22 May 1972
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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1972
Page
1
Ottawa Herald editors summarize a 12 member panel report urging police to expand legal training and use resident lawyers in larger cities. The piece notes arrests often worsen public safety, fill courts, and hinder justice in cases like drunkenness, drugs, domestic disputes, tenancy issues, and demonstrations, advocating non police staff and technical policing.
Sunday mail service for third and fourth class stations will cease after July 1 as the Post Office Department moves toward a self sufficient, economy driven model. Small towns face reduced service while big centers see centralization and growing problems, affecting readers and local businesses relying on weekend mail.
A year long study at Fort Hays State College shows the campus generates about 15 million dollars in city sales volume through its operations staff and students. It also adds roughly a million in local movement costs from campus related property. The report notes intangible benefits like education and vitality, and compares Fort Hays to smaller Ottawa private college.
A letter discusses a daughter dating a man whose sister is institutionalized for chronic schizophrenia. The writer seeks medical guidance and expresses concern about mental illness within the family. The piece reflects era attitudes toward psychiatry and diagnosis.
Readers ask if mental illness is hereditary and about genetic counseling. Answers note some mental disorders can occur in any family and not all are inherited. Advice includes seeking genetic counseling at medical centers and considering family history before marriage. Other questions cover paternity blood tests and whether an EKG can show past heart attacks. The letter ends with a prayer excerpt.
The Nixon administration grants broad discretion to U S commanders in North Vietnam with authority to strike petroleum depots railways bridges and MIG fields while Washington retains veto power Gen Creighton Abrams and Adm John McCain decide targets planes and bombs within this framework Pentagon sources say.
AP reports television over the weekend led by President Nixon's Russia visit and CBS 60 Minutes with Morley Safer guiding a Moscow tour including the Soviet film crew. The piece notes Moscow's blend of modern concrete, old onion domes, costly cigarettes and liquor, a cheap subway ride, and tight housing rents. Also aired was Nixon's 13 year old kitchen debate footage. Final Miss USA pageant results from Puerto Rico selected Miss Hawaii amid musical numbers and hosts Helen O'Connell and Bob Barker.
A nationwide AP test sent nearly 800 letters from six bureaus in as many cities found eight of ten letters without zip codes arrived on time or faster than zip coded letters mailed simultaneously. The study questions the assumed speed advantage of five digit zip codes in first class or airmail service.
William L. Ryan outlines why the Kremlin pressed ahead with a planned summit with President Nixon. Moscow seeks European security concessions, expanded trade, and Western tech, while balancing Vietnam, missile limits, and Sino-Soviet dynamics. Brezhnev pursues long-range strategic goals with a peace image.
Paris Tex AP reports Deport City Council advertises the 33.66 acre city lake property for sale to the highest bidder. The lake includes seven acres of surface water and a four room house. Deport receives water from Pat Mayse Lake near Paris and no longer needs its own lake.
Daily Ottawa Kansas TV log lists a long schedule from 5 PM through 2:30 AM with Dream Of Jeannie Outdoors In Kansas Hogan's Heroes Lassie It's Your Bet Buck Owens Laugh-in Gunsmoke Here's Lucy Only Two Can Play The Impatient Heart and more. Program notes include News Weather Sports and various soaps and game shows with several film titles and public notices.
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