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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1998
Page
7
Ottawa Herald features Bambino and Babe Ruth all stars aged 12 to 15. Selected players appear in photographs on pages 7 and 8, showcasing local youth talent and team spirit.
A forecast calls for a warm and mostly sunny Thursday with a high near 90 to 95 and an east wind of 5 to 15 mph. Readers are directed to page 2 for more weather details.
Gov. Bill Graves proposed doubling an income tax credit, boosting money for legal services, and adding judges to speed adoptions of children in foster care. Backlog concerns were raised by Sedgwick County officials as private adoption services expanded, with logjams in the legal system noted by SRS spokesman John Garlinger. Graves also urged tougher penalties for meth makers and sellers to curb an epidemic that threatens children, with proposals to be considered by the 1999 Legislature. Kansas reported rising meth lab seizures from 4 in 1994 to 99 last year.
Police say a couple arrested last week is suspected of more than 50 burglaries in Sedgwick County. The crimes hit retail stores restaurants tax offices and insurers in northeast and northwest Wichita and Derby since April. Crooks disabled alarms by cutting lines and picked doors and safes stealing cash and some merchandise. Frederick A. Coffing II 24 and Raina B. Schwartz 19 were charged with burglary and misdemeanor theft after a Friday arrest during another burglary attempt.
Governor Bill Graves announced a disaster emergency in Topeka to relax elevator regulations amid a record or near record wheat harvest. The plan allows grain storage facilities to move farmer-owned grain to other licensed facilities with farmers' consent to relieve overloaded elevators.
A May Purdue study finds very devout Christians more likely to be overweight, with Southern Baptists at the top. Rev. Jerry Falwell comments that he fits the mold but doubts God cares. Reader submissions invited via New House News Service.
Carolyn Elder began learning sign language after her nephew’s marriage to a deaf woman and became the interpreter at a Dengel and Son funeral in Ottawa. She studied at Neosho County Community College in Ottawa, and her work enabled family members to communicate in their language during the service.
Franklin County 4-H youths judged beef and dairy stock at the Richmond Fair, with sheep shown Sunday and pigs Monday. Participants ranked steers heifers market hogs and market lambs and must offer reasons for placements. Senior judges used the event to teach judging criteria.
Topeka man Thomas Berberich, 45, cannot have a purported confession to his mental health counselor used as evidence in the 1979 murder of 12 year old John F. Hanrahan. Judge John Weckel granted a defense motion to suppress the remark, releasing Berberich on own recognizance. The DA plans an appeal to the Kansas Court of Appeals.
At a Olathe Republican picnic, David Miller vowed no new taxes and to freeze spending while backing elimination of state income tax and the sales tax on food. He highlighted a multi million highway plan and denounced opponent Gov Graves. Critics note Miller’s voting record in 1981 89 included tax hikes.
Gov Bill Graves emphasizes his image as a reliable, non cynical leader. Polls show broad support as he seeks a second term, with plans for tax cuts and infrastructure funding, while opponents argue for different fiscal choices and continued modernization.
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