Low turnout at Ottawa meet the candidates for city commission
Edward McGrath reports a sparse audience and only two of six candidates attended the Ottawa Junior High School session. Fredric B. Zook and William Shipp spoke while incumbents and another candidate were absent. Don Burroughs discussed a bond issue to fund city recreation upgrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Fredric B. Zook
William Shipp
Stephen V. Ralph
Harry E. Murphy
J. Leland Hysom
O. L. Norman
Ralph
Norman
Franklin County Action Group
Park Board
Don Burroughs
Zook
City Commission
Shipp
William
Local Program Boost For Ottawa Mentally Retarded Children
Franklin County Association for Retarded Children helps Ottawa gain programs for mentally retarded kids. March is National Retarded Children Month and a public meeting at Westminster United Presbyterian Church features a parent teacher and welfare official panel. About 40 students attend Ottawa classes, with four special ed teachers in town and additional classes in Baldwin and Vinland.
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Dan Mullen
Franklin County Association For
Ottawa
Westminster United Presbyterian Church
Laura Baker
Franklin County Association
Baker
Garfield School
Terry Fey
Dixie
America
Kansas lawmakers push bingo, welfare curb bills on agenda
Kansas legislators at week ten pursue a bingo bill clarifying church and fraternal groups as non lottery players while welfare reforms tighten aid limits. House and Senate advance measures on welfare budgets hearings fraud probes and work programs with revenue department reorganization and a cabinet secretary proposal passing the House 74 to 40.
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Topeka
Kansas
Senate Thurssy
House
Senate
State Department of Revenue
Pep Band Brings Spirit to Ottawa High School Games
Ottawa High School’s pep band, about 25 members directed by Loren Matthews, supplies rock tunes at home games and pep assemblies. The band, drawn from concert and marching groups, performs with cheerleaders and the team, boosting school pride and earning praise as one of the region’s best. Members mix genders, rehearse mainly during regular band practice, and study songs like Sweet Georgia Brown for warmups and performance.
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Ardis Foust
Ottawa High School
Loren Matthews
OHS
Matthews
Georgia Brown
QHS
Mike Wallace
Danny Howell
Emporia
Viet troopers flee as South pushes on Ho Chi Minh trail
South Vietnamese forces and U S airpower renewed pressure along Highway 9 in southern Laos as bases near A Luoi and Landing Zone Brown were abandoned amid heavy fighting. Saigon reported 78 North Vietnamese killed, 2% South Vietnamese killed and 199 wounded. Escalating losses followed 15 US helicopters shot down and 40 to 50 trapped crews rescued. Vuill calm ahead though with 15 700 SV troops remaining in Laos from a peak of 21 000.
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Saigon
Ho Chi Minh
South Vietnam
Tran van An
A Luoi
Laos
Brown
Luoi
Highway 9
U.S
Nguyen van Thieu
Associated Press
Holger Jensen
Ham Nghi
Vietnam
Ellsworth Bunker
Creighton W. Abrams
Independence Palace
Lao Bao
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Reds Point To Israeli Designs Of Annexation
The Soviet Union's Tass denounces Israel's refusal to withdraw from occupied Arab lands as a plan to annex. Abba Eban's Washington remarks and Rogers' peacekeeping proposal are cited as provocation. Overnight shelling hit two border settlements and an ambush targeted an army patrol. Metulla Kibbutz on the Lebanese border and a Golan Heights settlement were attacked. no casualties reported.
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Associated Press
Soviet Union
Today
Israel
Tass
Tel Aviv
Abba Eban
Washington
William P. Rogers
Jerusalem
Golan Heights
Syria
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Edward McGrath
Carolyn Newsmater
Association
Ipm Lam
Foreign Affairs Ministry
Metalla
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