Local Ottawa Teachers Reach for Disco Fame
Barry Robinson and Phill Scheldt, Ottawa teachers, rose from modest duties to clinch second place in a Kansas City disco contest. They trained at Dirty Sally's in KC and taught dances at Eugene Field School and Rock House. With matching outfits and hype, they earned a finals berth in Dimples disco contest with a Las Vegas trip as top prize. Stay tuned for KC Disco Finals results.
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Barry
Eugene Field
Tip and Mitten
Phill
Dirty Sally’s
Kansas City
Ottawa
Rock House
Eugene Field School
Plaza Delight
Bus Stop
the Hustle
KCPL
Dimples
Las Vegas
The
Herald
Died five year old Frank Reed funeral set in Pomona
Services for Frank Budd Reed five died of leukemia will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at Dengel and Son Mortuary with Rev. Warren Skiles officiating. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Born March 7 1971 in Cape Girardeau he moved to Pomona in 1975 from Independence. Survived by sister Vera Jane and brother Robert Joe Reed both of the home and grandparents Mr and Mrs R A Reed Ottawa RFD 3 and Mrs Vera Brock Pomona. Friends may call 7 to 8 p.m. at the mortuary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Reed
Frank Budd Reed
Joe Reed
Pomona
Children's’ Mercy Hospital
Kansas City
Dengel and Son Mortuary
Warren Skiles
Greenwood Cemetery
Cape Girardeau
Eugene Shepherd
Eugene F. Shepherd
Wellsville
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lawrence
Robson-Towner Funeral Home
William Weber
Highland Cemetery
Cestos
Okla
Virgil
May Gertrude (Pittman) Shepherd
National Guard
F. A
J&a
Mary £. Nickles
Olathe
Alta Mae Zeek
Betty Jean Shepherd
Reed Frank Budd Reed
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Missouri
Dengel & Son
KASB Workshop Postponed By Weather In Topeka Kansas
The Kansas Association of School Boards postponed its legislative workshop scheduled for Thursday due to bad weather. Executive director Dr. Marion McGhehey said more than 100 school board members from across Kansas were expected to attend to discuss issues likely to arise in the 1977 Legislature.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Association of School Boards
Marion McGhehey
Kasb
McGhehey
County Salaries Rise for 1977 Officials and Heads
The Franklin County Commission approved salary increases for 13 elected officials and department heads starting in 1977. Key raises include Assessor Russell Wray from 10,800 to 12,000 a year, Ambulance Director Al Brandt from 12,500 to 13,500, Undersheriff Fred Vogler from 8,520 to 9,600, Engineer Bob Lister from 14,400 to 15,000, and the public works supervisor from 12,600 to 19,000.
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Franklin County Commission
Russell Wray
al Brandt
Fred Vogler
Bob Lister
Carter vows to place peanut business in trust to avoid conflicts
President-elect Carter announced plans to transfer control of his peanut business to trustees who will lease or sell it, aiming to prevent conflicts of interest as aides unveil a new ethics code. He expressed regrets and emphasized a strong wall between government duties and family business. The article also notes county pay raises, county employee benefits via Blue Cross coverage, stricter culvert installation rules, and upcoming swearing-in of new county officials led by District Judge Floyd H. Coffman.
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Plains, Ga
Carter
Warren Wakeman
District Court
Register of Deeds
Commission
Joe Ferns
Ferns
Jack Davis
Davis
Franklin County
County Commission
County Courts
Floyd H. Coffman
Beebe to Speak at Ottawa Chamber Annual Meeting Banquet
Ford executive Leo C. Beebe will be the featured speaker at the Greater Ottawa Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting and Banquet set for 7 15 p m February 8 in the Ottawa University Student Union. Beebe, EVPGM of Philco Ford Domestic Consumer Products, has served three presidents and aided refugee programs. A slide presentation by the Kansas Department of Economic Development and an upstairs product display precede the banquet. The event also marks the gavel change to incoming president Hank Claterbus.
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Ford Motor Co
Leo C. Beebe
Greater Ottawa
Camp Kilmer
Miami
Beebe
National Alliance of Businessmen
Ottawa
Union
Dottie Wellington
Marguerite Gibson
Dorothy Nichols
U.S.A
Kansas Department of Economic Development
Hank Claterbus
Jack Beauchamp
Health Systems Agency Meeting Set in Ottawa Jan 11
A health systems agency session will adopt bylaws for a seven-county area in Ottawa on January 11 at 7:90 p.m. in the Anchor Savings meeting room. The sub-area II of Northeast Kansas Health Systems, representing 21 counties, will convene with presiding attorney Rick Godderz of Burlingame. Dr. Bill Roy will report on health planning problems.
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Health Systems Agency
Ottawa
Anchor Savings
Anderson
Coffey
Linn
Osage
Franklin
Miami
Douglas
Northeast
Kansas Health Systems
Kansas
Rick Godderz
Burlingame
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Don Lambert
Barry Robinson
Phill Scheldt
the Daily Report
Ad Briefs
Nitcher
Cal
Arrowhead Inn
John Eugene Shepherd
Albuquerque
N. M
Thomas Shepherd
Sue Louk
Jean. Boyd
Conway
Ark
Jesse Tate
Rio Grande
N. J
Rosemary Bradley
West Palm Beach
Fla
Charles Winchester
Ottawa Rfd
Albert Toumberlin
Oak
Ralph Detwiler
Rantoul
Viola Weese
King
Cleda Gentry
S. Oak
Albert Daniels
Hickory
Eulanda Stark
Mulberry
Gary Dunn
RFD
Earl Meiers
Bruce Lane
Fern C. Naylor
Delaine V. Heckman
William D. Mitchell
Princeton
William Hubbard II
Nelson V. McAlexander
Deborah M. Coons
Floyd A. Rochenower
James W. Carpenter
Ottawa Department
OF Public Safety
Isnane
Aris “Trinity
Christie
Higgins
Vonnegut
Cussler
Erdman
Marry
Updike
Dolores” Susann
Sheehy
Haley
Dyer
Deanit
Bombeck
Hite
Adolf Hitler
Toland
Jaworski
Jerusalem
Bellow
Thompson
Pouch
Stewart
Trinity” Uris
Dolores
Susann Michener
Grover
Stiles
Woodward Sheehy
Memoriam
Dengel Son Mortuary
Peanut Marketing Partnership
Billy
Lillian
Leo Beebe
the Elks Club
Freda Gilmore
Mary Jo Hanes
Gene Price
Virginia Seaver
Dorothy Casey
Helga Kursk
Towner
Anana
Jerry Robson
David Bunch
Violet Robson Rean Towner
Dorothy Reams
Iowa
Michael J. Esser
Yard D. Jones & CO
NEW York Stock Exchange
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