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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1997
Page
1
Ottawa University volleyball team extended its winning streak by defeating McPherson on Tuesday at Wilson Field House after a prior rout of Southwestern. The victory boosts their standing as the season progresses.
Warm and sunny Thursday with a high in the upper 80s and south wind 10 to 20 mph.
In Topeka AP report Albert Murray, Juvenile Justice Authority Commissioner, announced 29 conveners to lead local planning teams for juvenile crime intervention and prevention. Districts 28 of 31 will form teams, three in northwest Kansas share one. Teams study crime data, plan group homes, halfway houses, day programs, graduated sanctions, and prevention efforts. Named conveners include Louis Atherton Ottawa chamber president, Judge Stephen Hill Paola, and Rod Bremby Lawrence assistant city manager.
Four Kansas educators received Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards totaling 25 000 dollars. Recipients A Keith Hall of Stockton High Nancy McRoberts of Olathe North Allen Poplin of Baldwin High and Janice Crowley of Independent School were surprised at impromptu assemblies and will receive the cash prize next June in Los Angeles.
Paris shuns cars as France enforces first clean air rules. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and four ministers travel by electric cars to the Elysee for a weekly cabinet meeting. Even numbered plates use public transit free of charge. Smog drops from level three to one, with restrictions due to end Thursday. About one million of three million daily entrants barred. Exemptions apply to taxis buses commercial vehicles and large car pools.
Chuck Shepherd reports on La Nouvelle Justine a new S M themed restaurant in New York City serving meals in dog bowls and offering diners both command and submission. In Beijing Fang Li's nostalgia spot serves peasant foods like ant soup and fried crickets. Robert Carroll promotes an April poetry show at Hyperdisc in Los Angeles with a short piece titled Am I Really Going to Veg Out in Front of the TV Again Tonight Yes.
Lawmakers approved a $3,000 cost of living increase for their own pay, raising the current salary of $133,600. The 55-45 Senate vote and 220-207 House vote framed the bill as funding for Treasury and other agencies, though seen as a referendum on a pay rise.
Weather and harvest activity push Franklin and Anderson counties into peak season. Ottawa Co-op handles 300 to 400 trucks daily with corn milo and soybeans in good condition and high test weights. Farmers expect faster completion if weather holds, though grain terminals fill fast. Anderson County reports varied timing due to rain, but corn yields reach 100 to 160 bushels per acre, milo 90 to 110, soybeans 30 to 40, with normal corn 80 to 90.
Gingrich urged far reaching IRS legislation proposed by Rep Portman and Sen Kerrey as part of a broader push to overhaul the agency. Critics including the administration oppose the plan which would create a nine member board of private citizens and a Treasury oversight panel. The aim is to pass IRS reform this fall and then tackle tax code reform next year.
U S and NATO troops took over four Bosnian Serb television transmitters in the Serb controlled area near Sarajevo and Pale to curb broadcasts alleging bias at the U N war crimes tribunal. Broadcasts later resumed from Banja Luka under new management.
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