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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1982
Page
1
Page 9 reports state plans to fund building a new minimum security prison in Lansing. Page 10 notes House Speaker Wendell Lady urging the Senate to confront a tax increase decision as lawmakers head toward votes.
In Friday night basketball Bishop Mice beat the OHS Cyclones 59 to 53 while William Jewell edged the OU Braves 67 to 65. Page 4.
Kansas would forfeit about 39.68 million in federal funds under Reagan's FY 1983 budget plan affecting food stamps Medicaid ADC energy assistance and child care. SRS official J Charles Stevenson warns of sharp program cuts and potential pro rating if the state does not cover the gap.
In Coffey County, the O'Connor family faced propane drought as winter bites. An ECKAN outreach worker secured a $250 LIEAP grant and $228 fuel coupons to refill their tank, while program limits and awareness gaps affect many Kansans.
Fleming Companies Inc. said it will acquire all 27 A and P stores in the Kansas City division and resell them to independent affiliated retailers, with closure of the stores expected next month and A P announcing March 13 terminations for employees including the Leavenworth and Ottawa sites. Details on local facility impact were not available Friday.
Heavy fighting reported in Usulutan province as American trained soldiers push a campaign against leftist guerrillas. A White House spokesman said 55 American advisers in El Salvador have M 16 rifles in quarters for protection but not on assignments. Reagan called the situation understandable and ordered a full Pentagon report.
El Dorado trucker David R. Sibley 22 narrowly escaped a wreck on a Franklin County road when a car entering an intersection forced hard braking and shifting pipe in his Mack semi struck the cab. He ducked as pipe penetrated the rear window and windshield, causing no injuries or further damage.
In Topeka Kansas the House Assessment and Taxation Committee delayed action on a constitutional change to allow property classification for tax purposes. The measure tied to a statewide reappraisal faced procedural delays and heated debate with no vote. Braden criticized the stalled process while outlining an alternative: reappraisal with or without classification and suggested specific assessment rates for different property classes after reappraisal.
In Topeka Kansas federal court the trial of 11 railroads seeking tax reductions nears its end. Judge Richard D. Rogers will hear two more expert witnesses from the state on Tuesday and then railroads rebuttals. A North Carolina State professor testified commercial personal property in Saline County was assessed at 26 to 27 percent of fair value versus railroads urging 30 percent.
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