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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1967
Page
1
The editorial critiques the semester plan used by Kansas colleges noting holiday adjustments to Santa Claus and arguing that after holidays students cram for finals. It claims the system promotes procrastination and reliance on pep pills to finish overdue work on return.
The article argues for a 4-14 academic calendar where a four month semester ends in December before Christmas. A one month interlude supports college symposiums and independent study while field trips and seminars may occur. The plan aims to reduce holiday breaks and free students for exploration.
Tauno Pentinnen, 22, marries Emma Kotehonen, 74, after meeting on her farm near Varpaisjaervi Finland. The essay argues such May to October pairings can work, noting experience and mentoring roles, government support for older partners, and the odds of later life happiness.
Dear Dr Mother discusses hearing aid experiences and a stapedectomy that restored most hearing, noting surgical options alongside aids. A Kansas City AP brief describes Allen Elementary sixth and seventh graders promoting a Christmas message and petition to the Supreme Court to reverse bans on religious observances in public schools, aiming for 650 signatures.
A 18 year old James Baxter boasted on a five dollar bet and swam the Marais des Cygnes in about 23 degrees above zero. A witness said he emerged on the frozen bank calling for his clothes as he shouted in the cold.
AP television writer Cynthia Lowry reports CBS aired Nikolai Gogol's Diary of a Madman with Roger Coggio delivering a tour de force as a 19th century Russian clerk. The hour-long portrayal traces his breakdown from imagined suitor to king of Spain with native camera work and stark progressions from a plain room to a barred cell. The score notes holiday programming on other networks with Bing Crosby and Mitzi Gaynor Christmas specials.
Rosie Lister humorously surveys Christmas stress as a household obstacle course from front door to tree. The piece highlights wrapping chaos, kitchen duties, shopping, cat antics, family duties, and the mounting pressure of cards and pageants during the holiday season.
The Supreme Court declined to block Captain Dale E. Noyd’s court martial over aiding pilot training for Vietnam duty. The ruling shows the court avoids wartime policy disputes, even as it weighs draft card burner legality. Justice Douglas and Stewart urged facing war questions, but the majority preserved executive wartime powers.
Mayor Don Jones of Peters burg repays a gambling debt after losing 16000 match sticks in a poker game during a World Series trip to St Louis. The wager was with Patrick J. Egan of Florissant Missouri, son of Mayor James Egan.
A sprawling broadcast log lists dozens of TV slots across channels with show titles like Leave It To Beaver Flintstones News Truth or Consequences Batman Cimarron Strip Flying Nun Bewitched Ironside That Girl Prince Of Players It Could Go On Singing F Troop Peyton Place Untouchables Tonight Christmas 67 Jolson Sings Again Twilight Zone and more. The dense OCR reads as a chaotic daylong lineup, noting repeats, channel shifts, and mixed meta data amid a dense catalog of programs and times.
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