Ottawa Board Honors Retiring Members During Meeting
Ottawa Board of Education hosts a reception for retiring members Bud Gollier and Rex Cummings at 7 pm in the high school media center. The meeting opens with executive session on personnel, then discusses accreditation, alternative school report, salaries, bus contract, local option mill plan, and adult education funding. Road repairs on Main Street near Fifth Street to Marais des Cygnes River may finish next week with crosswalk work and traffic line painting ongoing early in the week.
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Ottawa
Board of Education
Bud Gollier
Rex Cummings
Ottawa High School
Gollier
Cummings
Fifth Street
Marais Des Cygnes
Bob Snyder
W.A. Dunbar and Son
Lawrence
Graves appoints 20 member tax study task force
Governor Bill Graves in Wichita named a 20 member task force to study Kansas tax structure. He said the panel would slow the pace of tax policy debate to carefully review options before any shift from property taxes to sales and income taxes for government and schools.
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Wichita
Kan
Bill Graves
Graves
Topeka
First three strikes case in Kansas ends in life term
Robert Lee Willis, 43, of Kansas City Missouri, becomes the first Kansas convict under the federal three strikes law. He was found guilty Friday of aggravated assault and conspiring to commit bank robbery after attempting to steal an automatic teller machine at a suburban shopping mall on January 25. A maintenance man confronted the group and was fired upon as they fled.
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Kansas City
Kan
Kansas
Robert Lee Willis
Polio pioneer Jonas Salk dies at 80 in California
Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the first polio vaccine and later AIDS treatment efforts, died of heart failure at 12:23 p.m. at Green Hospital in La Jolla. He was 80, after earlier hospitalization for shortness of breath. Salk’s work made him a national hero and his legacy drew praise from figures including Bill Otterson and President Clinton. Continued on page 4.
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Jolla
Calif. I
Jonas Salk
Salk
Green Hospital
Bill Otterson
San Diego Connect
University of California, San Diego
Clinton
CURB to monitor Ottawa gas case action before KCC
The Citizens Utility Ratepayers Board voted to monitor a controversial case before the Kansas Corporation Commission. CURB will have lawyer Nicole Bryant at hearings on five contracts between Kansas Pipeline Partnership and Western Resources Inc. She will not present case information or cross examine witnesses.
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Citizens Utility Ratepayers Board
Kansas Corporation Commission
CURB
Nicole
Bryant
KCC
Kansas Pipeline Partnership
Western Resources Inc
RMHers get raises for hospital staff and chief
Ransom Memorial Hospital board approved a 4 percent raise for staff and a 3 percent raise for hospital administrator Bob Bregant. His new base salary will be 74,106 dollars. He also gains a car allowance of 350 dollars monthly, health benefits, education expense coverage, and a 100000 dollar life insurance policy with his family as beneficiaries.
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John Coen
Bregant
RMH
Coen
Dole Leads Gramm In Early GOP Presidential Race Analysis
AP analysis notes Bob Dole outpaces Phil Gramm in early momentum amid tax cut debates and Clinton health nominee talk. Gramm faces fundraising and organization challenges while Dole shows agility. supporters foresee a Dole Gramm contest, with both pursuing momentum seven months before voting begins.
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Ashington
Senate
Bob Dole
Phil Gramm
Clinton
Dole
Gramm and
Henry McMaster
South Carolina
GOP
Dole Gramm
Joyce Terres
Maryland
Orders for Goods Rise as Durable Goods Rebound
Washington AP reports that May durable goods orders rose 2.5 percent, the first gain since January and the best in six months, led by aircraft and business equipment. Analysts say the surge signals a slowing economy, not a recession, despite the surprise jump.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Ottawa duo to perform concert at university chapel
Ottawa native Brian Lewis violinist and Kansas native Laura Kennedy pianist will perform Sunday at Ottawa University Chapel. Lewis recently appeared at Carnegie Hall, while Kennedy is noted as both soloist and accompanist. See story page 5.
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Ottawa
Brian Lewis
Kansas
Laura Kennedy
Ottawa University Chapel
Lewis
Carnegie Hall
Kennedy
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