Downtown parking poll shows split on options
A Chamber of Commerce postcard poll reveals deep community division over downtown parking. Seventy-six percent returned ballots with 43 percent favoring parallel parking, 29 percent supporting wide-angle, and 26 percent preferring current setup. Retail interests urge creating off-street spaces for each space removed. The city commission must decide soon to ease Main Street traffic.
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Chamber of Commerce
Main Street
OU Report on Ottawa University Progress and Community Support
The OU president Dr. Peter Armacost urges renewed community backing as the university expands new educational approaches. He notes nationwide attention, student approval, and hoped enrollment growth while stressing the need for increased financial support to sustain effective education. He frames the university as a major local enterprise requiring dollars now to yield future returns.
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Ottawa University
Peter Armacost
Dear Dr Thosteson Urge Clearer Smoking Advice
A reader asks for stronger doctor guidance to quit smoking. She quotes generic doctor remarks and describes asking their physician to tell her husband he must quit for his heart. The letter advocates decisive medical counsel.
To Your Good Health and Patient Replies
A letter column discusses smoking cessation efforts and patient variability. Shadows of doctor authority, patient compliance, and spousal influence surface, with notes on colchicine use and intermittent dosing versus stopping. A reader asks about nasal polyps and odor, with guidance to seek a specialist for potential surgery.
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Thosteson
T.B
M.G.S
Prayer for Today in Jacob's Ladder Imagery
A devotional reflection invites courage and grace as believers envision climbing toward spiritual growth. The text cites Genesis 28 12 and offers a prayer to avoid slipping while seeking higher faith.
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Jacob
New York columnist cites mail hints on science and life
Hal Boyle surveys varied tidbits from air pollution dangers to earthquake risk in 19 states and Barrow barter, with global food spends, Mead quote, Mariana Trench depth, archers fish, Rome collapse theories, and spinster etymology.
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Russia
Margaret Mead
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Pacific Ocean
National Geographic Society
Globe
Hardin To Eye Turkeys Problem In Opium Poppy Shift
Agriculture Secretary Clifford M. Hardin heads to Turkey to discuss crop alternatives for farmers ordered to quit growing opium poppies. The mission, announced by President Nixon in September, follows a month of work by an Agriculture Department team in Turkey.
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Turkey
Hardin
Nixon
Agriculture Department
Brezhnev's Paris visit cements Soviet leadership standing
AP reports Brezhnev's six day Paris trip underscored his primacy in the Soviet party state, signaling a shift from collective rule to a personal foreign policy face. He greeted officials as “the highest authority” while balancing calls for collective leadership and promoting French-Soviet cooperation.
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Leonid I. Brezhnev
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
France
Soviet Communist Party
Kosygin
Georges Pompidou
Soviet
Pompidou
President de la Republique
Programming For Children Is Better
AP reports improvement in children’s TV this season across networks. CBS Aesop’s Fables on Sunday night offered a charming half hour with Bill Cosby as Aesop and a moral, while NBC’s The Bold Ones mixed courtroom to courtroom segments in a three-case Sunday hour. NBC also aired a large Friday specials block.
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New York
CBS
Cosby
Tooth Decay
Aesop
NBC
Record Calf Prices Hit New Highs In October
Washington AP reports feeder calf prices averaged 36.80 per hundredweight last month, topping March 1970's high. Demand driven by record fall feed supplies and fewer heifers entering markets supported gains. all feeder stock index at mid October stood at 129, 29 percent above four years earlier. Also, farm monthly telephone bills averaged 5.96 dollars in summer, up four percent from 1970, with the largest rise in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
USDA
Television Log Heavy Night Time Schedule
A dense TV guide lists a full day of network programming from 5 PM to midnight including national news, weather, sports, daytime soaps, game shows, and a string of prime time films and comedies. Notable titles include Petticoat Junction, The Beverly Hillbillies, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, Dragnet, and Islands in the Sun.
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Munsters
Petticoat Junction
Kansas
High Chaparral
Captain Kangaroo
Beverly Breckenridge
David Frost
Dinah Shore
Lucille Ball
Ottawa Herald subscription rates and policy details
Ottawa Herald lists daily publication in Ottawa Kansas with editor Robert B Wellington. Rates shown include trade area and out of state prices for one month to one year, plus sales tax guidance and AP content rights.
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Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
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