Sewer work delays 23rd Street traffic in town
Taylor Brothers Construction will connect a sanitary sewer line for Messenger Furniture Store from about 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday. 23rd Street will be closed through traffic from east of the railroad tracks to east of South Star Chrysler while the work is underway, but access to all businesses remains available. The project includes cutting the street, trenching, laying pipe, and street repairs and should be finished in one day.
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23Rd Street
Taylor Brothers Construction
Eisenhower Road
Messenger Furniture
Gayl Shepard
Taylor Brothers
South Star Chrysler
Shepard
Heartland Porcelain Plant Expansion Planned in Ottawa Kansas
Heartland selects Ottawa Kansas for a new 34 000 square foot plant joining Kansas California and Japan partners. Current 40 workers to 100 within a year, output rising to 60 000 plates weekly as hotel and restaurant china lines begin. Site manager Brent Boyer credits central location rail truck air access and pro business government support.
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Kansas
California
Japan
Graves
Ottawa
Brent Boyer
Heartland
Golden State Porcelain
Farmland Won't Buy Dubuque Meat Plant
Farmland Foods of Dubuque Iowa says it will not purchase Dubuque Foods Ltd after talks with Hormel Foods Corp failed to yield acceptable numbers. Glorie Grazie, Farmland president, cited inability to make the deal work as the reason. The move follows a letter of intent to buy FDL after Dubuque Foods said it would stop buying certain products.
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Dubuque, Iowa
FBI Foods Théma Pode Pacing Agid- Processing’ Company
Dubuque
Farmland Foods Ic
Hormel Food Corp
Dubuque Foods
Glorie Grazie
Presiaine
Farmland Foods
Farmland
Simpson's testifying ends as judge halts speech
Jury deliberations hinge on Simpson’s choice to testify as defense and prosecution spar over cross examination. Judge Ito ruled Simpson could rest his case after a brief, emotional moment with his family. Cochran sought an acquittal motion which the judge denied.
Simpson Denies Crime as Jury Prepares for Deliberations
OJ Simpson addresses judge before resting his case amid jury sequestration. He asserts disbelief in his guilt and expresses concern for his four children. Judge Lancaster reminds him of right to testify, and both sides rest their presentations as Ito explains verdict options and juror instructions.
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Associated Press
O.J. Simpson
Nicole
Miss Clark
Lancetto
Mr. Simpson
Simpson
Cochran
Clark
Ito
Mark Fuhrman
Kansas Forecast Extends Warm Up Through Midweek
A warming trend steps in from Monday through Wednesday across Kansas with dry conditions. Lows rise from the upper 30s to mid 40s Monday to the 50s on Wednesday. Highs move from the mid 50s to mid 60s Monday to the mid 70s to mid 60s by Wednesday. Data from Ottawa Water Plant notes yesterday's highs at 97 and lows at 36 in 1983. Sunset tonight is 7 18 and sunrise tomorrow 7 11.
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Kansas
Ottawa
Steal Away Home discovers a hidden diary and history
Twelve year old Dana Shannon uncovers a skeleton in a secret Lawrence Kansas room. The diary reveals Quaker life and a Black woman aiding slaves on the Underground Railroad amid the 1850s border war era. Dana explores two time frames and poignant local history.
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Lois Ruby
Dana Shannon
Lawrence
Kansas
Dana
Missouri
Kansas Free State
Kansas counties loosen liquor rules by drink in 1980s 90s
The 1986 amendment allowed mixed drinks and wine in 30 percent food businesses. By 1994 eleven more counties voted to remove the food requirement, bringing total counties with liquor by the drink to 47. Johnson County remained dry. Voter margins varied from 41 to 78 percent in supporting counties, while several others rejected the measure.
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Franklin
Carry Nation
Johnson County
Kansas City
Sedgwick
Wyandotte
Ellis County
Geary County
Crawford, Douglas
Lyon and
Graham
Saline
Shawnee
Ellis and
Leavenworth
Shawnee County
Douglas County
Riley County
Barton
Crawford County
Reno
Lyon
Butler County
NATO Fighters Suffer Wounds as Missions Hit by Weather
NATO reported two American servicemen wounded aboard armored helicopters during rescue attempts over Serbia. Bad weather and enemy fire hampered Sept 6 to 8 operations. French Mirage 2000 shot down early in NATO bombing. Two Americans returned to the United States. identities withheld.
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WOM
NATO
U.S
Leighton Smith
Alliance
Europe
Smith
Naples
United States
U.S. Navy
Mark van Dyke
van Dyke
Republicans Deadlocked Over Student Loan Cuts
Washington Republicans again postponed a vote on trimming popular student loan programs as they fail to agree whether the reductions should target colleges students or lenders most. Senator Nancy Kassebaum leads the labor committee amid criticism of a plan to seize $10 billion in cuts by spreading them across students parents colleges and banks.
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Washington
Senate
Nancy Kassebaum
Brian
Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee
Kassebaum
Community event notices and sales roundup from Ottawa area
Local listings include cholesterol clinic details, a country dance event, ORC sign-up and bake sale at D and D Dollar Store, VFW Auxiliary activities, Faith Lutheran Preschool openings, county recycling schedule, Gospel tent meeting at Ottawa Fair Grads, Hickory Inn new owners, Markenberry Paint closing early, Ottawa VFW Post 5901 burger and turkey fry, Pomona Lions Free Bean feed, Soroptimist Fall Pecan Sale with contact numbers.
Pride program clarifies PRIDE day turnout in Salina
PRIDE coordinator Stan McAdoo of Kansas State University Extension Service says winners will be announced Oct 21 in Salina. The event compares communities by population size from 301 to over 4,000, with Ottawa competing against Russell Goodland Park City Fort Leavenworth Coffeyville and others.
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PRIDE
Salina
Stan McAdoo
Kansas State
University
Pride Inc
Jourtney Sabetha
Gary Satter
Valley, Falls
Judi Withers
Sharon
Springs
Tion
Ottawa
Russell
Goodland
Park, City
Fort Leow
Coffeyvillows
Ottawa Herald Staff and Subscription Rates Page
The Ottawa Herald lists staff roles including editor publisher Jim Huen and editors Bemis and Love with advertising and circulation chiefs. It also shows subscription prices for 1994 onward, detailing motor route and mail rates by region such as Franklin County Miami Osage and Anderson Counties, plus out of state mail rates and postmaster instructions for address changes.
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Jim H. Huen
Day Bemis
Tom Love
Gene Kelsey
Virginia Howe
Wayne Snow
Prass Foraman
Jean Rossman
Ottawa Herald
Cedar
Franklin County
Miami
Douglas
Osage
Anderson
State of Kansas
The
Ottawa
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Guy
Boyer
Page T
Johnnie Cochran Jr
Arnelle
Ronald Goldman
Nicole Brown Simpson
Mrs. Shannon
Kathy Miller
Cowley County
Sumner
Montgomery
Labette
McPherson
Scholesterol Clinic
Fr. Co
Health Dept
ORC
D & D Dollar Store
S. Main
Faith Lutheran
IFA. CO
Ottawa Fair Grads
Hickory Inn
Dundee
Helen & al Zook
Cold Bear
Good Company
Markenberry
VFW
Sun
Pomona Lions Club
Pomona High School
Chris
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