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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1987
Page
1
The press should report on study sessions as they discuss pending issues, with public attendance allowed by law. City managers claim such sessions are private forums, but the public deserves to understand thought processes and actions of the commission.
The court ruled 7 to 2 against a Louisiana law that forced public schools to teach creation science as science. Justice Brennan called the fundaments insincere, labeling the effort a sham and signaling resistance to religious pressure on public education from fanatic groups.
AP dispatch notes Ronald Reagan echoing his 1980 critique of Carter as deficits swell under his own tenure. The piece details a shift from calling Congress responsible to blaming lawmakers, citing a $135 billion projected deficit for next year and the $1 trillion policy plan.
Fifty four children gather on the Camp Hope lawn near Great Bend to plant three memorial trees honoring three former campers who died. Avis Ivey of Melvern will participate. the Kansas Division of the American Cancer Society sponsors Camp Hope at Camp Aldrich, serving 8 to 18 year olds with cancer. The camp runs annually for a week, volunteers provide care and meals, and this year’s trees bring the total memorials to ten.
A reader weighs Ben Wattenberg’s warning of U S population decline by 2025, arguing fewer people could ease traffic, housing, and crowding while risking less global influence. The piece questions the link between population size and wealth, war, and happiness, noting nostalgia for prewar times and skepticism about “bigger is better.”
The Des Moines Register notes that the administration shifted its stated aim from countering Iranian missiles to protecting Western oil, then to safeguarding Kuwaiti tankers. The piece argues US actions may aid Soviet interests by backing Iraq, a Soviet client, and warns that national security rhetoric is used to shield political problems at home.
A 5 4 ruling upheld victim impact statements in capital cases, sparking criticism that the court abandoned the maxim to fit the crime. The majority led by Justice Powell warned such statements risk arbitrary death penalties, while Justice White and Justice Scalia warned the harm to victims and society should influence punishment in both capital and noncapital cases.
The Ottawa Herald lists new subscription rates effective July 1 1986 for Ottawa and surrounding areas by carrier or mail. Local one month four dollars, three months eleven, six months twenty one dollars and one year forty dollars. Franklin County rates four fifty, thirteen dollars, twenty five dollars, forty eight dollars. All other areas five fifty, sixteen dollars, thirty one dollars, sixty dollars. Out of state subscribers incur 5.5 percent sales tax.
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