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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1980
Page
6
The Wellsville school district secured a federal grant to fund energy efficiency upgrades in two schools. Missourians undertake a long nature trail project spanning from St. Louis to Arkansas through the Ozarks, reflecting statewide outdoor initiatives.
An earthquake struck Al Asnam and surrounding rural areas in Algeria, causing extensive destruction and casualties. The government mobilized army, air force, police and civil defense for relief as whole apartment buildings collapsed and roads into the city were closed.
The Hutchinson News editorial board endorses Independent John Anderson for the November election. Editor Richard Buzbee criticizes Carter as a failed presidency and Reagan as nostalgia bound, arguing both major parties offer equal despair. The piece urges a protest vote for a third party to break the deadlock.
State Department officials have spoken by telephone with L Bruce Laingen one of the 52 American hostages in Iran. Spokesman John Trattner said contact occurred earlier in the week but offered no further comment. Laingen was deputy chief of mission in Iran and was in the Iranian Foreign Ministry last November during the embassy takeover.
Carter Reagan and Anderson debated the Social Security question across states. Carter defended Democratic stewardship, Reagan challenged Carter on security for seniors, and Anderson urged raising the retirement age from 65 to 68 while trimming cost of living adjustments. Reagan pledged no tax on benefits and opposed SALT I while Clinton?
Pope John Paul II told a Vatican audience that lustful looking even at one’s wife is adultery in the heart. Critics, including Italian feminists, call the remark male chauvinist and a step back toward medieval views.
Richard Wayne Gooding 21 pleads innocent to first degree murder in the Sept. 10 shooting death of Ricky Alan Patterson 26. Latimer indicates motions may be filed with a Nov. 1 deadline and a pre trial hearing set for Nov. 6. Bond set at $100000.
In Topeka, Governor Carlin backs a Kansas Corporation Commission proposal to make utilities pay legal costs when consumer groups intervene in rate cases. The plan, likely to take effect later this month, aims to boost public involvement in ratemaking while utilities seek limits on intervention.
Governor John Carlin instructed Secretary Joseph Harkins and the Advisory Commission on Environment to review state waste laws and regulations. He seeks to know if tougher laws or more staff are needed for hazardous waste monitoring and disposal, with findings due before January legislature drafting.
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