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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1978
Page
1
A Franklin County columnist muses on rabbits thriving amid leash law debates and dogs confined, skunks and opossums roaming, and women’s political participation. He notes no candidate yet filed for the county commission, mentions a journalism hobbyist, Wichita bartender classes, and a Kansas energy plan funded by federal dollars.
Roderick Turnbull argues the United States dominates world grain exports, supplying about half or more of world grain trade in 1977. Yet overall food consumption remains global and largely sourced from home production, with many nations importing most needed foods.
The National Cattlemen's Association, upset over President Carter's beef import expansion, asks to meet him as soon as possible. Association president Richard A. McDougal wrote June 9 that the 200 million extra pounds of foreign beef this year was ill advised and questions the administration's livestock policy. The White House has not replied as Carter returns from a Panama trip.
Rural America, a nonprofit activist group, says Congress may authorize an outhouse count in a Housing and Community Development bill. The group notes a similar measure exists in both House and Senate legislation, seeking a precise tally of privies in rural areas.
A collection of reader queries and medical replies covers sanitation plans for rural housing, umbilical infections, morning migraines, neck clicking, hymen pregnancy myths, myoclonus, infant formula, borderline glaucoma, and kissing diabetes. It notes Cochran and Rural America urging federal action on toilet and water access, plus reactions to beef import policy and cattle industry concerns.
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