Ottawa High Team Wins Tournament Title Crowns
Ottawa High basketball teams battled for the tourney championship crowns Friday night at Lola. Read all about it on page seven. Weather outlook: cooler and partly sunny with a mid 40s high and winds 5 to 15 mph. Dry Sunday with 20s lows and 40s highs.
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Ottawa High
Lola
Jay Thornton
Jerry Lynn
Triple “A" Construction
Ottawa
4Th
Cedar
G. Bryan
Hernando, Miss
Late Kansans to be honored
The Kansas Business Hall of Fame will induct Charles G. Koch and Warren A. Bechtel in February during a Kansas Chamber caucus dinner at the Topeka Expocentre. Koch heads Koch Industries since 1967, turning into a major petrochemical and oil trading group with about 16 billion dollars in annual sales. Bechtel founded the Bechtel Group, later the Bechtel Group, the nation’s largest construction and engineering firm, after starting as a mule team operator in Kansas and later leading frontier railroad projects.
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Emporia, Kan
Kansas Business Hall of Fame
Charles G. Koch
Warren A. Bechtel
Emporia State University School of Business
Koch
Bechtel
Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Topeka
Business Hall of Fame
Emporia State
W.A. Bechtel Co
Bechtel Group
U.S
Illinois
Peabody
Kan
Pope appeals to save inmate in Virginia electrocution
Pope John Paul I interceded to spare Joseph Roger O'Dell II, a convicted rapist and murderer scheduled for execution December 18 in Virginia. Italy protests capital punishment, with officials seeking suspension and Vatican media condemning the death penalty, citing Evangelium Vitae.
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Vatican City
John Paul I
United States
Vatican
Italy
Joseph Roger O'Dell II
Virginia
Florida
U.S
Rome
O’dell
Senate
Nicola Mancino
al Gore
L’osservatore Romano
O'Dell
Vatican Radio
John Paul
Pesticide misuse raises health concerns in homes
Washington agencies warn of illegal indoor use of methyl parathion once used outdoors for cotton pest control. The toxin, nicknamed cotton poison, endangers humans and pets as exposure causes dizziness headaches breathing issues and potentially death. Officials cite a growing national pattern.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
Agency For Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Mississippi
EPA
Carol Browner
Ottawa firemen sue city over settlement breach
John C. Riddle III and Larry D. Wilson filed a new federal suit in Topeka alleging Ottawa violated a 1995 settlement that ended their 1994 wrongful-termination case. They seek over 300000 each, contending Fire Chief Richard Towe issued General Order 2 to replace them as the department’s "responsible persons" without cause and withheld the order. The suit names Ottawa city commissioners, City Manager Scott Lambers, and Towe as defendants. See LAWSUIT page 3.
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Ottawa
Fieve
John C. Riddle III
Larry D. Wilson
Federal District Court
Topeka
Scott Lambers
Richard Towe
Riddle
Wilson
Lambers
Fire Department
Towe
Ottawa Fire Department
Propane price surge hits Nebraska as bills rise
In Garland Nebraska 77 year old Schaefer pays 1.17 a gallon to heat a 500 gallon tank up from 76 cents last winter. Propane costs are up about 50 percent nationwide affecting 14.3 million households with farmers and processors driving demand. Nebraska sees 65 000 propane heated homes as prices spike with North Dakota Kansas and Iowa also seeing sharp increases.
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Maha
Schaefer
Nebraska
Vest
Garland
Lincoln
Schaefers
Margaret
North Dakota
Kansas
Iowa
Bob Kerrey
Tom Harkin
Hazel O'Leary
Agriculture
Dan Glick
Poles Replaced In North South Alley By City Crews
City utility workers will replace poles in the 100 block between Hickory and Cedar this week. A new pole costs 110 to 200 dollars, crossarm aids 30 to 40 dollars, and hardware 15 to 20 dollars. Poles last 20 to 30 years but weather can shorten life. replacements vary, with 10 or more replacements not unusual in a year.
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Hickory
Cedar
Jim Bradley
Bradley
Consumer guide reveals insurance complaint ratios
Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius unveiled a free 15 page guide from the Kansas Insurance Department detailing how often life auto health and homeowners insurers receive complaints. The guide uses complaint ratios per million dollars in premiums and will be updated annually with the 1996 edition due by end of March 1997.
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Opera, Kan
State Insurance Department
Kathleen Sebelius
Insurance Department
Sebelius
New area code planned for parts of Kansas next year
The Kansas Corporation Commission ordered a new area code to be issued in northern Kansas due to nearing exhaustion of 913 numbers. The change, not set until next summer, will be handled by the North American Numbering Plan Administration, and the Kansas City metro area will keep 913. Cellular users in northern Kansas must update phones through dealers.
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OPERA
Kan
Kansas Corporation Commission
Rosemary Foreman
Commission
Kansans
North American Numbering Plan Administration
Kansas City
Foreman
Kansas
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John Paul II
Herald
Ottawa Police Department
Consumer Guide
John Hanna
Associated Press
KCC
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