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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1980
Page
7
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce invites all members to a Monday afternoon retreat from 12 30 to 4 30 at the Ottawa University Lodge Lake Pomona. Executive Director Larry Powell says members will discuss priorities for the coming year after filling and bringing completed questionnaires.
The Kansas Corporation Commission will hold public hearings on a 7.17 million dollar rate increase sought by Gas Service Co. Wichita hosts a 7 p.m. hearing November 5, Kansas City, Kansas hosts the same time November 6. If approved, average monthly bills may rise about 63 cents, depending on usage and rate design. Gas Service serves about 400,000 customers in 212 Kansas communities including Wichita, Kansas City, Topeka, Hutchinson, Pittsburg, Arkansas City, Newton, Parsons and northeast Johnson County.
Ads announce 20 percent off coats at Litwins and new operating hours for Hill House. Voter info urges Dorothy Chaney in District 11 with election day on November 4. A spree of community events follows in Richmond Ottawa and Williamsburg with bazaars, bean suppers, costume contests, crafts and church happenings. Also listed are bond offers, bake sales, a Back Door Club night, church open houses, weekend retreats, chili suppers and fall planting specials at Willis Garden Center.
GEORGES, PYLE Construction initiates Mission Woods, a 46 unit complex south of Pine Manor on West 15th Street. The $1.48 million project gains start after Tuesday closure of a financing pact with the Kansas Department of Economic Development. Joel Tonkin of Kan-Mo Investors cites HUD subsidized rents and shared ownership with Pine Manor.
Kansas Housing Development Inc backs bonds totaling 1 257 900 dollars with Tonkin and partners contributing 222 100. Ottawa City Commission endorses the bond project without city funds as a sponsor. Rents are 369 monthly for two bedrooms and 427 for three. Federal rent subsidies may reduce tenant payments to no more than 25 percent of income.
Four Cuban refugees claim they were lured from Fort Chaffee to Kansas with promises of jobs then forced to work 12 to 15 hours daily on a Lyndon farm without pay. They describe substandard housing, no indoor bathroom access, and bathing at a pond. Residents Francisco Campillo 18, Maximo Campillo 25, Antonio Montesino 35, and Mario Diza 40 filed a civil rights complaint against sponsors Ramon and Vivian Gonzales.
Mary Brockus, 43, of Ottawa, died Wednesday at Ransom Memorial Hospital. Services Friday at 2:30 p.m. at Community Foursquare Gospel Church with Rev. Clyde Greisen officiating. Burial in Highland Cemetery. She married Eldon L. Brockus in Ottawa on February 10, 1978. Survived by husband, three sons Lewis J. Allen Wayne K. Allen Mark Allen, daughter Bonnie Jean Williams, a brother Albert Farley, and a sister Bernice Chapman.
Two committees of the Health Systems Agency of Northeast Kansas plan meetings next week to study health care needs across 25 counties. The plan development panel, including Cecile Lindsey of Pomona, meets 7 p.m. Tuesday in Topeka to study hospital bed availability. The plan implementation panel, with Joe Wakefield of Ottawa, meets 7 p.m. Wednesday in Topeka to review open heart surgery, cardiac care, and radiation therapy services. The HSA, federally funded, has two board members from each county and covers counties from the Nebraska border to Linn, and west to Dickinson, including Franklin, Osage, Miami, Anderson and Douglas.
Rev. Frank Cohoon arch deacon of the diocese of Kansas will conduct communion services at Grace Episcopal Church at 9 a.m. The Inter-Society Council at Bob Jones University Greenville South Carolina has elected Diane Strehlow secretary.
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