Court ruling spurs industrial park action in Ottawa
Ottawa city commissioners, reacting to a Kansas Supreme Court decision, study methods to fund a new industrial park property. Options include general obligation bonds limited by rules or certificates of participation with higher interest, plus potential eminent domain. The panel also weighs a new airport terminal, sewer taps for Mid America Aerospace, and recent land negotiations with Robert Pickering.
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Jay Bemis
Herald
Ottawa
Kansas Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Dottie Riley
Gilmore & Bell
Overland Park
City Commission
Riley
High Court
North Cherry Street
Robert Pickering
Phoenix
Pickering
Commission
Robert Dodson
Ter
Jack Davis
Mid America Aerospace of
Lenexa
Davis
Mid America
Minnick Motors Sold to Creason-Tawney in Ottawa
Creason-Tawney Chevrolet Pontiac Oldsmobile Buick Cadillac Inc will sell all new GM cars in Ottawa from one location east of town on K-68. Minnick Motors building will be sold, and Jerome Minnick and his son John join the Creason-Tawney staff. Pending GM paperwork, deliveries on Minnick Motors cars will move to Creason-Tawney after August 1.
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Diane Yeamans
Herald
General Motors
Ottawa
Creason-Tawney
Chevrolet- Oldsmobile
Minnick Motors
Chevrolet
Pontiac
Oldsmobile
Buick
Cadillac Inc
Second
Hickory
Cles
Cadillac
Jerome
Tawney
Minnick
Kansas Briefs: Unauthorized Life Insurance Probe and $24 Million Suit
The Kansas Insurance Department orders United States Senior Services to stop selling unlicensed life insurance to seniors after mass mailings labeled Social Security Update 1990. In Kansas City, Kansas, City Power & Light and Kansas Gas and Electric sue Amax Inc. for at least $24 million over coal cost miscalculations, risking their 20 year supply contract.
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Topeka
Dallas
Kansas
Fletcher Bell
United States Senior Services
Steve Imber
Insurance Department
Kansas City
Kansas City Power & Light Co
Kansas Gas and Electric Co
Wichita
New York
Amax Inc
Kaw
Amax
William Sanders
Associated Prese
Lane Fair schedules varied events at Agricultural Fairgrounds
The Lane Fair runs Thursday to Saturday with a moved parade to 7:30 p.m. Friday. Entries open for livestock and crafts from 3 to 10:30 and 3 to 6:30 respectively. Friday features bingo, ice cream sale, and the Gold Rush Band. Saturday offers breakfast, horse show entries due by 8 a.m., a 10 a.m. three man basketball, a greased pig contest, bingo, horseshoes, pony pull, barbecue dinner, Red Band, and awards at 9 p.m.
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Diane Yeamans
Herald
Lane
Lane Commmunity
Pottawatomie Valley
Gold Rush
Pottawatomie Raritan Club
United Methodist Church
Jim Hartman
Pottawatomie Raritans
Forecast Mixed Tonight With Warm Weekend Thunderstorms Likely
Partly cloudy tonight with lows around 60. Extended Kansas outlook through Saturday shows a gradual warm-up with thunderstorms mainly in the west. Thursday highs mid 80s east, around 90 west, warming to near statewide by Saturday and upper 60s to lower 70s nights.
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Kansas
Ballet Casting For Spartacus Selections Draw Athletes
The Kennedy Center's liaison Steve Quirin notes higher pay for Spartacus extras due to extensive marching and stage combat. Colin Peasley, touring company ballet master, selects 19 athletic candidates and trains them as Roman soldiers and slaves. He demonstrates spear handling and combat poses to avoid dizzying sways and awkward stances.
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Spartacus
Steve Quirin
Kennedy Canter
The
Australian Ballet
Colin Peasley
State GOP split over voter registration lists in Kansas
In Topeka the Kansas GOP clashed as Rochelle Chronister refused to give Nestor Weigand and five rivals access to the full GOP voter registration list. The party had earlier supplied only precinct committee member lists, while citing Hayden’s continued endorsement.
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GOP
Topeka, Kan
Republican Party
Mike Hayden
Rochelle Chronister
Nestor Weigand
Hayden
Regis
Richard Rue
Weigand
Rue
Cathy Whitaker
State Party
Statehouse
Chronister
Ottawa Herald publishes subscription rates and staff listings
The Ottawa Herald lists staff roles including Editor Tony Ostmeyer and Publisher Jim Hitch. It details daily publication timing and a comprehensive rate chart effective April 1, 1990 for carriers, motor routes, and mail in Kansas, Franklin County, and surrounding areas.
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Jim A. Hitch
Tony Ostmeyer
Jay Bemis
Mike Geiss
Peg Armstrong
Wayne Snow
Jean Rossman
Ottawa
Local Briefs and Notices From Franklin County
Ad briefs announce MATNEY CHIROPRACTIC office opening with evening hours. An ICE CREAM Social hosts I Richard and Esther Lantis in Wad. Aug. 1 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. three miles north of Ottawa. Maat Walker Hendrix runs for state representative with political ad. Franklin County pre-school fall enrollments Aug. 6–10 at 410 S. Hickory. day care openings for ages 12 months to 12 years. Guy & Maes Tavern closes July 23 to Aug. 7, reopens Aug. 8. Silver Lake Golf Course open to the public. Sunflower Seed closed Aug. 7–13 for vacation. Vote Aug. 7 for Walker Hendrix. Watts Concrete yard ornaments, ½ mile north of Ottawa on Hwy. 69, 242-1394.
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I Richard & Esther Lantis
Ottawa
Maat Walker Hendrix
Pol. Pol. Adv
Franklin County
WATTS
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Lane Fair
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Ballet
Peasley
Ms. Whitaker
Ottawa Herald
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S. Cedar
State of Kansas
Ad Briefs
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GUY & Mae's Tavern
Silver Lake
Sunflower Seed
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