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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1980
Page
13
AAA Kansas reports no shortages for the July 4th weekend as fuel supply improves with more stations open. Prices rise sharply compared with a year ago with full service averaging 1.233 for regular and 1.327 for premium, while diesel sits at 1.100 per gallon.
In Hays Kansas police probe an estranged husband as potential suspect after mother Lynn Rhodes 28 and her three children Nathan 4 Ryan 3 Keegan 12 are found dead. Lynn in a bathtub with wrist wound and children in a nearby room. Autopsy planned. The husband Richard Rhodes, not jailed, was hospitalized in shock and under guard.
Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, after NATO talks, promised increased US military aid to Thailand to counter Vietnamese attacks across the Thai Cambodian frontier. Thai foreign minister Siddhi Savatsila said the pledge followed Muskie's meeting with ASEAN ministers, amid Vietnam's ongoing Cambodian aggression and Thai refugee flows. Muskie criticized the incursions and planned talks with Japan Australia New Zealand and Canada.
Kansas Congressman Bob Whittaker says the Justice Department advised withholding his evidence from the FAA until the Transportation Department inspector general completes a six month investigation into FAA activities. Whittaker claims discrepancies in radar outage figures, document alterations, understaffing at 20 control centers, and unqualified maintenance personnel. DOT IG Frank Sato said the probe is in preliminary stages as FAA defends data and denies deception.
Two Topeka men were sentenced for the January 22 double murder of Karen Crook and her 3-year-old son. Tony Hobbs received life for first degree murder and 15 years to life for second degree murder. Michael Simmons got two concurrent life terms for two first degree murder charges. A third defendant, Kent Quarles, was acquitted on two counts.
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