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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1998
Page
7
The OHL Girls Huron champs beat Sumner on the road Tuesday night to claim their third league title in 23 years of Ottawa basketball history.
A forecast calls for possible sprinkles or flurries in the morning Thursday, followed by mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures will reach 45 to 50 degrees with a northwest wind around 10 to 15 mph. More details appear on page 2.
A garbled OCR style page index lists sections and page numbers such as Classifieds Comics Daily Report Opinion Obituaries Society Sports and various page references. The readouts resemble a table of contents with fragmented formatting and stray punctuation.
Local Black History Month festivities at Bethany Chapel Baptist Church in Wichita begin with a 6 p.m. potluck and 7 p.m. program featuring John Hunter of the Kansas Advisory Commission on African-American Affairs and youth recognitions. The event promotes the theme African-Americans in Business. A storm spotter training session follows on Tuesday at the County Annex with J. B. Hall and a National Weather Service meteorologist, covering El Nino impacts and credential recertification.
Country artist David Kersh will perform Saturday April 18 as the spring finale for Ottawa Municipal Auditorium’s 1997 98 Entertainment Season. His hits include If I Never Stop Lovin You and Breaking Hearts and Taking Names. Tickets go on sale to the general public March 30.
In Topeka Kansas the state Democratic Party denounces a public service ad by the Department of Revenue featuring Gov Bill Graves. The PSA promotes rebates for property and food sales taxes for poor and disabled Kansans. The ethics commission limits ads with elected officials in campaign contexts until July 6 after legislative adjournment.
In Montgomery County Maryland a judge awarded custody of a 2-year-old boy to his biological mother Latrena Pixley despite her 1992 murder of an infant daughter for crying too much. She later pleaded guilty to credit-card fraud and was imprisoned briefly before release. Simultaneously in Illinois Bertha Bromley received probation for attempting to strangle her 9-month-old son. Social workers say they aim to reunite the child with his mother.
Authorities hail Crimestoppers as a new weapon and seek Nice support to start Franklin County Crime Stoppers. Detective Alan Radcliffe explains the program will emphasize major felonies, with weekly crime features in The Herald The Ottawa Times The Wellsville Globe and KOFO. A nine member board will oversee rewards up to 1000 dollars and decide crimes to feature.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan announced plans to travel to Baghdad to meet Saddam Hussein with unanimous Security Council support. He warned the mission will be hard and that Iraq must engage constructively to avoid serious consequences from the United States and Britain.
The Kansas House approved a $225 million tax relief plan by a 122 to 1 vote, far exceeding the Senate’s $169 million plan, triggering a six member conference committee with hopes to trim the relief and determine how much money to return to citizens this year. The panel will negotiate next week as both chambers seek a final figure amid a booming economy and a looming election year.
City commissioners moved to condemn four structures 124 S Maple 227 S Oak 843 S Cherry and 1008 N Hickory adding them to a tear down list though funds may be limited They approved a 5875 demolition bid for 811 S Oak rejected a 6730 bid for 731 N W Ottawa Mulberry due to a 10000 annual budget for demolitions Foreclosure of 811 S Oak planned to recover costs Also approved were a budget policy resolution a sign ordinance with up to 100 fine and 10 days jail annexation of 1600 Osage Drive second attempt and amendment to an engineering services contract with HNTB
Fleer enters the race to fill the Ottawa City Commission vacancy after Mayor Vicki Cummiskey resigns. She joins former commissioners Charles Gillette and Richard Jackson and Library Board member Louis Reed as the four contenders. Deadline for candidate interest passed Tuesday. Fleer, a driver license examiner, attends meetings regularly. Interviews are set for 7 p.m. next Wednesday at City Hall.
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