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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1987
Page
1
Rev. Richard Taylor, lobbyist for temperance groups, proposes stronger DUI laws. The package seeks automatic license suspensions for blood alcohol test refusals, restitution for accident victims, making DUI fatalities a felony, 90 day license revocation for first offenses, and provisional license withdrawal for youths who refuse testing.
The piece argues Congress must share responsibility for U.S. lives in foreign conflicts, criticizing the War Powers Resolution as a shield for inaction. It notes Navy escorts for Kuwaiti tankers in the Persian Gulf and questions congressional focus on the resolution rather than the crisis. American lives have been lost, with the Gulf described as a war zone.
A nostalgic column muses on cherished objects from the past including the Volkswagen Beetle’s enduring appeal, the Underwood No. 5 typewriter, Ivory soap, Kleenex, Coke bottles, Hershey bars, dimes, hot dogs, brooms, Keds, corduroy pants, and a Boy Scout knife. The writer laments changing designs and notes how some items vanish or evolve with time.
A narrator recalls an 80-year-old two story home with attic stairs and a basement near the Mississippi River. Strange footsteps in the attic and a growling incident in the basement spook the author who later moves away after discovering a Ouija board and learns the new neighbors call the resident Caspar.
A columnist laments the disappearance of tan jeans and expandable window screens, recalling blue jeans’ ubiquity and the shift to storm windows and air conditioning. He complains of a troublesome Black and Decker iron, its opaque manual, and a futile quest for simple, utilitarian items now obsolete or rare.
A Burlington Gazette column savages the B 1B bomber, calling it overpriced and impractical while arguing cheaper, proven weapons and simpler machines would better defend the United States. The piece likens the jet to a Doomsday tool, mocks Pentagon choices, and warns of escalating costs and risk to crews. It ends by praising gutsy pilots amid a sharper critique of aircraft design and strategic doctrine.
Eric Echols, a Texas inmate, allegedly runs a mail order scheme offering daily spicy letters for a fee. A Chicago woman received one copywritten missive and a form to send money via the inmate trust fund. The attorney sender, Jan Kodner, comments on curiosity and a joke about reducing postage fees.
The Ottawa Herald lists new subscription rates effective October 1 1987 for Ottawa area Franklin County and adjacent counties by carrier and mail. Rates: one month 4 50 three months 12 50 six months 24 05 one year 46 00 local. plus mail rates for Franklin and adjacent counties and all other areas. out of state subscribers incur 5.5 percent sales tax.
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