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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1981
Page
6
Ottawa University struggles at home as a skid hits its season, while EU players rely on home cooking to boost morale. Also notes Olathe’s EKL wrestling win over Bonner Springs and mentions state electric rates and heart disease prevention features.
A winter storm watch covers most of Kansas with snow likely this evening and Tuesday. Northeast winds 15 25 mph bring blowing snow and possible near blizzard conditions. temperatures fall tonight and stay cool through Tuesday with 70 percent snow chance tonight and 60 percent Tuesday.
A reporting error in last Friday's Herald switched Ottawa High School parents night to 8 p.m. Tuesday. The event aids current eighth and ninth grade parents on enrollment and OHS matters. A board vote will shift ninth graders from Ottawa Junior High to OHS next year, creating a four year program and adding about 175 students.
American writer Cynthia B. Dwyer, jailed in Iran after spying conviction, was detained at Tehran airport as exit papers delayed her departure to Vienna. State Department said she had not left the country and no timeline for resolution was available.
Chief Justice Warren Burger at the American Bar Association convention warned crime has permeated American life and urged reexamining suspects rights. He said change is needed and that overemphasis on rights may hinder security, while critics called some ideas dangerous and called for resignation.
Washington reports rising gasoline prices and higher mortgage and heating costs as inflation remains stubborn. Officials warn relief may be years away, with forecasts of modest price gains but ongoing volatility amid oil decontrol, tax cuts, and tight money policy.
Washington AP reports Democrats struggle to define a governing stance opposing Reagan and the Republican Senate. With no clear economic program, debate centers on Lefever’s State Department human rights post and future party direction. Notable figures include Cranston, Manatt, and a conservative senator group led by Boren, Nunn, DeConcini, Chiles, Hollings, Heflin, Johnston, Pryor, Zorinsky, and Exon.
Ottawa's two Republican legislators, Sen. Jim Aller and Rep. Dorothy Nichols, warned at a chamber coffee that deadlock between severance tax and sales tax proposals could raise property taxes. They prefer a sales tax increase to the governor's severance plan, citing existing tax collection structures and budget tightening.
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