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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1978
Page
1
A columnist riffs on TV explicitness and a PTA approved show list while noting how education and entertainment clash. Anecdotes cover weather quips, bank drive ins, travel checks, a wife’s illness, and a punchy rover at South Main potholes as spring peeks through.
A reader asks why a 35 year old sister-in-law who delivered two children by cesarean remains visibly six months pregnant and whether anything can be done.
Patient inquiries cover abdominal stretch marks post pregnancy incisional hernia risk weight gain tissue weakness and girdles. Advice includes lip bending exercises weight loss, possible surgical repair for hernia, and noting that fibrous tissue cannot be toned by exercise.
Kansas City reporting on the 1978 rise in off farm commercial storage to a record 6.6 billion bushels, led by Kansas Illinois and Texas. It notes storage capacity expansion, farm carryovers, and the role of bin makers amid large 1977 crops including a record corn and soybeans, stressing weather, port disruptions, and the need to prevent outdoor spoilage.
AP reports the Agriculture Department may issue new orders to field offices to clarify the grain reserve program aimed at boosting prices for wheat and corn. The plan, open-ended, could store up to a billion bushels with a self-adjusting mechanism releasing grain when prices rise, and March 1 starts deposits for 1977 crop wheat into the reserve.
AP report notes church groups and reform advocates pressing firms at annual meetings with shareholder resolutions on minority hiring and South Africa boycotts. SEC rejected a one percent business tie rule, deeming some resolutions still significant. Community groups expect renewed push this year to curb ties to South Africa.
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