Beleaguered Stoplights On 7th St. Saved
Rosie Lister reports the stoplights at Seventh and Main will remain in operation after a widening project starts, easing truck squeezes and light damage. Haworth Construction bids, $48,121.20 concrete, $47,844.90 asphalt, may be accepted if immediate work begins. otherwise projects shift to 1969 spring bid. Ottawa airport funds restored after FAA visit. levee inspection scheduled for Sept. 26. Parking restricted on east Ash from Seventh to Tenth. street width noted as causing congestion in a school zone. Fire trucks allowed on interstate one at a time due to sludge concerns with radio contact maintained.
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Rosie Lister
Seventh and Main
West Seventh Street
Vern Wadkins
Wadkins
Haworth Construction Company
Brookside Lane
North Hickory
Haworth
Ottawa
Don Capper
Federal Aviation Authority
Capper
Ash
Seventh
Tenth Street
Junior Diamond
Diamond
Public Health Plan Proposed For This Area
A dinner meeting at the House of Douglas discussed area wide public health planning with five counties invited Douglas Franklin Miami Anderson and Linn. Franklin Miami and Anderson will unite into one area while Linn and Douglas wait. Stephen A. Lott of Ransom Memorial Hospital chaired a steering committee. The program aims to coordinate environmental personal physical mental health and health manpower services with federal support and aims to maximize facility and manpower use across the five areas. It seeks rational resource allocation and expanded flexibility for health services benefiting Ottawa residents and addressing issues like air water pollution. A similar area in Kansas already includes Leavenworth Wyandotte and Johnson.
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House of Douglas
Douglas
Franklin
Miami
Anderson
Linn
Ransom Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees
Linn County
Douglas County
Stephen A. Lott
Ransom Memorial
Ottawa
Kansas
Leavenworth
Wyandotte
Johnson
BIS Officials Visit Ottawa Junior High For Talk
Representatives of the Kansas Boys Industrial School spoke at Ottawa Junior High School detailing the school's history, age range of residents, and $15 daily cost. The session highlighted academic and industrial training as students listened intently during the 45 minute lecture and Q&A.
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Kenneth Fisher
Kansas Boys Industrial School
Ottawa
Jack C. Pulliam
Lawrence D. Penny
Reform School
Kansas
Boys Industrial School
State Capitol
Ninty
Boys
Senate Passes Its Chopped Up Gun Control Bill
The Senate approved a gun control measure aimed at restricting mail order sales of rifles and shotguns, with major differences from the House version. A conference committee will seek a compromise before final passage to the White House, while broader registration and owner licensing provisions remained defeated.
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Senate
Washington
National Rifle Association
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
House
Conference
White House
Congress
Judiciary Committee
Harold Glassen
Lansing
Mich
NRA
Long
Ottawa Schools Superintendent Rests After Mild Heart Attack
Forker Ill Marvin P. Forker, superintendent of the Ottawa schools, was reported resting comfortably today at Ransom Memorial Hospital. Forker, 60, became ill late Monday. His illness has been described as a mild heart attack.
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Marvin P. Forker
Ottawa
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Forker
Political Panel At OU Tuesday
Ottawa University hosts a political panel on the presidential nominating process with GOP delegate Vernon Chesbro former Kansas governor John Anderson Jr and OU and KU faculty. The discussion covers party influence voting by electoral college and potential outcomes if no candidate wins a majority. Sponsored by the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce and OU.
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Ottawa University
Miami
Kansas
Vernon R. Chesbro
Ottawa
John Anderson Jr
Citizens Conference On State Legislatures
Ronnie A. Averyt
Earl Nehring
Bureau of Governmental Research
University of Kansas
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
Mansfield Warns Czech Crisis Threatens Nuclear Treaty
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield warned that the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia could derail the treaty to ban nuclear weapons proliferation. He told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the crisis undermines trust among nonnuclear signatories and could push them to rely on major powers. Mansfield, returning from Czechoslovakia, said Czech leaders sought no aid and the United States would not recognize spheres of influence.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Czechoslovakia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Montana Democrat
Mansfield
Soviet Union
United States
Soldier from Ottawa aids study of disarmament backlash
Lt. James W. Wollen of Ottawa joins 400 British and American officers in Exercise First Look near Salisbury to test methods for assessing a nation's armed forces. The three month study, starting June 24 and ending Friday, seeks to inform arms control and treaty inspections through open, transparent processes rather than clandestine intelligence methods.
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England
Ottawa
Army
James W. Wollen
Olin Wollen
United States
Britain
Wollen
Salisbury
Stonehenge
London
Lt. Wollen
Baker University
U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
U. S. Defense Department
Ministry of Defense
County Forecast Clears and warms into Friday
Weather forecast shows clear to partly cloudy conditions through Friday. Lows tonight in the lower 50s and highs Friday reach the upper 70s to 80s.
US Forces Blast VC Emplacement Near DMZ
American forces moved to the McNamara Line fringe and blasted entrenched North Vietnamese troops with tank and gunfire. About 200 men from the 1st Brigade, 5th Mechanized Infantry Division, killed 29 NVA in a two hour fight a mile below the DMZ. three Americans wounded. Additional clashes were reported near Quang Ngai City with 10 Americans killed.
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Saigon
McNamara
5Th Mechanized Infantry
Dmz
5Th Division
Con Thien
U.S
Americal
Quang Ngai City
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Corps of Engineers
Seventh and
Main
Seventh Street
Main Street
OJHS
BIS
Kennedy
California
John Doe
Richard Nixon
Floyd Wilson
Hubert Humphrey
Scott Payne
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
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