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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1956
Page
2
Editorial urges Ottawa to approve construction of a new senior high school to handle bulging postwar enrolments. It argues that remodeling existing facilities is insufficient, costly, and leaves an aging structure, while a new building would add a junior high for 8th and 9th grades and provide a modern plant for senior high students.
Elm report notes Hi Fi uptake as Presley records dominate sales while the old 78 format fades. Teens seek improved sound, classical albums rise slightly, and traditional phonographs struggle to find new records. Presley leads sales amid shift to modern formats.
Great Bend abandons the manager form for mayor council then moves to reestablish it led by the mayor. The city, growing and prosperous, argues operation needs a trained experienced individual. The episode is viewed as a caution against frequent moves away from the manager system.
A tattered look of telephone poles prompts thoughts on placard durability. An octogenarian credits health to routine, while businessmen exercise through tax loopholes. A Christmas tree light rivals a flickering candle. Dulles bets on Princeton and Yale. economic leverage against Nasser remains unsettled. Junior’s new electric train is due soon.
Auld Lang Syne: the home of Mr and Mrs Sharon Smith of Richmond burned. A son and a daughter were born to Richmond couples Joe Wittman and Clyde Romstedt. Coralee Flannery ill with diphtheria. Linotype workers Harold Davis and W H Hjort injured at work. Davis fainted and fell. Ora Higdon in town shopping. Gardner P Walker traveled to Kansas City. Harry Bruce ill with mumps. Roberta Wood celebrated 12th birthday with friends listed. Ernest Collett due home from Illinois for a visit.
Miami Beach columnist HAL BOYLE surveys odd facts from mail to amuse readers. Notable items include the heart’s combined power lifting a battleship, heart weights by gender, heart shape, and billions of beats in a lifetime. Also covered are quirks about centipedes, eyesight, water atoms, health costs, and various oddball anecdotes about celebrities and science.
Dr George W Crane discusses fear, impotence, and alcohol as a trigger for drunken behavior. He urges addressing inner torment to stop reliance on liquor, and promotes his booklet on impotence prevention. Listings note last minute program changes and radio schedule details for December 18.
A compact snippet lists multiple radio programs and stations including KTJO FM WDAF KCMO with shows like Music News Night life basketball and open house. Entries span Dec 19 with times from 6 30 to 10 00 featuring personalities Bob and Ray Philo Vance and others.
Pope Pius XII will give his 18th annual Christmas message on Sunday December 23 replying to greetings from the College of Cardinals. The address is set for about 11 a.m. and will be broadcast by Vatican radio and European networks, later in 28 languages worldwide.
Subscription prices shown for mail plans in the trade area include one month three months and twelve months with a total of 3.78 706 listed, indicating tiered offerings and a possible formatting error in the OCR transcription.
Noel Francis O Kelly, an Irish worker in San Diego with his wife Monica and two young sons, received a Christmas surprise from fellow workers who collected 700 to fund a family visit. They arrived yesterday long before he expected them, after four months in the United States and sending home 40 dollars weekly from his 90 wage.
Berlin reports a factory worker group warns URestive East German students that attempts to undermine the Red regime will not be tolerated. A letter addressed to students calls for discipline and loyalty amid rising unrest in the Communist state.
A letter signed by Buna chemical works workers declared that those who forget their living conditions and spread bourgeois ideas must be told plainly that this cannot continue. Neues Deutschland published the letter, accusing students of following Poland's nationalist leaning Communist regime challenging Moscow.
Kansas agencies should save $70,000 next year in buying gasoline under a new plan, said Martin M. Kiger, administration department director. Bids were opened last month under the plan to have other state agencies buy gas through the Highway Department. Kiger said contracts have not been awarded yet. Invest in U. S. Savings Bonds.
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