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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1957
Page
3
Editorial argues a Sedgwick County ruling that a pinball machine is not a gambling device. It urges Kansas statutes to treat pinball and slot machines as gambling devices, notes slot machines returning, and calls for tougher laws to close loopholes and punish owners.
The column recalls the early days of 1957 and how time speeds through the year. It playfully muses on past holidays and changing desires from vacation hotel stays to mountain cabins with trout streams. It notes weather, finances, and playful home chores, ending with a hopeful note on the year’s rapid passage.
Effingham Kansas once supported a weekly paper named the New Leaf for 73 years. Declining population to 500 and ad revenue of 490 could not cover costs. Mobility and crossroad decline erode country weeklies as Kansas faces economic realities.
Defense Secretary Wilson sent bags of pecans to his fellow cabinet members as a holiday remembrance. A friend notes it was nice to be back with his children away from grandma's spoiling distance. The column muses on older phonographs, smog, and barbers, with reflections on English free medical care and overdraft banks.
Auld Lang Syne era questions cleared as state highway department can build a viaduct over Santa Fe tracks after removing the site from the city. Several local moves reported including Lowe family relocation to Leavenworth and Lamar Phillips moving into the Lowe home.
New York report notes Elvis style sideburns as a badge of rock n roll youth culture. It cites Gillette expert Meyer Schnitzler on whisker growth, beard longevity, and historical parallels from Burnside to Valentino, with playful musings on beards and civilization.
Dr. George W Crane discusses touch as the most intimate sense and its role in art perception and belief. He notes eyes can deceive and cites Aristotle’s illusion to show touch’s reliability, then links tactile sensation to romance and aging. Readers are invited to request a booklet on sex problems in marriage.
The piece contrasts how women avoid daily depilatories on sensitive facial skin with a man’s shaving routine. It estimates a man shaving five minutes daily five days a week from ages 20 to 60 totals about 109 eight hour days spent removing facial foliage, and echoes a jab about women complaining that men never do enough.
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The page lists TV slots for Wednesday January 2 with updates across stations like KCMO WDAF and KTIO FM. Notable entries include Amos and Andy and Leyman's Br with varying times while several programs are marked uncertain due to schedule edits.
A compact listing of radio programs and news segments from stations including WDAF KTJO KCMO KCXO and others. It shows times such as 8:06 and 7:30 with varied offerings from news to music to religious and detective shows, indicating a busy broadcast day with multiple programs across networks.
Ray Henry reports a Congress change makes servicemen full Social Security members starting Jan 1. They pay tax and gain old age survivor and disability rights, in addition to military retirement. Disability rules differ for those with service disability versus nonservice cases, with potential impact on payments.
In Topeka a group of 16 legislative clinics backed a sales tax increase affecting civilians and servicemen alike. The plan would pool tax revenue for highways education and social security, charging civilians and servicememen the same five percent rise. Social Security benefits would include death and retirement payments to servicemen and their families, with lump sums from 90 to 255 dollars and monthly pensions from 30 to 108.50 dollars, depending on service and dependents.
The Defense Department released the names of nine men killed Friday in a crash of an Air Force weather reconnaissance plane near Yokota Air Base Japan. Among the dead is Capt Dewey A Keithley formerly of Pratt Kansas son of Opal M Keithley of San Diego California. His wife is in Japan.
C. C. Kilker chamber manager said the third biennial clinic series set new attendance records. Informal votes favored a sales tax increase if new revenue is needed, with a severance tax on oil and gas production as a second option. Only a few votes supported raising property tax income.
A dense roster of Christmas visits and Sunday dinners fills the Central Princeton notes. Princetonians hosted relatives from Lawrence Ottawa Garnett Wellsville Los Angeles Marietta and Kansas City with dinners and holiday gatherings. Names include the Retters Chandlers Adams Martin Stankard and Sutton among others, with trips to Denver and Minnesota mentioned.
Fire destroyed the large St. Joseph's Roman Catholic cathedral in Hartford within about 31 hours after another blaze wrecked St. Patrick's downtown. The two churches sit a little over a mile apart. City officials ordered around the clock police protection for every church and synagogue in the city.
Holiday visitors and extended family traveled to Williams burg area homes for Christmas. Recipients included Dan and Mrs Riggs and Crabb families in Westcliff and Ottawa. Princet on and Denver visitors joined local relatives in Atcherson Agricola and Faragut Town. Several Reynolds and Van Valkenburg relatives shared meals and stayed through the week with core hosts in the region.
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