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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1960
Page
2
Hal Boyle highlights the olive tariff issue showing how foreign olive producers pay low wages and undersell U.S. growers. The piece notes tariffs shift costs, risk retaliation, and reflect broader protectionist trends affecting steel, cars, clothing, watches, and other goods. Domestic costs rise while foreign output remains cheaper.
A devotional prayer asks for guidance and love to be shown through daily actions. The piece then shifts to light humor about talking birds, travel miscommunication, a Ford salesman mishap, and political quips about Hoover, FDR, Kennedy, Cuba, and global confiscations, ending with a Congo joke about pot and kettle calling each other white.
A three year county records audit was compiled and accepted by the Franklin County commissioners. Free diphtheria immunization was offered to children ages six months to ten years. Prof and Mrs Hazen L Richardson and children traveled in Montana. A barn in Richmond owned by Mrs W Bartlett was destroyed by lightning after a heavy rain. C G Johnson sold ten handmade Bavana cigars his own invention and planned wide scale retail. W T Smith reopened the Nelson planing mill and announced a new factory site.
A dense listing of programs across channels including ABC and local theaters, noting shows like Belle Le Qrana and Mr Wizard Wrestling, with a mix of sports, films, and theater premieres. Highlights feature theater awards, baseball games, and news blocks framing a busy Saturday evening schedule.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Eichenberger of Albuquerque and Mrs Ruth Barton of Wichita visit Charles and Karl Eichenberger and their families. Harry Miller returns from Colorado. Burns visit Denver and Longmont. Topeka guest Lucy Appier visits Ail. Jimbo Plough, Ronda and Cindy arrive from Jasper Alabama and reside on North Main. Willistons return from Oklahoma summer work. Eunice Maltby and Bert Hart visit Earl Hart. Sellens visit Radke family in Great Bend. Ray Button family hosts in Centropolis.
Cystic fibrosis CF is a disease of exocrine glands affecting lungs and pancreas. It causes sticky mucus, breathing difficulty, infections, poor digestion, and weight loss. Treatments include daily antibiotics, aerosol inhalations, high protein diet with pancreatic enzymes, and extra vitamins. CF is not contagious. encourage understanding and support for affected children and families.
AP reports last week department store sales in the 10th Federal Reserve district fell 1 percent from the previous year. Western Missouri rose 2 percent while Kansas dropped 6 percent. National figures showed a percentage decline.
The Ottawa Herald lists Channel 13 double feature, Channel 4 movies and shows like Body and Soul and Week End Deserters, Bonanza, Perry Mason, Lassie, and military dramas. Channel 9 Maverick and Desperate Moment anchor the lineup with Channel 4 News, Loretta Young, Marx Brothers, and Don Ameche in Conirm or Deny. Channel 13 presents Oriential Dream with Colman and Dietrich. schedule includes local news, weather, and public notices.
Jerrie Cobb, an Oklahoma City pilot, may join 12 women volunteers in spaceflight tests. Dr. Randolph Lovelace, head of Project Mercury physiology, says 20 women were examined. 12 passed, with plans to compare results to men. Cobb, 20, has flown crops to jets and says she would pursue spaceflight even if she did not survive.
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