The Olathe Daily News from Olathe, Kansas • 1

THE OLATHE ii wrestling while Olathe North hopes to PtQO 1 pin Leavenworth to the mat- Volume 37-Number 204 Olathe police arrest suspect in canackmg 1 A Vt A Steve Porter flts -I -'wI-'i'UYjVM' -''0 Vrv- I 1 tv 'w'TT-jh- if 7 V' -'A V' A AAS i -j'V- aV'Av r' I a Daty NMRapoitar A 36-year-old Kansas City Mo men was charged Wednesday in connection with a carjacking 7iesday aftennan at Oak Padc Man that invohwd the kidnapping of a 71-year-old woman Ronald John Popovich remains in jail in lieu of $10000 bond set by Johnson County District Judge William Cleaver Popovich was charged wife theft kidnapping and possession of drug paraphernalia Popovich was arrested by Olathe Police early Wednesday morning after Overland Park Police received a tip on a suspect and contacted Kansas City Mo Independence Mo and Olathe police departments asking for their in checking several locations according to Overiand Park Police When Olathe Police checked a residence at 141st and South Raintree at 1:11 am Wednesday they found fee Overland Park 1994 Dodge Intrepid parked near fee address Officers waited until a white male approached fee can Popovich was arrested and held for Overland Park Police The kidnapping and carjacking occurred at about 2 Tuesday when an Overland Park woman went mm the Oak Park Mall while her 71-year-old mother waited in the car in the parking lot The suspect entered the vehicle and drove it away letting the woman out in fee area of 1-435 and Nall then drove off Popovich is neat scheduled to appear in court Feb 2ft The public office will be appointed to represent him A rr Vf-- v-: i I f- v- Daren BannaWTha DaSyNviM Mas Evans Risk of accidents rises with drivers on DaHyNMataaoMr While Gardner city officials and some developers woan corapany looking to put a NASCAR race tracknearfenrity other locals are voicing loud opp6gtftrtTT7r lywnuwhsiHM be honest If this thing goes in have to sell iny house and move put of the area No way I could continue to live in that proximity shake my walls 9 Hood critic of roct track plan work Flood was a company investigator for JC Penney and knew a thing or two about researching an issue Before he closed on fee property outside Gardner he checked on a few concerns He sail he talked with city and county officials and real estate agents to ensure there were no industrial or commercial projects slated for the' area He also wanted assurances there would be major expansion of Claire Road very careful about what I Flood said checked thoroughly when I moved here1 talked to the county and city At that paint I was given no indication there was nothing about this race track expanding fee roads a five-year plan or any of those This week Flood found a note he said had been This week Flood found a note he said hs -m-1 Mora ftaSlOO people gaAered Tbcsday night at The PoipSn Song Conmunity Center for the first in vjs meant to be a series of meetings in opposition to the race trade proposal The meeting was organized by a group of citizens ufeo call themselves Citizens Against fee Racetrack (CAR) One concerned landowner Bill Flood said be Une concemea lanaowncr om mwi muu ik know anything about CAR before Tuesday quiet grown up in New York and met his meeting but he figures now a member wife whik living in the Kansas City area The two adamanfly were long-time Oladie residents and loved die area gnooynjoiHiyito his tnaifecHtThe note would back npit up next to my house wanted die peace and solitude of the Mid- infnrrwt him prycyml and of the dti- Tmlookfogati bade dw at a wooded westrafeertiian fee hustle and bustle of New iifdny nipht fpng 4 Flood said Wednesday It was at die meeting he (fiscovered his property Both worked for JC Penney and the couple moved to Texas wife die firm in 1992 However er wildlife Hfeis thing goes in be looking at the back of a hotel It was at die meeting he discovered his property would be adjacent to fee proposed 1140-acre race track site Flood said he was doored BOSTON Tdkmgoni ceBuMphhdtfbehindlhe wheel is about as risky as driving closeto legally drunk a study found Using a car phone while driving quadruples fee nsk of an acrid" researchers in Canada reported in issue of fee New England Journal of Medicine And making a call with a hands-free model is just as dangerous While many people have assumed feat the distraction of car phones can be dangerous fee study is the first to actually measure fee hazard teD patients to avoid unnecessary calls to keep fee conversations brief and to suspend dialogue during hazardous roadway circumstances Put fee phone down for awhile until things clear up" said Dr Donald A Redelmeier While fee fourfold chance of getting into 8n accident is about the same as fee increased risk involved in driving wife a blood-alcohol level right at fee legal limit See STUDY PAGE 2A The reason concerned when I was in Ifcxas they wanted to build a speedway down he said you know that a Formula I race car is 10 times noisier than a jet airliner flying 200 to 300 See OPPONENTS Page 2A Sowhen he retired Flood moved back from like many newer residents Flood moved to die Tbxas and last Juty bought his dremht Gardner area because he sought some peace and 187th and daire -but not before doing his hotne- New computers to track parents for dnld support Olathe North he TfM Annealing to the senses is just one way to mdt your sweetie's hivhether the aroma of an elegantly prepared meal die taste of a decadent chocolate bar or die sweet scent of tosm thTmood created for Day that will make this betSp of Wednesday behind fee produce seebon at Dillons TOPEKA If the federal government wants someone to blame for ddays in getting new computer systems operational to track down parents who make child support payments it can blame itself Kansas officials say Kansas folly expects to meet the revised deadline of Oct 1 1997 for having its system working The only tiling die federal government can take credit for die state says is living up to its commitment to pay nearly 90 percent of die cost AA Thty just kept changing the rules of what we had to have in die system and they were late in getting their regulations out to Rochelle Chronister secretary of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services said in responding to implied criticism of die states The goal is to locate more parents See NEW Page 2A griSlSS no bows and arrows just some hardworking par enn stripping roses inflating heart-shaped balkxs cur pretty colored ribbon and arranging flowers all in preparahoo for Valen- tilThev3hintBer efforts will pay off in a donation fiwn the More toward the Project Graduation the all-night non-ako- towaiu uic stum A-'- -If- -J I I i I i (VrKW if 1 I' 4 I i hi? 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