Gas Crisis Eases as Weather Moderates Across Region
Gas Service Co reports residential and small commercial gas use returning to normal as weather improves though warns that severe cold could return and supplies remain reduced by about a quarter after a harsh winter. Ottawa schools resume on fuel oil while Ransom Memorial Hospital stays on oil and snow helps protect pipes. city utilities report no major problems.
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David Olson
The
Gas Service Co
Franklin County
Midwest
Ottawa
Robert Grabham
Local
Ottawa Public Schools
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Robert W. Mills
Mills
Was It Ever Cold Was It Ever Cold By The Associated Press
Residents of Missouri and Kansas endured freezing temperatures for a third night as winter gripped the Midwest. Officials urged continued conservation to avert natural gas shortages, with the Gas Service Co noting stable conditions yet stressing ongoing thermostat reductions.
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Associated Press
Missouri
Kansas
Midwest
Gas Service Co
Oklahoma
Nebraska
National Weather Service
Weather Service
New Policy On Overnight School Trips
The U S C 280 Board of Education adopted a policy to equalize funding for overnight trips. Trips must be submitted by April 16, with principal approval and budget inclusion. Meals may be discretionary, decided by the superintendent to fit budgets. Misconduct triggers parent contact and student return home at the parents’ expense. No trips from Oct 1 to May 1 except spring sports and other events. Contracts granted for Anita Lefevre art teacher and Mary Jane Duncan substitute teacher and assistant girls basketball coach.
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Don Lambert
U.S.C
Board of Education
Lincoln School
Dale Fox
Chuck Sypher
Anita Lefevre
Mary Jane Duncan
Public input on idle grant funds in Ottawa Wednesday
Ottawa prepares two public hearings on reallocating about 210000 in unspent HUD Community Development funds from the abandoned North American Apartments project. City officials outline eligible housing rehab, street work, and neighborhood facilities while forbidding large infrastructure builds.
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David Olson
Ottawa
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Third
Main
Doug Harris
Commission
City Hall
City Commission
Harris
Water Shortage Strains Princeton Residents and Fire Protection
Princeton community leaders urged strict water conservation as a minimal supply from a small standpipe continued to drain. Ottawa sent three milk-hauler trucks carrying 6,000 to 7,000 gallons each to供 water the Princeton plant at noon, with Ottawa Mayor John Sheldon offering it gratis.
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Joanistas
Princeton
Ottawa Public Safety Department
Ottawa
John Sheldon
Rossman
Sharon Higgins
Leroy Wasmund
Princeton Water District
Florence Jordan
Higgins
Wasmund
Kansas opens 1977 session with death penalty bills
In Topeka the 1977 Kansas legislature begins with two death penalty bills from the interim Federal and State Affairs committee. Gov. Bennett and Atty. Gen. Schneider presented the measures. Bennett would allow death for first degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, aircraft piracy and treason with separate juries for guilt and punishment. Schneider’s bill limits death to first degree murder with defined aggravating factors.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert F. Bennett
Kansas
Bennett
Judiciary Department
Special Interim Committee On
Curt Schneider
Daoud Freed by French Court and Leaves for Algiers
Abu Daoud, accused of directing the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre, is freed by a Paris court. He boards a plane to Algiers after dismissing extradition requests from West Germany and Israel. The move draws mixed reactions from Israel, the PLO, and German officials.
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Paris
Abu Daoud
Algiers
Daoud
Orly
Palestine Liberation Organization
Munich
West Germany
France
Israel
PLO
Supreme Court ruling on zoning for low income housing
The Supreme Court held that communities are not required to change zoning laws to provide housing for low income families. In a 5-3 decision written by Justice Powell the court said white communities need not make integration allowances without proof of purposeful discrimination. It reversed a Seventh Circuit ruling that Arlington Heights Illinois refused to rezone a 15 acre plot, finding no racial discrimination.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Lewis F. Powell Jr
7Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Arlington Heights, Ill
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S. Oak
Charlie Smiley
N. Hickory
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