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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1981
Page
2
An Ottawa Area Retired Teachers Association group plans a 24 unit housing complex funded by a Farmers Home Administration loan. The piece notes lower federal loan rates subsidize part of the interest, potential Davis Bacon Act bidding effects, and concerns about local contractors and costs.
The state of Kansas plans to shut early next year about 30 job service centers across the state, excluding Ottawa for now, due to drying federal funds. The piece questions the need for closures given ongoing unemployment tax and returns to states, suggesting possible legislative scrutiny next month.
Television listings snippet shows film hours and program notes including The Black Stallion, Winchester ’73, Joy of Bach, Love Boat, Xanadu, Sherlock Holmes In Washington, and All That Jazz. Notable actors mentioned include James Stewart, Benny Goodman, David Janssen, and Elizabeth Taylor. Multiple news and entertainment segments accompany the schedule across HBO NBC TBS and ABC networks.
A Harris News Service memory piece recalls a Christmas when the author and his wife faced an empty home as grown children emigrated for their own families. The piece notes shifting traditions, the arrival of grandchildren, late presents, and newfound access to cable TV and a grandson’s computer games as the year closes.
AP analysis by Joan Cunniff notes top salaries lure new graduates who misread career planning. Michigan State professor Eugene Jennings warns a rigid plan can derail true progress, arguing success hinges on gut level drive and adaptability rather than a fixed plan.
AP and NBC survey of 1,602 adults shows 70 percent pick Christmas or Hannukah as top holiday with Thanksgiving second at 8 percent and Independence Day at 6. New Year edges combined 2 percent. Halloween 0. Separate poll notes 69 percent make no resolutions, 14 percent try but fail, 13 percent keep them, 4 percent no answer.
Readers discuss patient access to medical records and the meaning of words like unremarkable. They recount zinc experiences for taste, spinal anesthesia explanations, and weigh public polls on Christmas spending and Reagan era economic views. The AP-NBC survey notes 83 to 84 percent deem Christmas too commercialized and 69 percent cut gifts due to high prices.
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