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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1973
Page
2
Washington officials survey shows Watergate and Nixon’s reorganization dulling morale and delaying filling nearly 50 top federal jobs. Vacancies exceed 25 percent in upper levels, with 12.7 percent of sub-Cabinet posts unfilled. ambassadors also largely vacant as White House cites risk and pay-cut hesitance.
The Kansas Power and Light Co seeks to pass fuel cost increases to residential and small commercial customers. Affected customers would pay about 21 cents more monthly on average. Hearing set for July 6 at the Kansas Corporation Commission in Topeka. case could set a statewide precedent.
Kansas expands homestead relief to include homeowners ages 60 to 65 and widows 50 plus with income up to 8 150, raising the maximum refund to 400 and funding 13 million for 1973. The act lowers age limits, lifts income caps, and shifts refunds from tax credits to direct payments, with county clerks to assist claimants.
Hal Boyle reflects on a bygone era where memory acts as a home, detailing slower rhythms, strong family ties, respectful hierarchies, and simpler comforts. He recalls streetcars, kin obligations, honest guilt, and the social order of a time when wealth, dress, and gender roles shaped daily life.
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