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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1978
Page
6
Emporia Public Library offers help via Community Information Center and 242-3080. This week queries cover St David festival, Franklin County landfill hours, auctioneer schools, Social Security refunds, cotton anniversary gift, Stormont-Vail Hospital address, Purple Heart initials, and tax forms availability at the library.
Gerald W Sprague 63 of Pomona died January 18 at the Veterans Hospital in Miami Florida. Funeral services 2pm Tuesday at Dengel and Son Mortuary with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery Pomona. Survivors include wife Evelyn Scott two daughters Gerre Ann Mathews Rolling Meadows Illinois and Margaret Smith Overland Park two brothers Harold and Marvin Sprague and a granddaughter. Memorial calls Sunday afternoon until service time.
A collage of community items lists events and ads including an Eagles lodge dance with Rhythm Kings, tax service contact, Dairy and luncheon specials, a VFW dance, a restaurant promo, fabric clearance, a political meet with Deryl Schuster, Kazy Kitchen discount, Kiwanis Pancake Day, and various school menu and farm bureau notices. Also includes livestock and grain market reports from Kansas City and a hijacking incident in Karachi.
Dusty Rhoades of Ottawa explains the trial work period allows disabled workers to test ability to work while retaining benefits. Nine nonconsecutive earning months over $50 finalizes the period. widows do not qualify. If able, benefits stop after three months. if not, benefits continue. Report any return to work regardless of earnings.
In the dawn of the computer age Kansas bought its first two machines and faced rising costs from widespread use. Senate Bill 522 would place all state computers and management under a single board with authority to buy and lease, set priorities, and curb the “computer mania” draining taxpayers. The measure, advanced by Senate Ways and Means, faces opposition from bureaucrats who fear loss of access.
An Ottawa woman in her 30s said she was raped at about 2:30 A.M. in her north Ottawa home after meeting a man from a local bar. Officers are questioning an Osawatomie man found asleep in his truck behind a laundry, who claims the incident was not rape and may be released pending further investigation.
Word has been received of the death on January 19 of Roy O Cooper 68 of Fort Scott formerly of Ottawa Services will be Monday at Wilson with burial in Wilson Cemetery His wife Bernadine and son Roy Cooper Jr survive
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