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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1980
Page
10
A county report lists delinquent taxes exceeding eighty thousand dollars. The item highlights unpaid assessments and collection efforts, noting outstanding balances across multiple parcels and taxpayers.
A community cancer crusade kicks off with families rallying to support research and patient aid. Local organizers describe a multiweek effort featuring fundraisers, awareness events, and volunteer signups across the region to accelerate treatment access and early detection.
Our Own Hardware Corporation will pay the full 7500 dollar drainage culvert cost at North and Davis Streets, abandoning a shared-cost request. In Topeka the Kansas House approved an 81 to 40 school finance plan, adding a third option alongside Senate and Gov Carlin proposals for distributing new state aid to districts.
The Ottawa Ministerial Association holds a noon Palm Sunday service in City Park with eight pastors leading a short program and Dale Fox directing the singing as congregations caravan from area churches to the park.
An eruptive plume four miles high sent gas and ash over Mount St. Helens with mudslides down the snowy slopes. Authorities evacuated all residents within a 15 mile radius of the volcano, about 40 miles northeast of Vancouver, Washington.
The prime lending rate jumped to a record high after Continental Illinois National Bank of Chicago surpassed Citibank’s earlier 19 percent mark. In Goodland Kansas a week’s second major snowstorm closed schools and roads as Ottawa Power Plant logged 45F low and 55F high with .26 inches rainfall. County forecast calls for possible showers tonight with low 30s to mid 30s and highs in the 40s, with southwest to west winds 10 to 20 mph and a 30 percent rain chance.
Five Ottawa University women are chosen to compete in the Kansas Miss U.S.A. pageant April 3-5 at Hilton Plaza Inn Kansas City Missouri with a trip to Los Angeles for the May 15 Miss U.S.A. pageant. Contestants Jeanie Burkdoll Annette Pyle Debbie Roy Robin Steen and Kristin Wortman will be judged on personality gowns swimsuits and overall presence.
Kansas holds its first presidential primary on April 1 under a sunset law that may end the primary after 1980s. National media largely ignore the contest, while state officials urge equal time and note 1 million cost. Candidates campaign briefly, with Carter Kennedy Reagan Bush Anderson appearing in varying measures. Kansas eyeing municipal elections and fiscal considerations as it debates the future of its primary system.
Franklin County voters decide the first presidential preference primary while also voting on a charter measure to exempt the sheriff budget from the property tax lid. Ballots list a choice on the aggregate tax levy and designate party ballots for Democrats and Republicans. Thirty precincts and rural polling places will open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Ottawa city commissioners consider joining the Kansas Municipal Power Agency to secure hydro power for 1985. City Manager Mills notes three major utilities have offered to sell power and that the agency could coordinate transmission and trading among members. Ottawa’s share of start up costs is about $33,000. decision rests with the commission.
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