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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1997
Page
1
New York stocks rise midday amid optimism on easing the Asian fiscal crisis. Dow up 75.73 to 7,868.14, S&P 500 +9.56 to 962.92, Nasdaq +14.00 to 1,551.45, NYSE +4.68 to 506.17, AMEX +3.97 to 673.26. Grain prices listed and Ottawa Co-op quotes included.
Orville Lynn Majors, a licensed practical nurse in the Vermillion County Hospital ICU, is charged with murdering Dorothea Hixon and five others by injection. Prosecutors say ICU deaths spiked on his duty days. Majors, 36, is jailed without bond and to appear in Vermillion Circuit Court. Investigators spent three years and 1.5 million on the probe amid reports he was a suspect in up to 100 deaths.
Obituaries for Mered ith Nell Johnson 45 Ottawa died Dec. 24 1997 in Kansas City. Funeral 2 p.m. Friday Lamb Roberts-Hesse Ottawa with Rev. Edward A Baxter. burial Highland Cemetery. Survived by brother Stewart Johnson Kumamoto Japan an aunt Barbara Rawson Springfield IL and niece Mariko S Johnson Baltimore. Memorials to Kansas Diabetes Association. Mary Louise Risdon 89 Ottawa died Dec. 27 1997 Overland Park Regional Medical Center. Services 1 p.m. Friday First Christian Church Ottawa. private Princeton Cemetery burial. Retired educator highlighted by state teaching work and Hall of Fame. Francis E Pinneo 89 Garnett died Dec. 28 1997 St Luke's KC. Services 2 p.m. Wednesday Farris-Feuerborn Memorial Chapel Garnett. burial Garnett Cemetery. Survived by wife Lola. sons Russell Wesley Henry Pinneo. Irene Louk. daughter 13 grandchildren 18 great grandchildren. Memorials to American Lung Association. Leo Eugene Laird Sr. 89 Richmond died Dec. 23 1997 Ransom Memorial Hospital. Services 11 a.m. Saturday Sacred Heart Church Frontenac. burial Garden of Memories Pittsburg. Survived by two sons Bud Laird Larry Laird a brother Martin Laird a sister Sarah Mattson eight grandchildren 12 great grandchildren. Memorials to St Therese Church. Verna M Rodgers 62 Ottawa died Dec. 29 1997 home. Arrangements Lamb-Roberts-Heise Ottawa to appear later. Lorraine M Ogrsga funeral in Ottawa died today. Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday First United Methodist Church Ottawa. burial Highland Cemetery Ottawa.
A civil suit filed in OLATHE alleges racial profiling by Dillard's Inc. at Overland Park Mall. Plaintiffs Raymond Washington and Nichelle Baskin say they were unlawfully detained by store security on December 22, 1996, with car searches in a pattern of targeting Black patrons.
Multiple small ads list store closures for Christmas, New Year events, and special sales. Includes Carpet Warehouse December 37 and January 1 closings, Country Living after Christmas sale 50 percent off, various venue dinners and New Year parties, and a pre inventory sale at Cornerstone Bookstore with card-punch incentives.
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