New wooden bridge to replace old structure in Franklin County
Ottawa area project underway to install a 30 foot wooden bridge fabricated in Minnesota by Wheeler Consolidated Inc. It will be set on nine foot deep concrete abutments near I 35, replacing a 19 foot concrete structure. The span requires no piers and should take one day to install, with completion before end of February.
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David Mace
Ottawa
Minnesota
Wheeler Consolidated Inc
Bob Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Wheeler Consolidated
Marais Des Cygnes
Kansas
Franklin
Ottawa Board to review high school expansion plan
The Ottawa school board will review architects plans for an addition to Ottawa High School and set a date for a special meeting with the architects. The board may seek voter approval for a bond issue to finance the project and will discuss a closed circuit TV proposal from Whittle Communications.
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Lorie Hyten
Ottawa School Board
Don Duncan
Whittle Communication
Whittle
Weather fuels rapid House action on circuit breaker plan
In Topeka the Kansas Legislature met briefly to speed bill introductions before a weather shutdown. A commercial circuit breaker proposal would grant up to 50 percent tax relief on property taxes rising 100 percent or more, capped at 15 000 dollars, funded by a one time inventory excise tax with initial 250 000 exemption. The plan also taxes mail order and cable sales while shielding farm and car trades. A Senate Judiciary panel added a bill to charge juveniles as young as 14 as adults for serious violent offenses.
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Topeka
Kan
Vince Snowbarger
R-Clathe
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Kansas budget aims at 5.04 billion for 1991 spending
Gov. Mike Hayden proposes a 5,044,730,453 dollar state budget for fiscal year 1991 starting July 1, up 140 million from the current year. Revenue comes from four main funds with 83 percent from the general fund and 48.7 percent from it, plus special revenue, highway, and trust and agency funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Marshall Harris
Topeka
Kansas
Mike Hayden
Kansan
Trust and Agency
Soviet Troops Reported Fighting Ethnic Factions in Baku
An American journalist in Moscow says Soviet soldiers entered Baku and fought street battles with ethnic extremists. Tass offered no confirmation. Gunfire heard as officials suspend further troop calls amid rising tensions in Azerbaijan and Armenia six days into clashes.
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Moscow
Baku
Azerbaijani People's Front
Tass
U.S
Los Angeles Times
Masha Hamilton
Caucasus
Kremlin
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Gorbachev
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Steve Zuk
DHS
Gary Mavity
Nashville
Tenn
S. Main
Snowbarger
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Georgia
U.S.S.R
Turkey
Khanlar Region
Shaumyan Region
Wagerno- Karabakh
Iran
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