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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 2003
Page
6
Jeri Foster, a cancer survivor, uses her artwork to help others as the Franklin County Cancer Foundation sells greeting cards and plans a drawing for one of her paintings. Page 3 notes the event. Weather details forecast wind, snow, and cold across the period.
Franklin County Sheriff Craig Davis says the jail averages 60 to 65 inmates daily in a facility built for 60, with capacity up to 80. He warns future crowding may force refusing inmates or renting space. Courts’ weekend commitments raise weekend totals to nearly 70. Proposals include moving Juvenile Detention, remodeling third floor, and relocating offices to free beds.
A Franklin County Convention and Tourism director search drew 43 applications before the Friday deadline. Committee head Tom Weigand of the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce aims to interview next week and hopes to name a replacement for Murray McGee by January with the new director aboard by February 1.
A car bomb at the Talafar military gate exploded this morning injuring 41 American troops and six Iraqi civilians. Earlier, three soldiers died in a central Iraq road accident and three civilians perished in a Baghdad mosque rocket attack. Japanese Cabinet approved sending about 1000 troops to aid reconstruction, marking a major overseas deployment since WWII.
At a watchtower near Baghdad a vehicle was fired on and exploded, creating a large crater at the gate. Separately a man approached a U S Army compound in Husseiniya and blew himself up after authorities opened fire, injuring four soldiers and others including a translator and a two year old girl.
In eastern Afghanistan hundreds of American troops began Operation Avalanche described as the largest action since the Taliban’s fall. The assault near Khost involved 2,000 soldiers and helicopters, aiming to interdict rebels across the border into Pakistan before winter.
The Kansas Supreme Court heard that cities cannot use home rule to allow Sunday liquor sales as crime concerns persist. Wyandotte County argues state liquor laws are nonuniform and local exemptions possible, while the state contends Sunday sales stay criminal. The case follows Edwardsville’s 2002 charter measure and a 2003 district court ruling.
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