15 Dec 1972
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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1972
Page
1
Under price control rules a 5.5 percent limit exists while Congress may debate boosting Senator and Representative salaries from 42 500 to 50 000 a year. The Ottawa Herald notes perks include travel pay office expenses free mailing and other benefits. It warns lawmakers should remember the public till before pursuing a near 12 percent raise.
The text notes that fringe benefits accompany being in Congress with 71 senators reporting about half a million dollars in outside earnings in 1971. It highlights Congress as big business, costing $277.5 million in 1968 and $557 million appropriated in 1972. It also points to a Tuesday through Thursday work pattern, urging lawmakers to focus on business and inflation relief by paying more attention to work rather than demanding more pay.
A Wichita crime conference features New York consultant Ralph Salerno criticizing Kansas private club laws as a mockery of the law. He argues affordability gates entry while contravening marijuana laws, cites gambling arrests to question bingo legalization for good causes, and notes Kansas operates under a 19th century constitution from 1872.
A parent informs Dr Thesteson that a 20 month old baby’s X ray shows the stomach and intestines elevated in the body but the condition does not appear to affect the child’s physical health.
A reader questions seriousness and treatment of eventration of the diaphragm a congenital defect where the diaphragm rises higher in the chest and organs are mispositioned. Most cases cause no symptoms but extensive elevation may require surgical splinting though this is uncommon.
A dense TV grid lists countless programs from News and Weather to Sesame Street and NFL games across channels with times and titles. The issue closes with a New York economic note on November jobless rate 5.2 and labor force participation doubts, plus local subscription rates and AP notice.
From Our Readers includes Miss Miller of Greeley criticizing rural urban division in the Olathe News editorial. She argues Kansas must unite rural and urban communities and support agribusiness while celebrating open fairs with diverse exhibits.
Kansas correspondent sketches a cheeky letter from an unnamed capital observer to Santa, lampooning state officials from the Supreme Court to Gov. Docking, Sen. Dole, Lt. Gov. Owen, and interest groups. The note imagines humorous gift requests and critiques of politics and budgeting in Topeka.
London church officials say the Church of England will not ordain women as priests before 1978 at the earliest. Even with hurdles cleared it would take six years to reach a resolution and allow women to enter the priesthood after the report The Ordination of Women to the Priesthood was published.
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