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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1994
Page
3
The Ottawa Middle School sixth graders take part in an outdoor school program with OMS organizers Mr. Shepard and Mrs. Chaney coordinating volunteers and sessions. Readers are invited to add thoughts to the community forum Is Your Quarter by calling 242-4700 during specified hours.
The narrator muses on travel, time, and reality while outlining an annual fantasy vacation to a vintage late 1940s village. Visitors would rent a 1940s house, drive old cars, and enjoy a simple setup with no television, a soda fountain, library, a pool hall, and a brick fireplace, spending two weeks without leaving.
The piece argues the Racial Justice Act would trigger widespread litigation to curb capital punishment, noting votes in Congress, statistical tests of race in death sentences, and the goal of abolition. It cites Orrin Hatch and Earl Lloyd Jackson to claim anti death penalty aims and warns of costly, protracted court battles.
Mike Royko recalls a Chicago traffic court scene where a judge makes a flippant remark about shooting people who foul-mouth police. A later tale describes a drunken steelworker subjected to a mock trial and staged execution in a police station, ending with a governor’s reprieve and a wary return to drinking.
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