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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1992
Page
3
Ottawa school teachers and the school board remain at an impasse over salaries with a 3.84 percentage point gap. The board’s last offer would raise funding by 9.26 percent but not evenly, averaging about 2,492 dollars more per teacher annually for 130 instructors. Critics question widespread raises and stress the need for broader pay reforms beyond tenure.
The Salina Journal questions 8.6 and 14.4 percent teacher pay requests, urging focus on class size, support, student quality, and community involvement. The Manhattan Mercury honors the 1st Infantry Division’s 75th anniversary with gratitude to veterans. The McPherson Sentinel commends Attorney General Bob Stephan for keeping crime victims names in public records, defending Open Records Act openness.
A columnist discusses The Iola Register editor Emerson Lynn Jr and his “Sound Off” feature that publishes anonymous caller comments. The piece weighs whether daily anonymous opinions belong in print, invites reader feedback, and notes signing editorials remains the policy.
The piece argues playwright Jon Baitz returns 15000 in two 7500 gifts to two institutions denied NEA grants for sexually explicit works. It charges him with funding his morality show with private funds, while criticizing NEA peer review and cultural politics amid debates on artistic merit and public subsidy.
Postwar letter from Jack T Curtis recalls Lt Jones O Baxter of the 394th Fighter Squadron 367th Fighter Group 9th Air Force. Baxter was shot down near Trier Germany. Curtis seeks surviving family in Pomona Kansas and notes Baxter’s wall of the missing and a jacket with his serial 0 766395. He funds a museum effort near Dijon and asks for any information.
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