Franklin County Safety Council Eyes Driver Education Drive
Editorial commends Franklin county's new safety council for prioritizing driver education to cut crashes. Speakers note accidents mainly come from driver error on clear highways, sunny days, and straight roads, urging universal driver cooperation to foster a safety mindset. Don W. Jones calls for public safety consciousness to reduce accidents.
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Franklin County
New Safety Council
Don W. Jones
New
Safety’ Council
Here and There by ELAL Alter All Observations
A reflective column contrasts old and new items with sales pitches, notes a 3% post office fee on private use envelopes for birth announcements, and ponders spelling pitfalls and straw hat season fades, recalling past customs of straw hats and open season on fashion.
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Elal
Air Force
Hawaii
Post Office Department
Navy
Occupational Hazard and Kidnaping Charge Escaped
A Topeka finance company escaped a kidnaping charge when a baby was found in a locked sedan hauled from the repossession site. The incident involved a tow truck, a missing child, and a surprise discovery revealing the true danger of an assumed car repossession.
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Topeka
Words Are Tools Of Thinking by Dr. Crane
Dr. George W Crane urges parents to teach precise English grammar at home to shape children’s thinking. He notes a college freshman’s poor English and argues for parental example in verb forms and sentence structure to raise school performance. He offers a booklet, How to Raise a Child's School Marks, for home study.
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Howard W
Auld Lang Syne Reminds Ottawa of Local Fair Plans
A roundup of local notes reports Rev. Kelly's last sermon critiquing those who take a dollar on the dollar, Ottawa's Horse Fair preparations in Forest Park, a coroner's inquest yielding no new leads, rail strike worries for the county fair, and Franklin county fair entries led by L. D. Falkner of Princeton with corn displayed for twenty-nine years. Also noted are a new coat of paint on Main Street Bridge, coal storage for winter if gas is denied the Walnut Street firehouse, and Ottawa's white way lamp fixtures arriving for installation near the Santa Fe station.
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Franklin County
J. R. Finley
L. D. Falkner
Princeton
Falkner
Ottawa
Fire Department
Walnut Street
City Commission
New White Way
J. C. Bushong Electrical Works
Santa Fe Station
Moths and Moths: Tales From a Pro Moth Rancher
New York report on Don Ott, a moth rancher with Geigy in Bayonne New Jersey, detailing moths that damage fabrics, the million progeny potential of a single female, and methods to mothproof garments. Ott cites costs to reweave damaged cloth, weather effects on moth activity, and quirky larval behavior.
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New York
Don Ott
Ott
Geigy Chemical Corp
Bayonne
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
America
United States
University of Town
Moths and wardrobe care for wool and blends
An expert notes that moths leave tooth marks on fabric, cigarette burns show fiber bubbles, and naptha lene or cedar offer only months of protection. Moths avoid man made fibers, but blends suffer larger holes. DDT works but washes away. small wardrobes lower risk. discuss spending on wool dresses.
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Ott
Yourife
Television Program Listings Chaos on August Evening
Fragmented schedules list numerous channels and shows for August including NBC CBS ABC and local stations. It notes last minute changes and partial times for programs such as Mickey Mouse Bar None Wild News and On the Trail with multiple time slots and station identifiers scattered throughout.
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CBS
ABC
Mickey Mouse Bar
Lawson
New's
Pictura
Sgt
Preston
Rangaroo
Kangaroo
Rick
Noon Woman's Word
Annie Oakley
Doug Edwards
Crossroads Secret Journal
Wise
Paniorine
Tollywood
Darth
Ottawa Editor Urges Waste Salvage Plan for City
A letter to The Ottawa Herald argues for turning trash into metal blocks for paving, ash fertilizer, remelted glass for greenhouses, and bone meal for fertilizer. It calls for an incinerator, a chemist, and a formal plan to transform waste into revenue, urging urgent action before the problem worsens.
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Ottawa Herald
Ottawa
Expansion For Hays Hospital and New Wing Plans
A $1,368,266 expansion of Hadley Memorial Hospital in Hays Kansas was announced, adding a wing for chronically ill treatment and rehabilitation. Three additions will be built, with work starting immediately and a two year completion target. Contracts were signed, administrator Austin Evans stated. Geologists note Garden of the Gods rocks in Colorado were formed when a sea covered the area millions of years ago.
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Hays, Kas
Hadley Memorial Hospital
Kansas
Austin Evans
Evans
Colorado
New Books At City Library Featuring World History and Adventures
New titles at the Carnegie Free library include Germany in World Color, a guide to modern German cities and landscapes. That Egyptian Woman by Noel Gerson exploring Caesar and Cleopatra. The Long Walk by Stayromir Rachcz detailing a Soviet slave camp escape. Unappointed Rounds by Doris Miles Disney a detective tale set in Connecticut.
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Carnegie Free Library
Father
Nell Barnaby
Germany
Doreart
All Ife
Sll Ogrizek
Christ
Black Forest
Bavarian
Alps
Lake Constance
Baltic
Brandenburg Gate
Berlin
East Germany
Noel Gerson
Stayromir Rachcz
Siberia
Tibet
Gobi Desert
Himalayas
Doris Miles Disney
Connecticut
Rescue Worker Trapped In Ditch Saved By Co-workers
Donald Schaal, 32, a construction worker and father of four, was buried when a 14-foot sewer ditch collapsed in northeast Johnson County. Co-workers quickly uncovered his head, preventing suffocation. He was unconscious, with cuts and shock, and was taken to Menorah Hospital in Kansas City.
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Donald Schaal
Johnson County
Schaal
Menorah Hospital
Kansas City
First Elephant Exhibit in the Nation Featured Old Bet in 1815
A New York farmer displayed the first national elephant exhibit in 1815, introducing Old Bet as the country's earliest known elephant show.
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New York
Cites Need For Reapportionment In Kansas
State Sen Gar ner Shriver left Wichita by plane for Seattle to attend the National Legislative Conference. He will represent Lt Gov John B McCuish. Shriver said reapportionment will be discussed and that Kansas needs a constitutional change to adjust Sedgwick County's representation as it holds about one sixth of the state population but has only one of forty senators and three of 125 House members.
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Wichita
Garner Shriver
Fth
National Legislative Conference
Seattle
John B. McCuish
Newton
Shriver
Kansas
Sedgwick County
Emporia Drum Corps to Perform in San Francisco Tonight
The 40 member Emporia Plainsmen drum and bugle corps will appear at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco in the West Coast Spectacle of Music. State champions compete in the national American Legion contest Sunday in Los Angeles.
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Emporia
Plainsmen
Kezar Stadium
San Francisco
State
Champio American Legion
Los Angeles
Kansans On Shockers Uni Head Coach Talks Kansas Ties
Wichita Uni head coach Pete Tillman says two thirds of this year’s squad are from Kansas. Thirty seven of the Sanman squad that starts two-a-days Sept 15 for home opener with Brigham Young are Kansas high school graduates. Twenty four are Jetterman from the 1955 squad, co champions with Detroit of the Missouri Valley Conference. The Dead Sea surface is 1286 feet below the Mediterranean.
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Wichita Uni
Pete Tillman
University of Wichita
Kansas
S&man
Brigham Young University
Jetterman
Detroit
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