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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1981
Page
10
A vivid report outlines the Franklin County rodeo featuring a wild calf tying contest as a crowd highlight. The piece emphasizes regional passion for traditional rodeo events and community participation.
Negotiators for the Ottawa Board of Education and U.S.C. 290 teachers are set to resume bargaining with a federal mediator Tuesday after a nearly two month impasse over salary and governance issues. Cal Hogue will lead the session as Ottawa board members plan Monday night meetings to elect a new president and vice president, review lunch and textbook fees, approve leases, contracts, and district cooperation with Neosho County Community College.
Washington sets new arms transfer guidelines dropping human rights as sole criterion while maintaining one factor in a broader legal framework. Officials say no new arms race expected and non nuclear weapon sales will stay near 14 to 15 billion annually. In Miami, an Eastern Airlines L 1011 hijacked to Cuba with 180 passengers and 12 crew landed in Havana.
The Kansas Corporation Commission suspended Southwestern Bell Telephone Co probationary rate increase of 84.5 million dollars. The action delays any new rates beyond July 30 and schedules a formal investigation with hearings unlikely before January 1982 in Wichita and Kansas City. If allowed in full, the plan would add four dollars per month to customer bills.
Gov Edmund G Brown Jr. said he would initiate immediate Malathion spraying in northern California to combat Mediterranean fruit fly infestations after U S Agriculture Secretary John Block warned of a statewide quarantine. Brown said federal pressure forced the reversal of his earlier stance and noted the quarantine affects about 200 fruit and vegetable types.
A fault in the STAG generating unit caused a morning blackout for parts of the city. Plant supervisor Don Atchison said the unit shut down at 10:30 AM and crews shifted load to the KCP&L interconnect, dropping three city circuits to prevent a wider collapse. Power returned after about 10 minutes and no hospital or industrial park outages occurred.
TOPERA, Kan. The Kansas Board of Regents approved a general use budget request of 417.20 million dollars for state universities, down 15.48 million from last month yet 54.43 million more than current-year expenditures. The request, led by faculty salary boosts and operating funds, will go to the governor and Legislature with expected reductions. Institutions listed include KU, KSU, KU Medical Center, Wichita State, Emporia, Pittsburg, and Fort Hays, with requested amounts and current appropriations noted.
The NWS station at the Ottawa Water Plant logged a Thursday low of 7 degrees and a high of 94 as the forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies, hot and humid conditions through Saturday with a slight chance of late day and night thundershowers. Overnight lows mid to upper 70s, Saturday highs in the upper 90s.
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