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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1986
Page
7
Page 6 notes sobering take on after prom activities by local OHS students. Page 7 cites a cost-of-living salary hike as a reality for state employees. Page 4 reports a sensational claim about Rampaging Indians and world champions’ scalps.
Soviet officials acknowledge ongoing fire at Chernobyl plant twelve days after the explosion. A third death reported by Yugoslav agency Tanjug, with Soviet casualties totaling two dead and 204 injured. Izvestia lauds workers extinguishing embers as evacuation questions linger about seven days before Cherobyl’s residents were moved.
The Marais des Cygnes River bridge reached its final deck stage as 399 yards of concrete were poured by Penny's Ready Mixed Concrete in 57 truckloads. Workers spent seven and a half hours laying the deck. the concrete must cure 14 days and the bridge opening remains about three weeks away.
Ottawa Mayor Jerry Thompson used his post-election meeting to appoint and reappoint 24 people to city boards and commissions. New and reassigned members include Sam Sheldon to the Library Board, Fred Searls to the Planning Commission, Stan De Fries and Dale Fox to the Municipal Auditorium Authority, and Gary Dixon to the Board of Plumber Examiners, with several others receiving one and three year terms across zoning, electrical, contractor, and other agencies.
Kansas customers welcome Southwestern Bell moves to avoid a general local rate increase by adding charges for optional services. A 75 cent per line fee for rotary line hunting begins July 1, affecting about 25,000 business customers with multiple lines.
The final supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary brings 13,500 words with 130,000 quotations, from yetis to wimmin, yuppies to tandoori, spanning 1,480 pages. Editor Robert Burchfield says America now leads language evolution, plans a new grammar book.
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