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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1962
Page
2
Editorial notes a trend toward odd gimmicks as children receive two standout gifts. Bop the Beetle sits like a salad plate and snaps shut when hit with balls. Odd Ogg, skillet sized, moves toward or away with clawed jaws and a tongue gesture, both prompting puzzled reactions.
A fire engine with a side crank siren starts the morning chaos as neighborhood kids race a Mercedes Benz and hopped-up Ford, then a green hotrod racer arrives Christmas morning and outpaces all. The editor admits gifting himself a toy, stirring good-natured jokes about adults as big children at Christmas.
A sprawling channel guide lists films sports and talk shows across a full day. Programs include News Weather Sports scattered with westerns crime dramas and variety hours. Major titles feature Gunsmoke Bonanza Drag nets and Beany and Cecil amid time slots and broadcast notes.
KOFO AM FM lineup features easy melodies news and weather, religion programs, noon news, music blocks, and evening shows. Notable entries include First Baptist Church and First Methodist Church services, News and Weather hourly updates, and various music programs such as Sunday Serenade and Eventide Music.
Dear Dr. Mother advises that wives require occasional breaks from home life to maintain health and happiness. The column notes emotional and mental well being, urges understanding from husbands, and suggests a change of scene can prevent resentment, while recognizing individual needs and long standing routines.
A collage of commentary riffs on politics medicine daily life and culture. The piece playfully contrasts leaders nations and trends from Nehru to De Gaulle to Khrushchev while noting common human foibles and oddities.
A column blends a prayer for companionship with practical marital guidance on mutual sacrifice and resentment. It cautions couples to communicate, shares advice on balancing duties, and notes that selfishness exists on both sides while urging effort to give and take. It also includes medical queries about calisthenics and abdominal pain with reassurance that exercise does not cause gall bladder or appendix issues and emphasizes seeing a doctor for abnormal bleeding.
Illness, recitals, and visits populate the city page. Auld Lang Syne Lee Perez suffers from chickenpox at 311 Walnut. D. H. Denman forecasts spring from a seed catalog. Olga Eitner gives a violin recital over KFKU. Smithsonian clerk R. C. Andrews tours Franklin County meeting Chippewa, Muncie, and Vieux families while researching Indian languages. C A Washburn travels to Marion for church construction plans.
Apparent low bids on replacement of a utility tunnel at Larned State Hospital totaled $56,909.52. Low bidders: General Hahner-Foreman-Cale Inc. Great Bend $29,900. Mechanical Stevens Inc. Hutchinson $25,439.52. Electrical Clutter Electric Larned $1,570.
Subscription rates for the Ottawa Herald are shown for trade area and outside trade areas. In area by mail one month 85 cents, three months 2 dollars, six months 3 dollars, one year 7 dollars. outside area by mail one month 1.50, three months 4.25, 12 months 9.00, one year 15.00. The paper notes Associated Press rights to publish local service and AP news dispatches.
Ottawa area movie fans can ring in 1963 with a four feature program at the Plaza Theater starting at 7 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. The lineup includes Gun Glory with Stewart Granger, High Society with Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies with Doris Day and David Niven, and It Started With a Kiss starring Glen Ford and Debbie Reynolds. A new suspense shocker What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford opens New Year’s Day, while the twinbill Lady and the Tramp and Almost Angels wraps up Sunday night.
TV guide notes changed fights on Saturday night with college basketball on Channel 9 at 9 featuring the Holiday Festival final from Madison Square Garden. 8:30 p m sees Have Gun Will Travel on channels 5 and 13 with a prison escape and jewel theft plot.
The Communist Hoy accuses President Kennedy of committing aggressive action by receiving Bay of Pigs prisoners Thursday in Palm Beach after their return to Florida from Cuban prisons.
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