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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1976
Page
6
Ottawa NEED center, a volunteer crisis line started over a year and a half ago, faces funding and staffing cuts. Freshman Glenn Shadduck seeks donations and volunteers as monthly operating costs rise beyond available funds. May 20 summer closure threatened.
Kansas moves to overhaul medical malpractice with a 12-bill package creating a 10 million dollar State Health Care Stabilization Fund funded by insurance surcharges. The law tightens deadlines to four years for adults and eight for minors, while mandating coverage and disclosure rules, optional defense panels, installment damages, and new reporting. Outcomes for patients, especially the poor, remain uncertain as costs and defense practices shift.
Irvin Calvert 57 of Waverly died at Ransom Memorial Hospital after being run over by a mower tractor while adjusting it in a ditch near the Homewood exit off I 36. He was a State highway employee, WWII Navy veteran, and member of multiple local groups. Funeral services planned at Waverly United Methodist Church. Survived by wife Viola, two daughters, two brothers, three sisters, and two granddaughters. Memorials to the Waverly United Methodist Church. Calvert previously operated Calvert Food Locker. The incident prompted tributes and continued NEED volunteer outreach efforts in the community.
The Franklin County Association for Retarded Citizens plans a 24 mile Bike Hike for May 22 to raise funds for local special education classrooms and student activities. Chairman Russ Testorff says similar fundraisers in other areas have raised substantial sums. The event starts at 1 p.m. at Ottawa Junior High and ends at Ottawa High School after about three hours with aid stations along the paved route. Contact Testorff at 242-7919 or the junior high for sponsor sheets and participation.
Rescue workers frantically search ruins in north east Italy after Thursday night’s earthquake. At least 243 bodies were recovered in 19 towns with over 1,000 injured. Epicenters extended from Venice to Milan and tremors reached as far as Naples and several European countries. A US Army base in Vicenza deployed helicopters to aid injured and deliver supplies.
The April unemployment rate remains at 7.6 percent after five months of decline, while total employment rises by 700,000 to 67.4 million. Labor force expands by 720,000 to 4.4 million, with gains largely in blue collar male jobs. Rates for adults and teens show varied shifts, whites dip slightly, and overall joblessness remains high despite improvements.
Washington AP reports a Senate subcommittee finds that military meat inspectors accepted bribes and gifts to approve substandard cuts from G&G Packing Co. Boston and Blue Ribbon Frozen Food Corp. Hamden Conn. These firms once supplied up to 20 percent of Pentagon beef purchases.
President Ford announced his No 2 at the Commerce Department is quitting to join his campaign. James A. Baker, Under Secretary, may try to woo uncommitted delegates as Ford faces concern over the Michigan primary and four straight losses to Reagan. No replacement for Baker was named.
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