Kauffman backs education drive with Project Choice promise
Marion Laboratory co owner and Kansas City Royals partner Marion Kauffman launches Project Choice to fund tuition, housing, and books for underprivileged students in five Kansas high schools. Students must graduate, attend classes, participate in school programs, and avoid alcohol and drugs. Estimated Wesport program cost could reach 13 million dollars.
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Ewing Wang Kauffman
Kansas City Royals
Marion Laboratories
Kauffman
Project Choice
Westport
Kauffman Foundation
Kansas
Drug-Addicted Toad Lickers Prompt New Crime Fears
The Parsons Sun notes a conference on crack and the discovery of bufotinin in toads used to get high. Licking toads could trigger animal abuse, illegal activity, and cross state transportation crimes. Southwest and Mexico hosts are highlighted.
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American Southwest
Mexico
Parsons Sun
Compassion in Journalism and Obituary Ethics
By Greg Sackovich this piece argues journalists must balance truth with compassion when reporting deaths and tragedies. It cites Watergate as inspiration for inquiry but warns against sensationalism and emotional numbness, urging careful, humane coverage of obituaries and public deaths.
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Greg Sackovich
Olathe Daily News
Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
Buckner
Where to draw the line on church state clashes
A columnist weighs three Establishment Clause cases. In Tucson a deaf boy seeks school interpreter funding saved by Education of the Handicapped Act. In Westminster a teacher removes Bible books and a Bible from school materials, with appeals pending. In Douglas County a public high school invocations case upheld limits on prayer at games. The author questions the rulings and invites reader judgments.
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Washington
Arizona
Colorado
Georgia
Jimmy Zobrest
Tucson
Jimmy
Zobrests
Salpointe Catholic High School
Zobrest
U.S. District Court
Westminster
Colo
Kenneth Roberts
Berkeley Gardens
Iting
Jesus
Tom Swift
Roberts
Kathleen Madigan
Sherman G. Finesilver
10Th Circuit
11Th
U.S. Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Nebraska
A Lifetime of Fossils and the Call to Change
The narrative recalls a boyhood passion for archaeology and paleontology sparked by a museum visit and a geologist’s hammer, shaping dreams of the Colorado School of Mines and Olduvai Gorge. It notes how careers, environment, and media shaped views, and urges today’s youth to heed past lessons to avert future extinction.
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Colorado School of Mines
Criticism of county tax spending on statue in Franklin County
Rodney Fritts of Ouawa RFD 2 denounces a $15,000 courthouse lawn statue project as an unnecessary tax burden. He argues elected county officers should serve all residents, voters must decide the issue, and warns against spending on the past while Main Street stores and farms suffer. He urges Americans to defend independence and build the American way together.
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America
Rodney Fritts
Ouawa Rfd
Urge speed bumps in Forest Park to protect children
A reader pleas to install speed bumps across Forest Park from the gates to the shelter area to slow hot rodders and protect children at playgrounds and the pool. The writer notes police patrols are insufficient and argues park funding should prioritize traffic calming over other projects to prevent a possible child injury.
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Forest Park
Ottawa Herald Subscription Rates 1989
Ottawa newspaper lists delivery rates for Ottawa and surrounding area by mail and motor route. Various options include one month five dollars, three months fourteen fifty, six months twenty eight, one year fifty one twenty five, with regional and mail differences for Franklin County and other areas.
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Ottawa
Frankin County
Readers urged to sign letters with full postal address
The note encourages letters to be signed and include the writer’s address and telephone number for verification, stating unsigned letters will not be published and that a signed letter with contact details speeds processing.
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Douglas County
James Kilpatrick
Universal Press
Burlington
Iowa
Museum of Natural History
Atlantis
Olduvai Gorge
Bob Strayer
Franklin County
Ottawa Herald
USPS
Daly
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