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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1964
Page
2
A letter argues that a public service feature on freedom, while well intentioned, fails for lacking concrete actions. It compares freedom to blueberry pie and urges specificity, noting real consequences for all, including Black residents in Ottawa, to avoid meaningless rhetoric.
A reader asks about rupture symptoms and urgency. Dr Molner explains a rupture as a weakened abdominal wall or groin area causing a bulge or draggy discomfort, worsened by lifting. Rarely no external bulge, but most cases need treatment to avoid strangulation of bowel, which is extremely dangerous and requires emergency surgery.
A clipped, era voice offers jumbled observations from a 20th century column. It mocks politics and sports while segueing into health guidance about rupture treatment, then readers write in about smoking. The tone blends humor, public health advice, and domestic anecdotes with scattered names and miscues.
A 25 year ago note recalls Mrs. A D Williamson honored at a Mexican Mission women’s dinner. Elmer Lancaster joins the Kansas Natural Milk Producers Association board in Topeka with John C. Young E T Howell and Harry Scott in attendance. Henry Ward becomes Townsend club president at 119 E Second.
A dense listing of TV airings detailing the day’s schedule across networks with times and programs from 5:00 PM to 1:25 AM including The Rifleman Gunsmoke News and multiple dramas comedies and variety shows. It notes many titles with channel credits and repeated appearances for daytime and evening blocks.
Beginning June 1 the destroyer Biddle will host an 18 month experiment of mixed Manning with officers and enlisted men from six European nations at Norfolk Virginia. The test aims to evaluate a NATO owned and operated force of Polaris ships and could shape future multinational naval staffing and operations. Britain remains cool to the $2.5 billion plan as Secretary McNamara announces the assignment.
The list recalls Longfellow born in 1807 in Portland Maine and notable events on this date: 1900 Paardeberg battle in Africa, 1922 Supreme Court upholds women’s suffrage, 1933 Reichstag fire, 1942 Java Sea victory for Japan, 1959 Crimea transfer to Ukrainian Republic, 1964 Beck tax-evasion sentence, and 1969 NATO Polaris plan presented in Paris.
A Radio TV listing notes Channel 5 7 p m special on conformity narrated by Harry Reasoner with dramatic vignettes. Death Valley Days Channel 4 7 p m features elopement and governor as suitor. Dr Kildare 7 30 p m questions hospital respect. Channel 9 8 p m guests Eddy Arnold Molly Bee and others. Kraft Suspense Theatre 9 p m stars Martha Hyer and Kathryn Crosby. Libeled Lady 5 01 p m on Channel 5 with Harlow Powell Tracy.
Havana Radio reported that the Cuban government has taken initial steps to negotiate with Shell Oil Co. over compensation for the seizure of the firm’s Havana refinery in 1960, signaling potential settlement talks.
Ottawa Herald details subscription options for trade area and outside region with monthly quarterly six months and yearly rates. It notes editor publisher Robert B Wellington and Associated Press ownership and exclusive local news use rights.
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