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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1955
Page
2
The coffee break, now a fixture in American work life, lacks formal rules. Proposals urge standardizing breaks at 20 minutes with equal employer and employee contribution, adding two official breaks by stretching the 8 to 5 day with a 50 minute lunch.
Offbeat notes from a Chicago governors conference include roll call gaps as five executives were on a golf course at meeting time. Jokes mix with public official seminars praising common charge sense for police, do it yourself cuckoo clocks, Texas boastfulness, a June bridegroom’s lost parakeet tale, and uranium stock quips.
A nationwide look at rodeos shows attendance rising by about a million annually. Towns in Kansas Colorado and Oklahoma host festivals and carnivals drawing thousands for two day shows. Contractors bring 75 to 100 horses 60 steers 80 calves and 50 Brahma bulls per event. Cowboys band together with associations paying dues and insurance while prize money is their main income. The rodeo emerges as a distinctly American sport rivaling baseball in popularity.
Auld Lang Syne festival in Rantoul rescheduled for this weekend. Local markets show corn and wheat at 58 cents a bushel. County fair entries are coming in as police report three arrests for carrying liquor aboard. Paving on North Locust resumes. Gregory MO reports three Yellow Fever cases. Ottawa schools welcome two new teachers Nora Judy and Maud Shafer. Squire Warren of Sand Creek visits the city today.
A Washington column recalls Dwight D. Eisenhower’s pig calling antics at his Gettysburg farm and weighs whether he will run in 1956. It notes the 500 acre property, Arther S Nevis connections, book earnings, and Eisenhower’s remarks on high country living costs.
Modern pitchers aiming for 20 wins in a season are advised to study Charles Hoss Radbourne who won 60 games in 1884 for Providence when the city hosted National League baseball.
Opal E, a 15 year old in Chicago, faces pressure from a snobbish mother, while Dr. George W. Crane argues true aristocracy lies in merit not wealth. He advocates naturalness, active living, and kindness over luxury signs such as cars or furs, urging readers to value character and self-sufficiency. The piece also promotes his 200-point “Tests for sweethearts” and lists several named couples and automobile models as examples.
Nineteen more new vehicles have been registered at the county treasurer’s office here. New car owners living in Ottawa or on Ottawa routes include Willard Lister Ford Tudor Mrs Ruby Holder Ford Country Sedan Mr or Mrs Hollis W Hunt Chevrolet sedan Mrs Charles Carey Cadillac.
Editor in charge outlines subscription pricing for trade area by mail. Rates show one month to one year options with varied terms. Reading and processing issues in OCR produce garbled rate figures and inconsistent spellings.
A dense listing of daily programs across stations KMBC WDAF and related outlets. Entries include The Edgier Doug Edwards segments, Burns and Allen, Pee Wee King, Garry Moore, Patti Page, Hall shows, World News, morning and afternoon talk, soaps like Love of Life and Guiding Light, children’s programming, variety acts, sports, and late night features with multiple times and channel notes.
Radio schedule fragment lists stations times programs and performers for Tuesday August 23. Includes WDAF KMBC OMBC and 9330 with news comedy suspense baseball and drama shows. multiple partial program names indicate a fragmented listings page.
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