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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1981
Page
1
NCAA action eases hysteria over Miami defeating a top ranked opponent while lawmakers approve real property classification and jailer training requirements in committee.
Cape Canaveral AP delayed the shuttle Columbia twice, then postponed to Friday at the earliest. A lubricating device in the on board auxiliary power units caused the stoppage with 31 seconds left in the countdown, crew Joe Engle and Richard Truly were removed, and fuel tanks must be unloaded and decontaminated delaying launch for several days amid unsettled weather forecasts.
The Franklin County United Way reports $22,081 raised toward a $45,400 target with moves from Advance, Fair Share, small business and residential donors. Separately the Reagan administration withdraws a proposed $79 million sale of satellite equipment to Arab nations amid congressional concerns, while Jordan’s King Hussein praises talks in Washington and plans a Los Angeles address.
City officials honor Lester Wells 25 years Marvin Holmes James Shaw and Ronald Snethen each 10 years at a brief Commission meeting Mayor George Marshall praises Wells as dedicated and loyal and notes Snethen is at water plant operator school in Topeka. Also announced are changes in December meeting dates and beer license renewals notices.
National Weather Service station at Ottawa Water Plant logged a low of 4 degrees and a high of 4 on Tuesday morning and afternoon. Rainfall totaled 54 inches. County forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Thursday with low around 40 and high around 0.
The Ottawa Planning Commission approved allowing feed-seed sales in a C-S zone for David Kyle's Purina feed dealership in the Old Brady Implement building at 23rd and South US-69. The vote suspends by-laws, with one negative vote by Clarence Koch and support from executive director Larry Powell and Commissioner Fred Searls. Kyle plans to move Bar-K Western Wear to the Brady building, keeping livestock feed as the major investment.
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