Educators and Legislators Debate Rural Education Challenges
Kansas educators and lawmakers at a Topeka luncheon weighed incentives to attract bright students to teaching, the likelihood of merit pay, and the rise of home schools as public school enrollment declines. They warned of hard choices ahead, including potential school closures and consolidation amid increasing district pressures. Representatives from several districts and Ottawa University attended the forum.
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Allen
Topeka
Kansas
Gardner-Edgerton
Parry
Ted
Johnson County
West Franklin
Central Heights
Wellsville
Santa Fe Trail
Lyndon
Marais Des Cygnes Valley
Edwards
Ottawa
U.S.C
Roger Nelson
Nancy Hale
Alice JoDeFries
Jack Bushman
Marvin Barkis
Dlouisburg
Burt DeBaun
Osage City
Countywide Industrial Board Proposal Spurs County Debate
County officials discuss expanding the Ottawa Industrial Development Board into a countywide panel. Farmers ask why tax money funds business growth while city residents dispute sharing road costs, and concerns arise over regulations and tax implications for small versus large businesses. County commissioners emphasize support for small and large businesses and clarify board duties.
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Paget
Swank
Ottawa Industrial Development Board
OID
Ed Seyler
Ottawa Rfd 2
Seyler
Ottawa
Merle Haas
Wellsville
RFD 1
Haas
Irbs
Bob Dodson
Industrial Development Board
Dodson
Roger Keith
Beleaguered Thayer Quits Washington
AP reports Paul Thayer resigns as deputy secretary of defense a year into the job amid SEC insider trading charges. The civil suit names Thayer and eight others for disclosing merger and acquisition information on LTV Allied and Anheuser Busch while serving on their boards. The SEC seeks profits from improprieties and asks for a remedy order.
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Washington
Paul Thayer
Securities and Exchange Commission
Pentagon
New York
SEC
U.S. District Court
Thayer
LTV Corp
Allied Corp
Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc
Reagan
LTV
Sheriff's Sale Notice in Franklin County Kansas 1964
Public auction to satisfy an Order of Sheriff Sale in Franklin County Kansas directs sale of real estate belonging to Henry L Wilson and Maude Martha Wilson with six months redemption. Property includes parts of Section 2 and Section 35 in Township 18 South Range 20 East. Rex A Bowling, Sheriff. Also notice of sale of abandoned motor vehicle owned by Joseph A Schmieder, Volkswagen 2 door sedan, red 1974 model, stored in Garnett Kansas.
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Henry L. Wilson
Ottawa
Franklin County
Kansas
Towit
S.W
Maude Martha Wilson
Rex A. Bowling
Sherrif Franklin Co
Kansas Department
X. Transportation
Joseph A. Schmieder
Volkswagen
County Session review notes audit and hospital board
Franklin County Commission received the 1982 audit report by Arnold Lemon and plans a Jan 11 review with the auditor. They consider RMH board appointment for a resigning member and discuss prenatal instruction duties and patient delivery at RMH. Road projects totaling 29.3 million were bid December 29, with bridges and asphalt awarded to Midwest Construction and Killough. Snow removal plans recommend expanding districts to nine or ten and reallocating graders. annual reorganizational meeting set for Jan 9 with Mavity likely to be chairman.
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Franklin County Commission
Arnold Lemon
Maple Hill
Lemon
Ransom Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees
Bill Ransom
Health Department
Arla Lichteig
RMH
Lickteig
Kansas Department of Transportation
Tally Creek
Ottawa
Eisenhower Road
Midwest Construction Co. Inc
Holton
Killough Inc
Larry Larson
Larson
Bob Chamberlin
Chamberlin
Floods Force Hundreds From Homes In Pacific Northwest
Heavy rains and snowmelt runoff isolated towns in the Pacific Northwest as volunteers piled sandbags to halt rising rivers. Washington Gov. John Spellman declared a state of emergency statewide as floodwaters swept through homes waist deep amid a week of record cold easing to a warm chinook.
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Associated Press
Pacific
Northwest
Washington
John Spellman
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Kansas Supreme Court
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Ted Parry
Gardner-Edgerton-Antioch
Ted Vannecker
Lebo and Waverly
Garnett
the Family Circus
By Bil Keane
Cactus Club
Federal Land Bank of
Wichita
Skoog & Latimer Title
Kan
John B. Kemp
Hagar the
Horries
Beetle Bailey
Clovia
Hoogy
Hoge
By Bob Burtch
Charles Mavity
Bob Hopkins
Jcpenney
Ottawa, Kansas
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