Franklin County Firefighters Urge Calling 911 For Controlled Burns
Franklin County firefighters urge farmers and landowners to call 911 before and during controlled burns to distinguish emergencies from non emergencies and help locate burns that escape. Warmer winds raise risk as pastures are burned to rid thatch and renew grasses.
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Franklin County
Jack Wray
Franklin County Firefighters Association and Ems
Kassebaum Opens Flight Safety Bill With Civil Suit Shield
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum filed her first bill to shield light airplane makers from liability for crashes on models older than 18 years. After a compromise raising the limit from 15 years, she sealed an agreement paving Senate passage on the measure.
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Washington
Nancy Kassebaum
Kansas Republican
Senate
McCarthy urges return to Truman role model in critique of Clinton
Eugene McCarthy told Emporia State University audiences that the US political system is in disorder after President Clinton redefined the presidency. He argued Harry Truman set a clear presidential concept and contrasted Truman with Bill and Hillary Clinton, warning that constitutional expectations are being violated.
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Emporia
Kan
Clinton
Eugene McCarthy
Harry Truman
McCarthy
Emporia State University
Harry
Bess Truman
Bill
Hillary
Rails trail petitions spark opposition in Prairie Spirit plan
Two Anderson County men delivered petitions with 1,015 signatures from Franklin, Anderson and Allen counties to Gov. Finney. Copies were given to state senators and representatives. Landowners along the 52 mile rail bed oppose the plan citing reversionary rights and potential government land transfer to an ICC rail bank.
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Anderson County
Franklin
Anderson
Allen
Finney
Tim Emert
Doug Walker
George Teagarden
Richard Reinhardt
Doug Lawrence
Walker Hendrix
Orville J. Cole
Garnett
Clyde Boots
Welda
Cole
Santa Fe
Kansas
Todd attacks Bell links in workers’ comp case
Insurance Commissioner Ron Todd denounces ties to former Commissioner Fletcher Bell over a 1991 workers’ compensation award to Bell for a back injury. He asserts he had no involvement, amid Republican opposition to his re election bid.
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Topeka
Kan
Ron Todd
Fletcher Bell
Todd
Bell Workers’ Compensation
Bell
Cryptic arm clue leads to three arrests in Oklahoma
The shooting of hitchhiker Donald Beartrack Jr. yielded a cryptic DER 352 mark on his arm. Authorities traced the license number to the car that picked him up, leading to three arrests the next day. Beartrack, a 17-year-old basketball player, was killed near Talequah after being repeatedly stopped for beer.
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Donald Beartrack Jr
Oklahoma
Der 352
Beartrack
Der- 352
Talequah
Tron
Man Finds Joy Above Instead Of A Bottle
Orman E. Nite of Interstate Battery System of America spoke at Ottawa University on a life transformed by faith. Miller, raised in Galveston, detailed early drinking, two DWI charges, and a 1974 moment of surrender when he asked God for help and found he could stop drinking.
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Orman E. Nite
Board of Interstate Battery System of America
Galveston
Texas
Gulf Station
Miller
Ottawa University
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