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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1995
Page
1
Kansas voters could decide in the April 4 city elections whether to legalize instant or pull tab bingo. If approved by February 28, the measure would be the fourth constitutional gambling expansion in Kansas, with hearings held by the joint House and Senate committees and no action taken yet.
A Kansas House Education Committee hearing explored a bill granting police power to pick up students under 16 during school hours for truancy. Officers could take youths to school or a district truancy center. expelled or suspended students would be returned home. Also reported, Wyandotte County Judge R David Lamar collapsed while jogging and died at 58 near the courthouse.
O J Simpson's I Want to Tell You rushes to number one on The Wall Street Journal non fiction and general interest lists and tops USA Today's hardcover chart. The New York Times says it will lead their non fiction list for Feb. 12. Publisher Lite Brown & Co says first printing was 500,000 with 100,000 more in second print run, list price 17.50.
Calendar items list events in Ottawa area including exhibits at Ottawa Community Arts Center and Onawa Library, meetings of city, county, and community groups, programs at Ransom Memorial Hospital and local churches, and youth theater at Onawa Municipal Auditorium with dates through February and notes on venues and contact details.
Ransom Memorial Hospital trustees met in special session and approved a 15 percent rate hike on 251 of its 2,250 service codes. The increase, effective today, covers selected surgical charges outpatient clinic services cardiopulmonary treatment imaging and some lab work, while seven items drop about 20 percent. net revenue rise estimated at about 119000 after Medicare and Medicaid payments.
Arry Fisher of the Ottawa power plant filed a Kansas Human Rights Commission discrimination complaint alleging disability based accommodation failures and retaliation for a 1983 lawsuit. He says a daytime shift was given to someone with less experience in October 1994. KHRC filing date was November 12, 1994. Fisher declined comment and directed inquiries to lawyer L J Leatherman, who was unavailable. City manager Scott Lambers declined to comment.
FBI and local law enforcement briefed about gang activity and youth crime at a Tuesday session led by Ottawa Police Chief Jeff Herrman at Ottawa University. Allan King noted strong community turnout and urged inter agency cooperation while highlighting federal focus via Safe Streets Task Forces in Kansas.
The Franklin County Planning Commission sets a 7 p.m. public meeting at the County Annex Building to gather comment on the new comprehensive plan. Gary Griffith of Grif Associates, Prairie Village, has compiled data for over a year to guide growth and development in the county for the coming years.
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