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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1986
Page
7
Inside Highlights reports ongoing drug controversy surrounding the Patriots following their Super Bowl defeat. Prep basketball recaps fill pages 4 and 5, while Page 12 surveys surgery contrasts across the country.
Kansas Day festivities drew 1000 plus people to the Capitol as cannons roared and jets flew by. Governor Carlin hailed Kansas as a birthplace born of struggle for freedom and praised Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan in telegram tributes.
Washington AP reports 1995 saw tornado deaths at 92, below 20 year average of 98, despite the record outbreak May 31 across Ohio Pennsylvania New York. The National Severe Storms Laboratory debuted the portable TOTO instrument, achieving first direct wind speed measurements of 69 mph and a drop in air pressure in Ardmore Oklahoma path.
Opponents told a legislative committee that legalizing pari mutuel wagering and a state lottery would not solve state finances and could invite crime and animal cruelty. A Topeka leader warned it would lure poor people into loss cycles, increasing welfare rolls as 11 witnesses spoke against the proposal. House consideration followed committee action to introduce a bill creating a state gaming revenue fund to allocate lottery and pari mutuel proceeds to prisons, economic development, and county reappraisal costs. The Ottawa forecast noted a 50 degree high and 27 low with mostly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures expected Friday.
At Cape Canaveral a Navy ship returned with 1,000 extra pounds of wreckage from the Challenger disaster as NASA widened the probe into the blast that killed seven crew members. Debris included the first electronic fragments from the sea while flags were placed at Kennedy Space Center to honor the astronauts. NASA seized tapes recording shuttle systems at one millisecond intervals, seen as potential breakthrough evidence.
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