Scouts Off To Canada Canoeing Trip Led by Don White and Don Kornhaus
Twenty Explorer Scouts from Ottawa depart for a two week wilderness canoe trip through Ontario, splitting into two groups led by Probate Judge Don White and Ottawa High School teacher Don Kornhaus. Each 10 member unit travels 150 to 250 miles with no base camp contact for nine days, carrying emergency means but relying on veteran wilderness skills and first aid training. Participants pay 61 dollars and must be at least 14, with strict environmental rules including no cans or glass, and tent color limits.
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Ron Womble
Ottawa
Canada
Ontario
Don White
Don Kornhaus
White
Kornhaus
Weather county forecast fair warm tonight and Saturday
Fair and warm tonight with lows in the 70s and southerly winds 10 to 25 mph fading to 5 to 15 mph. Saturday will be partly sunny and warm with highs in the low to mid 90s. Temperature records note 91 today high 72 today low, 111 record high in 1939, 49 record low in 1970, and 5% precip chance.
Purchasing power at all time high in June report
Washington AP says living costs rose modestly by two tenths while average earnings climbed for about 50 million workers. The June CPI reached 125.0, with food driving costs higher and taxes cited as boosting real earnings by 3.2 percent year over year.
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Washington
Labor Department
Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Commerce Department
McGovern Boost In Wage Vote
The Senate approved a minimum hourly wage raise to 2.20 dollars by 65 to 27, the largest hike in history, extending coverage to 7.4 million workers including domestic servants, chain store employees, and government workers. McGovern voted after a vacation trip, aiming to polish his labor image.
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Washington
Senate
George McGovern
McGovern
South Dakota
Trucker Crash East of Ottawa Narrows I 35 Traffic
A two truck crash near Ottawa on I 35 injured three and trapped two drivers. G H Johnstone II 27 Wichita was the rental truck driver. Charles Edward Hardy 42 Henderson Tex drove the tractor trailer and Malcolm M Sparks 28 Gilmer Tex co-driver was pinned for about an hour. Sparks and Hardy were hospitalized in satisfactory condition. Johnstone was treated and released. About 300 feet of skid marks show the crash path. Traffic was reduced to one lane for nearly three hours as crews cleared debris from the wreckage.
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Dan Mullen
Ottawa
G. H. Johnstone II
Wichita
Kansas Highway Patrol
Charles Edward Hardy
Henderson
Tex
Johnstone
Meade Corporation
Dayton
Ohio
Hardy
Malcolm M. Sparks
Gilmer
Highway Patrol
Franklin County Sheriff's
Raby's Ambulance Service
Sparks
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Interstate
Shultz seeks top post in eight year bid for Kansas governorship
Republican lieutenant governor Reynolds Shultz enters the 8 year climb to the Kansas governorship. He touts a plan to replace property taxes with a percent of federal income tax, fund direct property tax rebates, and shift tax loads. He criticizes Docking budgets and pledges cuts in welfare and highway agencies while stressing job creation and attracting industry to keep youth in Kansas.
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Leroy Towns
Kansas
Harris Enterprises
Topeka
Reynolds Shultz
Shultz
Jefferson County
Senate
John Anderson
de Soto
Ray Frisbie
Manhattan
Morris Kay
Lawrence
Robert Docking
University of Kansas
Kansas Senate
Council Grove
Welfare
Robert Harder
Docking
Cottonwood Falls
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Ottam
California
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