12 Jun 1971
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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1971
Page
1
In a Saturday Notebook item a Herald reporter mocks official jargon and language confusions from local sources and quotes a Kansas governor’s National Root Beer Week proclamation. It notes humorous miscommunications, a college official, a yippie, and odd definitions, ending with Root Beer Week.
A reader asks how the intrauterine device prevents pregnancy and challenges the claim that it is an abortion device. The letter questions whether the IUD stops implantation or fertilization and seeks guidance on its effectiveness compared with the pill.
The column discusses 1 U D conception methods and pregnancy risks, noting older devices lack full understanding of how they prevent conception. It advises prompt removal if pregnancy occurs, and mentions surgical sterilization doubts. Readers ask about regurgitation from hiatal hernia, tube reversal, and timing of medical guidance.
The National Grain and Feed Association urges removal of the 50 per cent U.S. flag vessel requirement. NGFA says high transport costs have restricted exports to USSR and Eastern Europe and notes momentum among farm officials to develop markets, including China, as prices depend on production and transport.
Philadelphia based black police fraternal groups foresee a tense summer as youth unemployment rises. Delegates warn more crime and clashes with police without jobs for urban youth, noting federal funds and city programs fall short. Leaders urge year round efforts to provide work and recreation to prevent violence.
A dense list of TV times and programs spans cartoons, dramas, sports, and news blocks. Notable entries include The Henry Aldrich For President, The Counterfeit Plan, Charlie Chan In London, Wagon Train, Let’s Make Love, Dr Kildare, and Captain Kangaroo among hundreds of showings across afternoon and into late night, with repeated news and weather segments.
About 200 nuns observed models in designs for their new habits at the Medical Missionaries of Mary headquarters in Drogheda County Louth. Irish designer Sybil Connolly, volunteering her work, outlined one basic habit plus five working uniforms for varied tasks, as part of a modernization of the three quarter length gray and white habit.
Ottawa Herald lists daily publication details at 104 S. Cedar with editor Robert B. Wellington. It outlines subscription rates for in area and outside trade area, including sales tax, and notes out of state subscribers are deducted 3 percent.
The Associated Press holds exclusive Use for publication of all local news printed in the newspaper as well as AP news. A 0:30-427 time slot is noted for Tonight at 9 and the film The Dispatches.
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