Talks Start Jan 15 For Vo Tech Negotiations
East Central Vocational Cooperative Board named Gale Lantis of Pomona and Alice Jo DeFries of Ottawa to lead contract talks with co op teachers beginning Wednesday Jan 15 at 7 p.m. in the north co op building. Ronnie Hollandsworth and Jackie Johnson will represent the educators. Ben Moor will be a consultant.
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Jay Bemis
Gale Lantis
Pomona
Alice Jo DeFries
Ottawa
East Central Vocational Cooperative Board of Directors
Lantis
West Franklin Board of Education
East Central Vocational Cooperative Educators Association
Coop
Ronnie Hollandsworth
Jackie Johnson
Ben Moor
Moor
Leg GOP Leaders Endorse Gas Tax Hike in Kansas Preview
In Topeka GOP leaders Wendell Lady and Ross Doyen push for a two-cent gas diesel tax raise to curb highway deterioration. They seek bipartisan backing from Gov Carlin and Democrats and consider indexing highway revenues as fuel prices rise. Doyen outlines a plan to shift funds from general to highway programs, totaling about 20.5 million dollars.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
House
Wendell Lady
Senate
Ross Doyen
Department of Transportation
Lady
Doyen
GOP
Robert F. Bennett
Kansas Motor Carriers Associa
Kansas Highway Patrol
General Fund
Miss Lucile Prunty obituary and city notices
Miss Lucile Prunty, 84, of 418 S Hickory, died Monday at Ransom Memorial Hospital. Funeral 2 p.m. Thursday at Lamb Roberts Funeral Home with burial in Highland Cemetery. She was a Townsend Department Store clerk and Ottawa Herald proofreader from 1945 to 1955, later a seamstress. Surviving sister Margaret and brother Robert Prunty are listed. Gifts to First Christian Church. Also notes admissions, dismissals, births, arrests, thefts, fires, and court actions follow in this Ottawa Daily Report segment.
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Lucile Prunty
Hickory
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Lamb-Roberts
Highland Cemetery
Harold Dungan
Charles Anderson
Miss Prunty
Unionville
Ottawa
Townsend Department Store
Ottawa Herald
First Christian Church
CWF
OARTA
BPW
Margaret S. Prunty
Robert Edward Lee Prunty
Greeley
Colo
Giant sale prompts kids clothes rush at Young Place
Local brief notes a giant sale at Young Place Kids Clothes with a humorous misprint about selling giants. mentions hours update and a sale date around January ninth. Also lists several local businesses with service hours and offerings.
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Young Place
Wed
In-Home High School Plan Approved in Kansas
The Kansas State Board of Education approved a 15 year old Greensburg Mennonite girl Eunice Wadel to study at home under her mother rather than attend the local public high school. She will spend 25 hours weekly on core subjects and will take correspondence courses from the American School in Chicago.
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Topeka, Kan
State Board of Education Today
Greensburg, Kan
Eunice Wadel
Greensburg
Wadel
Keith Koehn
Health agency plans service across 25 Kansas counties
The proposed agency will serve Franklin Osage Coffey Miami Douglas Linn counties plus areas from Emporia to Topeka up to the Nebraska line and excludes the Kansas City metro area. The footprint follows federal law creating the agency along with three other Kansas agencies and 200 similar entities nationwide.
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Franklin
Osage
Coffey
Miami, Douglas and
Linn
Topeka
Nebraska
Kansas City
Kansas
Pomona Adopts Charter Exemption For Police And Fire Dept
Pomona City Council approved a charter ordinance shielding police and fire from the tax lid allowing up to two mills for a special public safety fund. A fire plan to share daily workload was presented. Bids for a new trash contract will be sought Feb 4 as current agreement expires April 1. City residents are billed for trash service via utility bills. Three city council seats filing deadline is noon Jan 29. Charter ordinance provides yearly council elections. Lane and Rantoul items follow.
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Pomona
Paola Dentist Joins Kansas Board of Education
Floyd J. Grimes, 49, of Paola, sworn in as the new member of Kansas Board of Education District No. 3. Grimes was chosen in December by Republican district chairmen to fill the vacancy after George Frey’s death, after losing a 1978 primary to Frey. He has 12 years on the Paola school board and once led the Kansas Association of School Boards. District No. 3 covers Shawnee, Douglas, Franklin, Osage, Jefferson, Miami and Leavenworth counties.
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Kan
Paola
State Board of Education
Floyd J. Grimes
George Frey
Grimes
Frey
Kansas Association of School Boards
Jack Brier
Shawnee
Douglas
Franklin
Osage
Jefferson
Miami
Leavenworth
Crusader Wendeln Loses Bid in 55 MPH Case
In Kansas, Kelly Wendeln lost a bid for a new trial in Osage County District Court after being convicted of speeding at 65 mph on U.S. 75 near Carbondale. Judge John White fined him $75 and Wendeln vowed to appeal to higher courts up to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. Ottawa schools announce 11:30 a.m. dismissal Friday marking the end of the first semester, with teachers granted a half day for grading.
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Ottawa
Willis Nursery
S. Cherry
John E. Sell
Gibbons Auto Salvage
N. Cherry
Lamar
County Fairgrounds
Greg Loparto
Rural Peculiar
Loparto
Lyndon, Kan
Kelly Wendeln
U.S. Supreme Court
John W. White
Osage County
White
Iola
Wendell
U.S. 75
Carbondale
Kansas
Kansas Court of Appeals
Kansas Supreme Court
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S. Cedar
Louise Bryan
Richmond
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Joe Thompson
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Kent F. Kramer
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Randy Fisher
N. Main
William Carl Snyder
Kramer Drug Store
S. Main
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Greg Worthington
George Smith
Pomona High
Robert Henry Dreyer Jr
S. Hickory
Marjorie Carr
Loren L. Newkirk
Gardner
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Maple
Elizabeth Jean Barrigan
Burroughs
Earl Gene Whitmore
S. Elm
Taco Tico
Department of Public Safety
DPS
W. 2Nd
Otasco
Bud
Jim
McArdle’s
Central Air
Ottawa Municipal Auditorium
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Butler's Music Store
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Lawrence
Clem Eggert
Marie Adams
John Wilson
Rantoul
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Paola Man
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East Central Vocational Cooperative
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Prunty
Harold E. Dungan
Charles CC. Anderson
Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home
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