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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1997
Page
6
Secret Code Day at Ottawa Library for Kids
Thursday marks Secret Code Day in the Ottawa Library children department at 2 p.m. on the lower level with secret codes to solve led by Lincoln Elementary teacher Teri Howard who will teach pig Latin. Preschool activity follows July 11 as part of the 97 Bazillion Ways to Read summer program with nearly 600 area children enrolled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Teri Howard
Lincoln
Father fights for son in Iowa fire case
Ron Ryan, Wichita businessman and aviation executive, spent 3 million to overturn his son Dale Ryan’s 1991 conviction for setting a West Burlington fire that killed two firefighters. Dale, 38, is imprisoned near Oklahoma City with decades more to serve. appeals, including to the Supreme Court, have failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
Ron Ryan
Dale Ryan
Ryan
Dale
West Burlington
Iowa
el Reno Federal Correctional Institution
Oklahoma City
Ryan International Airlines
Joe Wilt
Bill Klein
U.S. Supreme Court
World Summit ends with mixed signals on key issues
Denver AP report details the World Summit of the Eight where leaders from the United States Japan Germany Britain France Canada Italy and Russia met. Clinton praised the summit as a success while differences lingered on economy Africa environment and UN matters. Russia is welcomed as a member of the group though unanimity on carbon reduction targets was lacking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Africa
United Nations
Clinton
Russia
United States
Japan
Germany
Britain
France
Canada
Italy
World Trade Organization
First Wheat in at Beachner Grain Richmond
Charlie Feuerborn of Richmond delivered a 352 bushel wheat load to Beachner Grain in Richmond. The grain manager Ralph Ferguson reported good, dry wheat with 61.6 test weight and 13.5 moisture. Nearby farmer testing moisture. weather may slow or quicken volume through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ichmond
Beachner Grain
Richmond
Charlie Feuerborn
Ralph Ferguson
Ferguson
Ale
Charlie
Sandi Ferguson
Feuerborn
Sandi
Ralph
Thurman ghost town helps fuel rural education push
In Thurman Kansas a ghost town site becomes a case study for place based education. Emporia State and the Land Institute hosted a workshop with about 25 teachers from four districts to explore keeping rural students from leaving for cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emporia State University
Joe Hickey
Thurman
Kansas
Emporia State
Salina’s Land Institute
Land Institute
Matfield Green
Brian Donahue
Brandeis University
Waltham
Mass
Donahue
Baldwin Unified
Cottonwood Falls
Lost Springs
Justices uphold predator confinement law in ruling
The Supreme Court in a 5 4 decision allows states to detain violent sexual predators after prison terms if they are mentally abnormal and deemed likely to reoffend. The ruling says such confinement does not violate due process or amount to double punishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurie Asseo
Associated Press
Ashington
Supreme Court
Kansas
Kansans Celebrate Court Ruling on Sexual Predator Law
Kansas officials hailed a Supreme Court case ruling as a validation of the states tool to identify and detain violent sexual predators after their prison term. Rep. Tim Carmody called it a powerful tool while Carla Stovall argued before the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genera Carla _ Stovall
Wow
Tim Carmody
Overland Park
House Judiciary Committee
Graves preemptive strike backsfires with conservatives in Kansas
In Kansas, conservatives doubt Graves’s fundraising warmth signals an endorsement. GOP leaders, including Tim Shallenburger, stress traditions of political support while debate over Graves’s re election chances continues. The article notes fundraisers by Gene Bicknell, Todd Tiahrt, and Sam Brownback, and discusses Graves’s growing warchest and positions on social issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lew Ferguson
Associated Press
OPERA
Kan
Bill Graves
Graves
GOP
David Miller
House
Tim Shallenburger
Baxter Springs
Gene Bicknell
Pittsburg
U.S
Todd Tiahrt
Wichita
Sam Brownback
Topeka
San Diego
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
Little Rock
Ark
Deci
Stote Path
Ayale
Stovall
Kathleen Sebelius
Miller
Eudora
Shallenburger
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