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Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain Friday afternoon. Highs in the low 80s with south winds 10 to 20 mph.
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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1990
Page
6
Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain Friday afternoon. Highs in the low 80s with south winds 10 to 20 mph.
Ransom Memorial Hospital staff launched a fund drive and bake sale to help Sherry Wolken, a 12 year RMH dietary worker with cerebral palsy who is recovering at KU Medical Center after surgery to drain brain clots. A cabinet and rabbits prize draw June 16, plus bake sale, aim to raise about $2,000 as bills mount. Sherry’s son Jason graduates from Ottawa Middle School as her parents assist at home.
Ottawa school board and teachers resume bargaining over next year’s salaries and the calendar. A new board offer would raise starting pay to 17 800 and top scale to 32 508, while teachers seek 18 360 starting and 32 872 top. A key issue remains calendar days, with board favoring two after Memorial Day and teachers preferring 177 days.
President Bush urged Congress to pass a robust anti crime bill with limits on semiautomatic weapon rounds but opposed a ban on manufacturing and importing nine automatic weapons. Senate vote 52-48 against NRA backed restrictions sparks talk of continued gun debate.
An AP briefing describes 24 young men in a Laval University study who overeaten for 100 days, revealing that genetic factors influence how calories become fat or muscle. Identical twins showed parallel weight gains, with three times more weight-change rarity between twin pairs than within pairs, suggesting heredity governs energy partitioning. Dr. Claude Bouchard led the research in Ste Foy Quebec. The top weight gain reached 29 pounds while the least gain was nine pounds.
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