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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1958
Page
9
A reader asks how to handle a husband with multiple affairs while still loving him and keeping the family intact. Advice suggests setting firm boundaries, cutting off continued romantic escapades, and choosing the children and home over temporary flings.
Taunton Massachusetts reports a 16 year old boy, Edward Masterson, climbed a 40 foot high tension tower on a dare near his home. He touched 13,000 volt lines, suffering severe leg burns and shock. He remains in critical condition and doctors say amputation may be necessary.
Job's Daughters conferred honorary degrees on 13 candidates Monday evening then hosted a reception for their fathers. Recipients included Shirley Rea Allen and Karen Haverty Cain among others. Vocal solos and a duet enriched the ceremony while Jo Archer accompanied. About 150 people attended including past honored queens and guardians.
A McDowell County man asked the State Conservation Department to send him an elk or, failing that, a bison, even offering to pay shipping. The department had no elk or bison to supply, noting bison is extinct in West Virginia. A spokesman speculated he may have read about Western states selling or giving away such animals to reduce grazing on their lands.
In Atlanta shoppers worry after four incidents in which holdup men preface gun threats by ordering bologna. The pattern raises safety concerns for residents and grocers alike amid a spate of weapon-related robberies.
New York advertising executive argues rising violations of television's good conduct code may require an industry czar. Marion Harper Jr. of McCann-Erickson supports self discipline over outside censorship. If violations rise or recession lowers advertising standards, an industry czar might be indicated as 300 TV stations and three networks subscribe to the code.
New York Central Railroad plans salary reductions totaling 200000 dollars yearly by trimming the pay of 137 executives earning more than 15000 dollars annually. The cuts match 100 percent of the amount over 15000 dollars.
Salina Kansas former congressman Clifford Hope will chair coordinated finance campaigns for Kansas Boy Scouts this year. The fund drive opens October 21 with Sen. Arthur Lauterbach named state relations vice chairman and Henry Jameson appointed publicity vice chairman.
Audrie Kristopher, a professional singer adopted by Stamford widow Bertha Draper, will receive more than a million dollars under Draper’s will admitted to probate. Kristopher and his late wife had long been friends of Draper, widow of Charles Draper, a retired New Haven railroad executive, and he helped manage her affairs.
Testimony in court stated that the only living relatives of a deceased individual were unnamed cousins, underscoring the legal specifics of inheritance rights in the case reported by The Ottawa Herald on April 30, 1958.
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