Ottawa City Commission fills vacancy after withdrawal
Bills Burnett withdrew from the Ottawa City Commission race, clearing a deadlock among commissioners who then unanimously elected Jim Welch to fill the open seat left by Cal Lantis. Welch was sworn in and urged five-member meetings to avoid stalemates, with continued coverage on page 8.
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Bill Tellier
Herald
Bill Burnett
Ottawa City Commission
Jim Welch
Tony Keim
Charles Gillette
Burnett
Richard Jackson
Joan Tyson
Welch
Cal Lantis
Commission
Lantis
Kerrey quits race as Democratic候 candidate
Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska ends his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination after a string of defeats. He concedes lack of funds and support, vows no retreat, and returns to the Senate amid calls to resume political battles. Clinton Tsongas Harkin Brown remain in the race.
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Washington
Nebraska
Bob Kerrey
Senate
Kerrey
South
Arkansas
Bill Clinton
Massachusetts
Paul Tsongas
Towa
Tom Harkin
California
Jerry Brown
Virginia
Douglas Wilder
White House
South Dakota
New
Hampshire
Bush
Moreau wins Franklin County Spelling Bee in spell down
Ottawa Middle School seventh grader Jon Moreau clinched the Franklin County Spelling Bee title after 15 rounds and a spell down, spelling words like superstitious and accessories correctly to earn a state bee berth. Irene Avelar placed second, Meredith Messick third, with 43 contestants from area schools.
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Herald
Franklin County
Jon Moreau
Moreau
Ottawa
OMS
Tom
Sherry Moreau
S. Elm
Jon
Peoples National Bank
Topeka
Irene Avelar
Rigo
Nelly Avelar
Thomas Road
Meredith Messick
Williamsburg
Kenneth
Susan Messick
Iits
Avelar
Eisenhower Elementary
Don Sinclair
Cynthia Montague
Don Duncan
Utilities eyed as school aid
The House Taxation Committee endorsed a plan to raise more than 300 million dollars by restoring the 4.25 percent sales tax on residential utilities to fund a Democratic school finance package. The measure would tax utility bills for gas, water, electricity, telephone, and propane, yielding about 63.55 million while a separate aim adds 7 million for a poor Kansans rebate, totaling 56.55 million after rebates. The committee rejected other exemption-elimination schemes and debated broader tax changes, noting potential economic damage if all exemptions were removed.
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John Hanna
Associated Press
Topeka
House Taxation Committee
Joan Finney
House
John Carlin
Robert F. Bennett
Robert Krehbiel
Pretty Prairie
Carlin
Joan Wagnon
D-Topeka
Kansas
Gwen Welshimer
Wichita
Virus scare as Michelangelo worm nears trigger date
Computer owners rush to buy virus-killing software with the Michelangelo virus nearing its March 6 activation. Egghead and CompUSA report strong demand while others offer free tools. Pranksters created rogue programs that threaten data and disrupt systems via disks or networks.
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Bart Ziegler
New York
See Rock
Egghead
Boston
Compusa
Dallas
Computer Warehouse Chain
Symantec Corp
How to defend against the virus
The piece advises using anti virus protection from software dealers or free bulletin boards. It instructs copying all tiles from the hard disk to back up disks and not restarting the PC on March 6. In DOS 3.3 clock resetting may help but is not reliable. 3.2 and earlier do not. It notes using CHKOSK on 640K machines. a clean disk shows 655360 bytes while 653312 suggests potential infection.
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Chkosk
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Peter Norton
Comparing, Inc
Santa Monica
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New York Times
U.S. News & World Report
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