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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1957
Page
2
A public safety note urges careful driving near schools on first day of classes. It explains stopping distances at 15 20 and 30 mph, stressing how speed affects a child’s ability to reach school safely. The piece ties safe driving to education outcomes and includes a separate culinary aside about gravy on a diet.
A collection of quirky observations on costs in America, post cards from China, and Labor Day parades. Notes on automobile market shares for General Motors Ford Chrysler hint at a rough 1958 models year ahead while polio shots and flu shot lines loom. Paulette Goddard contemplates marriage again after three prior husbands.
Main Street Ottawa shows signs for Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson Free Fair in Topeka Centennial in Olathe and car races at Paola. The Franklin County Fair, which finished its third day Saturday, has no banners or welcome signs. The scene prompts visitors to wonder where the fair is.
A fragmented editorial style list from Elm Literary Department covers magazines for waiting rooms and home reading rooms, praising National Geographic and Readers Digest for bathrooms and doctors offices. It suggests a special reading or TV room in homes and notes humorous contrasts in dietary pills, traffic tips, and lighted reading chairs.
A brief devotional prayer asks for faith to endure earthly storms and dangers. It invokes Christ as the Pilot of souls, seeking warming assurance of love to cast out fear and sustain belief through trials.
Auld Lang Syne notes from 25 years ago report Carl Igel of To wanda Kansas elected president of the Butler County Teachers Association. Also mentions fishing trip by Jack Richardson and Fred Harris and roof repairs at City Hall. 50 years ago recalls Gussie Manners visiting Junction City and local clover field bee nests after a past grape arbor fire.
The Ottawa Herald lists publication details and subscription rates with varying terms. Editor Rupert B. Wellington and Publisher Guy Snedaker oversee operations. Trade area by mail offers monthly to yearly rates, while outside trade area rates differ by duration.
A federal court suit filed in Wichita damages claims of 581,350 for actual harm and 1,644,050 for punitive pollution. The action seeks permanent injunctions against six oil and gas companies and an individual operator for pollution harming water and causing major injuries.
A House summary outlines measures passed and blocked, from military program authorizations and foreign aid to civil rights moves, tax and pension changes, and federal agency powers. It notes Senate-only actions like dam projects and tax changes, plus extensions of housing, education, and veteran benefit programs.
Atty. Gen. John Anderson issues opinions on state labor duties. The labor commissioner lacks authority to fix wages in state contracts and on statewide wage setting. A field representative role involves election canvassing. legislators may be hired as state employees in non legislative jobs. Roy Warkentin seeks wage jurisdiction clarification. Ancel Dalton among potential appointees. Federal and congressional bills are noted as killed or not acted.
Warrant Officer Kenneth Boone to be reunited with his wife and four children in Ragenberg Germany next week. Boone has served since Battery B shipped to Camp Robinson from Ottawa a year before Pearl Harbor. The family will leave Kansas City for Germany by air to join him at the Army base where his unit was stationed after prior postings in Ottawa and Labrador. The report notes past pollution incidents affecting crops and waterways connected to military activities and local land used for livestock and forage.
A 62-year-old Roman Catholic nun and licensed pilot, Sister Mary Aquinas from Manitowoc Wisconsin, flew a T33 jet trainer yesterday with Air Force Major Chester A. Biedul. The flight from Madison Wisconsin to McGuire averaged 525 miles per hour and sparked her belief that science and faith unite in flight.
Emporia history and drivers education teacher at Emporia Senior High School will miss most of the first semester after a fall at home. He sustained a fractured right heel and two broken bones in his left leg while trimming a hedge. He is receiving treatment in an Emporia hospital.
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