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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1971
Page
4
A 1960s era AP analysis notes high tax and living costs strain affluence. Families spend 70 percent on fixed expenses like food housing taxes transportation and clothing. Many rely on extra income and part time jobs, including 18 million working wives, to maintain living standards.
AP dispatch details a July 26 seizure near Rach Gia showing narcotics as a major wartime issue. Chinese and Southeast Asian trafficking networks, opium from Burma, and a 50 kilo heroin haul valued at $4 million link Thai, US, and South Vietnamese authorities in a coordinated effort. Tap Vinh, a Saigon plastics factory owner, is named as financier of a major ring.
Culver City California AP reports MGM back lot 3 to be cleared for a $60 million luxury condo and apartment complex. Bulldozers will remove a Western street jail saloon and other sets while preserving select trees and a quarter mile manmade lake. The site will be renamed Raintree after the film Raintree County with streets and docks added.
Springfield man testifies in federal court that Ozark Sheriff L E Lamb struck him with a nightstick at the Findley River Rock Music Festival after a deputy mentioned Lamb's rough treatment reputation. He says Lamb, aided by Christian County Sheriff, pistol whipped and threatened him as deputies detained him for an accident. Trial to jury expected by week’s end.
The Kansas attorney general said Holton City Hospital Decatur County Hospital and Lindsborg Community Hospital performed abortions without wilful intent in the past year and the total likely under twenty. Health officials noted the liberalized law requires hospital accreditation, implying unawareness of the Joint Commission standards.
State Property Valuation Department and Haynes & Co presented final 1971 state assessed utility appraisals to a legislative tax study panel. Department head Ronald Dwyer said total utility value reached 3.58 billion, up 32.78 million from 1970, with department figures higher due to tax treatment. Officials noted potential court appeals and promised county delivery for 1972 budgets.
Jefferson City reporters note Missourians will vote Tuesday October 5 in a special election on five constitutional amendments approved by the 1971 legislature. One measure would legalize pari mutuel betting on horse racing. Gov Warren E Hearnes announced the plans in a prerecorded TV interview. The election coincides with a proposed $150 million water pollution bond issue to authorize sale of bonds in 1972 if approved.
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