Open The Door on Secret Meetings by Ransom Memorial Trustees
Trustees vow fewer closed sessions under Kansas Open Meetings Law as concerns rise. Local boards including Ottawa school and hospital boards held numerous private meetings, prompting calls to limit study and work sessions and require public votes.
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Ransom Memorial Hospital
Kansas
Hospital Board
Ottawa School Board
Ottawa City Commission
Franklin County Commission
Ottawa Library Board
City Commission
No Pain Growth in Children Says Faith Preschool Director
Marty Piotrowsky, honored for directing Faith Lutheran Preschool since 1980, resigns for a Kansas City job but stays in Ottawa. She notes growth via pain and urges adults to guide children through hurt, citing school shootings, addiction, and humiliation as harms that scar and shape youth.
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Marty Piotrowsky
E. 15Th
Faith Lutheran Preschool
Kansas City
Ottawa
The Other Side Of The SMU Coin
Analysis of SMU NCAA penalties following reported payments to 13 players totaling 61000 dollars. Implications for SMU athletics, faculty tensions, and the tension between sports prestige and academic integrity at top programs.
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SMU
Dallas
The President as Spokesman and Figurehead
A column argues the presidency has become a two person system with Baker running the government while Reagan acts as a comforting spokesperson. It likens Reagan to a corporate spokesman, a public face reading a script, while real power lies with aides and the chief of staff. The piece recalls Truman’s buck and Carter’s heavy workload, concluding the era needs only a figurehead.
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Ronald Reagan
Reagan
White House
Tower Commission
Don Regan
Harry Truman
James Baker
Nancy
Mutt
Camp David
Baker
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Washington
Listening To Your Own Body A Guide To Neurological Problems
Harris News Service reviews Listening To Your Own Body, a senior citizen self help book by Dr James W Neumann. The guide explains how to describe symptoms to a physician using a symptom index and disorder descriptions. It covers conditions from carpel tunnel syndrome to Bell’s palsy and Alzheimer's disease.
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Whitley Austin Harris
James W. Neumann
Dewey K. Ziegler
American Academy of Neurology
Adler and
Adler
Neumann
Ziegler
From Our Readers _Take A Look At The DPS For Yourself_
A reader defends Ottawa Department of Public Safety praising officers hard work and community programs like ident a kid bicycle safety checks and the McGruff safety program. The letter urges visiting the station, learning services and comparing crime rates and response times to fire. It argues for fair view and renewed support.
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Ottawa Department of Public Safety
Somone
DPS
Department of Public Safety
Media Target Oral Roberts And Other Preachers
Letter writer David Moore from Wellsville rebukes secular journalists for hostility toward religious figures. He urges fair coverage of Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Jimmy Swaggart, recalling a Kansas City appearance and warning of accountability for every word.
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Saul
David
Oral Roberts
Jerry Falwell
Pat Robertson
Jimmy
Swaggart
Kansas City
Kemper
David Moore Wellsville
Letters to the Editor Guidelines and Contact Rules
Readers are urged to send signed letters with the writer’s address. Unsigned letters will not be published. A telephone number should be included to speed up verification.
Ottawa Herald Subscription Rates Effective July 1 1986
Ottawa Herald lists updated subscription rates for delivery in Ottawa area Franklin County and nearby counties by carrier or mail. Local one month four dollars, three months eleven, six months twenty one and five cents, yearly forty dollars. Out of state add five point five percent tax.
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Ottawa
Franklin County
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