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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1961
Page
2
Editorial notes the ongoing city light plant expansion as a costly, strategic back and forth. The piece compares the sequence Don Hamilton of the light department, Universal Engineering, and Enterprise Engine to a famed baseball double play, recalling a prior plan to buy a similar machine four years ago and noting its many changes since delivery.
City fathers in a Wednesday session rejected Hamilton's Tucumcari educational trip funded by Enterprise. At the light plant, the Enterprise engine shows wear as bearings shed metal into oil. Despite repeated bearing changes, officials back another Enterprise engine via Universal Engineering, trusting Superintendent Hamilton. Voters may have their inning eventually.
A dense listing of Channel 4 NBC CBS ABC and other networks shows a full day with cartoons sports news weather and feature programs. Notable items include Popeye Huckleberry Hound Dinah Shore The Roy Rogers Hour Route 66 Twilight Zone Gunsmoke Bonanza Mister Ed and Perry Mason among many others across late afternoon to midnight slots.
The writer recalls a day of elephant watching on a 300 square mile preserve near a lake formed for irrigation. The voyage by small launch among forested shores yields few elephants but offers sightings of bison and a deer watching back. The trip ends with a modest tally and a nod to a tenderfoot merit badge.
A reader shares a back strain anecdote where full tub immersion provided relief by buoyancy, allowing the muscles to heal with minimal strain. The note cautions diagnosis is essential and warns that baths are not a universal cure. The column also includes letters about lung disease funding and menopause pregnancy inquiry, plus an offer to obtain Dr Molner’s booklet on ulcers.
The Army successfully fired all three Nike Zeus rocket motors for the first time at White Sands Missile Range New Mexico. The third stage reaction motor ignited as planned, providing guidance for the warhead while the main propulsion system has been fired many times before.
A devotional text invokes light from Christ to illuminate the speaker's heart. It seeks cleansing of hidden faults and unworthiness, asking for guidance, repentance, and grace for the day. The prayer emphasizes inner illumination and turning toward the pure light.
A son was born to Mr and Mrs Ray Steven of Richmond. Lloyd O Neal southeast of Princeton trapped two coyotes under a culvert while attempting to retrieve a rabbit using a twisted wire. Bob Harrop of Ottawa University football earned a spot on the Topeka Cup all star Kansas Conference team with a standout season in Berryton.
Misses Nelle and Wo Harris Fay Pollock and Grace Davenport visited Kansas City for a day. Ray N. Hettick moved from 706 Tremont to 208 S. Walnut. Mr and Mrs J L Shelden traveled to Lebo to visit his father J H Shelden.
The Ottawa newspaper lists publishing details for 106-108 S. Main with editor Robert B. Wellington and notes daily publication except Sundays and holidays. It provides trade area and outside trade area subscription by mail rates: one month 85 cents, three months 2.00, six months 3.75, one year 7.00, and outside area one month 1.50, three months 4.25, six months 8.00, one year 15.00. It also notes Associated Press membership and exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
Local listings summarize tonight's schedule across Channels 4 5 9 13. Programs include Man From Cochise, Sea Hunt, Margie, National Velvet, Hathaway, The Flintstones, Route 66, Detectives, 77 Sunset Strip, Dinah Shore and guests, Father of the Bride, Eyewitness, and a late movie Johnny Apollo.
AP critic Cynthia Lowry discusses NBCs 90 minute Victoria Regina adaptation. Helen Hayes is replaced by Zena Harris as Victoria and Vincent Price by James Donald as Albert. performance praised but casting and pace draw mixed verdicts. The piece notes the challenge of translating a stage triumph to television and the inevitability of comparison to the original.
The Soviet daily Literature and Life criticized President Kennedy for political delusions after his Izvestia interview. It called his claim that the Soviet Union aims to communize the world unfounded, yet said the dialogue was useful and will continue.
Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall will attend a private dinner in Lawrence hosted by Frank Theis for Democratic leaders. The tour then proceeds to Manhattan for a visit to the Prairie National Park site in Pottawatomie County, meeting county commissioners and the public. Wirth will address a Kansas State University convocation after Udall’s departure.
KOFO lists Saturday programming including News Weather Farm Show Football scores and various serenades and church and community segments from 11:05 to 6:15 with shows such as Around Town KOFO Serenade Noon Tune and Panel Discussion plus church notes First Methodist and Mt Oread programs and Outdoor Sports for Kansas.
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