Eight City Employees Receive 10 Year Service Awards
Kansas League of Municipalities silver button awards presented Wednesday night to seven city workers for ten years of service. Recipients: Ernest Blackburn Fred Disque Leo Logan Eldon Rader Ted Crumm Loren Triplett Vern Wadkins. Also certificates of attendance given to Junior Diamond and Gerald Stevenson for 25 hours fireman school.
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Kansas League of Municipalities
Ernest Blackburn
Fred Disque
Leo Logan
Eldon Rader
City Water and Light Department
Ted Crumm
Loren Triplett
Vern Wadkins
Junior Diamond
Gerald Stevenson
Eugene Flaherty
Wadkins
Forest Park
Lamar Phillips
Kansas Municipal Power Agency
Ottawa
Commission
Don Hamilton
Water and Light Department
Remember To Shovel It Remember To Shovel It
Ottawa property and land owners must clear public sidewalks of ice or snow within five hours after snowfall or, if snow falls at night, within five hours after dawn. The duty applies to all establishments in the city under local bylaw.
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Rock Creek
Ottawa
15Th Street
Main
Nixon taps Scranton for nine day Middle East mission
NEW YORK AP Nixon announced he will send former Pennsylvania Governor William W Scranton on a nine day fact finding mission to Iran Lebanon the United Arab Republic Saudi Arabia Jordan Israel starting Dec 4 with stops in Tehran Beirut Cairo Jidda Riyadh Amman Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Scranton will report back to Nixon on Dec 11 The visit is described as reportorial in nature and aimed at informing Nixon’s administration about regional views
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New York
Richard M. Nixon
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Israel
Middle East
Ron Ziegler
Scranton
Iran
Lebanon
United Arab Republic
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
Nixon
Ziegler
Europe
United Nations
Teheran
Beirut
Cairo
U.A.R
Jidda
Riyadh
Amman
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Slain KC Lawyer An Ottawa Native
Billy Dean Yockey a 35 year old Kansas City Kansas lawyer was shot and killed in Wyandotte County. He was from Ottawa and son of Joe A. Yockey Sr and Edna Yockey Topeka. He leaves siblings Wendell and Shirley Harris plus many nieces and nephews. He studied at Ottawa High School KU and served in the Army. Services are set for 130 Saturday at Simmons Funeral Home Kansas City Kansas with burial at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Billy Dean Yockey
Kansas City
Kan
Wyandotte County
Ottawa
Joe A. Yockey
S. Mulberry
Edna Yockey
Topeka
N. Sycamore
Donald A. Yockey
Yockey
Ottawa High School
University of Kansas
Simmons Funeral Home
Memorial Park Cemetery
Helicopters chase retreating troops along Cambodian border
U S air cavalry units move along the Cambodian frontier pursuing fleeing enemy forces after heavy fighting that left 25 U S soldiers dead in one battle and raised enemy casualties to 288 in two days and 426 for the week. U S losses were 2 killed and 54 wounded. South Vietnam reported 10 dead and 20 wounded. Meanwhile talks in Paris stall as North Vietnam and the NLF ignore the South Vietnamese delegation. In Laos, emergency cabinet session considers 30,000 North Vietnamese troops rumoured to threaten Attopeu and Saravane following attacks on Ban Thateng.
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Saigon
U.S
Paris
North Vietnam
National Liberation Front
Laos
South Vietnam
Attopeu
Saravane
Cambodia
Ban Thateng
Renewal of US Bombing Angers VC
North Vietnam charged on Thursday that U S bombing raids deep inside its territory were acts of war and demanded an end to the strikes. Hanoi said three U S F4 jets dropped explosives on four villages in Quang Binh province, one more than 40 miles north of the demilitarized zone, with no rescue operations tied to the assaults.
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Paris
North Vietnam
United States
Saigon
Democratic Republic of
North
U.S
Central America Faces Contradictions of Faith and Poverty
In Tegucigalpa Honduras a 13 year old Claudia dies after a nun comforts her with promises of heaven. A landowner donates 125 acres in Claudia’s name to the children’s aid society run by Sister Maria Rosa, who cares for about 145 orphans. The piece contrasts deep religious sentiment with high homicide rates and widespread poverty across six Central American republics.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Maria Rosa
Claudia
Jesus
Alonso Valenzuela
Detroit
Mich
Children’s Aid Society
Sister Maria Rosa
Central America
Central Penitentiary
Atlantic
St. Joseph’s
Milwaukee
Wis
Peace Corps
Norman W. Powell
Somerset
N.J
Norman
Howard University
Washington, D.C
Papa Norman
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Mid-East
NLF
Children’s Friends Society
SOS
Mexico
Colombia
Guatemala
el Salvador
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
British Honduras
Belize
Centro America
Managua
Spain
Gering
Haiti
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