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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1997
Page
7
Ottawa High School football opens season with three straight road games and begins a three game home stand Friday night at Steve Grogan Stadium.
The day brings mostly sunny skies and a high in the upper 70s. A south wind of 5 to 10 mph shifts across the area, providing light, pleasant conditions.
Hurricane Nora weakened to a tropical storm as it hit Baja California with strong winds and heavy rain. Forecasters said it would weaken further while moving toward the Gulf of California, with the center near Puerto Peñasco and Yuma, Arizona, over the next day. An isolated tornado was possible in parts of Arizona and up to 8 inches of rain forecast for the Yuma region.
President Clinton on the steps of Central High recalls the nine black students led in by armed guards in 1957. He urged Americans to keep pushing to remove barriers to racism as Fatima McKindra, the first black female Central student council president, introduced him. The era saw National Guard escorts and National attention as Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to ensure enrollment amid jeers and threats.
Five years after uncovering a 40 foot Tyrannosaurus rex, Fred Nuss and Alan Dietrich expect Sotheby's to auction the largest male T rex skull and second most complete skeleton. They estimate a bid over 12 million dollars despite Montana reports of an even larger fossil.
In July New Orleans Brent Q. Smith, 46, an IRS agent, was charged with taking bribes from Brent M. Smith, a tax troubled businessman. Also in Seattle a jury found Darrell Everybody talks about 40 guilty of first degree murder. In June James Eric Holmgren, 46, resigned from his pulpit after being charged with sexually administering enemas to a boy at Embarrass-Pike Evangelical Lutheran Church in Embarrass Minnesota.
Valerie Weber of the Franklin County Health Department was photographed at a county computer terminal amid the county annex communications network. Lucent of St. Louis presented the county with its Showcase Award on Wednesday for its equipment procurement. In the bottom photo, Franklin County commissioners Bill Ogle Charles Mavity Jr. and Tom Weigand receive the award from Lucent’s Alva Brown.
IRS acting commissioner Michael P. Dolan promised reforms to curb abusive collection practices. He will summon hundreds of district directors to Washington to review allegations and launch monthly problem solving days for taxpayers. The agency will drop district rankings tied to quotas, criticized as pressuring managers to meet aggressive targets.
The 19th annual Wellsville Days festival in Wellsville on brick downtown streets features award winning country singer Town as grand marshal. He will perform an outdoor concert Saturday night after leading a 7 p.m. start with his band and district softball game earlier in the day. The event includes races, parades, crafts, food vendors,Life Flight fly in, and a Sweet 16 contest to raise library funds.
Special Agent Tim Dennis told the Ottawa Rotary Club that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation keeps homicide files open until prosecutions conclude. He noted the 1995 James Heth case remains unsolved, and highlighted the Metro Squad's use of manpower and DNA technology alongside Kansas labs. Dennis cited the 1959 Clutter family murder as a famous KBI moment tied to In Cold Blood.
NBC sportscaster Marv Albert pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for assault and battery in Arlington Virginia. The forcible sodomy charge was dropped and sentencing is set for October 24. A second accuser testified he bit her during a sexual advance in a Dallas Fort Worth hotel room.
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