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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1968
Page
8
One month after the Palermo region quake that killed hundreds and damaged 51 towns, Western Sicily remains stunned and fearful. 50,000 homeless live in tents or requisitioned buildings while 235 bodies are recovered and more are found daily. Refugees linger in tent camps as aftershocks continue and panic or disease fears prompt emergency measures.
Nearly 450 attended the Ottawa Production Credit Association annual meeting. Ray Teagarden and Dan W. Lickteig were re elected as directors with Wilson Counts as president. Teagarden as vice president and Lickteig and Clarence E Lay with Andrew Forbes as directors. Charley Reynolds, manager, delivered extensive reports. Loans outstanding totaled approximately 634 million. Charles N. Thorpe of Wichita spoke on current economic climate and agriculture. Jack Taylor of Columbia Missouri, billed as Timothy Hay, entertained with a talk titled Middle Age Marriage and Other Perils.
In Topeka the Kansas House plans a final vote today on a consumer protection package including a strong fraud law and emergency powers for riot or disaster. The measure would criminalize deceptive advertising and empower the attorney general to file actions. It also authorizes curfews and emergency declarations, with immunity for officials acting in good faith. The Senate meanwhile killed a bill to bill parents for juvenile delinquent care and approved animal dealer licensing and highway crew pay rules.
The Senate Education Committee agreed to introduce a bill to rename Schilling Institute at Salina as the Kansas Technical Institute. The measure would shift control from the State Educational Authority to a Kansas Technical Institute Board of Trustees under the State Board of Education and allow acquisition of land and buildings from the former Schilling Air Force Base, including the Atlas missile site No 1, subject to board approval.
Washington AP reports nine Supreme Court justices confront whether states may curb material deemed harmful to minors. New York 1965 law bans sale of harmful material to under 17 and Dallas 1965 ordinance allows censored classification of films for under 15 without parental presence. If five justices back limits, such laws could multiply.
Fire chief Harry Gilliland hopes to remodel the Ottawa fire station to clear brick dust. City inspector Vern Wadkins said the center door for the building’s face has arrived and remodeling may finish by end of next week. Bids for an asphalt overlay around the airport’s T-hangars will be rechecked at the Feb. 28 meeting. Parking restrictions on three Ottawa streets were approved to ease narrow thoroughfares. The old La France pumper will be donated to the Franklin County Historical Society. An architectural contract was approved to design a new tennis court with improved lighting. A petition seeking annexation east of Rock Creek bridge was referred to planning commission.
Gov Doering released a report by R A Haines on Topeka's Kansas Neurological Institute after 27 employees claimed mismanagement. The investigation found no grounds for charges, citing communication breakdowns and hard feelings among staff. A new superintendent may help, following Dr William Sigurdson's resignation to California.
Memphis cab driver J T Maddox testified he handed over a wedding donation after a fare he believed carried a pistol demanded money. Maddox said the rider claimed to be getting married and threatened the cabbie with a weapon.
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