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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1978
Page
1
Kansas City Senator Jack Steineger proposes a bill to curb last minute Kansas Legislature spending by setting guidelines based on anticipated revenues. He argues it would reveal available funds before decisions, though a flaw lies in pre determined rate of December 13, 1978.
The author argues against limiting spending increases to seven percent and suggests embedding a seven percent cut instead. Inflation lifts state revenues by about ten percent annually, creating a surplus. Providing agency raises would reduce incentives to economize, while a real constraint would benefit taxpayers who need relief.
A writer frames Senator Edward Kennedy as sparking political fire at a Democratic midterm convention in Memphis with a pledge to fight for universal health care. The piece argues against a nationalized system, criticizing Washington bureaucratic control and predicting skyrocketing costs and mismanagement.
A nightly TV grid lists Frosty the Snowman musical with narrator Andy Griffith and multiple holiday programs. Highlights include The New Adventures Of Heidi, The Jeffersons plotline, a Smithsonian air and space feature, Nat Nat Finals rodeo coverage, Perry Como's Christmas special with John Wayne, and National Geographic Living Land of Nambia segment among a broad mix of talk shows dramas and music specials.
A demure schoolteacher takes a part time secretarial job in a nightclub and faces hostility from a handsome patron in a humorous scene. Jean Simmons and Anthony Franciosa star in a vintage film piece with a brisk nightclub setting and light romantic tension.
AP review criticizes A Place of Dreams for lacking insight despite beautiful visuals. Narrated by Cliff Robertson, the PBS documentary celebrates the National Air and Space Museum and the Wright brothers’ first flight anniversary but delivers a flat history lesson with heavy emphasis on museum lore and NASA, neglecting commercial aviation and broader wartime aviation history.
New York AP reports CBS climbed from last place to parity with ABC in the week ending December 10. Nielsen data show CBS with five of the top ten programs and ten of the top twenty, including 60 Minutes M A S H and One Day at a Time, tying ABC at 20 points each while NBC ranked third.
A reader describes a numb thumb spreading to other fingers. After neck traction failed another doctor suggested carpal tunnel surgery. He asks how safe and reliable the operation is and whether it can cripple the hand, or if other treatments exist.
Reader questions cover nerve compression in the wrist versus neck pain, signs distinguishing carpal tunnel syndrome, and surgical relief. The column also includes letters about Stein Levanthal syndrome and fertility surgery, eye color myths, cholesterol, smoking risks, gallstones, and a prayer note.
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