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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1997
Page
6
The Herald announces the first of four All-area teams led by Bald win runners. Three Bald win athletes anchor the elite boys cross-country squad, with page 10 carrying full details.
Forecast shows a 30 percent chance of light snow early Friday, otherwise mostly cloudy and cold with a high of 30 to 35. Blustery northwest wind 15 to 25 mph.
Ottawa resident Tony Lynn Cowdin 28 pleaded guilty to a federal weapons violation as prosecutors prepared for trial. He faces up to 10 years for felon in possession of a firearm, with the plea negotiations reducing charges. Sentencing is set for February 2.
A Kansas legislative committee endorsed issuing bonds to fund energy conservation at six universities under the crumbling classrooms program. KDFA president Bill Caton said the plan would be self‑funding from reduced energy costs, avoiding state treasury expense and not diverting $163 million set for four years.
A previously unknown group claimed responsibility for the Karachi killings of four Americans and threatened more attacks if a Pakistani is sentenced to death for two 1993 CIA workers murders. Police increased road checks while the U S Embassy urged Americans to stay indoors.
Intense prosecutors and judges now jail or criminally record overdue library-book scofflaws such as a 43 year old Providence Rhode Island woman given 90 days supervised probation for keeping four children’s books over a year. Also DUI tickets issued to intoxicated riders on a bicycle horse or riding lawn mower as in Morgantown Kentucky May case of Roy Embry.
Herald Staff Writer YNDON School officials applaud sentencing of Rex Streeter 34 Vassar after a no contest plea to aggravated criminal sodomy aggravated indecent liberties with a child and aggravated sexual battery Streeter was charged in a six count complaint involving five girls aged 14 to 17 The Osage County Attorney reports two 51 month terms and a 34 month term to be served concurrently with parole possible in about 3 1/2 years
In Washington the question of Bob Doles face surgery circulates amid media fascination. Friends and experts weigh in on signs and odds while Dole and Elizabeth Dole travel to St Louis and Des Moines. The former first lady of the Red Cross downplays any rush to national leadership.
The United Nations on orders from Baghdad pulls all weapons inspectors from Iraq. Richard Butler, head of UNSCOM, says American inspectors must leave by road to Jordan today, leaving a skeletal staff of about nine to monitor equipment and sustain the facility pending crisis resolution. He hopes the team can return when conditions allow.
Ottawa Board of Education and Ottawa Education Association have set fact-finding dates for January 8 and 9 as contract talks extend the school year. Negotiations began last spring with 31 board items and 12 OEA items, reaching impasse in June and prompting federal mediation.
Ottawa planners unveil a comprehensive land use map splitting growth into commercial corridors along US-59 and K-68, industrial zones near I-35, and broad residential areas including Eisenhower Road. The map, approved by the Planning Commission, awaits city commission approval and will be updated yearly with park space additions noted.
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