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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1972
Page
1
Ottawa Herald page two dated Wednesday November 22 1972 features local briefs and notices. The clipped page includes short items on community events and public notices from Ottawa Kansas.
Five Big Eight Conference teams will play in bowl games according to the latest tally. The article notes the region’s football quality and recalls a Nebraska or Iowa State figure, with strong emotion about football’s prominence in the Midlands. A Nebraska star running back is highlighted as a top national award contender.
The University of Kansas athletic director announces resignation, citing outside pressures to cheat and recruit and to raise money as violating personal principles. The piece laments the shift from amateur ideals to professional standards and criticizes fans and money-driven motives in college sport.
The piece argues rising flour and bread prices fuel a proposed U S congressional limit on grain exports. It notes Russian crop failures and market purchases shifted U S prices, warns rural underrepresentation may press for limits, and calls for broader trade partnerships over protectionism. It stresses interdependence in a shrinking world.
A college friend comments on Ottawa’s early Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving. Merchants respond with lights and specials as the Yale season starts sooner each year, extending festive ambiance from late October into January.
A patient reports cervical radiculitis causing severe headaches and right side head pain. She experiences right arm weakness affecting lifting, with pain triggered by movement on that side.
A reader asks about radiculitis in the neck and possible treatments beyond pills, noting improvements from posture changes, neck traction, and surgical fusion in a similar case. Another letter asks if thyroid medicine can aid fertility, and how to use a 25 percent aluminum chloride foot soak, with brief medical guidance and a closing prayer.
New York AP reports a columnist’s curiosity about hard materials and tools. A diamond-pointed tool cuts bronze 1,200 miles before sharpening, while tung sten-carbon cuts 21 miles. Frontiersmen used shale deposits as burning rocks for meals on the western Rockies. The piece notes large predators mostly outmatched by humans, and cites a Virginia doctor disputing tuberculosis origins in the Americas.
Hal Boyle reports signs of tuberculosis in a mummified Peruvian child who died around 700 A.D. before white explorers arrived. The piece also notes Quotable notables and various folk beliefs and generic reflections on luck and safety.
The Agriculture Department will use a special crop plantings survey begun after the 1970 corn blight. After 1971 and 1972 uses, the survey will again be taken on Jan 1 to gauge 1973 spring plantings of corn cotton soybeans durum wheat oats barley sorghum and flaxseed. A regular March plantings survey remains unchanged.
Ottawa Kansas listings detail daily TV programming across channels from early morning to midnight. It catalogs news weather sports movies dramas and children's shows, naming programs such as Sesame Street Lost In Space Hogan's Heroes Beverly Hillbillies Mission and various afternoon and late night features. The page includes pricing for subscriptions and notes Associated Press copyright and publication details.
New York AP surveys show a wide range of opinion on inflation with a split between fears of rising prices and expectations that prices will stay controlled. Analysts cite unemployment, contract outlooks, productivity, and plant capacity as factors shaping the inflation outlook next year.
Washington AP reports that government incentives for wool growers under the production incentive program are expected to fall sharply in 1972 due to higher market prices. Announced in spring, payments for 1972 wool will compensate the difference between incentive and market prices, with 1971 payments at 110 million dollars, and 1972 projections around 58 million. The drop follows a strong rebound in wool prices after a 1971 low of 19.4 cents per pound for shorn wool, the lowest since 1938.
Washington AP—Soybean farmers face poor harvest weather this fall and possible price trouble next year if USDA overdoes 1973 acreage plans. ASA notes USDA floated alternatives to feed grain acreage set aside, including boosting soybean acres. USDA estimates soybean plantings could run 48 to 52 million acres next year vs 46.4 million this year. decision due by December 1.
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