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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1976
Page
5
Vivian Brown reports that art from museum archives is being reimagined on bedsheets. Designer flat sheets drive a 30-million dozen market, with royalties to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and new patterns echoing ancient designs.
Ortraan IBRARY announces a Listening Center at the Ottawa Library featuring home checkouts and in-library use. A turntable and Shure receiver are available for patrons. The varied collection includes Tolkien The Hobbit, Johnny Cash San Quentin, Miles Davis Milestones, Sesame Street, language and dictation discs, and works from Dylan to Ellington.
Rotterdam affair leaves about 20 dead, many children on school routes. Front coach victims most, four to eight trapped, Rhine Express engineer safe, local train engineer grievously injured. Express was bound to Innsbruck via Dortmund Cologne Munich. local train headed to The Hook.
Maryknoll Sisters in East Africa, 77 in Kenya, Tanzania, and Sudan, push for social justice. They run clinics, schools, and youth programs while shaping policy by public advocacy in the Anglican era. Sister Janice McLaughlin leads media work and training, stressing a Christian duty to justice and human rights.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett forms a Governor's Task Force on Effective Management to study state operations with business leaders. Top executives will be loaned this week to identify problems, report findings, and propose areas for in depth study before the 1977 session.
The Associated Press notes ongoing labor unrest across the United States with strikes among cement truck drivers in central Ohio doormen and elevator operators in New York hospital nurses in Connecticut delivery workers in 13 states and city workers in San Francisco. The piece emphasizes that most strikes are local and routine even as a major action by 60,000 United Rubber Workers against the Big Four tires persists.
In Topeka the weekly Kansas Crop and Livestock Report notes rains improved subsoil moisture in parts of the state while southwest areas lag. Wheat shows good growth under cool damp weather despite light frost. labor strikes widen across industries from rubber to parcel delivery and broadcasting, affecting auto parts, airport operations, and NBC studios.
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