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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1962
Page
2
The Ottawa Herald presents editorial opinions from January 4 1962 covering local policy debates and community concerns. Contributors weigh in on civic issues, highlighting expected impacts on residents and governance.
In January lines form early at county courthouses as residents wait to renew vehicle tags. The process creates busy clerks and crowding until penalties or arrests for overdue tags. Some counties allow mail-in renewals, easing the strain but not eliminating it. The piece suggests staggering tag due dates to spread workload and improve service.
Letter writers discuss stay awake tablets used by college students to study late. The doctor warns they are a poor substitute for natural wakefulness and can foster bad habits, fatigue, and reduced mental performance. Excessive activities and inadequate sleep or nutrition worsen tiredness.
A collage of quirky observations and advice ranging from football season remnants and a turning point memory to political doubt and holiday fashion. It includes a humor tone about hidden effigies, a 1912 birth reference, a presidential concern, a bankruptcy filing by a defeated congressman, and captions about Jack Kennedy and Jackie. It also offers casual life tips on staying awake, smoking, parenting, pregnancy after menopause, and medical queries addressed by Dr. Mother with a newsletter style note to readers.
Auld Lang Syne Glen Van Meter of New York visited his mother Mrs N Van Meter. Henry Colby went to Chicago to buy new furniture stock. Prowlers stole about eight dollars from Ed Mund Lister and B F Bowers in the First National Bank building. New linoleum was laid at Franklin County State Bank. Marty Fellnagle of Princeton planned to move to Greeley Colorado. Emil Anderson spent the day in Lawrence on business. Prayer captioned with Proverbs 22 6 and blessing texts.
The notice lists publication details for 106-108 S Main, published daily except Sundays and holidays, with postal and editorial info and subscription rates for both trade and outside trade areas. Rates include by mail: one month 85 cents, three months 2 dollars, six months 3.75, one year 7. outside trade: one month 1.50, three months 4.25, six months 8, one year 15. The paper is a member of the Associated Press with exclusive republication rights to local news and AP dispatches.
A dense TV schedule lists NBC CBS and ABC offerings with daytime and prime time blocks. Programs include News Weather Huntley Brinkley Peter Gunn Highway Patrol Popeye Captain Kangaroo The Edge of Night The Tonight Show and several cartoons, dramas, and late shows across multiple channels and time slots.
Listings describe Channel 9 programs Wyatt Earp Donna Reed Real McCoys My Three Sons The Untouchables and late movie Hired Wife 1940 starring Rosalind Russell plus several Channel 4 5 13 entries including Dr Kildare Sing Along With Mitch and CBS Reports with mentions of Frontier Circus and East Germany.
AP TV Radio writer notes CBSs Checkmate has lost its early charm. A guest star and weak plots replace sleuths Anthony George Sebastian Cabot and Doug McClure who now act as bodyguards. Jack Benny's New Year bowl game chase fails to save the episode. ABC airs a portrait of John Glenn jr but offers little depth. The Ev and Charlie Show returns to NBC Meet the Press and Yves Montand reruns headline ABC CBS reports and Victoria Regina compete for audiences.
Doris Bowman 32, a Pasadena socialite and mother of three, was found beaten to death in her Pacific Palisades home. Police say she was bludgeoned with a clublike instrument, torso submerged in a partially filled bathtub, and water absent from lungs. Her husband Frank Bowman, 39, a medical director for Southern California Edison, is a key figure as detectives suspect a burglar may have killed her after an attempted break in.
The vocational agriculture building at Moundridge High School burned after classes ended on Wednesday. Principal Milford Greer estimated damage at 850000 dollars and blamed defective attic wiring. A McPherson fire truck aided local firefighters from 16 miles away.
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