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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1958
Page
2
Editorial argues summer workers and part time students support OU and the local economy. It notes rising college costs and five of seven undergraduates needing work. It urges businesses to hire students for training and future national benefit.
A man automates his morning routine by pushing numerous push buttons from lights to coffee to driving. He voices a dream of inventing something with a push button and making a million. The piece follows a single day of mechanical habit and aspirational desire.
The column riffs on summer fading and small town life. It notes Citizens for Studebaker as a bid tosave a local industry, jokes about a Tulsa speed incident, and mocks a summit that became a desert conference. It mentions Jimmy Hoffa and a refrain on antitrust actions affecting drug prices.
A Dr Molner column discusses how aging brings more accidents than expected, often preventable, from weak balance, fatigue, vision, and hearing issues. It urges frank acknowledgment, safer homes with lighting and rails, clear floors, fitted glasses and hearing aids, and careful routines to reduce injuries. It also notes salt substitutes for edema in a reader query and reminds about medical follow ups and tonsil considerations.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Howard Selby. Dr W C Harding reported to police that someone stole an electric fan from his office while he was on vacation. Robert Ward age 4, son of Mr and Mrs H Ward, underwent a tonsil operation. John Sullivan camping near the river reported finding gas and cooking meals with a crevasse fire as a stove. Prof Bixel arrived from Newton to head the music conservatory at Ottawa University and rented a home at 736 Poplar.
A devotional fragment asks believers to resist sin in the mortal body and cast burdens on God, trusting in Jesus Christ for forgiveness. The text invokes Romans six and emphasizes mercy and prayerful confession.
A dense listing of 1950s to 1960s TV programming across Channel 4 NBC CBS and ABC. Entries include news, cartoons, plays, game shows, dramas, weather, sports, and theatre with times and recurring personalities such as Arthur Godfrey Groucho Marx and Jack Paar.
Cairo subscribers face rising mail delays as rates differ by region. The notice lists monthly and quarterly prices for in trade area and outside, with six months at 5.50 and one year at 14. Soucy publisher outlines changes amid sparse legible details.
Washington AP Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rickover the Navy's top atomic expert is set to be promoted to vice admiral at age 58 as soon as procedures are arranged. This marks a second time a Navy secretary has intervened to win Rickover a promotion after earlier setbacks and disfavor over his protocol clashes in the atomic submarine program.
About 3,000 men live and work in the Sahara at Hass Messaoud, employed by French oil firms. They enjoy air conditioned huts, running water, and five course meals, with bars selling drinks at low prices. Wages are high, with living costs offset by bonuses, and three weekly flights grant a week in Algiers. Most workers are French citizens, with a small share of ex-Foreign Legion members and foreign technicians. The major issue remains the lack of women and pending plans for family housing.
Canberra AP reports Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced that a new Australian Parliament will be elected on November 22. The move sets a nationwide vote date and outlines the start of the campaign period.
Mr and Mrs Emmett Thompson and Mrs R J Weegar and Mrs J W Shoffner were dinner guests of Frank Davis honoring Weegar s birthday and Davis 40th anniversary The visit notes May H Dobbs home from Ralph Pitts family Ralph Pitts home from Topeka hospital for daily Kansas City treatment Mr and Mrs C P Fritts visited LaCygne Amsterdam Mo Relatives were entertained by Mrs Lloyd Myers and son Ronald of Manhattan Mr and Mrs Ray Campbell spent Friday in Everton Mo and Golden City Mo about 45 attended the annual Masons and Eastern Star picnic in City Park Monday night Mr and Mrs C P Fritts and Mrs I L Heth visited the ill Frank Bitts at Dean McMillin home Lyndon Mr D B Fogle and Joyce Fogle traveled to Kansas City for overnigh stay Joyce has been with a WAF tennis team in Newfoundland New Jersey then San Francisco she brought two girls for overnight.
An odd sale blurb offers a 4 percent remedy called Itch-MN-NOT for fast relief from itch, burning, eczema, foot itch, ringworm, insect bites and surface rashes. The ad claims it deadens itch in minutes and is available today at Blair Pharmacy.
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