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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1967
Page
1
Governor Robert Docking declares public interest requires reorganization of state government and constitutional revision to end partisan division. He argues population growth, service demand, and budget needs demand efficiency and elimination of duplicate services as Kansas contemplates 126 agencies.
The Governor proposes 1968 Kansas legislature study a program to reorganize state government amid overlapping advisory groups and regulatory instrumentalities. He notes repeated establishment of agencies has created confusion and small political empires, urging routine acceptance of the recommendation regardless of party.
The narrator prides a vast necktie hoard exceeding a hundred pieces and growing. Ties resist wear, cleaners erase stains, and stylists debate styles from narrow to broad, stripes to paisleys. They refuse to discard, trusting trends will cycle back.
The narrator, a non compulsive tie buyer, resists a gadget claiming to organize 36 ties by color and rotate selections. He prefers chance over automatic coordination, valuing personal choice over uniform bank vice presidents' fashion harmony.
Louis Washkansky, 53, remains in a very serious condition in CAPE TOWN as doctors report a dramatic drop in white blood cells and plan a transfusion. They warn of possible organ rejection affecting lungs and tissues while the transplanted heart continues to function.
Letters recount experiences of crawling sensations blamed on mites and insects. An entomologist offers practical guidance on bird and rodent nest sources, how to prevent infestations, and when medical evaluation is warranted. Other items note arthritis diet myths, body donation to medical science, gall bladder papilloma facts, a Tolson in Ottawa, and wood-yard prices.
Zeke Wigglesworth discusses whether organ transplants and future medical feats challenge the idea of human identity, soul, and God. He cites Louis Washkansky's heart transplant and asks if success undermines faith, or if theology must adapt to engineered bodies and space exploration.
AP critic notes Michael Flanders and Donald Swann offered a clever but uneven hour "An other Drop of a Hat" on CBS. Their jokes drifted from song to monologue, with mild satire and misfiring accents, while NBC and ABC programs also receive brief mentions in a broad TV night roundup.
Stanford physicist Dr William Bradford Shockley says his baby rationing talk sparked a furor with claims he urged sterilization and welfare cuts. He says he did not advocate such measures and describes his remarks as a thinking exercise combining two birth control proposals from Dr Kenneth Boulding and the Population Council.
The long station log lists daytime and prime time shows from Leave It To Beaver to News and Weather, manycreened by time slots, with titles including Flintstones, Truth or Consequences, Captain Kangaroo, Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Kraft Music Hall, Perry Mason and more, noting channels and occasional parentheticals. It also notes public AP rights for publication of local and AP dispatches.
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