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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1997
Page
9
Ottawa High volleyball aims to upset Atchison, the Huron League leader, in the upcoming Huron tournament as readers brace for a breezy Saturday with rain and possible thunderstorms. Highs near 70s and southeast winds 15 to 25 mph, with a 70 percent chance of rain.
In Franklin County the United Way drive reports 15021 raised early, with 8370 from advanced campaigns, 6056 from fair share, and 595 from small businesses. The fall goal stands at 136000 through November 1 as drive chair Judy Hasty notes the pace is normal. Ottawa events feature a $1 Million Shootout at Ransom Memorial Hospital benefiting the hospital association. Gary Jordan, an Ottawa lawyer, scored a hole in one in qualifying. finalists will compete Sunday for the $1 million prize.
The tobacco industry agreed to pay 300 million to create the Broin Research Foundation for smoking related diseases. About 60,000 nonsmoking flight attendants sued for 5 billion, claiming illness from secondhand smoke on airliners. Lead plaintiff Norma Broin, an American Airlines attendant with lung cancer, inspired the case.
In July the CDC reported the first HIV case linked to deep kissing, not saliva, with doctors noting gum disease canker sores and tongue growths in the man and bleeding gums in the woman, yet they remained affectionate. In August a Waterton National Park tourist died after slipping at the waterfall, his body found after two days as visitors watched the tragedy.
Jerola ELLSVILLE elementary and pre school students explored coping with disabilities during an Abilities Awareness Workshop dedicated to Jordan Brown, a second-grader who died last May. Students handled wheelchairs, sign language, and other adaptive activities to focus on abilities, not limitations.
Ottawa Recreation Commission faces a tighter 1998 budget after a misstep in property tax limits. State cap at 167,580 reduces expected 193,451 levy by 25,871. Ottawa school board failed to renew a 1989 opt out and no new resolution was approved.
Farmers report a torrid bean and corn harvest before rain paused field work on Wednesday and Thursday. Dale Hermreck notes about 60 percent of soybeans, and 60 to 65 percent of corn and soybeans overall in Anderson County are harvested, with winter wheat planting at 40 to 45 percent.
Herald staff writer Robert traces 40 years filling an 1887 George P. Washburn house with antique furnishings. Weekend tours highlight Washburn designs in Ottawa and Paola. Betty and Big Bob Anderson, longtime Ottawa attorney and collector, bought a former nursing home in 1955 for 8500 dollars and built a famed trove of antiques.
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