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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1987
Page
1
Plugging The Drain Kansas resists brain-drain as more than two thirds of state’s top high school graduates enroll in Kansas colleges. KU and K-State report rising National Merit Scholar enrollments with 34 scholars at KU and 28 Kansans among them. Regents credit proactive recruitment and parallels with athletic staff.
Prominent Republicans condemn fund raising appeals backing Oliver North and the Iran Contra effort. Fahrenkopf praised North while Rudman and Richardson denounced the tactic and questioned the party line. Richardson called the fundraising letter a new record in cynicism as North faces accountability.
Letters praise the Ottawa Department of Public Safety McGruff camp as worthwhile with great meals activities supervision and attitudes. Parents credit Connie Sams Bobbi Hawkins Rick Geist and Richard One for caring like family and call for repeated camps.
Billie Delatorre of 811 N Poplar argues the Ottawa city commission has avoided solving longstanding problems. She cites council hesitation, shifting loyalties, and delayed action over more than 15 years, suggesting issues were ignored and may fade if not addressed.
Ottawa Herald lists monthly three month and yearly rates for local carrier, motor routes, Franklin County and adjacent counties, and all other areas by mail. Rates adjusted July 1 1986 vary by region with out of state subscribers subject to 5.5 percent sales tax.
After a week in Missouri Ozarks at Lake Taneycomo with rustic living and a TV bust, we returned to find two weeks of vacation time missed on payroll. We survived wind and hail near Princeton, feared for our home, and adjusted to real news scarcity in the Ozarks.
A reader speculates on welcoming Mikhail Gorbachev to the United States for a 24 hour visit. The narrator imagines hosting him in Connecticut and New York, touring supermarkets, malls, a Giants camp, a Russian Tea Room lunch, Wall Street, and famous sights, blending humor with geopolitical curiosity.
In a sharp critique, the writer denounces the Iran Contra hearings as a farce and the committee and press as cowardly and sensationalist. John Garvey’s analysis in Commonwealth is cited, urging accountability and stronger media pursuit of truth amid political spin and missteps.
The writer recalls the 1981 inauguration and the hostage crisis while criticizing American political cynicism. They urge a president who rises above partisanship, values talent over favors, loves government, and can unite the nation amid fears of AIDS, debt, and crisis.
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