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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1989
Page
14
More than 100000 workers and intellectuals joined students in Beijing demanding Premier Li Peng step down. The protest spanned Tiananmen Square with 30,000 students present, amid a power struggle among China’s leadership and calls for Deng Xiaoping’s influence over policy.
The school board and teachers discuss pay hikes to $18,000 base and the proposed two additional contract days to reach 186 per year. Per diem comparisons place Ottawa fourth among area districts while concerns over six period days and personal leave limits persist. Upcoming session planned for next Wednesday includes a work session followed by a regular meeting.
RC&D calls for volunteers across six counties to craft integrated waste management tied to EPA groundwater rules. Franklin County faces landfill expansion as Sunshine Recycling plan brings a drop off truck to Ottawa in about two weeks.
In San Bernardino a gasoline pipeline explosion sent a 200 foot flame column into the sky near Rialto as a runaway Southern Pacific train derailment earlier in May left two crewmen and two boys dead. Evacuations were ordered and authorities worked to shut down the line. Multiple residents were injured but no deaths reported. The blast damaged nearby homes and cars as black smoke rose over the city, with investigators unsure of the cause and noting a possible valve leak.
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