Voter Registration Totals Flag Possible Aug Primary Delays
County Clerk Bruce Spears released first half 1972 voter registration totals, noting new system may delay polls on Aug 1. Registrations exceed 1968 Ottawa votes by 400 in some areas. rural areas see slow registration as it is first time required. Youth turnout cited as uncertain. several young voters from other states requested cancellation of Franklin County registrations.
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Ron
Jim Grogan
Ottawa
Spears
Franklin County
Douglas
Eloise Andrews
Grogan
Few County Posts See Few Contests Before Deadline
June 20 is the filing deadline for county offices with most posts still unchallenged. Candidates filing by June 14 include Edward Benton Seyler independent for County Clerk in Ottawa RFD 2 and several incumbents such as Sherrie Capper for Register of Deeds and Donald White for Probate Judge. Other filings cover Sheriff Lewis Ashcraft and multiple party contenders across districts including Dems and Reps in Wellsville, Williamsburg, Quenemo, Princeton, and Ottawa RFDs.
Bombing pause near Hanoi amid Podgorny visit
U S forces suspend bombing around Hanoi as Soviet leader Podgorny visits the city. Washington expects the pause to last only while he stays. Elsewhere, strikes in North Vietnam hit bridges depots and warehouses, while Dong Hoi B52 raids target materials bound for Hue. In South Vietnam fighting around An Loc subsides but shells remain heavy. Sixty three North Vietnamese were reported killed between Pleiku and Kontum as infantry skirmishes continue.
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Saigon
United States
Hanoi
Soviet Union
U.S
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Moscow
North Vietnam
Podgorny
Calcutta
Vietnam
America
U.S. Command
Dong Hoi
South Vietnam
An Loc
Central Highlands
Highway 14
Pleiku
Kontum
Airliner crashes in South Vietnam highlands
A Cathay Pacific jetliner with 82 aboard apparently broke up in flight over the central highlands of South Vietnam. Initial U.S. reports said no survivors were yet identified. The Bangkok to Hong Kong flight originated in Singapore and disappeared about 200 miles northeast of Saigon near Cheo Reo.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Asia
New Delhi
Bangkok
Hong Kong
Singapore
Pleiku
Cheo Reo
Rapid City mayor grim on flood recovery and bodies found
Rapid City mayor Donald Barnett warned the death toll neared 204 with 200 bodies recovered or missing after the Rapid Creek flood. He estimated 50 more bodies in city limits and potential remains hundreds of miles away in the Cheyenne and Missouri rivers as officials reroute dam water and seek housing for thousands left homeless. Preliminary damage tops $100 million with 2,400 unusable estimates and thousands displaced.
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Rapid City
S.D
Donald Barnett
Cheyenne
Missouri Rivers
Rapid Creek
Black Hills
Army Corps of Engineers
Sturgis
Corps
FCCD Ponders Next Move Amid Funding Expiry
Franklin County Community Development Program faces loss of funding on June 30, ending director Terry Brungardt and office rent. Peg Carr stays as reporting secretary while the committee meets monthly at Ottawa University. The group eyes expansion by coordinating with Lake Region RC and D, hoping joint actions continue through existing agencies. Jack Beauchamp notes RC and D aims to unite people for action, funding unclear. Weather summary shows clear to partly cloudy with light NW winds, highs around 76, lows mid 50s, with 9.52 inches of rainfall in the previous 74 hours.
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Joan Istas
Franklin County
Franklin Countians
Terry Brungardt
Peg Carr
Ottawa University
Lake Region
Lake Region Resource Conservation and Development Program
Lake Region Rc&d
Jack Beauchamp
Lake Region Rced
Beauchamp
New Postal Plan Moves to Fast Track City Mail
Larry Christ reports federal mail plan will guarantee next day delivery to Kansas City area and many Kansas towns by 5 25 pm collection times. 13 white starred boxes on Main Street and a night owl box behind the post office set the schedule. Next day delivery to these ZIP areas starts July 1 and aims to unify box pickup times with national standards.
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Larry Christ
Ernie Watkins
Logan
Seventeenth Streets
Main
Watkins
Ed Gardner
Gardner
Ottawa
Gas Service Co. showcases new Ottawa office and drive-in window
The Gas Service Company hosts an open house at its new Ottawa division headquarters at 1300 E Logan, detailing a centralized operation serving 15 000 customers across 18 added towns and Lyndon division reach. A drive-in window for bill payments is the notable new service.
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Gas Service Company
Logan
Ottawa
Robert Grabham
S. Main
Gas Service
Main Street
Grabham
Ninth and
Pecan
Lyndon
Hartford
Leavenworth
Welda
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City Hall
James Pearson
Capitol
Elks Lodge
American Legion
The
National Guard
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Stephen Ralph
Edward Benton Seyler
RFD
Dorothy Thomson
Richmond
Sherrie A. Capper
S. Elm
Donald L. White
S. Cedar
Lewis Ashcraft
Rep
William F. Adams
James Richardson
Herbert H. Cochran
Williamsburg
J. C. Taylor
Leroy Wasmund
Princeton
John A. Scott
Quenemo
Richard Maxwell
William Louis Lytle
Wellsville Rfd
A. E. Coffman
Don Yockey
Earl Sink
Victor E. Warren
Hue
Associated Press
Richard Blystone
Highway 13
Civil Defense
Barnett
FCCD
Kansas City
Kansas
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