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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1968
Page
4
Ottawa University will host its annual Student Activities Day starting at 8 45 a.m. Saturday for about 75 prospective students. Prof Bill Ballinger leads a micro lab opening the meeting with seminars and student faculty meetings in the student union. After lunch drama students present play sketches.
Three area Ottawa University students have joined campus social clubs. Richard Hull, a sophomore from Ottawa, joins Alpha Phi Beta. David Thompson, a freshman from 129 S Elm, joins Delta Phi Beta. Jimmy Walker, a freshman from Princeton, joins Tau Beta Gamma. Also contains an advertisement for piano tuning by Butler's.
Clyde Bland of Ottawa has been elected to membership in the American Angus Association at St. Joseph Missouri. H Dick Nobis, president, reports 507 memberships issued to Aberdeen Angus breeders in the past month.
District Court grants two divorces Dennis E Peine from Joyce Ann Peine and Connie R Rocker from Richard G Rocker. Joseph W Caleb 46 Chanute posted 300 bond after DUI and public intoxication charges from a Coats Corner crash with 250 dollars damage. trial date set. Also court docket details bond forfeitures fines and trials for numerous individuals plus a birth notice.
At First Methodist Church a Court of Honor and parents night saw 200 scouts from Troop 77 and Explorer Post 2077 receive ranks and merit badges. Carl Spencer earned senior patrol leader, Ron Schmoe and Greg Unruh earned patrol leader, and Eagle Scout Ed Lister received a bronze palm for 26 total merit badges. A Sunflower Ordnance Plant tour is planned for Saturday, Nov. 23.
Funeral services for George Lovell O'Brien will be held Friday at 2:00 p.m. at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home with Rev. Paul W. Pentz officiating. Interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery Pomona with graveside services by the American Legion.
In Waycross Georgia two hoboes praised the Seaboard Coast Line after being booked on vagrancy charges. Police say they boarded a freight at Montgomery Alabama and told officer T G Sanford they relied on the SCL for travel to Florida citrus groves, calling it fast and dependable.
First published November 14 1968 and last published November 27 1968 this ordinance grants The Gas Service Company and successors a twenty year franchise to construct maintain and operate a natural gas distribution system in Williamsburg Kansas and vicinity with rights to add extensions as needed and to set rates subject to State Corporation Commission orders.
The granttee must supply gas at designated pressure and quality per state orders if procurable, provide a standard meter to every consumer at no cost, keep meters in repair at its expense, and hold the city harmless from damages arising from construction and maintenance under the present operating rules and future regulations of the State Corporation Commission.
The ordinance enforces street excavation limits, repair duties, and pavement replacement standards. It requires semiannual gross receipts reporting, with 5 percent tax on domestic gas and 1 percent on industrial gas, from the effective date. The ordinance takes effect after 60 days upon acceptance or then voids. The prior Ordinance No. 152 is repealed.
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