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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1973
Page
1
Editorial questions the vetoed plan to buy a Topeka office building and raises concerns about a sweetheart contract for a medical school building design. It urges public scrutiny, calls for nonpartisan control of state buildings, and favors reducing state offices to prevent future scandals.
Washington reports tax reform remains stalled with Congress only at an early shaping stage. President Nixon proposes elderly property tax relief and a tuition credit for private schooling, while administration hints at modest changes to capital gains and minimum tax, with no overhaul. Senate reform advocates push for broader revenue boosts though timing remains uncertain.
A Siegburg Tax Museum display recounts brutal taxes in ancient Egypt where debtors faced corporal punishment and loss of eyes for severe offenses, and 17th century practices where people swore to give correct taxes or lose a hand. The collection notes that tax forms date back 4,500 years on a clay tablet, framing modern tax burdens against historical severity.
The piece argues that unchecked growth in automobile use, pollution, and parking strain show planning failures in cities and industry. It notes record car sales, rising production, and the clash between more cars and cleaner air while linking job structure to the 40 hour week as central to modern life.
Sen. Jan Meyers of Overland Park the sole woman in the Kansas Senate protested Gov. Docking's slate of 46 state appointees. She highlighted that only three women hold key board seats among 78 boards and commissions with 372 seats, urging greater gender balance. Prudence Hutton of Newton is confirmed to the State Board of Regents. Charlene Young of Kansas City serves on a key board.
A reader writes to Dr Thostéson about vaccination timing during pregnancy. They recall exposure to smallpox at seven months and worry about vaccine safety and timing for preventing disease.
The doctor warns live virus vaccines pose fetal risk if given in the first three months, with rubella the most dangerous. Measles and mumps vaccines are also discouraged during pregnancy. Later pregnancy vaccination may occur for polio or smallpox in an epidemic. Breast feeding reassures that nursing does not ruin breasts and weight gain impacts. vasectomy is not linked to muscular dystrophy.
The National Farmers Union and farm trade factions face a growing confrontation as the Nixon administration presses Congress to enact new farm legislation aligned with the 1970 act while seeking broader control of international trade. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, in Paris for a foreign ministers’ gathering, argued for consistency between domestic agriculture goals and international trade aims.
Daily Ottawa Kansas listing details a full broadcast day with dozens of programs. It includes News Weather Sports soap operas dramas game shows and films across channels with durations and start times for Sesame Street Mayberry RFD Lost in Space Hogan's Heroes Dragonnet and many more. The page also shows subscription rates and newspaper masthead information.
In New York AP notes that concerns about air quality go back centuries. Steam, a 48th edition technical book from Babcock & Wilcox Co published since 1875, recalls that England once executed people for burning coal due to dangerous fumes.
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