08 May 1971
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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1971
Page
1
The Ottawa Herald comments on ecology and food recycling. It notes FDA tests showing 95 percent of swordfish contain mercury and the growing issue of urban noise. A scientist warns by 1985 street conversations may require shouting. The piece ends with a memory of a daily quiet hour joked about by a father.
A former Herald reporter now Chanute editor published a pollution piece with pictures. Local industry workers counter with a petition against him while comments joke about journalism and farming. An Ottawa sighting and a car financing quip add to the economy theme.
Five major central banks including West Germany Switzerland Belgium the Netherlands and Austria pulled support for the dollar and closed foreign exchange markets in a move described as a gravest monetary disturbance since World War II. Observers say revaluations or U.S. tighter credit could follow, with inflation linked to imports and potential effects on American business and travel abroad.
A dense TV grid lists programs from Dastardly Mutley to Jack Benny era staples. The lineup covers cartoons, dramas, comedies, news, sports, movies, and church programs with multiple air slots across the day and night.
A reader describes a friend with visible eye protrusion after a year apart, raising concern about thyroid-related eye symptoms. The note requests medical input from Dr. Thosteson and highlights facial changes linked to thyroid conditions.
The discussion explains how the thyroid governs metabolism, its iodine dependence, and how iodine deficiency causes simple goiter while excess thyroid activity leads to nervousness weight loss and eye changes. Treatments range from iodine and meds to surgery or radioactive iodine when needed.
A devotional prayer asks for daily contentment and gratitude. It requests divine help to greet each day as a gift, guiding believers to steward the hours entrusted to them in Jesus name.
The Television Academy's preliminary Emmy winners include CBS's The Selling of the Pentagon and All in the Family. Awards were presented at National Academy dinners in New York and Hollywood ahead of the 28th annual Emmys to be broadcast by NBC. Norman Lear accepted for All in the Family while Hamlet and Leopold Stokowski's PBS program won multiple Emmys.
U S officials say Poland jailed an American engineer in violation of an understanding that Polish visa holders may visit without fear of arrest on old charges. Adam Muller, a Polish American, was convicted in Poland of passing secrets to Western intelligence services and had escaped 13 years ago. State Department urged Polish Americans to exercise caution when visiting Poland amid fallout from the case.
President Nixon told a White House audience that farmers helped make the United States a world power by providing abundant food and generous aid to others. He noted productivity but warned farmers have not shared fully in income growth amid rising agricultural output. An Agriculture Department outlook predicts stronger prices ahead but possible net farm income for 1971 to be slightly below last year’s $15.8 billion.
Reagan aides say the governor’s speaking fee is 25000 to deter a national bid while fund-raising events in New Hampshire and Massachusetts are set for June. Mike Deaver said Reagan earns nothing personally from the fees and that the plan grew from reactions to his March tour and a Minnesota-Michigan fundraising stop.
Published daily except Sunday and Holidays in Ottawa Kansas the paper lists subscription rates by mail for local and outside areas and notes tax deductions for out of state subscribers. It also states the Associated Press material is for local publication and AP dispatches only.
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