Library Line Answers Reader Questions From Kansas Center
The Community Information Center offers help by phone at 242-3080, mail, or in person at sth and Main. Readers ask about mirror backings, etiquette, women’s prisons in Kansas, fencing laws, tree services, dishwashers, and a Emerson quotation on consistency.
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Sth
Main
K.S.A
Sam Tipton
A & M Tree Care
Rantoul
Frank Marconette
John Fritts
Consumer's Research
Admiral
GE Potscrubber
Hotpoint
Sears Kenmore
Wards Signature
Waste King
Emerson
Concrete Work To Resume Soon At Wolf Creek Plant
WICHITA AP The pouring of concrete for six major Wolf Creek nuclear buildings may resume later this month as KG&E and KCPL await NRC tests on concrete samples. A procedural issue halted an auxiliary wall pour after a five foot limit was exceeded. investigation due next week.
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Wichita, Kan
Wolf Creek
Kansas Gas & Electric Co
Burlington
Kan
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Kg&e
Kansas City Power & Light Co
Bob Rives
Daniel Construction Co
Rives
Daniel
NRC
Curfew Scofflaws Tackled
In New Brunswick New Jersey Municipal Court judge Thomas J. Shamy orders 120 day home curfews for repeat young offenders. About a dozen youths have been kept indoors by the stay at home sentence while police say the policy helps identify and curb street crime and probation violations.
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New Brunswick
N.J
Louise Geeston
Selgweene
Thomas J. Shamy
Too Far To Go Delves Into Maples Marriage On NBC Theater
NBC Theater presents John Updike Maples stories adaptation Too Far To Go starring Richard and Joan Maple. The pair drift through adultery parties and therapy as flashbacks reveal a twenty year decline in a stylish but unheroic marriage. The script offers sharp dialogue and deft direction, portraying restless upper middle class discontent without jubilant tragedy.
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Los Angeles
John Updike
NBC Theater
Updike
Maples
Richard
Joan Maple
Joan
Funeral for Mrs. Nettie May Puckett in Baldwin
Graveside services for 93 year old Nettie May Puckett of Baldwin will be held at Oakwood Cemetery. She was born December 6, 1885 in Phillisburg Kansas and married Clyde Alvin Puckett in 1902. Survivors include three sons two daughters grandchildren and great grandchildren. Memorials suggested to Orchard Lane Nursing Home. Ottawa police report multiple accidents and civil cases plus local school lunch menus and a court sentence for Carroll Phillips.
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Nettie May Puckett Baldwin
Nettie May Puckett
Baldwin
Orchard Lane
Oakwood
Puckett
Phillisburg
Kan
Clyde Alvin Puckett
Ives Chapel United Methodist Church
Gerald
Orville
Albuquerque
N.M
Lloyd
Lawrence
Gladys Disque
Tonganoxie
Mervin Lockwood
Overland Park
Nelson Spillman
W. 2Nd
Carroll D. Phillips
N. Main
Ottawa Cooperative Association
John Coffman
Personal Thrift of Ottawa Inc
Kurt Ewing
Franklin County Commission For Ransom Memorial Hospital
Patrick A
Lori A. Hays
Norma D. Tilton
Jim Lewis
AID Inc
Kansas Corporation
Editor Wages War On Language Misuse in London
Joyce Hawkins leads a one woman crusade with the Oxford Paperback Dictionary to curb sloppy English. The book, to be published by Oxford University Press on March 29 at 1.75 pounds, targets misuses from apostrophes to plural forms and the word hopefully.
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London
Oxford
Oxford University Press
Joyce Hawkins
Britain
Shoestring Railroads Thrive As The Big Ones Die
Two Kansas short line railroads, Garden City Western and Hutchinson Northern, endure while giants falter. Each runs a tiny operation with two locomotives, six miles to twenty miles of track, and about 11 employees. They serve niche needs, attract rail buffs, and stay compliant with ICC rules, emphasizing service over expansion.
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Paul Stevens
Associated Press
Quinby
Rodkey
Garden City Western
Hutchinson Northern
Kansas
W. F. Stoeckly
Garden City Western Railway
Santa Fe
Missouri Pacific
Garden City
Wolf
Leavitt
Lowe and
Ritchal
Pete Mallonee
Stoeckly
Garden City Sugar and Land Co
Garden City Company
Sugar Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Carey Company
Rock Island
Mallonee
American Short Line Railroad Association
Detroiter, Mobile, Homes and Ross Milling Co
Ottawa needs a cancer unit and help welcome
Local brief notes invite community action for a cancer unit meeting at 7 30 p m Monday in the Courts Building. Also updates on staff changes at Hairport plus local sales and event notices from Stinson's Processing Budge's Sport Center Rex's Metzger Salvage and First Assembly of God Church event with Bridge group in Nashville.
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Ottawa
Courts
Bridge
Nashville
First Assembly of God Church
13Th and Mulberry
Senior Violin Recital Planned at Ottawa University
Ottawa University announces Rhonda Machlan from Longmont Colorado will present her senior violin recital Sunday March 11 at 2 p.m. in the Administration Building Auditorium. Machlan studies Music Education and Suzuki method and will perform works by Bach Mozart Beethoven von Weber and Shinichi Suzuki.
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Ottawa University
Rhonda Machlan
Longmont
Colorado
Machlan
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
von Weber
Shinichi Suzuki
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Elaine Saffron
Saffron Glass Co
Mirror Vision
Turner
Brown’s Hardware
Amy Vanderbilt
Miss Geeston
Updike Lovers
the Daily Report
2Nd and
Cedar
Paul G. Schulz
Sycamore
Owen Ogle
Cleveland
Schulz
Ogle
Schule
7Th and Mulberry
Judith
Steanson
Public Safety News
Ron Henry Ford
S. Main
District Court News
Us.d
Eisenhower-Field
Garfield St
Hawthorne-Lincoln
U.S.C
Central Heights
Miss Hawkins
Oxford University
Ad Briefs
Kathy Floyd
Marcia Yohe
Bill Clary
Hairport
Stinson’s
Farm Bureau
Budge's Sport Center
ELKS
VFW
Metzger Salvage
Russ Browning
Rex’s
America
OHS
Melvern Lake
Melvern
Robert Pinet
Winton Winter
Grace Episcopal Church
S. Locust St
Lapera, Inc
Pence
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