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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1983
Page
10
Inside Highlights reports Wellsville earns another state playoff berth by subduing CH. Ottawa University prepares for Salina and a final road game. Auditors urge efficiency in higher education. Legislative panel endorses Uniform Traffic Code.
Ottawa residents can gain broader flood insurance at lower rates under a federally-backed program. FEMA official Patricia Stahlschmidt outlined the plan at a public hearing, detailing 100-year flood elevations, zones A B and C, and the path to regular program adoption within months.
U S attorney general ordered to probe legality of covert CIA ventures in Nicaragua under the Ethics in Government Act with a potential special prosecutor unless 90 day review finds no Neutrality Act breach. Judge Weigel mandates investigation of possible offenses by federal officials amid Senate backing for Reagan era CIA support. Weather data notes Ottawa station reports 58/74 with 0.35 inches rainfall. county forecast calls for clouds and teens to 50s.
Beirut reports say a truck bomb near Tyre killed 29 Israeli troops and left 21 wounded with 13 missing. Israeli air raids targeted Palestinian positions in the central mountains while UN and U.S. officials urged restraint amid fighting in Lebanon.
A 9:50 am lightning strike damaged a key grounding transformer at Ottawa Municipal Power Plant substation, causing outages of 30 minutes to 2 hours 40 minutes across town. City Manager David Watkins noted the recently replaced transformer may need replacement. Power restoration required bypass and a dead-plant start on unit No 4 after three tie-breaker attempts failed. The outage differed from the Oct 26 disruption tied to KCPL interconnect. Superintendent Les Wheat provided a report to Watkins detailing the event and partial restoration to downtown Ottawa.
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