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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1960
Page
2
A long fragment notes Ottawa's $8,000 annual phone franchise payment to the city and explains how state Cornmission rulings require franchise costs to appear on subscribers’ bills. It discusses broader tax burdens on utilities, potential city tax policy shifts, and a recurring prayer and cultural observations. The piece also touches on national items from FBI, Echo basidin, Paris fashion, and Fidel Castro.
The Ottawa Herald lists subscription rates for trade area by mail one month eighty five cents three months two dollars six months three dollars seventy five cents one year seven dollars. Outside trade area by mail one month one dollar fifty cents three months four dollars twenty five cents six months eight dollars one year fifteen dollars. In Kansas only add two hundred sixteen sales tax to above quoted prices. The paper is a member of the Associated Press with exclusive republication rights to local news and AP dispatches.
Excerpts discuss angina pectoris causes and management. It explains chest pain from narrowed arteries and how rest and nitroglycerin tablets help. Key guidance includes weighing exertion limits, avoiding stress, reducing weight, and carrying nitro for attacks while consulting a doctor for variations. It also includes Q and A style notes to readers and a brief unrelated query about stomach odor and peanut consumption.
Auld Lang Syne P E Dieham Panhandle Pipe line Co bitten by a black widow. P2 reported satisfactory at local hospital. Ottawa junior senior high students preparing for next week opening. Over 1,700 names on petition for new Field Grade School building about 75 percent of needed. Jacobs Sowers Quenemo severe eye injury possible loss of sight when harness snapped while pulling stumps. C F Lamb went to Kansas City for throat exam. Commercial Club annual banquet scheduled for Aug 30 at the Nelson Hotel. Friday.
A dense listing of 1960s era programs shows a full day’s TV slate across channels. It includes early shows, news, sports, cartoons, Westerns, dramas, game shows, and movies with titles such as Cimarron City Rawhide Walt Disney Wichita Town Donna Reed I Love Lucy and Bonanza alongside sports events like baseball Yankees vs Indians and Olympic Games coverage.
A dense weekend radio grid lists KOFO and KOFO Karavan programs from morning through evening with news weather markets serenades church services and special shows including Easy Melodies Around Town and Sunday Serenade. The schedule covers KOFO COYFO and affiliate times with numerous start times and program titles.
AFL-CIO leaders convene to chart the federation clocking 14 million members. Endorsement of the Democratic ticket is anticipated as 429-member Executive Council submits recommendations to the General Board. Kennedy viewed with mixed enthusiasm. Johnson opposed earlier, but UAW head Walter Reuther and United Steel Workers president David McDonald later backed Kennedy Johnson ticket after visits to Hyannis Port.
Hollywood AP reports Alfred Hitchcock will direct the final scenes of his fall series Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat and then helm two or three more episodes. Hitchcock Presents moves from CBS to NBC Sept 27, altering its time slot and network arrangement after years in the same berth.
An excerpt shows a speaker correcting themselves about youths needing bedtimes earlier. The garbled text hints at a plan or prediction about when more young people would be awake or in bed, with a mistaken phrase later clarified.
Topeka AP State Rep William S Novotny will be appointed to the Highway Coordinating Committee and meet with the group Friday. Gov George Docking spokesman said the panel will discuss whether to recommend the legislature conduct a study of long-range highway needs. Novotny will be the eighth member of the committee which includes state federal county and city officials. A parts front oft UAE Sauer, ase tee ee are 4 formal at artifects of thrée Tee.
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