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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1997
Page
9
The Herald runs a holiday gift feature titled the Twelve Days of Christmas in Section C, presenting festive items and seasonal ideas for readers during the holiday season.
The Ottawa Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the board office at Fourth and Walnut. Agenda items include the 1996-97 audit, Grogan Field track and field project architectural services, a voice data and video cabling plan for Ottawa Middle School, a renewal contract with Ransom Memorial Hospital for physical therapy, Neighborhood Revitalization Program Review Committee recommendations, ECVC cooperative agreement for 1998-99, destruction of old records, and more. Winners of the downtown Ottawa Christmas window decorating contest are listed with Soroptimist Club and various displays earning first and second places for civic, youth, commercial, and other categories.
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, alias Carlos the Jackal, acknowledges himself in court as a professional revolutionary. The 48 year old Venezuelan born extremist faces manslaughter charges for 1975 Paris incidents targeting two French agents and an informer, with prosecutors seeking a 30 year sentence as security remains tight.
In Missouri a teen in a cocaine case mishandled a plea during a June court appearance when a Wal Mart arrest overlapped an earlier car drug charge. Separately in Kansas a 19 year old man at a convenience store fired a gun during a stakeout, wounding himself and a 20 year old companion. the shooter faces firearm charges while the other was hospitalised and released.
Police stormed a duplex at dawn and rescued four year old Malcolm Phillips and his two year old cousin Tedi Priest, ending a three day hostage situation. Suspect John Edward Armstrong was killed. officer Scott Perkins wounded. Mothers and families embraced as children were checked at a hospital.
Fifteen choirs will perform along a mile long path at Kanza Park from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Volunteers set luminaria candles, wind adds to the glow, Santa will hand out candy canes, and free hot apple cider will be served in a community, all ages event.
Franklin County Planning Director Don Slone outlines zoning aims to protect agricultural and residential land use while preserving neighboring property rights. Several townships already zoned or under consideration include Franklin Ottawa Lincoln Harrison Greenwood Ohio and Richmond with Hayes Williamsburg slated for action and Appanoose Peoria hearings planned.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment will delay a decision on Murphy Farms 11,000 head sow farm near Jetmore while environmental questions are resolved. Gov. Bill Graves urged the Legislature to reconsider corporate hog farming when it convenes January 12.
In Topeka the Kansas Supreme Court did not rule on a challenge to an April election in Hodgeman County where voters narrowly rejected corporate hog farming. The court said it would issue a ruling later as officials weigh state statutes and a mid January decision deadline looms for Murphys proposal.
U N arms chief Richard Butler returned to Iraq to press for unrestricted access to suspected weapons sites including 60 locations and about 40 presidential palaces. He says monitors must go anywhere any time as tensions persist over Iraq’s compliance with Security Council disarmament orders.
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