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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1997
Page
2
The Shawnee Mission school district voted to relax its email policy, treating employees as adults and opposing invasive monitoring. The debate mirrored broader questions about personal communications at work and privacy rights while on duty.
Editorial notes state that guest opinions are offered to readers and that circulating viewpoints may not reflect The Herald's official stance. The piece clarifies the separation between guest editors and the newspaper’s own editorial position.
A compiled roster of prominent officials with addresses and phone numbers including President Bill Clinton The White House Washington DC and senators Robarts Brownback plus Rep Ryan and Governor Graves. Also state officers Attorney General Stovall Insurance Commissioner Sebelius and others with Topeka and Topeka area offices and telephones.
Vickie Hull writes about engineers as methodical yet quirky, noting a wives club, and recounts Wichita State professor L Scott Miller detailing Santa’s lore with rapid reloading, orbit space stations, GPS, VTOL sleigh and stealth construction. The column blends humor with tech intrigue.
Paige from Pennsylvania thanks Kansas readers for postcard requests and generous replies. She reports 750 postcards 175 responses and gifts weighing over 90 pounds while praising Kansas people as generous and thoughtful. She hopes to visit Kansas someday and vows to answer letters as time allows.
Readers are invited to submit opinions to the Reader Forum. Each submission must be hand-signed and include the author's address and telephone number. Submissions should not exceed 500 words.
The Star Tribune discusses how investigators suspect accumulated vapor in Boeing 747 center fuel tanks sparked the TWA 800 blast. Boeing pushes fuel-tank vapor reduction and center-tank inspections, while the FAA, slow to mandate such checks, faces credibility issues from its promoter-regulator history. A shift in attitude and priorities is needed beyond funding or reorganization.
Kathleen Parker argues that separating men and women in early basic training, as Marine Corps practice shows, could boost morale and readiness. She cites a Pentagon panel led by Nancy Kassebaum Baker and criticizes current integrated training for harming discipline and unit cohesion. The piece defends sex-segregated phases as beneficial, forecasts gains for women and national security, and targets political correctness.
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