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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1989
Page
1
The Ottawa school board refused to bend its nine year old rule that seniors without a diploma cannot participate in commencement. Twelve seniors were denied, though several joined musical performances. Officials noted graduation rights must be earned and emphasized varied circumstances, while counseling and parent outreach continued.
Speaker decries the slow promise of $20,000 payments to 60,000 surviving Japanese Americans imprisoned in relocation centers during World War II. Congress cut $250 million from aid, then adjourned for Memorial Day, raising doubt over timely funding and accountability after 45 years.
Daniel Fitzgerald, a high school senior turned author and Kansas State Historical Society archivist, will autograph and sell his latest book Ghost Towns of Kansas at Skunk Run Day events in Ottawa. He will show a ghost towns video at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. and sign books from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ottawa Library.
Williamsburg High School hosts an alumni banquet drawing about 350 attendees to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1889 first class. A new directory detailing the school town history will be sold, with 500 copies published, as AMBIANCE and reminiscence fill the event.
Ronald O Perelman, 47, pays 545 million for the Coleman Company, a Wichita firm founded by W C Coleman in 1902, financed in part by proceeds from a Texas savings banks rescue. The Colemans stand to gain about 135 million from the sale, while the business faces asset divestiture and possible job cuts to cover debt.
Ottawa Herald publishes rates for delivery in Ottawa area and surrounding counties. By carrier monthly five dollars, yearly fifty one twenty five. motor route five twenty five monthly, thirteen fifty quarterly, twenty eight yearly. by mail Franklin and adjacent counties five twenty five monthly from own, sixteen twenty five three months, twenty nine fifty six months, fifty six seventy five yearly. other areas six twenty five monthly, eighteen seventy five three months, thirty six sixty, sixty nine fifty yearly.
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A compiled outreach note lists President George Bush at the White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC 20500 and Senators Bob Dole Nancy Kassebaum with their Capitol Hill offices plus phone numbers. It also gives Congressman Bob Whittaker and state legislators Jim Allen Bettie Sue Shumway with Topeka addresses and phone lines.
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