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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1957
Page
3
Sewing ad offers Misses waist sizes 24 25 26 28 30 32 for a textured skirt pattern 4687. Choose tweed flannel or dacron mix with sew easy directions and fabric needs. Mail fifty cents plus five cents per extra pattern to Anne Adams in New York with name address phone size and style number.
Dear Babe asks how a 17 year old with a child, kept at home by an angry mother, can meet decent people. Ann replies the girl should join groups to meet others, have visitors at home, and avoid hiding. The other letters cover a wife who left an alcoholic husband for a married man and a mother-in-law defending a daughter-in-law’s housekeeping.
Two Missouri men died when their light plane crashed on a foggy farm two miles south of Council Grove. Fred Spicknall, 48, president of Spicknall Seed Co., La Belle, and Vincent LeRoy Logan, La Belle, were returning from La Belle to Amarillo, Texas for Spicknall’s business interests. The crash occurred on Homer Sharpe’s farm. no fire followed.
Opponents in Lyon County circulate a petition to force a vote on adopting the county unit road system. After the Nov 21 resolution, protestors have 90 days to file remonstrances, with signatures from at least 10 percent of qualified electors needed to trigger an election.
Albuquerque post office reports a tough season as a Christmas request to cause trouble surfaces. Local residents and postal workers brace for possible interruptions to holiday mail flow amid holiday stress.
A young girl asks Santa for a talking walking doll that can bathe, eat, dress, and obey voice commands. She also wants a doll to help her mother with dishes and a companion that can jump rope and play with her, all self‑operated.
Damascus reports ill treatment of Syrian citizens in Jordan as a barrier to ties after a 30 minute meeting between Asad Khangy and Jordanian chargé d affaires. Source says Syrian travelers and embassy staff in Amman faced mistreatment as Jordan expelled three Syrian embassy personnel for subversive activities.
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