Saturday Notebook Weekend Sparks and Rumor Debunking
The column dismisses a cafeteria food fight rumor at Ottawa University and notes Alf Landon's 96th birthday surpassing Northwestern Mutual mortality tables. It covers Cosell comments on Alvin Garrett, reactions from Rev. Lowery, Soviet airliner shootdown fallout, Billy Tubbs’ OU remarks, and satirical ideas about public shaming.
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Ottawa University
Braves
Ou-Bethany
Alf Landon
Alf
Northwestern Mutual
Landon
Our Hypocritical Society by John Cunniff
AP analysis argues federal policy fails due to collective hypocrisy. Purdue economist William Dunkelberg contends unemployment is partly voluntary, urging lower wages in heavy industries like autos and steel to stimulate jobs, lower prices and broader employment while taxes rise to fund transfers.
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U.S
Education reform ideas from Goodlad for U.S.D. 290 schools
U.S.D. 290 Superintendent Roger Nelson previews John Goodlad's fall book A Place Called School Prospects for the Future. Recommendations include starting school at age four, compressing 12 grades into 12 years, and creating small schools with 400 elementary students and 600 800 secondary students.
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Roger Nelson
U.S.D
John I. Goodlad
Graduate School of Education
UCLA
Goodlad
America
Remembrance and the Songs of a Lifelong Union
A aging couple in Florida considers marriage as they share memories across decades. The letter-writer notes how shared songs and past experiences, from Night and Day to Always, bind partners and echo a life lived through war, moves, schooling, and cinema, ending on the value of mutual memory.
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Stuart Awbrey
Harris
Florida
Gertrude
Barbara
Cole Porter
Gary Cooper
Lou Gehrig
Teresa Wright
Elsie Dinsmore
Frank Merriwell
Tom Swift
William Cullen Bryant
Hopalong Cassidy
Ramon Navarro
Stretching helps relieve muscle cramps and pedal cadence tips
A swimmer and reader shares a cramp relief method involving straightening and flexing limbs, iced muscles, and gentle stretching. Dr Donohue notes cooling aids, hydration, and avoiding fatigue, while warning cramps can signal serious issues. A cyclist adds cadence advice, citing 60 rpm as risky and 90 rpm or more as knee friendly, with personal miles and no knee problems.
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Donohue
Robert Bond
American Wheelman
M.C
Prayer Reflection on Love and Righteousness
A devotional excerpt cites Corinthians 13 5 RSV about love not insisting on its own way or resenting, followed by a prayer asking God to remove angels, shape a right spirit, and guide past petty concerns toward righteousness in Him Amen.
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Geezer
Fred Astaire
Justice Douglas
Strom Thurmonds
Douglases
Ottawa Herald subscription rates page notice
The Ottawa Herald lists subscription rates for the trade area including Ottawa and surrounding towns, with monthly, quarterly, semiannual and annual options for in area and out of area, plus sales tax details and out of state tax deduction. Editor Robert B. Wellington oversees publication.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
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