The announcements in Honolulu papers cannot be put in by parents, grandparents, etc.
An old post! I have followed the COLB articles from the start and have seen many mention that Obama’s grandmother ‘may’ have had the announcement put in the paper.
When one of my daughters in another city had her first child, I called in the announcement to my local newspaper.
I would think that back in the 1960’s it would have been no problem at all.