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This Week in History 10 to 50 Years Ago in Ottawa
A retro summary chronicles December 1991 through December 1951 Ottawa events. It notes a Pizza Hut robbery investigation, campus safety campaigns, city tax exemptions, housing starts, aging services funding, zoning changes, and county budget matters, alongside 1951 contests, power outages, traffic changes, and business suits over electrical service losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Pizza Hut
W. 15Th
Jeff Herrman
Johnson
Ottawa University
U-Safe
Ottawa City Commission
National Sign Company Inc
National
Cal Lantis
Franklin County Planning Commission
Pete Nicholson
Township General Fund
Orlin Milliken
Franklin County Council On Aging
County General Fund
Milliken
Federal Housing and Urban Development Agency
Robert W. Mills
Ottawa Usd 290 Board of Education
Baldwin
Pomona- Williamsburg
Central Heights
John Sheldon
James McGuire
McGuire
JoAnn Stewart
Franklin County Rehabilitation Home
Franklin County District Court
Floyd H. Coffman
State Court of Appeals
Topeka
Wyandotte
Joe H. Swinehart
Robert F. Bennett
Kansas
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Dorothy Naanes
Ottawa High School
Douglas Brothers Furniture Store
Naanes
Ottawa Community Chest
Kansas City Power and Light Company
Main Street
George Ledom
Frank Armstrong
Main
Cpl
Dwayne W. Barton
Defense Department
Korea
Leslie Mallory