Full Day Of Activities For Local Pageant
Linda Wheeler outlines a Miss Ottawa Pageant day beginning with a 10 30 a m parade featuring Miss Kansas 1970 Linda Edds and ten Ottawa contestants The 2 p m tea includes judge interviews with hosts and Beta Sigma Phi members The 8 p m pageant at Memorial Auditorium will be emceed by Burt Brewer with organist Randolph Bundy Pro ducers are Bud Wheeler Williams director Alan Whitacre and choreographer Jim Dykstra Entertainment includes Barbara Rockwell Rei and Linda Edds plus Fred Perez Vocal numbers and stage lighting by Haverty Ransaur and Cain Judges ballots audited by Meyer and Gaeddert Parade route runs Park Street to Tecumseh with many participants and antique cars First prize includes a 150 scholarship many gifts and a 100 shopping spree Exemplar Chapter presents prizes plus runner up and consolation awards Miss Congeniality receives cash trophy and gifts
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Linda Wheeler
Linda Edds
Ed Haley
Mike Latimer
Wayne Harper
Garnett
Larry Northway
Pratt
George Dingey
Bonner Springs
Steve Lauder
Emporia
Exemplar
Beta Sigma Phi
Memorial Auditorium
Burt Brewer
Randolph Bundy
Bud Wheeler
Richard Williams
Alan Whitacre
Barbara Rockwell Rei
Edds
Ottawa
Fred Perez
Jim Dykstra
David Haverty
Roger Ransaur
Don Cain
Ray Meyer
Keith Gaeddert
Duane Hall
Park Street
Tecumseh
National Guard
BSP
Spring
Rosebud
Sweet Adelines
Franklin County Historical Society
Hoffa to relinquish Teamsters throne to Fitzsimmons
Reports from Washington indicate Teamsters President James R. Hoffa will step down from the union after 14 years. He endorsed Frank E. B. Fitzsimmons to succeed him, as Hoffa serves a prison sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud in Lewisburg. It remains unclear whether the handover occurs immediately or after the Miami Beach convention.
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Washington (Ap
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Frank EB. Fitzsimmons
Lewisburg
Miami Beach
Fitzsimmons
Frank Fitzsimmons
Hollywood
Fla
Edward Grady Partin
Partin
Detroit
Union
South Vietnamese drive advances against North Vietnamese positions
Thousands of South Vietnamese marines push 15 to 20 miles below the demilitarized zone in the northwest. Several 500-man battalions are deployed with light contact reported after mortar bombardment. six marines killed and 41 wounded nine miles northeast of Khe Sanh. A separate operation found 600 mortar rounds at the A Shau valley edge. Phnom Penh reports Cambodian forces overran bunkers near a pagoda northeast of the capital as monsoon flooding looms.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Khe Sanh
A Shau
Phnom Penh
U.S
Vietnam
Weather County Forecast Mostly Cloudy Warmth With Showers
Mostly cloudy and a bit warmer with scattered thundershowers tonight and Friday. Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight low 60 to 45, Friday high near 88, 40 percent precip tonight and Friday. Record highs and lows listed. 24 hour precipitation .57 inch. Hourly temps end at 6 am today around 62.
Docking Warns '72 Legislature Against Tax Increase
Topeka Kansas AP Robert Docking on his first day back at the statehouse warned the 1972 Kansas Legislature he will veto any move to raise the 3 percent sales tax. He also pushed tax reform proposals to boost revenue for 1973 and said federal tax deduction changes and welfare program shifts could ease state finances.
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Topeka
Kan
Robert Docking
Indy
Kansas
Statehouse
Docking
Legisature
General Revenue Fund
Too Wet To Dig In Yuba City Serial Murder Case
In Yuba City California irrigation water halts search for more gravesites after 23 bodies found in orchards along the Feather River. Juan V Corona 37 arraigned on 10 counts of murder with a Spanish interpreter noting Corona does not understand the charges as officials expect more bodies may yet be uncovered.
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Yuba City
Calif
Roy D. Whiteaker
Feather River
Juan V. Corona
Justice Court
Whiteaker
NATO Ministers See Berlin Talks Make Some Headway
Lisbon AP NATO foreign ministers reported progress toward a Berlin settlement and anticipated new talks on a European security conference once Berlin is resolved. Maurice Schumann cited Big Four negotiations. Soviet leaders offered to assume responsibility for Western access routes as East Germans would run the routes. Walter Scheel called Moscow’s troop-reduction proposal vague and suspect of dodging allied preconditions.
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Lisbon
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Berlin
NATO
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Maurice Schumann
France
Portugal
Africa
Schumann
Moscow
Soviet Union
Walter Scheel
West Germany
Willow area told city delivers no drainage aid
Willow Street residents were informed at a City Commission session that the city will not provide drainage relief in the area unless a benefit district funds paving and improvements. The letter to M. K. Pettit and Wayne E. Lotg outlined temporary fixes and noted possible public hearings on district feasibility.
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Edward McGrath
Willow Street
City Commission
City Hall
M. K. Pettit
Willow
Wayne E. Lotg
S. Willow
George A. Ledom
Pettit
Orlin Smith
John L. Richeson
Smith
J. W. Grogan
City Planning Commission
Vilena Oakes
N. Mulberry
West Wilson
Ruby Dennis
KOFO
Roderick B. Cupp
CATV
Thomas E. Gleason
Ottawa Cablevision Inc
Grogan
Steven V. Ralph
Passes Bill For Public Service Jobs In House Vote
WASHINGTON AP A large Democratic program to create public service jobs for the unemployed has won House passage despite strong administration opposition.
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Washington
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S. Vietnamese
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Willow Street Drainage
J. J. Hankins
Corona
Raoul Ybarra
Hankins
Ybarra
Hawkins
Shari Geist
Robert Geist
S. Sycamore
Ottawa High School
Shari
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