Jernigan Discusses White Family Biography at Library Meeting
A talk by E Jay Jernigan on his new biography William Lindsay White 1900 1973 In The Shadow of His Father highlighted the life of Willam Lindsay White a World War II correspondent syndicated columnist and author Jernigan with Barbara Walker access to family manuscripts covers the tension between White and his father William Allen White The Ottawa connection and Kathrine Klinkenberg’s role are noted A Friends of the Ottawa Library event at the Carnegie Building seeks donations for the Skunk Run Sale with June dates and library contact details.
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Kansas Library Association
E. Jay Jernigan
William Lindsay White
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti
Jernigan
Osage City
Emporia
William Allen White
Barbara W. Walker
W.L. White
White
CBS
Reader’s Digest
Margaret
Ottawa
Kathrine Klinkenberg
New York
Henry Luce
Time
Kathrine
Cawker City
Ottawa University
John O’hara
Willliam Lindsay White
Young Bill
Friends of the Ottawa Library
Carnegie
S. Main
Ottawa Library
Counties Fight Paper Terrorism Targets in Clerks Offices
County clerk Karen Mathews has bulletproof glass and panic buttons after a 1994 attack for refusing bogus documents. Officials warn rising paper terrorism by anti government groups threatens recorders, judges, and IRS workers as bogus liens flood filings nationwide.
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Jennifer
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Karen Mathews
Mathews
Ms. Mathews
Stanislaus County
Calif
International Association of Clerks
Recorders
Speece
California
United States
Wyoming
Colorado
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Juris Christian Assembly
IRS
Roger Steiner
Baker, Ore
Chirac's gamble backfires as left wins big in France
In a stunning turn, France shifts left after early elections tilting power to Lionel Jospin and the Socialists. Chirac offers resignation as 252 seats for Socialists, 247 for center-right, and Le Pen's National Front gains 1 amid unemployment concerns and euro-ownership hopes.
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Ty Joseph Schuman
Ted Press
Aris (Ap
France
Jacques Chirac
Chirac
Socialist Party
Lionel Jospin
Jospin
Merci Lionel
Paris
Daniel Vaillant
Alain Juppe
Juppe
National Assembly
Ecologists
National Front
Jean- Marie le Pen
le Pen
Nigeria Attack Pummels Freetown as Mutiny Aggression Grows
Nigerian gunships bomb Freetown amid mutinous Sierra Leone troops who toppled the civilian government. Six Nigerian soldiers wounded at a rebel attack on a command post. fighting concentrates around a western beachhead and an evacuated hotel used as a command post. Foreign troops, including Ghanaian and American forces, expand a peacekeeping presence as Kabbah's presidency remains unsettled.
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Freetown
Sierra Leone
Johhny Paul Koroma
Nigeria
Ghana
Kwamena Ahwoi
Mohammed Saidu Kamara
Guinea
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah
Koroma
Revolutionary United Front
Kabbah
U S economy shows sharp slowdown in April growth
U S income rose 0.1 percent in April, the smallest since October, while consumer spending edged up 0.1 percent. Construction spending fell 1 percent, the largest drop since May 1996, and manufacturing activity rose to 71. The mixed data suggest a decelerating economy despite higher manufacturing output.
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Washington
U.S
Commerce Department
National Association of Purchasing Management
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Barbara Dew
Ray Speece
Houston
Texas
Republic of Texas
Richard McLaren
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Oklahoma City
Left Alliance
Asaen
Ven A
Finlly
Los Ug Moe
Commercial Federal.Bank
FDIC
South Main
Lawrence
Lyndon
Topeka
Wamego
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