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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 2014
Page
1
TV grids show college hoops rebounding ahead of the annual Madness, with schedules and coverage building toward the upcoming tournament. Page 10 hints at mounting momentum and key matchups shaping the college basketball sprint to March.
Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home in Ottawa preserves its 1932 caged elevator, the oldest in town. Office manager Tom Ferguson notes it still operates smoothly with vintage safety gates and manual switches, serving as a relic amid ownership changes since 1892.
Ferguson notes a funeral home installed a disability elevator nearly 60 years before the ADA, claiming it is the oldest such facility in Franklin County. He praises the Lamb family for forward thinking as the elevator served those unable to climb stairs well before national awareness.
Elisha Otis received the first passenger elevator order in 1857 per The Elevator Museum. The Lamb-Roberts elevator finished 75 years later remained new technology to Franklin County residents in 1932. Deb Barker of the Franklin County Historical Society notes 1998 elevator addition at the Old Depot Museum to serve a large local clientele.
Kansas Senator Caryn Tyson argues Senate Bill 411 would strip extension districts of property tax powers and require county commissions to approve budget increases. The measure, from the Assessment and Taxation Committee, aims to prevent rising mill levies by shifting taxing authority to county governments within multi county extension districts.
Legislators weigh bills to restrict microbreweries and grocery store liquor sales. A proposed Senate measure would place mill levy decisions in county commissioners’ hands within each district. Daryl Buchholz of Kansas State University notes extension districts’ mill levies often stay flat or fall after settling into efficient models, with only minor fluctuations over time. County commissioners appoint four district board members, who are then elected biennially.
U S Rep Lynn Jenkins Kansas leads push to halt 2014 Obamacare penalties. The House passed HR 4118 The Simple Fairness Act 250 to 160 to zero out the ACA individual mandate tax in 2014. President Obama vows veto if moved to law.
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