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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1981
Page
8
Inside Highlights reports progress on county bridge-building efforts while Cameron seeks a court ruling to remain in the NAIA football playoffs. A farm and local roundup appears across pages 7 to 9, with statewide notes on teacher testing rooms potentially opening if funding is secured on page 10.
City Commission orders enforcement or drafting of new ordinances to curb debris litter and trash blight along the east side of Waymire’s Price-Chopper Store after Leroy Lee’s complaint. City may issue a 10 day rash notice to clean up, with city crews to act and bill the store if ignored. Store managers express limited awareness and willingness to cooperate. Incinerator smoke complaints sent to state authorities. open burning scrutiny and ordinance recodification discussed. hearings planned for Dec 23.
The National Weather Service station at the Ottawa Water Plant logged a low of 26 degrees and a high of 42 on early Wednesday. Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with lows in the mid to upper 20s and highs around 40. Winds from the southeast at 10 to 20 mph tonight.
Ottawa U.S.C. 290 superintendent will recommend moving all sixth graders from the elementary schools to Ottawa Middle School for the 1982 63 school year creating a three year program of sixth seventh and eighth grades. The plan builds on two pilot classes at OMS focusing on time on task with long blocks for reading language arts math social studies and health. Administrative changes include new half time assistant principals at OHS and OMS and a Eugene Field Elementary principal with positions filled from district staff. The board also reviews resignations and a contract for a new bookkeeper and prepares for inclement weather and snow route planning. Christmas programs are scheduled across district schools through December.
In Kansas City a thief took an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 toys from a locked semi-trailer outside a Marines Reserve Center. Officials say the community quickly offered 200 to 300 donations, with toy drops at Chiefs game venues and collection points at shopping centers and radio stations to replace the loss.
President Reagan plans a low key appeal to about 1500 Americans in Libya to leave voluntarily. The move could disrupt Libya’s oil sector by removing American technicians and follows reports of a plot to kill U.S. leaders. Senate leaders were briefed as sanctions options involving passports are considered.
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