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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1978
Page
1
In Ottawa Herald editorial form, regulators impact costly projects as Miami County commissioners debate a $12,000 wheelchair ramp for the courthouse basement. The piece argues federal and state rules drive large costs across housing, cars, medicine, and food, citing a nationwide burden of about $97 billion.
As the Kansas Legislature adjourned amid a year of free spending, officials warned expenditures would exceed 962 million dollars for the current and next fiscal year. The governor’s proposals plus added items threaten state balances and could trigger higher local taxes, despite the adjournment being the only apparent favor.
A dense TV guide fragment lists programs across channels including Muppet Show, Love and dating plots on Happy Days and Three's Company, Cousteau Odyssey, baseball Royals vs Yankees, and movies like Killing Joe and Pele and Tillie. The page mixes sitcoms, dramas, nature specials, and talk shows with cast lists and air times, reflecting a busy primetime slate.
After 19 months of civil war and 17 months of sectarian clashes Lebanon faces widespread public fatigue. Saeb Salam says Christians and Muslims are fed up as Premier Salim el Hoss resigns and leaders meet to draft a joint future plan following the Ein Rummaneh incident and the Israeli invasion.
About 500 mourners attended Will Geer's memorial at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium as friends and family sang folk songs in a celebration of life. Geer, 76, died April 22 of respiratory arrest and his ashes were scattered over a San Bernardino Mountain park where The Waltons was filmed.
A physician argues that garlic carries no medicinal value beyond flavoring. Folklore cites 33 conditions it supposedly helps, including high and low blood pressure, but medical teaching does not support purification of blood or germ-killing effects.
Jacques Cousteau hosts a two part PBS exploration of the Atlantis myth. Part one traces origins, tests a manmade underwater road off the Bahamas, and features Philippe Cousteau with historian David Zink. The second hour shifts to Crete and the Minoans with debates on volcanic causes and potential links to Atlantis, valued for photography but praised as lengthy and uneven.
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