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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1996
Page
7
A mostly cloudy Christmas Day sweep with a high near 30 and southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. The page notes the Kansas City Chiefs 1997 needs and quarterback Steve Bono questions his return next season.
Winners of the Christmas home lighting contest judged by the Ottawa Pride steering committee announced. First place Oscar Taylor 308 Willow won $50. Second place Mike and Wendy Bowers 614 N Sycamore won $25. Third place Don and Norma Sellers 705 W 11th won $15. Honorable mention Kevin Nicholson 409 E Sth Rick Smith 915 S Mulberry Dale and Deanna Fox 1701 S Ash won $10 each.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met at Erez Crossing to discuss a Hebron troop pullback but left without an agreement. Dennis Ross, the U S Mideast envoy, called the session productive and said negotiators will reconvene Wednesday to push for a deal.
In Wichita, a utility worker found a toy beauty salon on the roadside near Kansas 96 by Beaumont. Bonnie Bills later learned the gift had fallen from a truck and was identified by a radio station listener, enabling its return for Courtney Ivey.
For some jobs, holiday means a day of labor. Govind Patel, manager of the South Main Street Days Inn motel, describes Christmas as a 25 hour job. ER nurses, like Karen Stine at Ransom Memorial Hospital, work holidays due to open facilities and patient need. A volunteer sign up and time and a half incentives help rotate major holidays and share the burden. See WORK page 3.
At Ransom Memorial Hospital the medical team brightens patient stays with gifts, cakes, banners, and even a Nintendo system. Nurse Norma Harbin recalls buying wind up cars and balls for children, noting how hard the holidays are for young patients away from home.
Two area legislators and a legislator elect were assigned Tuesday to committees for the legislative session starting next month. Ralph Tanner will serve on the education, governmental organizations and elections, and insurance committees as 10th District representative to the House, and Bill Feuerborn will serve on the appropriations committee as 5th District representative. Robert Tyson will serve on the agriculture, energy and natural resources, and transportation and tourism committees after he is sworn in as a member of the Kansas Senate. Neither Tyson nor Feuerborn could be reached for comment. Tanner said he is alone with the committees assigned to him, noting these are three major committees to the people of Ottawa, Franklin County and southern Douglas County. He will serve as vice chairman to the governmental organizations and elections committee.
John Kevin Flohr 37 of Olathe faces a second degree murder charge in the fatal Oct 25 shooting of Aledo Gulley Jr. in Topeka area. Arraignment postponed due to weather and will be held Jan 6 in Franklin County District Court with a jury trial to follow. Gulley lived with Lyndee Flohr, Flohr's ex wife, at the Ottawa address. Flohr worked as a sales rep for Steve's Precision Dental Lab in Overland Park.
County commissioners weigh financing options for a new Caterpillar motor grader to replace an old unit. The cash difference cited at 70,716 plus government discounts reduces outright price to about 161,216 while typical list price nears 215,000. The county maintains over 950 miles of roads with its dozen graders and aims for lower local interest rates.
Franklin County commissioners selected Strauss and Associates of Lawrence to advise on a county subdivision update. Eric Strauss, KU urban planning professor, was interviewed last week by the Planning Commission. He has consulted for Baldwin and Eudora cities and an hourly fee around $85 is expected. Regular study sessions are planned in early 1997.
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