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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1973
Page
1
Ottawa Herald page two recap notes January as a lousy moisture month with nearly 4 inches of precipitation and over 17 inches of snow. A family quip about a gas bill mirrors national debt talk. A son’s aging car needed battery and generator work while another child built a taped soup can “Polish cannon” with makeshift fuel.
A Saturday Notebook excerpt muses on changing fashion and body displays from hot pants to bikinis and vaccination scars. Dr. Martin Markowitz warns of shallow mid-abdominal mood concerns and worries about future public exposure as baby girls grow up.
A reader asks about mothballs and describes a persistent odor affecting a neighbor’s home. The note implies neighbors have an unusual aversion to mothball use, with smells reportedly permeating food and clothes. No authorities or dates are mentioned.
Reader questions safety of mothball odors and toxins with children present. Dr Thosteson explains naphthalene risks, urges ventilation, and notes potential liver or kidney harm with prolonged exposure. A tomato peeling myth is debunked as harmless fiber. Epilepsy guidance emphasizes acceptance, meds, and stress avoidance, with a prayer conclusion.
A dense TV schedule lists programs from morning to late night, including sports, music, soaps, and family shows across networks. An inserted New York AP excerpt comments on love, money, and social change, reflecting on shifting gender roles and crime’s impact on family life.
USDA reports cattle producers may see prices stay strong into mid 1973 with hog prices averaging above year-earlier levels. Slaughter steer prices at Omaha in late January reached 42 dollars per cwt, while feeder steers in Kansas City hovered near 49 dollars. Cattle and calf inventory rose to 122 million head on Jan 1, the largest single-year gain since 1963.
Kansas lawmakers created a Marijuana Steering Committee to track the weed over three years. Kansas State University received 154137 dollars mainly from federal funds to study wild hemp mating habits and suggest controls, with a pilot in Riley County. The study yielded a booklet showing how to identify marijuana and control it by ordinary weed methods.
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