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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1979
Page
7
An aging council meeting referenced a Herald article from September about director Shirley Higdon and alleged improper handling of employees and agency affairs. The agenda did not include the Herald story, but the personnel committee reported Higdon and the committee discussed the matter.
Kansas Senate Education Committee urged funding to upgrade the state's 14 vocational technical schools amid calls for a three year program and adequate funding. The panel met to continue discussions with figures showing 12.85 million demanded in three fiscal years versus 6 million received.
Obituaries for Mrs Mae Anna Gilges and Mrs Bessie Morgan appear with service details and survivors. The page also lists hospital admissions and discharges, births, injuries, non injuries, arrests, thefts, burglaries, vandalism, and animal market quotations with local street addresses and names of involved individuals and families.
Local brief items include Mary Kay cosmetics contact numbers and salad bar hours, Hill House sale on fall clothes, McArdle refrigeration relocation, Farm Bureau record-keeping meeting on Tuesday October 16 at 7:30 pm, Rotary Chili and Soup Day on Saturday October 20, Elks bus trip to Kansas City Chiefs vs Giants on Sunday October 21 with reservations, wholesale salvage groceries prices, and Metzger Salvage at 109 North Main.
All owners or persons in charge of inoperable vehicles in Ottawa Kansas are warned that under City Ordinance No 2627 it is unlawful to leave a nonoperational vehicle parked or stored for more than seven days unless enclosed in a building. Violations incur fines from twenty to three hundred dollars or up to thirty days in jail.
The Associated Press reports eight fatalities from Kansas weekend crashes. In Wamego area a 21 year old St George man Randy Duncan died in a head on on US 24. Wellington resident John Cooper 32 died on a county road after his motorcycle missed a curve. A Paola area teen Darrell Hurlburt 17 died in Miami County when his car collided head on with another. A 20 year old San Antonio man Steven Wesley died in Kansas City Kansas after motorcycle accident. Topeka teens Kenneth Hall 17 Jamie Ball 16 and a 15 year old passenger Kelly Noe died in a southwest Topeka crash. Wakeeney resident Daniel Glynn 22 died near Wakeeney on I 70 when his car hit a guardrail. Lucille Paschall 26 of Wichita was hospitalized with injuries in Wellington case.
Two escapees from the Southeast Kansas Regional Jail in Fort Scott Kansas were captured in Arkadelphia Arkansas after a stolen car chase at a motel. James Schell 31 Houston Texas and Steven Morris 25 Fort Scott were identified with an 18 year old Nevada Missouri woman and a 14 year old Fort Scott girl. They admitted armed robberies in Nevada Missouri Muskogee Oklahoma and Hot Springs Arkansas and were held in Hot Springs pending possible return to Kansas.
A chiropractic view argues ulcers stem from high stomach acidity and nerve imbalance. Diet and stress aggravate conditions but do not cause permanent cure. normalize nerve supply to restore stomach health, per Dr. Larry J. Matney of Matney Chiropractic in Ottawa Kansas.
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