Bomb detonation battery traced to Sewell Hardware chain
AP traced a 12-volt lantern battery used at the Centennial Olympic Park blast to Sewell Hardware chain in Florida. Worley Sewell said the lot aggregated from a West Palm Beach shipment earlier this year and that an FBI agent confirmed the battery sold at one Sewell location.
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Olympic
Tlanta
Centennial Olympic Park
Florida
Worley Sewell
Wxia TV
Sewell Hardware
Sewell
West Palm Beach, Fla
Hughes agrees to buy PanAmSat for 3 billion
Hughes Electronics announces cash and stock deal to acquire PanAmSat creating the world's second-largest satellite network. The merger will form a new company using the PanAmSat name with Hughes holding 71.5 percent. PanAmSat shareholders receive cash and stock options.
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EW York
Hughes Electronics
PanAmSat
Hughes
Hughes Electronics Corp
Hughes Communications Galaxy
PamAmSat Corp
PamAmSat
General Motors Corp
U.S
Frederick A. Landman
PannAmSat
Savas
PamAamSat
Grupo Televisa
Anselmo
Correction to Roger Shoemaker origin in Folks and Facts
A Thursday Folks and Facts item misstated Roger Shoemaker as from Wellsville. He is actually from Williamsburg, correcting the birthplace attribution.
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Folks
Roger Shoemaker
Wellsville
Williamsburg
Ottawa VFW Pancake Breakfast and Hazardous Waste Info
Hazardous waste drop at FR. CO. HHW Facility invites residents to recycle old pesticides cleaners motor oil batteries paint and more from 7 p.m. to 1 p.m. Contact 242-1176 for details Ottawa VFW hosts pancake breakfast Sunday September 22 starting 7 a.m.
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FR. CO
Ottawa
VFW
Obituaries for Gerald J. Reekie Opal Gage and Edith Bennett
Obituary notices list Gerald J. Reekie 63, Princeton, died Sept. 18, 1996, with funeral at Dengel and Son Mortuary and burial at Mulvane Cemetery with U.S. Army honors. He served in Korea, worked for Lear Jet and Cessna, married Joyce Scott, and left survivors including wife, daughters, and extended family. Also noted are Opal Gage of Shreveport and Edith Bennett of Great Bend, with birth details, marriages, survivors, and service arrangements.
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Gerald J, Reekie
Gerald J
Jim” Reekie
Princeton
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Dengel and Son Mortuary
Clyde Ozminkowski
Mulvane
16Th Infantry Division
Fort Riley
William James and
Lizzie Iona
Camp) Reekie
Spearville
Princeton High School
U.S. Air Force
Lear Jet Corporation
Wichita
Cessna Corporation
Joyce Scott
Derby
Annette Pierce
Wilbur
Harold
Larry Reekie
Ruby Hamilton
Roberta Knight
the Home
Robin Reekie
Sherry Tramp
Goddard
Travis Cunningham
Linda Cunningham
Mary Medgling
Richmond
William Reekie
Osawatomie
Thelma Hamilton
Fern Olson
Opal Gage
Shreveport
James F
Myrtle (Plake) Turner
Centropolis
Kenneth K. Gage
Daughters Club
Iva Curby
Ottawa
Tion Center
Wilson
Plainville
Foster Mortuary
Bennett
Aaron and
Rose
Zella
Paris
Amos McGrighy
Ruby McGhghy Brooks
Moravia
Iowa
Harold McGhghy
Oliver LaVern Bair
Archie Bair
Cleota Arnett
Robert Vernon
First Christian Church
Great Bend
Fred Bennett
Eagle’s Lodge
Delphia Veatch
Ada McGrighy
Pomona
Hutchinson
Lenora Arnett Robbins
Paul Arnett
Wilson Health and Rehabilitation Center
Ottawa hospital notes and town police report sweeping events
Admissions list in Ottawa includes Jason Price and several others on Wednesday and Thursday. Arrests include Jeanne M. Moore on battery charges, later released to appear in municipal court. Theft reports cite 1345.00 losses from Ottawa University Behan Hall and a 1059.95 loss from Town and Country convenience store. A hit run damages a fence at 9th and Burroughs and several noninjury vehicle collisions are documented with damages ranging above 500 dollars.
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Jason Price
Ottawa
Mary Barnhart
Gertrude Senter
April Hale
Anna Stanley
Baldwin
Judy Barnhart
Westphalia
Kelly Groshong
Victor Maxwell
Police
Jeanne M. Moore
Labette Road
Amice Stanchfield
Paola
Behan Hall
Ottawa University
S. Cedar
Town and Country
Princeton
Conoco
S. Princeton
9Th and
Burrough
Carol Turner
9Th
Wall Street ends brisk triple witching session in rally
NY stocks rose at noon as Dow gained 25.52 to 5893.26 and S&P 100 climbed to 686.46. Nasdaq advanced 5.69 to 1217.78 while the NYSE composite rose 1.46 to 365.40, with 287 million shares traded and advancers ahead of decliners. Grain, wheat and corn prices posted local quotes in Ottawa and Franklin County.
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EW York
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Standard & Poor
American Stock Exchange
Kmart
Kansityp&l
McDonalds
O'Reilly
Penneyjc
PepsiCo's
PhilipPet
QuakerCats
SearsRock
Sbccomm
Sprint
WalMart
Wendy's
WsitRe
WilliamsCos
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Chriet Tela
Sened
Lindeth
Aed
OPA le
North Hat
Laza Cinema
Jack
Robin Willams
Bill Cosby
TINCUP @ ae
Kevin Costner
Franklin County Fairgrounds
17Th Street
Franklin County Agricultural Society
Cal Dave Scherer
Walt Disney World
McDonald’s
Magic Kingdom
Epcot
Disney-Mgm
Walt Disney World Resort
Princeton Circle Drive
Ottawa, Kansas
OMA
MDA
America
Jerry Lewis
Atlantic Express
Fouken
Rd & Hickory
Algo
Budges Sports Center
THE
Ottawa Herald
Farrell Kramer
Intelsat
Jon Savas
Scotia Capital Markets Inc
New York
NBC
CNN
Rene V. Anselma
Messenger’s
Sat
Sun
Pomona Lions Club
Pomona High School
Nathe Era
Bob Culver
Shelter Insurance
Columbia, MO
I.d.s
Edith Bennett
Edith Flossie Paris Barr Bennett
Wilson Health and Rehabilita
Reekie
the Daily Report
Kristin Miller
S. Oak
Gartha Kuiken
S. Locust
11Th
Ash
Mary Graham
Brookside Lane
Jeffrey D. Howard
S. Elm
Graham
Dallesha Leach
Rantoul
Dale Carey
Melvern
John Brown
Tennessee Road
Federal Reserve Board
Aldsignal
At&t Co
Amoco
Boeing
Casey’s
Chryslers
CocaColas
DeereCos
EstKodak
Ford Motor
Goodrichs
Goodyears
H&r Block
IBP Inc
IBM
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