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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1958
Page
2
Editorial notes two car garage goal and rising downtown parking. El Dorado advances an off street parking plan funded by benefit districts with city and district cost split and 15 car lots paved and metered. Local businessmen support the system though they will pay. Ottawa currently lacks heavy parking strain with courthouse lots serving the area.
The 93rd annual fair opens Tuesday with a Main Street parade and a sidewalk bazaar by local merchants. A rodeo and Western motif boost the event while county youth and 4-H clubs display farm products at the south end grounds. For four days the town will hum with activity as pre school shoppers prepare for the months ahead. The fair is a summer climax and deserves wide support and attendance.
The piece reflects on postwar diplomacy and shifting politics. It notes a Republican attorney general's daughter becoming a Democrat, stock market multiples near 1929 levels, and a local Atchison vote to run the library but not water. It jabs at security through hotels and homes, then critiques Khrushchev and indirect aggression.
A garbled 25 year old report mentions Latimer trading property in Ho for Henry Rubick’s in Wil with Mrs Fister and Mr Martin linked to a Christian Church watermelon feed. An Ottawa wrestler was struck by a fan amid a Mo high school graduation scene. the bottle thrower is named in the fragment.
A noted eye specialist warns faulty vision or hearing can turn a bright child into a failing student. The piece urges thorough pre school examinations, realistic checks beyond simple eye charts, and parental attention to detect gradual sensory defects before school starts. It also includes reader questions on breastfeeding and weight loss advice with practical responses.
A brief church prayer asks Almighty God to guide believers toward eternal purposes in Christ Jesus. The petition seeks strength to keep eyes fixed on Thy will and live accordingly, in Jesus' name Amen.
New York AP column compiles quirky mailbag facts and wry observations. Notes include Megacorpse, odds of car accidents, ancient alphabet origins, and Fields on clubs for women. It cites vacation spending, Adam bomb term, heart pauses, Sammy Kaye anecdote, White House budget, shaving life, beef color hints, and living-person place-name law in Canada.
A scrambled OCR snippet presents a dense run of TV and radio program listings with numerous show titles and times from an era dominated by Walt Disney? Mickey Mouse and classic Westerns. The fragment hints at daily entertainment blocks across News Sports Weather and Theatre with scattered actor names and program shifts.
Two people died in Kansas weekend accidents. Gerald Lewis Clark, 18, of Peabody, died when his car swerved into a ditch near Newton on U S 50. A Holton man, John G. Fultz, 78, perished in a two car crash west of Holton. Missouri reported seven fatalities, including Bobby D. Kemper, 32, of Kansas City, Kansas, in a bridge crash.
Washington AP reports President and Mrs. Eisenhower plan a Newport vacation possibly Thursday or Friday, second year in a row. Length depends on world and home developments. Headquarters will be at Coasters Harbor Island with living quarters at Fort Adams across the harbor.
Secretary of Agriculture Benson urged the 3,000 delegates at the 30th annual American Institute of Cooperation meeting that cooperatives are vital to farmers. He said the new farm bill, though not perfect, broadens price supports to expand markets and move farming away from rigid government control toward greater farmer autonomy.
AP notes Kansas traffic fatalities by state accident records. In last 48 hours totals show 3 deaths. To date in 1958 reach 330, compared with 342 in the same period of 1957.
Floyd Strickland a 19 year old sailor from Olathe Kansas was killed when the car he rode in was struck by a truck on Bayshore Highway in San Francisco AP reports the incident involving the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga crew member.
OLATHE Kan AP William Howard Lampkins nine, drowned at the city dump while trying to recover a toy airplane from debris floating on eight feet of water in a ravine. The boy and three youths sank before surfacing. they were pulled out with difficulty and the body was recovered by firemen and construction workers.
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