Editorial: Thurmond Should Retire At Age 98
The piece argues aging workers stay in the workforce, praises senior recruitment but urges Senate moral to retire Stimulus addresses Strom Thurmond's 98 years and 44 years in office. It cites his health, long filibuster against the 1957 civil rights bill, and calls for GOP to stop propping him up and allow retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Senate
South Carolina
Strom Thurmond
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate
Thurmond
GOP
James Jeffords
U.S
Creationists Infiltrate Capitol Hill With Intelligent Design Agenda
Reader letters critique Sen Santorum and Rep Brownback for advancing a two sentence resolution endorsing good science and teaching controversy over evolution. The piece argues that intelligent design masquerades as science, endangers biology curricula, and links religious influence to societal decay.
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Kansas
Board of Education
Capitol Hill
U.S. Senate
Rick Santorum
R-Pa
U.S
House
Santorum
Sam Brownback
Brownback
KBOE
Linda Holloway
Charles Darwin
Leaping Lena Hutchins shaped many lives in Ottawa area
A tribute to Lena Hutchins a pioneering rural teacher and longtime superintendent who inspired generations of students and Girl Scouts. The piece recalls her speed racing to school in a Buick her role in Scouting and her decades of service ending with her death at 93.
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Sand Creek School
Sand Creek Nursery
Beulah (Weien) Richardson
Joy Weien
Neil Pritchard
Crawford
Nordyke
Dickerson
Sand Creek
Lena Hutchins
Hutchins
Pawnee Bove
Jules Doty
Buster
Lena
Miss Hutchins
Ottawa Junior High
North
Main
Wilson
Mulberry and
Weethee
Bill
Margaret Hutchins
Fairmont
Ottawa
Ju J
Franklin County
Girl Scouts’ ‘of America
Kansas
North Baptist ‘Church
Jacob’s Park
Marais Des Cygnes River
Old Fort ‘Scott Crossing
Hawthorne
Mears Park
We Girls
Guatemala
Margaret
Old-Time Cops and a Digest of Wild Street Tales
The narrator recalls colorful bygone police days in a Southern town. Deputies conducted Sunday weapon sweeps at rural juke joints, confiscating guns with croaker sacks while suspects fled dramatic escapes. He recalls prison rehabilitation lessons, gritty encounters, and a veteran sense of humor amid dangerous duty.
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Boonies
Clifford
Ottawa Herald
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Kathy Miller
Otawaherald
Kan Kistner
Kkismer
Tim Millkern
Vaherald.com
Zorlan
MY Hero
Dorothy
Nichols
Charlie
King Features Syndicate
Persona
Ottawah
S. Ceaar
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