Recycling Pioneer Joan Vibert Honored in Franklin County
Editorials praise Joan Vibert for launching a realistic recycling program in Franklin County and neighboring areas. Her work educated residents, spurred widespread separation of trash, and built ongoing pickup points including Wingert building. The program inspired other communities and a Lawrence firm began Ottawa curbside pickups. Vibert resigned to farm with her husband after receiving the Russell Crites community service award.
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Franklin
Joan Vibert
Franklin County
Town & Country
Wingert
Vibert
Lawrence
Ottawa
Lake Region Resource Development
Russell Crites
Dumping Animals Is a Countywide Problem in Franklin County
Garry Abbott, manager of the Franklin County Humane Society, warns that dumping pets is illegal and harms wildlife and livestock. He urges owners to rehome pets, advertise, or bring animals to shelter at 320 W. 19th, with hours Mon–Fri 11:30 am–5:30 pm and Sat 9 am–noon. call 242-2967 for information.
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Mephis Teef
Tive
Franklin County
Humane Society
Kansas
W. 19Th
It's Your Quarter
A reader questions whether Ottawa city government should acquire the Franklin Savings headquarters to relocate city offices or a library, urging promotion of a business creating local job opportunities for former Franklin Savings staff.
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Franklin Savings
Ottawa
It's Your Quarter Call Line Guidance
Readers are invited to share thoughts on the program It’s Your Quarter via the station line. Call 242 4700 between 8 p m and 6 a m Monday through Thursday and noon Saturday through 6 a m Monday. No calls accepted Friday nights.
Ottawa remembers 1894 park raid and Susan B Anthony clash
In 1894 Ottawa's Marshal Pyle and Deputy Elwell raided beer peddlers in the Forest park area, fining a Osage County man $50 and costs with 60 days to work on the rock pile. Susan B Anthony criticized Republicans as cowards and praised Democrats for taking a stand on suffrage.
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Ottawa
Ottawa Weekly Herald
Marshal Pyle
Elwell
Osage County
the Herald
Susan B. Anthony
Junction City Sentinel
Susan
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
The
Herald
Milton Eisenhower
Ike
Deer Diary Satirizes Hunters and Deer Calendars
An informal essay ridicules hunting myths and urban views while lampooning deer as intelligent calendar keepers. It blends humor about Day Runner style calendars, birds as intelligence agents, and ticks used by deer to attack trespassers, ending with a wry note that outdoors life isn’t Disneyland.
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Day Runner Corp
America
Game Commission
Caribbean
Walt Disney World
Allied Forces Push Through Europe and Bretton Woods Conference Opens
Australian and American reports describe heavy losses in a German tank attack at Grainville Normandy while American troops seize Cecina on Italy’s west coast and Pomerance inland. Soviet forces storm Barigoy on the Oraha Minsk railway as a Bretton Woods conference of 44 nations begins in New Hampshire to map a postwar monetary system.
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Grainvile
Normandy
Italy
Cecina
Pomerance
Barigoy
Oraha- Minsk
Bretton Woods
N.H
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Briscoe Drug Store
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Guy Briscoe
Briscoe
Brombacher and Hawkins
Main
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Pittsburg
Coffeyville
Hill Drug Store
South Main
O.H. Furniture & Pawn
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Smell
Lyndon
Waymire & Sons
Neil Williams
Ole Waymire
Waymires
Jim Hitch
Ottawa Herald
Seventh Street
Tists
Charley Reese
King Features Syndicate
Sio Ena
Jurca
Mallard Fillmore
MA. Lee
Wearte
By Bruce Tinsley
Tink We
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