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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1999
Page
8
The All-Star Dance Company presents a free public dance recital at 3 p.m. today at Ottawa Municipal Auditorium with dancers aged 3 to 18.
A city task force advances phase two of a recreation center project aiming to avoid tax increases. Leaders seek private donations and corporate support, with an architectural firm to begin by fall. The Treanor study cost $11,000 and backing comes from Ottawa Franklin County Economic Development, the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce, the city, Ottawa University, Ransom Memorial Hospital and Franklin County. An $8.5 million Burlington-style center is estimated as a future cost.
Gov. Bill Graves plans to appoint nine members to a newly created State Board of Regents by July 1. He expects a majority of the appointees to be new faces and aims to have the board filled by month’s end. The board will oversee governance and coordination of all higher education institutions in the state. Graves also criticized the State Board of Education over deadlocked science standards debates including evolution.
Gov. Bill Graves says state general fund revenues for the year ending June 30 fell $36 million short of April estimates, with May receipts $49.2 million below forecast. He cautions lawmakers that election year pressures may limit tax cuts and boosts, while state officials insist the shortfall signals a wake up call rather than overall financial trouble. Duane Goossen notes the state remains financially sound.
The piece notes Donald Gideon, convicted in a 19 year old student death, briefly on parole after 10 years for a 1982 rape and sodomy. It covers state efforts to extend confinement for sex offenders beyond their sentences, citing Kansas and Hendricks, plus similar laws in Missouri, Arizona, California, Minnesota, Washington, and Wisconsin. It contrasts early Kansas war crimes with Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson, noted by McCoy for his brutal acts and Bible-quoting cries.
Goossen said the budget year starting July 1 will be tight as FY 2001 plans must be prudently managed. Individual tax receipts are down 31.8 million from estimates totaling 1.54 billion, while sales tax falls 8.6 million short of projections at 1.26 billion. Agencies must prepare tight proposals as lawmakers begin January session.
The Spring Grove Quakers defended nonresistance amid Kansas conflict and slavery, aiding abolitionists and Underground Railroad refugees. Notable figures include Timothy Westcott, Baker University. Robert Everett. August Bondi. Richard Mendenhall. A history program at Spring Grove Church Sunday features Damron, Leimkuhler, Westcott, with open worship, meals, and presentations starting 9 a.m.
The article surveys Kansas crime lore from the Dalton Gang’s 1892 Coffeyville bank raid through notorious killers like the Benders, Hickock and Smith, to modern cases such as the BTK serial killer. It notes how towns embrace or reject their violent pasts and how crime fiction and media shaped public memory of these events.
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