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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1998
Page
6
Ottawa hosts a 7 p.m. lighting at Haley Park featuring Santa and Mrs. Claus with lights turning on at 7 15. Downtown merchants stay open until 8 p.m. as the Chamber promotes festive events and a food drive for tickets plus a Frequent Shopper drawing before the December 5 Christmas parade.
Forecast calls for a warmer and mostly sunny Thanksgiving Day with a high around 65 to 70. For detailed regional weather updates, readers are directed to page 2.
Two city firefighters were killed and two others injured when a metal ladder they held struck overhead power lines during a church painting job at the Family Christian Center in Parsons Kansas at 9 22 a m. Firefighter Craig Brown served since 1993 and Norman Almond since 1978.
France Britain and the United States will sign a treaty by July to ban nuclear tests and stockpiles in the South Pacific after France resumes underground tests in French Polynesia. The pact follows the 1985 Rarotonga framework and aims to ease international pressure. Greenpeace cites it as a strategic move.
Recurring News of the Weird items recount construction workers who shot themselves in the head with nail guns. Notable incidents include a 1996 Amarillo brad entry and a July 1998 Eau Claire case where Travis Bogumill survived a 3 1/4 inch nail wound though math became harder.
Local stores from Helton's Hallmark to Town & Country Supply prepare for the post Thanksgiving rush. Hallmark offers Hallmark ornaments honoring Grant Hill Emmitt Smith and Richard Petty plus Barbie and Hot Wheels items. Dollar General reports sold out four piece snowman china sets with more on order. Game World bets on PlayStation and Nintendo 64 tapes. Stage Store highlights fragrance, jewelry and kids clothing. On Cue features Dr Dolittle and The Wedding Singer. Litwin's highlights Levi's jeans and Carhartt winter wear. Country Living stocks Yankee candles Boyd Bears and Terry Redlin prints. Town & Country notes unpredictability in farm item demand.
Fire at 239 N East Ave in a mobile home park levels the Wadkins residence, injures none, as three rural departments save two neighboring homes. The family, including four children, faces Thanksgiving eve homelessness. local residents organize relief through a network led by Mrs Raymond Adams. Neighbors report a neighbor boy alerted authorities around 10 am. gas lines in the park are connected and power was shut off.
John Leedy, Kansas governor, found his safety deposit box empty on the eve of Thanksgiving. Four other boxes were looted, totaling 1055 dollars from the vault in the state treasurer's office. The crime, discovered November 25, 1898, sparked Capitol intrigue as no solid clues emerged. A century later the case remains unsolved and the vault has since been repurposed. Seventeen people had boxes in the vault, including Leedy, Treasurer Heflebower, and Superintendent Stryker.
The Franklin County Commission approved noon dismissal for county staff on Christmas Eve with full day’s pay. Past practice included a two hour closure and a county dinner funded by the county. This year no dinner. The extra hours help holiday preparation since Christmas Eve falls on a Thursday.
NATO chief Willy Claes resigns amid a Belgian corruption scandal tied to defense contracts from the 1980s. He said the alliance’s interests require his departure as Parliament moved to bring him to trial on bribery charges. The case shadows NATO peace efforts in Bosnia and questions expansion to Eastern Europe.
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