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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1996
Page
7
Meade Kansas reports the Dalton Gang Hideout Museum will auction about 85 percent of its artifacts January 25 to 27 in Dodge City. Items include old pistols shotguns a Civil War surgeon saw rifles branding irons photos Morgan silver dollars and Indian head pennies as the museum clears space for new exhibits under manager Nancy Dye.
In Topeka the House Transportation Committee heard concerns from Samantha Murrell of the Kansas Head Start Parents' Association over a bill to raise speed limits. The measure would set 75 mph for passenger cars and 65 mph for trucks on four lane interstates and 65 mph for cars with 55 mph for trucks on two lane roads after Congress repealed the national 55 mph limit. Testimony resumed the next day.
Kansas Agricultural Statistics shows corn at 244 million bushels in 1995, down 20 percent from 304.6 million in 1994, with corn yield at 124 bushels per acre. Sorghum grain reached 173.6 million bushels, a 25 percent drop from 231 million in 1994, while soybeans fell to 51.3 million bushels, 30 percent below last year with a 25 bushel per acre yield.
Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway announced that the Kansas Health Foundation awarded the University of Kansas a 1.5 million dollar grant to establish a health professorship. Stephen Fawcett, professor of human development and family life, was named to the post to help communities address teen pregnancy drug abuse and heart disease.
Notes released by former White House aide David Watkins claim Hillary Rodham Clinton pressed for firing seven travel office workers. Watkins testified on Capitol Hill as Republicans allege the firings were instigated by the first lady and Harry Thomason. Clinton and Thomason deny wrongdoing.
Doctors welcome the community to the Garnett Community Medical Center at 546 W 4th Garnett from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday. The facility opened December 1 and houses four physicians Donald R. Jones David A. Leitch Halla S. Moussa and J J Padfield. In a photo Bruce Hay holds his daughter Sarah as Jones checks her heartbeat.
Barbara Jordan, trailblazing former U S representative and first Black Texas state senator, died at 59 after years of illness from multiple sclerosis. Her public career spanned the Watergate era, with a shift to teaching at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs after leaving Congress.
Paula Ellis, 37, of Princeton, started a one year sentence in Franklin County District Court after pleading guilty to issuing an insufficient funds check from July to an Ottawa business. The conviction runs separate from a prior check violation case from October. she received two years probation on those charges. Court records show numerous past check convictions in Kansas and Missouri, where she lived before moving to Ottawa over a year ago. Ellis had earlier gained notoriety following the September 24 shooting death of her 14-year-old daughter, Stephanie, in Ottawa.
China accused Lt. Col. Bradley Gerdes and Col. Kenji Maetani of sneaking into restricted military zones to steal secrets. They were detained in Suixi near Zhanjiang after trips to Hainan and a military airport. Beijing ordered the pair to depart by Friday. officials noted delays in notifying Washington and Tokyo.
Ransom Memorial Hospital ended December with about 11 000 more expenses than revenue, totaling a 1995 loss around 312 000. Operating revenue reached 11 726 894 while expenses were 12 038 527. The report by CFO Tom Briggs notes the figures exclude county half cent sales tax and a 1991 Medicare reimbursement, with sales tax at 984 319 and Medicare payment at 417 070, plus roughly 45 500 in interest and contributions.
Ransom Memorial Hospital reports 1995 net income of 1,135,306 and discusses a possible 50 50 partnership with HealthSouth Birmingham Alabama to provide outpatient rehab services including therapy and back pain programs. The plan envisions joint marketing, staff recruitment, and potential facility upgrades such as an indoor pool. Board chair Bob Bregant to continue talks. auxiliary membership reaches 332 in 1995.
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