and plowed after 7 p.m. Sunday and again Monday morning near schools. See SNOW page 3.
After last night’s snow storms icy roads caused several crashes with injuries. Franklin County dispatchers report at least a dozen vehicles sliding into ditches since midnight on highways. Captain Brad Gilges cites a high number of ditch incidents and a Sunday tractor trailer rollover near Old US-50 on I-35 injuring a driver, Arthur Beardsley, 36, who was taken to Ransom Memorial Hospital.
French archaeologists led by Alain Zivie report discovering the tomb of Maya, Tutankhamun's wet nurse, in Saqqara, a rare tribute to a woman with a relief depicting a feeding scene. The 1330 B.C. memorial is described as extremely unusual for ancient Egypt.
In Grazhdanskaya Street a military cargo jet struck a five story building near an orphanage after lift off from a nearby airfield. Fifty seven bodies recovered, eight missing, only six identified. Rescue crews faced bitter cold and fuel stink while searching the ruins. The An-124 transport was carrying two jet fighters.
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