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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1998
Page
8
The Chicago Bulls shrug off pressure with a laid back approach as they prepare for Game 2 of the NBA finals in Utah. The team carries a four game road playoff skid into the matchup while forecasts predict partly sunny skies and a high near 65 with light variable winds regionwide.
About a dozen Westboro Baptist Church members led by Rev. Fred Phelps picketed the Baker University Collins Center during the Kansas Methodist East Conference. The protestors displayed anti gay signs near the event, with Baker officials noting the conference has been held there for at least ten years. A flyer linked to Bishop Fritz Mutti’s Topeka United Methodist Church suggested support for homosexuals, while Mutti’s spokeswoman offered no explanation for the pickets.
Harry G. Wiles of St. John, a former American Legion leader during the Bicentennial era and a Kansas gubernatorial candidate, died Tuesday at Stafford District Hospital at age 82. He also served 10 years on the Kansas Corporation Commission after a statewide political career that included a 1964 bid against William H. Avery and a 1978 Democratic primary loss to John Carlin.
In February two Russian cosmonauts aboard the Mir space station sold NASA space pens and other items on the American QVC channel to raise funds for the space program. 530 viewers bought items including 11 buyers paying 90 to 2500 dollars for Mars rocks. Six buyers checked credit for 25000 dollar Sokol KV-2 spacesuits.
Making em laugh atthew Wahl of Ottawa plans a living from humor and statements. A Central Heights High School graduate, he builds a portfolio with four to eight weeks of strips and six weeks of Sunday strips. He draws three to four cartoons weekly, each black and white piece taking 30 to 60 minutes plus 30 more for color. Wahl sketches, inks, adds half tones, then erases. He uses pencils, poster board, cap pens, erasers and screening for shading. Ideas come from real life.
Great Racers head toward Ottawa as The History Channel Great Race stops for a pit moment hosted by Ottawa’s Over the Road Gang. Rex Gardner and Curtis Jackson race with historic vehicles, while locals expect 1 p.m. arrivals and a 2:30 p.m. medallion ceremony under the Welcome arch.
Ottawa Optimist Club will fill the Skunk Run drainage ditch at City Park with colored rubber ducks on June 13 at 2 p.m. Ducks can be adopted for 2 dollars or three for 5, each with a number. Top two finishers win 500 dollars and 100 dollar savings bonds. last place gets 50 dollar bond.
The northern half of Kansas shifts from 913 to 785 with the Oct 1 deadline. Businesses rely on automated dialing and equipment that must be reprogrammed to use the new code. Sprint spokeswoman Mary Peters notes fax machines and modems also require updates while Ottawa Chamber head Lou Atherton says most firms report few issues beyond letterhead changes.
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that neither Donald Ray Gideon’s employer Hamilton's restaurant nor the state are civilly liable for the 1993 death of Pittsburg State University student Stephanie Schmidt. It found no duty to warn employees or notify employers and immunity under the Kansas Tort Claims Act for the parole officer.
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