Ottawa to award fire station contract to Iola firm
The Ottawa City Commission awarded the $282,220 bid for the new fire station to Sell Constructors Inc of Iola on the recommendation of architects Skidmore and Devore. Construction starts around April 1 with a December 20 completion target and bonds approved to finance the project.
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Jewel Scott
Ottawa City Commission
Sell Constructors, Inc
Iola
Skidmore
Devore
Carey Mechanical Contracting Co
Ottawa
Huxtable and Associates Inc
Lawrence
E. V. Skidmore
Fourth National Bank and Trust Co
Wichita
Second Street
Nixon seeks first federal criminal code overhaul
President Nixon sent to Congress a bold plan to overhaul federal criminal laws for the first time since 1790. The Criminal Reform Act of 1973 eliminates the insanity defense, tightens obscenity rules, targets drug traffickers, reintroduces the death penalty, and classifies offenses into nine categories with fixed maximum sentences. It imposes mandatory probation conditions and broad penalties for corporate offenders. The plan, backed by stronger drug penalties, would set a 30 year limit for possession of over four ounces of heroin and up to life with prior felony in heroin cases.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
John McClellan
D-Ark
Judiciary
L. Patrick Gray III
FBI
Governor's Key Program Derailed by Senate Vote
The Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee killed the corporate disallowance bill, a key funding mechanism for the fiscal 1974 budget. Gov Docking and allies vow reconsideration, while some senators push alternative funding like a small sales tax increase opposed by Docking. The session also advanced an appropriation bill of 64.60 million for health, hospitals, and schools, with final votes pending on lunch aid and foreign trade zones.
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Topeka
Kan
Senate
Ways and Means
Robert Bennett
Pete McGill
Don Matlack
Robert Docking
Bennett
Kansas
Docking
Ways and Means Committee
Joe Harder
R-Moundridge
Bob Storey
Kansas House
State General Fund
House
UN Leans On US In PANAMA
The United States faces hurdles in securing a new Panama Canal treaty for Congress after the U N Security Council backed Panamanian momentum. US Ambassador John Scali vetoed a resolution urging immediate Panama treaty signing, the third US veto in 27 years. Britain abstained as the vote stood 13 to 1.
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Panama
U.S
U.N. Security Council
Council
Washington
John Scali
U.N
Britain
United States
Weather county forecast with showers and cool nights
Considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Friday. Cool tonight with lows in the low to mid 40s. Mild Friday with highs in the mid to upper 50s. Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph. Precipitation chances 40 percent tonight and 30 percent Friday. High Wednesday 55, today's low 40, last year's highs 66, lows 35. Record high 93 in 1907, record low 7 in 1955. Hourly temperatures ending at 8 am today.
Reds To Hold Back POWs In Vietnam Dispute
In Saigon the Communists canceled planned releases of 138 American prisoners after the United States reneged on a joint plan for accelerated troop withdrawals and prisoner handovers. U S demands for Laos prisoner release timing and locations led to new conditions delaying the final pullout.
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Saigon
U.S
United States
Vietnam
Washington
Joint Military Commission
Laos
North Vietnam
Joint Commission
Carelessness Jeopardizes RS Handouts
Officials must sign assurances to spend revenue-sharing funds only on legally mandated priorities. The Treasury will require Planned Use Reports and Status of Trust Fund Reports, with publication in local papers, quarterly checks, and a 25 percent project cap triggering Davis Bacon wage rules. Spot checks will occur, but no full audits.
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Second
Walnut
Commission
Mills
Hickory Street
City Commission
Planning Commission
Cleveland
Wright
Addison
Department of the Treasury
Secretary of Treasury
Treasury Department
New Curbs On Press At Wounded Knee
AP report says U S Justice and Interior officials imposed new media restrictions during the Wounded Knee occupation. Media must leave the village by 4 30 p m and turn in press passes. horace webb and James Harpster posted the restrictions at the BIA office in Pine Ridge, the federal HQ. Negotiations have been stalemated since last week.
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Wounded Knee
S.D
U.S. Justice and Interior Department
Horace Webb
Justice Department
James Harpster
Interior
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Pine Ridge
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Gene and
Shirley Atchison
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Charles A. Beeman
Beeman
Second and
Locust
Bob Jackson
S. Locust
Jackson
Grace Hocking
Harry Hjorth
Max Roush
Gladys Roush
Frank Lehew
Cliff Reynolds
Hickory
Charles Wheeler
Reynolds
Storey
Reds
Cong
Hanoi
Gia Lam
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