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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1978
Page
6
City submits a pre application for a 530000 Community Development Block Grant to fund ongoing programs land purchase for a senior citizens center and a Skunk Run drainage study. A 3 PM public hearing at City Hall finalized project details and funding priorities.
Patricia Hearst, 24, to report to Federal Correctional Institution Pleasanton for the remainder of her seven year term after exhausting appeals. She has served 14 months including time at a minimum security facility and must serve at least 14 more before parole.
National picket line expands pressure as grocery labor negotiations enter a new stage. Unions push for stronger wages and benefits while store chains warn of service impacts and possible work stoppages.
President Carter, after talks with senators, predicts the Senate will not block his plan to sell F-15s and F-16s to Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. The debate includes a closed session on security implications for the Middle East.
Harris News Service columnist critiques Kansas liquor by the drink law, labeling it circular and evasive. He urges a straightforward constitutional amendment and warns the Legislature may stall again, despite pro liquor arguments about tax revenues and hypocrisy.
Initial returns show strong Christian Democrat gains amid mourning for Aldo Moro. Red Brigades strike again in Bologna wounding an auto plant official Antonio Mazzotti, as three men and a woman shoot him entering the Menarini factory.
A convention boycott against ERA non ratifying states cost Kansas City hotels and businesses at least 5.3 million with six groups pulling conventions. Nurses' eight day event would have drawn 10,000 people and 3,000 to 4,000 hotel rooms, totaling about 3.2 million in local spending. Meany opposes wage controls, urging prices to stay down first.
Hugoton attorney Don Concannon announced he will not seek the Democratic nomination for governor this year. He said Bennett is not unbeatable and argued Democrats need a candidate with a distinct spending philosophy to defeat the incumbent. Concannon noted no current Democratic hopeful has sparked a winning surge.
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