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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1998
Page
6
Ottawa's American Legion baseball team has piled up 72 runs across six games led by a 28 run burst in a doubleheader against Coffeyville. Page 7 report notes strong hitting and team success as the season unfolds.
Tuesday brings a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms under a partly sunny sky. High around 90 with northeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Tuesday night includes a chance for storms. For more details, see page 2.
Lyndon Osage County archivist Tammy O Rear received an Excellence Award at the Kansas Council of Genealogical Society annual dinner and workshop in Wichita. Her divorce research on Osage County from 1861 to 1954 spans about 12,620 cases. bound editions are used by the Library of Congress and the Latter Day Saints Center for Genealogical Research in Salt Lake City.
Ulysses resident James A. Harris, 48, died Saturday when his four seat Piper Cherokee crashed after takeoff from a Seward County residence. FAA probes the cause while Allan Willimon recalls seeing the plane bank as it rose. Harris led Southwest Construction Inc. and SWC Development, both based in Ulysses, and owned the aircraft with his wife Colleen.
Cypriot officials saved 115 aboard the Rita Allah after days at sea off Limassol. Two passengers, reportedly from Iraq and another African, died of thirst and were thrown overboard. Ten people, including two children, were hospitalized for dehydration and exposure. the vessel had departed Tripoli on June 18 with passengers from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Sudan, Rwanda, and Congo.
Chuck Shepherd reports from Albuquerque where William Walker was charged with trying to hack a door with an ax after a resident refused to buy speakers. In Germany two women face murder charges for torturing and stabbing a male colleague in a door-to-door sales group. Giants Stadium turf with blue, dying grass prompts theories of a fungus. Stock market wrap and prices available online.
President Clinton faced polite but critical questions on human rights Taiwan policy and China views during a live Beijing exchange at Peking University and a Shanghai stop. He urged open dialogue toward broader freedoms, defended arms sales as defense, and voiced hope for peaceful reunification as he tours schools and ports.
In a Sunday 1:18 a.m. crash on Old Highway 50 south of Ottawa, Quenemo resident Shaon E. Sleichter, 21, died at the scene after his 1967 Chevy pickup collided with a 1984 Chevy pickup driven by David L. Stover, 26. Four others were injured, and alcohol was suspected as a factor. Passengers in Sleichter’s vehicle were Angela Hermreck, 19, Ronald Rowland, 24, and Chris Crowley, 21, with Hermreck and Rowland flown to St. Francis Medical Center. Crowley later transferred to KU Medical Center. Stover was treated and released. None wore seat belts. See CRASH page 3.
Randy Edwards, 39, rents a plot northwest of Hays to grow cucumbers onions zucchini crook neck squash pumpkins and cantaloupes for the Farmers Market. He lives with Tom and Shelley Stafford and their daughter Amanda at Bethesda Place a private Christian home for mentally disabled men. Edwards helps water trees on Bethesda’s 1800-tree farm and is the only resident with a driver's license.
Investigators linked a Mercedes hidden in a ship leaving California ports to a stolen sedan from a Northern California mall. The probe expanded to 72 suspects with millions in Lexus, BMW and Mercedes cars seized for Asia, while SUVs headed to Latin America were tracked. The case highlights port inspection limitations affecting about 1 percent of vessels.
Doctors report that giving AZT to HIV positive pregnant women can substantially reduce infant AIDS risk. Cost and access remain major hurdles for developing nations, where routine HIV testing and prenatal care are lacking. The World AIDS Conference highlights bringing affordable, safer treatment to mothers worldwide.
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