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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1958
Page
3
A Wichita area piece warns that April to June are hazardous due to twister season. It notes helicopters simulate tornadoes to alert the public and urges prompt shelter in basements or inner walls, avoiding phones and curious crowds while calling for help for those in danger.
A reader condemns an advertisement showing a dog in distress and urges voters to permit loose dogs to end the alleged torture by owners. The letter alleges owners would strangle, starve, withhold water, and pay damages while calling children troublesome, all to sway public policy.
Daily Lent reflection from Riverside Church New York uses Jesus in Gethsemane to urge surrender to God's will. Charles Daniel Brodhead of Pennsylvania frames prayer for divine guidance, asking the Holy Spirit to help conquer self-will and carry out God's plan.
Auld Lang Syne report lists keys stolen from 611 King. Mr and Mrs Buck plan to move from 712 Hickory to 313 Maple. J W Kerr marks his 81st birthday after 51 years in Ottawa. Uncle Dan Watkins returns from Lane. Four buildings rise to replace ones lost in a town fire. City Engineer Walter Myers and Claude Pugh level paving for an alley between Main and Hickory from 2nd to 3rd. Roy McCreery of Richmond named manager of a Colorado sugar factory.
Onion sets are on the market as Kansas spring gardeners feel the sap rising. Local note from Wichita highlights garden trend and readiness for planting season.
The essay discusses Easter church attendance, noting some go only on Christmas Eve and Easter for social or business reasons or religious mood. It defends new clothes for Easter, praising fresh outfits as inspiring and harmless when they lead people to church, and urges no scolding of those who buy new attire for the holiday.
The piece notes This And That Haircurg rising to 1.75 in Kansas City and muses on pop culture, politics, and quirky quotes. It references rock slang, anti recession talk, a reader seeking investment tips, Dodgers versus White Sox, and a Kansas City school Russian course with 24 enrollees.
Rates listed for Ottawa Herald by mail in and outside trade area. Local and out of area plans shown: one month, three months, six months, and one year prices. Names and editorial notes appear in fragmentary form with publisher and editor mentions.
Readable TV guide fragment lists channel lineups and time slots for Channel 4 NBC CBS ABC and more. Programs include Hickok Wagon Train Ozzie Harriet Father Knows Best Gunsmoke The Mickey Mouse Club The Newscasts and late-night shows with Jack Paar I Spy and Meet the Press.
Topeka reports Kansas farmers received higher averages for all commodities on March 15, the peak since February 1954, with grains beef cattle hogs and poultry products lifting the overall index. Wheat averaged 1.99 per bushel up 7 cents from mid February and 8 cents below a year ago. beef cattle at 21.80 per hundredweight, calves 24.80, hogs 20, all near highs for years.
Vernon J. Waldenmeyer a 31 year old salesman from St. Louis files in district court for 102158 in damages after a January crash on U S 54 two miles west of Kismet Kansas. He says Floyd Edward Walker near Liberal turned without signaling causing the accident and that the plaintiff is 75 percent disabled with leg paralysis.
Claudia Procula awakening in fear recalls a nightmare of madness and mob roars as she seeks aid from slaves and guards in a trembling palace scene. The piece frames Procula as a bystander figure in an Easter narrative extended from non canonical sources and oral tradition.
HAL BOYLE surveys show top executives are avid readers of nonfiction and lists a string of curious facts from history, culture, and everyday life. The piece blends light trivia with a fictional vignette about Claudia in Pilate’s era, hinting at moral conflict and fate.
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