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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1981
Page
1
Preliminary indications show gasoline consumption fell over the three day weekend despite reports of no fuel shortage. National surveys indicate Americans plan less travel this summer due to high costs and inflation. Since 1979 US gasoline use has dropped 16.5 percent, reducing imports of foreign oil.
The country imported 43 percent less oil from Arab nations than four years ago in the same month. OPEC ministers are meeting amid a world wide oil glut and considering price increases up to four dollars per barrel. Consumers push conservation as dependence on foreign oil remains high and attempts to curb fuel costs gain urgency.
An editorial notes that U.S. opposition to a World Health Assembly code on marketing infant formulas highlights a clash between free market principles and global health. It argues that in unsanitary Third World areas, selling formula increases infant deaths, urging caution against exporting such products.
A dense, disordered TV guide style page lists programs including Family Feud, Movie Combat, and various news and talk shows, along with sports, dramas, and indpendent network updates. Names such as John Barbour, Ralph, Sarah Purcall Fox, and figures linked to Vegas and nautical plots appear amid descriptions, ratings, durations, and channel cues.
A columnist ventriloquizes disdain for Earl Buzz and similar reform targets, praising the fall of a public figure while warning of systemic tax and corporate cheats. The piece links Buzz to broader abuses, condemns sanctimony, and argues for government regulation despite calls for deregulation.
George Snyder of the National Taxpayers Union argues federal retirement benefits are an outrage and could be cut by about 8 billion yearly by aligning them with private plans. He notes the average federal pension of about 959 dollars monthly, early retirement, dual COLAs, and a debt of one trillion across federal programs, calling it a ripoff and scandalous.
A BBC Time-Life co production on Nancy Astor begins exterior shooting in Charlottesville Virginia with British actress Lisa Harrow as Astor. The nine part miniseries will film in Virginia then move to Montpelier Station Lynchburg and Richmond for a June 10 Confederate Day parade scene with about 140 extras.
Dear Dr Donahue explains Bell's palsy basics and recovery timeline, eye protection with patches and artificial tears, facial muscle exercises, and prednisone use with attention to side effects. Also discusses temporal arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica symptoms, cortisone treatment, and the importance of prompt care, ending with a prayer.
The Ottawa Herald lists subscription prices for trade area and outside regions. Rates show monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual options with sales taxes noted. In Ottawa area by carrier prices align with listed monthly and multi month terms.
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