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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1961
Page
2
Ottawawa and Franklin County residents avoid public hearings on budgets, though taxpayers care about costs and services. Budget increases come with wider facilities and service needs. Some budget-makers show a defensive stance, but public good should trump fear of censure. lack of protests does not prove consent.
The piece argues that private airlines can deny boarding to individuals connected to Cuban sympathizers on both sides of the Cas tro fence. It notes the impracticality of armed guards aboard planes and screening, while contrasting with an imagined risky scenario of a traveler ending up far from New York City.
A reader asks if exercise makes weight gain possible while trying to shed hips and thighs. Dr Mother explains calories burned, urges realistic goals, and notes that consistent activity loses weight gradually. The column adds guidance on healthy methods and cautions about overestimating quick results.
A collection of pithy quips on spaceflight glitches, travel by train to Chicago, draft war fear, home-state license tags, Drew Pearson’s war warnings, coat-on-hot-day logic, Tobacco Road revival rumors, meteorology’s precision dulling life’s fun, weather misfires, and a spoof leaflet offer from Dr. Mother with a mail request for self addressed envelopes and 5 cents.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs George Harrison of 724 Tremont. Lafayette C Haughn 1936 Ottawa University graduate signs to teach history and coach at Quincy High School Kansas. Toss Price 6 daughter of Mr and Mrs Forrest Price of Princeton injures left foot stepping on rabbit bone. A W Johnson travels to Peabody to buy horses for St Louis market. Edward Dorsey drug clerk at Becker Drug Store moves to residence at 435 Locust. Fire threatens Commercial Hotel Wellsville but extinguished with no serious damage.
A dense daily guide lists TV programs across channels with time slots and titles from morning to midnight. It includes cartoons, news, talk shows, serials, movies, variety hours, and sports, featuring Popeye, Huckleberry Hound, Huntley Brinkley, Gordon Jump, and a wide range of era programs and commercials.
A religious invocation honors God and Jesus Christ, praising the heavenly Father for faithful ancestors and the gift of the Son. The text offers a brief prayer concluding with Amen citing Psalm 120:33.
Ottawa Herald shows daily publication with editor Robert Bellington Rae and publisher Guy Snedaker. Rates detailed for trade area monthly and yearly, and outside trade area by mail with monthly quarterly and yearly options. Associated Press membership noted for local news use.
Hollywood AP reports actor John Payne, recovering from injuries in a New York street crash, says he will probably never do television again unless appearing occasionally. He cites exhaustion, conflicts with NBC over violence, and risks of Westerns as reasons for leaving TV, noting Restless Gun earned profits while he owned half, and an earlier pilot failed to sell.
A jumble of channel listings shows Channel 9 airing Wackleber and Donna Reed with late movie Johnny Clock. Channel 5 features Brenner and a sports segment with Eddie Arcaro. Channel 4 presents Outlaws Bat Masterson and Bachelor Father. Channel 8 offers The Untouchable. National party leaders quiz on Joint Appearance. Death Valley Days on Channel 9 with a poison elixir tale. Late movie details include 1947 stars Powell Keyes Cobb.
New York AP reports Soviet prime minister Khrushchev threats and space triumphs impacting stocks and bonds. Analysts foresee a possible moderate boom aided by defense spending, yet warn of higher interest rates as deficits rise and more borrowing concentrates demand for funds.
TOPEKA AP The state will retry remodeling and refurbishing the new governor’s mansion Cedar Crest bids Tuesday totaled 159,712 well above the 100,000 state appropriation James C Canole said contracts could not be awarded and he will confer with Gov John Anderson on next steps Cedar Crest was bequeathed by the late Mrs Frank McLennan widow of a former publisher of the State Journal.
HOLLYWOOD AP Donna Reed’s TV series will extend into a fourth season as The Donna Reed Show remains a family comedy. She credits the ensemble and long-running cast for staying power versus anthology rivals, and notes critics should watch several weeks to judge. Richard Boone also inks a rich new Paladin deal likely extending Have Gun Will Travel beyond 1962.
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