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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1957
Page
2
Spring brings Ottawa’s famous old elms into focus as aging trees with canopy over streets decline due to drought and disease. Community planners face a need for replacement with suitable varieties to preserve shade and city character for future generations.
The Kansas Government Journal compiles figures showing average moral property assessed at 25 percent of market value and urban property at 19 percent. Taxwise the farmer is robbed, while cities claim high taxes. With 19 percent assessment the true tax rate is under 1.4 percent of market value, likely lower than 40 years ago.
In Richmond Virginia a third grade edition remarks on Eisenhower and Congress fighting over the budget. It notes tax payers feel the pinch while lawmakers seek pet projects and a defense allocation likely stays large. The piece ends with a call for childlike honesty in comments.
A string of light sketches riffs on public figures and everyday life. Jokes reference Gene Lockhart death date remarks, spring arrivals, a teen curfew, a speed cop and Ike, a joking bread boast, thermostat gripes, Truman letters, and spring air window drafts.
A discussion of bridge odds, card playing prevalence, and top games. It notes a professor’s estimate of a perfect bridge hand at about one in 40 million deals, surveys showing 80 percent of adults play cards, and ranks canasta as the most popular game. It mentions solitaire variations, cheating tendencies, and poker hands including the royal flush and five of a kind with wild cards.
A Shriners gathering in Ottawa featured boxing, music, and a Dutch lunch, billed as an anti low mood event. Ottawa merchants hear M H Forester speak after a state wide business survey trip. Peggy Carr named drivers license agent for Ottawa area. Workmen uncover an ancient Indian skeleton during Clarence Reed home foundations digging. Reed notes burial in a seated posture with finery, recalling two nearby Indian graves from 50 years prior. First National Bank installs a new iron rear entrance door.
A verse from Romans 6 16 emphasizes that obedience defines servitude and allegiance, warning that choosing a master shapes one’s conduct and destiny.
A devotional fragment invoking God to reveal His love and salvation through the reader, ending in a prayerful Amen to honor the Redeemer.
The fragment lists publishing details for The Ottawa Herald with rates and prayer fragments. It mentions daily publication except Sundays and holidays, and includes scrambled phrases and subscription pricing for various periods.
Two young Turkish fans who shaved heads to imitate Yul Brynner were struck by a group of non admirers in Ankara. Police intervened to break up the confrontation and ensure order among the crowd of onlookers and supporters.
Television listings show a Tuesday schedule with WDAF News at 5 00 and 6 00 PM featuring Morgan Beatty and Bob Sanders. Programs include WDAF General News and KTIO FM specials plus entertainment and biography features across KCMO KCOMO MTU and other stations.
A fragmented radio grid shows KTIO FM NM content with KCMO and WDAF stations listing programs and times. Mentions include sports, news, theatre, and music blocks with hosts such as Q Lewis, Kubie, and Layman. The readable items reflect a busy broadcast day across multiple stations with varied genres.
A column of quirky facts and trivia from mailbag lore. It lists surprising notes about Omar Khayyam, Leap Years, Kat Smith, and a host of miscellaneous tidbits. The item reads like a collage of curiosities, with many named people, places, and dates woven through the list.
Subscribers new and renewal subscriptions listed for Ottawa Herald include Baldwin Ernest E Kaub Garnett Frank C Kirkoff Greeley F D Garrison M L Horn Lane L E Baucom LaVerne Ellis Osawatomi J R Whitaker Mrs C A Perler Ottawa Paul Howards Kay Kyle Willard Lister Mrs J B Sinclair Paola Virgil McMahan Pomona Robert Steele Princeton J G Barnes.
Federal District Court will hear two land condemnation cases tied to the Tuttle Creek Reservoir project. The disputes involve three Manhattan landowners led by Walter Bell and Mildred Moyer, who rejected $160,000 for a 427 acre tract eight miles north of Manhattan, and Nathan D. Harwood, contesting a $98,000 offer for a 252 acre parcel immediately north of the Bell Moyer property.
A column on parenting compares child rearing to training animals, urging consistency, love as emotional anchor, and avoidance of spoiling. It stresses foster care bonds, family love beyond blood, and early socialization through church and siblings, plus prudent guidance from Sunday school. The piece notes parental advertising and cites Dr Crane advising practical methods.
Four members of a single family died when their automobile overturned and crashed into a ditch on Viola Road near Goddard. The dead are George Johnson his wife Carmen and two children James 4 and George 6 months. Two other children Donna 7 and Glen 5 were hospitalized with undetermined injuries. The car wreck occurred around midnight leaving debris along the road three quarters of a mile south of Goddard.
Karl Koerner 56 vice president of Kansas City Power and Light Co. and civic leader died last night after fainting during a Harvard Business School Alumni Association dinner downtown. He was found unwell while walking to his car and died minutes after a doctor arrived.
Washington and London announced another nuclear explosion in the Soviet Union, the eighth in a series begun last August. The blast, which occurred last Saturday, is said to test weapons to arm various troop formations as Moscow pursues perfected capabilities.
Two crowded electric trains collided head on in a Capetown suburb, killing at least 24 people and injuring scores. Large blood transfusions were organized with white donor blood, noted as available to all victims despite racial classifications used locally.
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