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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1957
Page
6
A long list of area churches with pastors and service times across Quenemo and nearby towns. Includes Methodist, Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, and Adventist congregations with schedule details for worship and Sunday school, plus youth groups and midweek activities. The note at end questions if Christians should be allowed to leave church Sunday morning contentedly after prosperity gained by sinful means.
The Sunday School lesson argues the church must convert sinful systems, not just individuals. It compares slavery and capitalism as entrenched social orders and suggests Gospel leaven can transform masters and slaves into brothers through humane reform and changed life. The piece cites Paul's strategy with Onesimus and urges ongoing church action against evil.
New York column notes resolutions as a masculine habit, contrasts male and female attitudes, and recalls personal lists from ages 25, 35, and 46. It humorously observes self improvement efforts over time and the changing nature of goals.
Harrisburg Pa. Robert Mitchell, 14, learned a lasso cannot stop a car after he threw a lariat onto a passing vehicle’s license plate and was dragged for several feet before the motorist halted. He suffered only minor brush burns.
Fred Steitz a 76 year old resident dropped his life savings five one thousand dollar bills into a sewer while leaving a bus stop near his home on Christmas Eve. He searched the area and even dropped a flashlight into the drain in a bid to retrieve the money hours later.
Police and a city sewerage and drainage crew joined a search today for the missing money in nearby drains and sewers but found no trace. Police said heavy Wednesday rains likely swept the money away if it had fallen into the sewer.
Secretary Dulles will depart Washington December 28 and return January 2 for a six day vacation on Long Island New York to visit friends. Press officer Joseph W. Reap said the trip was to rest after a long Atlantic Pact conference in Paris. Dulles appeared tired after the trip.
The U S Bureau of Mines reports large scale helium gas reserves development near Dexter Kansas is not feasible now. H W Kratzer, executive secretary of the South Central Kansas Regional Development Council, notes the three month old group studied prospects of a government plant and regional impact while pursuing community improvement. The council, representing 10 counties, includes leaders from Harper Cowley Reno Harvey Marion Kingman Sumner McPherson Butler Sedgwick with Rolly Clymer and Nestor Weigand as vice chairs. The body supports park expansion with Kanopolis as a pilot and will hold its next executive meeting in Harper on January 22.
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