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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1970
Page
2
Mexico City AP reports renewed clashes between Honduras and El Salvador as talks in Costa Rica break down. Both sides claim the other began hostilities, with border troops and armed civilians engaged for hours. Casualty reports are awaited.
El Dorado Kansas AP Kansas only small arms maker Rau Arms reports the first .22 caliber single shot rifle test fired with three shots in the bullseye. Harold Rau says 12 rifling grooves in the barrel account for accuracy. Production begins slowly with a backlog of parts and about 50 workers, expanding to around 75 as two shifts. A stainless steel pistol is planned next. Plant covers 1800 square feet on the west edge of El Dorado, started last May with machinery and a wood shop for stocks. Rau designs weapons and personally tests every model before release.
General Electric and two unions in a prolonged strike reach a tentative contract as federal mediator counts on 10 more unions adopting similar terms. The pact includes over 8 cents per hour raise across 40 months and a cost of living clause, with ratification required by members before widespread return to work.
Ex-convict Michael Paprskar Jr and four others, described as hippie types, were arrested at dawn at Paprskar’s motorcycle shop and living quarters on Fort Worth’s northwest side. They face charges in the January 2 killings of Samuel Ramirez, 26, his brother Daniel Ramirez Sr., 40, and his son Daniel Ramirez Jr., 4. Detectives say the victims were murdered after Daniel Ramirez sold Paprskar allegedly bad heroin. Co-defendants identified include Harrell Anderson, 22, his brother Danny, 22, and Edward Miller, 19, all from Fort Worth.
Sgt. Frank d Kampman, 42, from Shilling Manor Kansas, was stabbed to death outside Fairlane Bar in Ubon Thailand after a dispute with a Thai man who was joined by a companion. He died at the base dispensary. A curfew was set for Udorn. Ubon air base reported few incidents between Americans and Thais.
Agriculture Department sources say proposals to tighten supervision of U S meat imports have been sent to the White House. Last year foreign shipments exceeded voluntary restraints by about 3 million pounds, with 196 shipments limited to 1.08 billion pounds but about 1.07 billion shipped. The plan seeks faster, day-by-day data to curb overshooting and allow possible country-by-country quotas. Livestock groups pressed for stricter limits since the 1964 allocations law.
About 100 members of the National Welfare Rights Organization spent four and a half hours in the statehouse seeking Gov. Robert Docking to protest the welfare budget. Mrs. Ruby Martin of Kansas City Kansas said they were promised a meeting if they requested one, but Docking’s secretary denied any assurance. Former Rep. Tom Van Cleave met the group briefly and defended the budget as higher than other areas, while Mrs. Martin objected and urged the governor to explain why he cut the budget. Additional comments accused Docking of deflecting blame to the legislature and questioned his prior actions.
General Motors reports 1989 earnings declined by 21 million to 1,711 million on worldwide sales of 24.3 billion, with a preliminary audit note. Automaker cites higher labor and material costs, fewer US vehicles, and strikes in Q2 and Q4 as causes. Worldwide 1989 sales set a record above 22.8 billion.
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