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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1997
Page
6
Upcoming events in Anderson County include a Girl Scout tour a Kansas Kids concert and a bicycle rollerblading safety rodeo. Warm and mostly sunny Friday with a high around 90 and a south wind 10 to 20 mph.
Congress advances a 140 billion five year budget trim including Medicare overhaul spectrum sales and benefit cuts. Senate vote 73 to 27 and House 270 to 162, with Republicans praising the balance plan and Democrats accusing it of courting health care and tax cut politics.
Senator Pat Roberts announced a Senate approved measure to balance the budget while increasing Medicare reimbursements in rural areas and raising the eligibility age to 67. The bill moves to conference committee after a 73 to 27 vote amid a long campaign to reduce payment disparities.
Wet fields hold up the winter wheat harvest as coordinators seek combines and crews. Rain Tuesday night and Wednesday morning paused harvest statewide, though Ford and Sumner counties saw some cutting. Storms with strong winds and hail damaged about half of some Trego County fields per crop insurance agent Bob Michellich.
Solar powered cars from the United States Canada and Mexico travel through central Kansas on day two of Sunrayce 97. California State University Los Angeles leads with an average speed of 40.75 mph as 36 student teams race a 1230 mile course from Manhattan to Colorado Springs with overnight stop in Smith Center and a scheduled finish this Saturday.
Kansas study shows municipal electric sales last year cut local government costs by about 37.3 million across 121 utilities. Chanute Ottawa and Garden City face looming property tax increases to replace lost electric revenue, signaling higher bills if wheeling limits local funding. The discussion, tied to 1998 legislative debates, warns competition could shift tax burdens and force budget cuts in citizen-owned utilities.
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that President Clinton can use a line item veto, with the ruling centered on standing of six Congress members to challenge the law. Justices Stevens and Breyer dissented, setting aside a federal judge’s earlier unconstitutionality finding. The decision allows limited veto power pending future challenges by those affected.
The Supreme Court unanimously held that terminally ill individuals do not have a constitutional right to doctor assisted death. Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote that aiding another in dying conflicts with the nation's history, legal traditions, and practices. The decision upholds New York and Washington State laws criminalizing life-ending drug provision by doctors to mentally competent terminal patients who wish to die.
The Supreme Court unanimously strikes down key provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, ruling Congress erred in restricting adult content online to protect children, as the law would bar access by adults and never took effect after being blocked by a Philadelphia court.
Ottawa Board of Education approved demolition of the 1928 north building and multi purpose room at Fifth and Main after months of preservation efforts. The 1917 south building was deemed salvageable, with demolition and removal of contents slated for this summer and completion by late October.
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