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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1972
Page
2
The Ottawa Herald notes a Kansas Civil Rights Commission official warns state officials to withhold comment on impending actions against 112 state agencies. Critics say the move undermines press freedom and public scrutiny of alleged discrimination, highlighting tensions between official secrecy and the Bill of Rights.
A buoyant public eye turns to the Truman Sports Complex in Jackson County Missouri as completion dates loom. Reports discuss construction strikes taxes ticket sales and a private owner suite for Lamar Hunt featuring four bedrooms game rooms and a sunken tub amid broader questions about who pays for the multi million dollar project.
Across Kansas boards face tight budgets as roofs, paint, and repairs go unfunded. Garnett’s WPA era building highlights statewide strain under the governors tax lid, with voters asked to approve a 3 mill capital outlay levy. Officials warn the lid hurts children.
Dear Dr Thesteson writes about a patient who underwent an appendectomy three years ago and developed phlebitis in a deep leg vein ten days postoperation. The letter describes symptoms and concerns about post-surgical vein inflammation.
Reader questions about leg swelling after phlebitis. Guidance covers use of elastic bandages at home and elastic hose for dress, to protect the vein and improve circulation. Tips include avoiding injury, walking, not sitting long, elevating the leg, and avoiding birth control pills.
In Kansas City, Rev. Dr. Robert J. Marshall of the Lutheran Church in America argues that religion is shifting from inter-denominational to non-denominational influence. He cites Evangelist Billy Graham and a failed effort to authorize non-denominational prayer in public schools as examples of a broad national trend toward non-denominationalism.
AP Special Correspondent William J. Ryan analyzes how North Vietnam's offensive in South Vietnam could jeopardize Nixon's planned Moscow visit. Kissinger’s Moscow talks and Brezhnev's mild climate stance hint both sides want the summit, though Hanoi may press for a dramatic victory to derail it.
Don Paarlberg, director of economics at the Agriculture Department, urged a shift away from parity as a measure of farm well being and toward rural development. He noted about $20 billion yearly goes to rural programs from food aid to sewer and water loans, at a Newspaper Farm Editors of America meeting. Secretary Butz had called parity obsolete.
Parity as a fair price metric ties farm expenses to production costs using a 1910 14 guideline and has hovered near 70 percent or less in recent years. Paarlberg criticizes parity as a broad indicator, urging a qualitative shift to focus on sector by sector farmer welfare and rural employment, especially for very small farms earning under 2500 dollars yearly from land.
In six years the world saw pole vaults of 18 feet and 110 story buildings, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average remained near 1966 levels. The index fluctuated from 995 in 1966 to 744, rose to 985, fell to 631, then to 950 and 798 in 1971, and lately hovered around 970 while market optimism waned. Early in the week the figure stood at 957 as analysts grew wary.
A dense TV log lists day long lineups from 5:00 p.m. through midnight including News Weather Sports and a mix of dramas comedies and movies. Notable titles include Dream Of Jeannie Hogan's Heroes Batman classic series, and movies The Bridges At Toko Ri and The Girl in The Red Velvet Swing. The publication provides advertiser rates and credits to The Associated Press for local news.
New York AP reports Jack Paar's Africa Diary on NBC was his least effective hour. The camera work and sound were fuzzy and the interviews hurried. A staged bush dinner and fizzled sight gags undercut the program though Paar yields a sharp quote from Joy Adamson on loneliness.
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