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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1961
Page
3
Editorial overview from the Ottawa Herald on Saturday December 2 1961 outlining current civic issues and opinion pieces. This card notes the page’s emphasis on local governance and community matters with concise commentary.
A county attorney in Montgomery County files lewd and lascivious conduct charges against six men and six women tied to illicit welfare payments and illegitimate children. The piece notes broader trends in work-relief programs across states, with mixed outcomes and growing pressure for work as a condition of benefits.
In Kerala and India the population poses a major economic challenge as literacy and growth rise while unemployment and hunger persist. Japan’s education and contraception drive is contrasted with India’s hesitant birth control, including male sterilization efforts and incentives. A Kottayam businessman recalls historic matriarchal and polyandrous practices as a possible, though controversial, path to economy and population balance.
A health feature explains coronary heart disease risks and practical prevention. Controlling weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, and stress through diet, exercise, and modest cost treatments can substantially lower heart attack risk. Weighs inherited factors but emphasizes attainable steps for individuals. Also notes local items: Forest Park cattle sale. Ottawa ordinance against double parking. local visits and deaths.
The text combines a dawn prayer citing Luke with a Catholic style supplication asking for light and guidance. It then lists a dense, fragmented weekend and Sunday broadcast timetable with times, channel blocks, and program titles across sports, drama, news, and films including Typhoon at Okinawa, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Sea Hawk, and Million Dollar Movie.
A dense listing of afternoon and evening TV programs, including This Is The Life, Washington Conversation, NFL highlights, news programs, game shows, and various entertainment features. Notable items include Adventures in Paradise, Mister Ed, The Price Is Right, and sports segments.
A dense schedule of channel by channel listings notes Perry Mason with The Case of the Brazen Bequest and other classics headlined across Channels 4 5 9 13. Highlights include Dennis the Menace Lassie Gunsmoke Lawman Bonanza and high profile movies such as Random Harvest with a broad mix of dramas comedies and musical hour specials.
KOFO’s Monday to Friday timetable lists 6:58 sign on through signal and program blocks. Shows include Top of the Morning, News, Weather, Agricultural Markets, Home programs, Serenade segments, Mary Blaine Time, Bulletin Board, Around Town, People’s Exchange, Noon Tune Farm Show, Garnett Hour, KOFO Karavan, and various news sports weather updates.
Enos the chimpanzee, who orbited the world, was named for Enos A. Axtell a banker lawyer and politician from Grandview Missouri. Dr Deets Pickett Kansas City veterinarian who provides chimps for the Air Force named him after Axtell following a capture in the French Cameroons in March 1960.
Washington AP reports the Air Force released 120000 dollars on Thursday to fund a chapel annex at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita.
Malin published daily except Sunday and holidays from Ottawa Kansas. Robert B Wellington is editor and publisher. Subscriptions in trade area by mail: 1 month 85 cents, 3 months 2 dollars, 6 months 3.75, 12 months 7 dollars. Outside trade area by mail: 1 month 1.50, 3 months 4.25, 6 months 8.00, 12 months 15.00. Member of the Associated Press. AP entitled to exclusive use of local news.
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