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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1978
Page
7
DPS will update officer apparel by adding Royal blue ties and blue trim to hats and trousers. The change affects 36 full time and 20 reserve officers with each paying about 27 dollars for hat tie and striping as replacements roll out over the next year and a half.
Kansas City Kan mayor John E Reardon 34 and Ed C Carter of Southwestern Bell in Lawrence along with Larry Frost of Topeka were named Outstanding Young Kansans at a statewide Jaycees banquet. The event also honored public protectors, deputies, and educators among winners and runners up from various cities.
The Friends of the Ottawa Library begin sorting hundreds of donated items for the Skunk Run Book Sale set for Sunday May 21. Peg Carr leads the sorting with help invited from 9 30 each Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, as donations pour in. Almeda Edwards coordinates the plant sale part expected to add about 250 dollars last year. Proceeds fund library projects and art print acquisitions to be displayed with other materials.
Kansas Attorney General Curt Schneider rebuked Sen. John Vermillion for not heeding opinions on rescinding Kansas 1972 ERA ratification. A Wednesday hearing looms before the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee as Schneider vows to send five years of opinions to Vermillion for review.
Four major Kansas City blazes last week killed at least 20 people and caused about 2 million dollars in damage. Fire Chief John Waas, a 35 year veteran, said the fires were not arson related, noting the pattern of multiple alarms is a local tradition. The Coates House blaze left nearly 200 homeless at Twin Oaks and prompted evacuations as smoke and water damage spread.
Evangel Bible Translators founder Syvelle Phillips will speak four times this week at Community Revival Center Church 2400 block South Davis Road. He will lead services at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday Friday and Saturday and at 11 a.m. Sunday. Phillips, a Florida native, travels globally for missions and has advised Wycliffe Bible Translators. Friday he will show the film Peace Child about Christianity’s 1962 introduction to the Sawi of New Guinea.
A collage of storefront notices and offers. Metztger Salvage at 109 N. Main promotes canned horse meat dog food and $5.49 sheet paneling. Pomona Lions Pancake Supper Feb 10 at UM Church 5 to 8 pm. Calico Ladybug advertises Needlepoint classes. McArdle's at 203 ER offers Valentine appliances with flowers. U S Government bonds advertised by Edward D Jones Ottawa. Farm Bureau tire deal via Scott Service on US-50 Ottawa. Sophomore class paper drive Feb 11 9 to 12. Litwins advertises winter coats and fake furs.
Prayer coffee at 9 30 p m Tuesday at Betty Angell 1841 8 Mulberry with the Christian Women s Club. Other items note Mrs Clyde Berry from rural Richmond home, Jeffery J Gorton graduated at Lackland AFB Texas, and community notices including Jamboree date change to March 3 at the Richmond Community Building.
Obituaries for Adele Farrow of Waverly aged 91, details of service at United Methodist Church and burial at Waverly Cemetery, with surviving relatives. Additional notices for Fannie May Morrow of Ottawa, Mildred J. Denton of Wellsville, and Maxine Adkinson, plus admissions and dismissals, a birth, Farm Bureau break in, stolen vending machine cigarettes, and Kansas City hog and sheep quotations.
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