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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1999
Page
7
Far and away Ottawa's football team beat Baldwin decisively Friday, delivering a one sided win that grabbed local attention. The outcome highlights Ottawa's strong season as they rolled over Baldwin on the field.
Tonight clear with a low of 25 to 30 degrees. Sunday will be sunny and warmer with a high of 60 to 65 and a low of 40 to 45. Monday looks dry and warm with a high of 70 to 75. See weather on Page 2.
KOFO 1220 AM will air a special presentation by Roy Williams KU basketball coach on Community Perspectives at 8 a.m. Sunday. The program features his Baker University fall convocation speech and discusses community impact and sports leadership. Wellsville School Board meeting Monday at 6:45 p.m. will review 1999-2000 goals, financial and security reports, and approve personnel contracts.
A federal appeals panel ruled that New York City can require KKK members to remove masks at a weekend rally outside the state courthouse in lower Manhattan. The ruling said the city enforced a 1845 law neutrally and did not discriminate against the group. The KKK plans to proceed unmasked.
Maurice Papon, 89, was deported from a ski resort in Switzerland after fleeing to avoid a 10-year sentence for deporting French Jews to a Nazi death camp. He was flown to Pontarlier, then moved to Fresnes prison hospital in southern Paris due to heart trouble. His capture ends a long pursuit by relatives of victims who were tracked down and sent to Auschwitz.
Ottawa Memorial Hospital Administrator Bob Bregant will leave RMH when his contract ends in April 2000. He told the RMH Board on Tuesday and made the news public Friday. He cited personal reasons and plans to pursue career advancement and be closer to family in Missouri or Texas. The hospital has faced a lengthy Medicare and federal probe into compliance and has not shown a profit since March prior to the investigations. The board previously granted a 4 percent raise, drawing staff disapproval as hours were reduced and some former workers departed.
Carla June Hochhalter, 48, mother of a Columbine victim, entered Alpha Pawn Shop in Englewood, asked for a .38 caliber handgun, loaded it, and shot herself. The act follows six months after her daughter Anne Marie Hochhalter, 17, was critically wounded in the April 20 massacre and left partially paralyzed. Authorities note the six month anniversary can be especially hard and grief counselors were toward the Littleton area.
Volunteers of all ages join Ottawa events to mark the ninth annual Make A Difference Day. Activities center on Heritage Park at Birch and Powhatan streets with a 9 a.m. tree planting of over 20 trees, funded by a $200 donation from the Ottawa Volunteer Center. Boy and Girl Scout troops assist. tree holes are prepared. At 10 a.m. VFW members will help dedicate the park area.
A Dutch scientist Dick Mol recalls the preserved adult male mammoth found under 20,000 years of ice near Khatanga. The 11 foot tall creature, named Jarkov, died at age 47 near a Taimyr Peninsula watering hole. French led team from College de France aims to thaw without damage to DNA for potential cloning breakthroughs.
President Clinton signed an $8 billion farm aid bailout, urging overhaul of the 1996 farm bill. He said funds reveal flaws in GOP crafted policy, with about $6 billion for grain, cotton and soybean farmers and $1.4 billion for drought and flood impacted growers and livestock producers. hurricane damage in North Carolina cited.
Ottawa track coach Don Kornhaus was honored at halftime for a career with six state championships and four runner-up finishes. He received a commemorative portrait and will be nominated to the Kansas State High School Activities Association Hall of Fame on November 1.
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