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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1985
Page
1
A professional polling concern released findings on improving schools. Parental involvement and better textbooks topped wishes, with higher teacher salaries weaker. Reading and basics led subjects needed, while computer science and sex education ranked low. Voters plus non voters would support higher taxes if money funds education. The question remains: is merit pay the solution.
After adjournment, lawmakers turn to state problems. Rep. Bill Bunten urges a Legislative Coordinating Council committee to study state takeover of Washburn University, arguing it would burden taxpayers and duplicate existing state schools already near Topeka.
A reader with mild systemic lupus erythematosus asks if they should reveal the diagnosis on a nursing school physical. The doctor advises upfront disclosure, noting lupus often varies in severity and schools consider it. misleading testing creates greater risk of later disappointment.
The daily lines urge fear not and seek to be tools in God’s hands. It frames the Christ centered life as a path to peace amid worldly conflict and noise. The prayer asks to become instruments of peace under Fatherly will.
The piece argues Reagan used a show of sympathy at Bitburg and other stops to calm backlash over visiting a German war cemetery. It questions the trip in terms of history, suggesting reconciliation was achieved earlier and criticizing the Nicaragua stance as harmful and hypocritical.
The narrator travels from Houston to Natchitoches and Winnfield, Louisiana, notes traffic, historic towns, antebellum homes, and local quirks. He recalls Nacogdoches, Huey Long’s Winnfield, and the Louisiana Forest Festival, with humorous observations on flea markets, road signs, and roadside eateries.
A fragmented paragraph suite lists films and TV slots from 1980s to 1985 including Tex about an emotionally sheltered youth, Going For The Gold: The Bill Johnson Story, Shadow Riders set in postwar Texas, High Midnight about a construction worker seeking justice, and Firestarter with themes of power and Cold War intrigue.
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