Editorial on melting pot and language in American freedom
The piece argues that America remains a melting pot with immigrants from diverse nations and faiths. It notes rising foreign birth rates, Spanish use in California, and Canada’s bilingual strains, suggesting the English-speaking majority may eventually need to learn a second language while freedom itself does not hinge on English proficiency.
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New World
Mexico
Canada
Hong Kong
Chicago
Lutheran Witness
California
Fairy tale attack on NCCC credibility sparks reader letter
Tom Bell in The Chanute Tribune denounces an unsigned piece circulated on Neosho County Community College campus. The author, aligned with a faculty union, depicts a Wicked Queen and Black Hearted King to attack administration and the board. Bell warns such childish tricks harm union credibility and role models.
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Tribune
Neosho County Community College
NCCC
Tom Bell
The
Chanute Tribune
Thanks for Ottawa Lights and Christmas Scenes
Luella Eisele of Wellsville RFD 2 thanks Ottawa for the city lights and the courthouse nativity scene. She says the displays help remind residents of the true meaning of Christmas and thanks local businesses and homes for making them.
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Ottawa
Luella Eisele
Wellsville
RFD
Holidays While Hunters Kick Off Generous Donor Trend
This season broad sympathy drives gifts of wild game to soup kitchens and shelters but health officials and animal groups clash over uninspected meat. A Fort Hays sculpture satirizes charity’s motives as arctic weather tests Midwest dairy farms. Major League Baseball profits and free agent salaries underscore unequal economic tides amid recession talk.
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Animal Protection
Salvation Army
U.S
Pest Contests by FFA Indoors and Out on the Plains
Plains Folk recalls a 1950s 60s FFA pest contest where high school teams scored points for killing sparrows starlings pigeons crows mice and even rats. Contests used BB guns pellets and tennis rackets to trap roosting birds in sheds with proof required by heads and tails.
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Future Farmers of America
FFA
Whistlers Walk the Plank in Unwanted Music
A rambled critique of whistling as a social nuisance. The author mocks nervous and habitual whistlers, notes the discomfort it causes in work and public spaces, and recalls naval rules and the Snow White film that glamorized the practice.
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Navy
W.W. Gilmer
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Lawrence Reynolds
Santa Claus
Reynolds
Fort Hays State University
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Golly
By Terry Ostmeyer
Ottawa Herald
Plains Folk
By Tom Tsern
Emporia Shute University
By Andy Rooney
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