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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1972
Page
5
London AP reports the government told Parliament that millions of British workers may lose jobs as large scale electric power cuts bite. Factories shift to coal power and big plants cut usage by 50 percent under a state of emergency while coal stocks thin and offices halt energy use.
County forecast calls for clearing and colder tonight with lows in the mid teens to low 20s. Saturday will be mostly sunny and warmer with highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s. Tonight and Saturday have light variable winds and precipitation chances near zero. High Thursday 25, today’s low 20, year ago highs 53 and lows 29. Record high 75 in 1951, record low 1 in 1899. 24 hour precipitation ending 8 a.m. totals 0.07 inch snow.
Eddie Davidson a Princeton RFD 1 resident 25 died Thursday after a US 59 crash south of Lawrence. He suffered multiple skull fractures and other injuries when ejected from his southbound car. Services at 2 30 p m Sunday at First United Methodist Church with burial at Mount Hope Cemetery Williamsburg. He attended Ottawa High School KU Tau Kappa Epsilon and served in Vietnam. Surviving relatives include father C Lester Davidson. brother Donald G Davidson. step mother Wilma L Tucker Davidson. step brother David D Domnanish. step grandfather Harry Tucker. He was manager of Kings Food Host Lawrence. Funeral notices follow.
A $320 million revenue bond plan to speed Kansas highway building cleared both houses via conference committee, sending the measure to Gov. Robert Docking. The plan would authorize up to $40 million in bonds yearly for eight years funded from gasoline tax allocations to the freeway fund. The Senate also approved an ombudsman bill exempting courts, legislature, governor, and federal government, with final House action pending. The Senate also preliminarily approved a ballot placement bill for statewide office nominees from party conventions, allowing others to run via fee or petition, placing their names under those with 20 percent primary votes.
TEL AVIV AP Israel cannot withdraw forces from the Suez Canal without Egypt agreeing to an unlimited cease-fire. Cabinet member Israel Galili, adviser to Premier Golda Meir, said keeping forces by the canal is logical as fighting could resume. Galili tied this to indirect talks with Egypt via the United States. Egypt favors U N envoy Gunnar V Jarring as intermediary.
President Nixon rejects more concessions to Hanoi until it negotiates his eight point peace plan. He says the next step is up to the enemy and the table the proposal stands until a reply arrives. Nixon warns critics to avoid pressuring peace talks before the election. He notes his China trip plans announced ahead.
Kansas welfare director Dr. Robert C. Harder told the Senate Ways and Means Committee that action on the welfare supplemental appropriations bill must be completed by February 25 to meet a timetable for restoring welfare cuts. The bill would restore 10.66 million dollars in reductions, and the Senate committee began its review as a possible House-affirmed provision to reestablish a 50-member welfare investigation task force could be contested, risking delays to restoration by April 1.
Peg Carr announced plans to retire as Ottawa Chamber of Commerce manager on March 15 after the annual meeting. She will assist until a successor is hired as Allen Loyd forms committees to seek a professional manager and rebuild the chamber finances. Carr has served since 1951, reshaping the office locations and guiding the chamber through floods and growth while maintaining ties to Ottawa, Kansas.
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