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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1997
Page
8
Ottawa University football fans head to Sioux Falls for the Braves first ever NAIA playoff game. Partly cloudy Saturday with a high near 47 as a northwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
In Des Moines Iowa the largest of the McCaughey septuplets Kenneth born nine weeks premature weighing 3 pounds 4 ounces was removed from a ventilator and breathing on his own. Doctors report six siblings making significant progress and Kenneth nicknamed Hercules for lifting his brothers and sisters in the womb.
TOPEKA KS. AP An Emporia State University professor says Kansas strong economy could hinder teacher recruitment in 2000 as graduates seeking teaching certificates decline since 1994. He presented data since 1972 at a state Board of Regents meeting, noting private sector lure remains a factor. In Hutchinson AP two Civil War bronze six pound cannons valued at about 100000 each were removed from downtown memorial for safekeeping after a cannon expert confirmed the high value.
A 12 year old paperboy told police that a person wearing a ski mask threatened him while delivering newspapers between 4 40 and 5 03 p m in the 800 block of East 11th Police said no suspect has been identified and no motive was given No other details were available.
Mary Samuel, a 34 year old Monrovia food seller, backs Charles Taylor amid Liberia’s looming elections despite his alleged killings. In Detroit, relatives of Donald Blaul Sr. sue his fiancée Joann Small to reclaim two University of Michigan football season tickets after his July cancer death.
Franklin County Planning Commission urged zoning for Hayes and Williamsburg townships with final say left to the county commission. Public hearings set for next month include consideration to zone Appanoose and Peoria townships. About 50 attended, split on zoning, citing land protection versus government overreach.
U S Rep Jim Ryun met Ottawa officials to calm worries that his proposed bill to compensate private landowners along rail trails could block the Ottawa to Richmond Prairie Spirit segment. Ryun said the measure would not be retroactive and would only enable negotiated compensation or a condemnation process if no settlement is reached, while city officials urged explicit safeguards for already planned trails.
Senator Sam Brownback and experts from two federal think tanks spoke in Ottawa on the future of Social Security. The talk highlighted a looming financial gap as workers per beneficiary decline from 15 16 to about 2.5 to 1 by mid century.
U.N. arms inspectors arrived in Baghdad with four American members, after a Russian brokered deal delayed Iraq’s expulsion of U.S. monitors. They aim to search for hidden stockpiles of VX and mustard gas as tensions with Iraq persist and a wider U.N. and American military posture remains in place.
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