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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1985
Page
1
The fragment lists items across pages on taxation and IRS themes, Ottawa city politics over a northside overpass, Kansas teaching needs, and a world note on harvests. It reads as a newspaper page index with brief mentions of stories and page numbers.
Kansas bill to let county attorneys charge restitution penalties for bad checks adds 10 20 and 30 dollar fees for insufficient funds up to over 100 dollars. Funds would finance faster processing and equipment. safeguards limit use to enforcement costs not salaries. Barker and Clark push for related reform on preliminary hearings to reduce witness burdens and court costs.
About 1,000 firefighters fought a bayfront Regent of Manila hotel fire killing at least 24 people, including an IRS agent and two other Americans. Officials fear the death toll could rise as guests and staff were trapped. The blaze began during a power outage and authorities consider arson a possibility.
Up to two feet of snow blanketed the central Appalachians with drifts up to ten feet. The blizzard closed schools and left 70,000 utility customers powerless from the Great Lakes to the Northeast. Ohio declared snow emergencies in Lawrence and Adams counties as National Guard crews were authorized to clear roads. Eastern Kentucky reported 14 to 24 inches, with up to 30 inches in western North Carolina. Weather warnings covered eastern Ohio, western Maryland Panhandle, and parts of Michigan and Virginia.
Kansas transportation head John B Kemp warned the legislature that while 156 miles of the 630 mile state interstate system will be deficient by 1985 and 90 percent could be so by 1990 if untreated, the state plans a long term rehabilitation strategy. He described two approaches and favored a 10 to 20 year plan to restore pavement life over repeated five year patches. The remaining links in Kansas interstate projects include I 435 and I 670 near Kansas City and the belt routes around the metro area.
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