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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1957
Page
2
Editorial notes Franklin County commissioners, school board, and city budget hearings with no taxpayer questions. The three budgets total 1 661 684 dollars, promising higher Ottawa property tax bills and public apathy that makes hearings seem unnecessary.
The state health department reports this summer shows 23 polio cases and two deaths, far below last year’s 63 cases and five deaths. The Salk vaccine is credited for lower illness and death, while noting adults can still be affected and parental health matters to children.
Mamie Eisenhower underwent surgery on Monday and officials described it as routine not tumor nor cancerous. The president’s press secretary suggested updates would be limited and privacy would be respected, contrasting past disclosures about President Eisenhower’s health.
A collection of quips references fashion fall lines showing shorter skirts, a Paris wordplay about knee aesthetics, Queen Elizabeth’s five day U.S. visit, a snub to the Grand Canyon, and humorous notes on chickens, American travels, and drought reportage in the West. It ends with a wish for a cow skull image in Central Park and a remark on Chinese Communism.
A brief devotional passage cites 1 Samuel 10 21 22 noting Saul hiding among the stuff and adds a prayer asking God to cleanse believers from faintheartedness and to follow the Lord closely. The prayer seeks self examination and steadfast obedience in Christ.
Subscription rates in trade area by mail list monthly at .85 and yearly at 7. Outside trade area rates show one month at 1 and yearly at 10. The notice names Robert B. Wellington editor Guy Snedaker publisher and provides mailing details for daily publication.
A book on America's jazz era profiles 25 figures from bootleggers to reformers with bright blurbs. The list includes Ponzi Sacco McNamee Cone Doheny Scopes Johnson Stillman Palmer Rothstein Arnstein Guinan Browning Schultz Miller Morgan Britton Franks Mitchell Diamond Seabury Berkman Mills King Taylor Levine Rappe Einstein Lingle plus other contemporaries.
In a case labeled V-357, Hilda K. aged 29, worries over chronic alcoholism affecting marriage and fertility. Dr George W Crane argues alcohol serves as an escape from reality, masking sexual inferiority and pregnancy stress, leading to repeated drunken episodes and broken trust.
HAL BOYLE writes a light essay on middle age and dental loss. A 46 year old with a partial plate cannot feel younger or chew gum without embarrassment. He recalls losing four upper front teeth and the impact on speech and self image.
A fragment from The Ottawa Herald quotes a speaker lamenting false teeth. The passage depicts a man describing inability to chew gum as imprisoning him to time and silence, using a vivid metaphor of a gum curtain behind which he is restrained.
TOPEKA Infantile paralysis cases in Kansas this year are running well behind 1955. Five new cases last week brought the year's total to 23. There have been two deaths. Last year at this time 63 cases and five deaths were reported.
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