Big Los Angeles newspapers fold amid rising costs
The Examiner and the Mirror closed, leaving Los Angeles with the Times and Herald Express. Editors cite competition, rising production costs, and the rise of suburban living and television as key factors eroding metropolitan newspaper revenue.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Examiner
The
Mirror
Morning Times
Evening Herald-Express
the Times
the Mirror
the Examiner
Caring advice on rocking babies and health tips
Readers ask about crib safety and noise from four energetic children. Advice: normal behavior, tighten cribs, close doors, and accept healthy energy. Also notes on dermatitis from embalmer work, skin lesions needing dermatologist check, and fat tumors possibly Von Recklinghausen disease guidance.
After standing a century Maxwell House hotel in Nash ville falls
A century old Maxwell House hotel in Nashville collapsed its walls after a fire. The column notes the building’s long history and nostalgic phrase about the last drop of coffee. It adds light humorous asides about English malapropisms and parish customs.
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Maxwell House
Nashville
Illness hits postmaster and local moves noted
Auld Lang Syne postmaster T. J. Cummings Jr. was ill at home with influenza. Orin Gates starts work in Bancroft Store meat department. George Burns and Gracie Allen rode the Santa Fe Chief west of Ottawa Junction at 11:20 p.m. Coleman relocates from 7158 Locust to Tremont. J. Hl. Payn plans to move to Kissimmee Florida. Rev. J. Bennett, Williamsburg Episcopal pastor, was briefly here en route to Kansas City Missouri.
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George Burns
Gracie Allen
Ottawa Junction
Rev. J. Bennett
Episcopal Church
Williamsburg
Kansas City, Mo
Prayer for Today in Every Thing by Prayer and Supplication
Psalm style prayer requests guidance to pray ceaselessly for salvation neighbors and world peace. It asks for God to teach continual prayer and for His kingdom to come in Jesus name. Amen.
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God
Jesus
Television Schedule Montage: Evening Lineup and Specials
A dense, era wide TV schedule lists numerous programs across hours from early evening to late night. It names films, cartoons, news, sports, talk shows, variety hours, medical and dramatic series, with many channel descriptors and time blocks, reflecting a bustling 1960s programming slate.
Ottawa Kansas newspaper subscription rates listed
The notice lists daily publication details for 106-108 S. Main with editor Robert B. Wellington and pricing for subscriptions. Rates show trade area by mail monthly 85 cents, three months 2 dollars, six months 3.75, year 7, and outside trade area monthly 1.50, three months 4.25, six months 8.00, year 15.00. The paper is a member of the Associated Press with AP material rights.
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S. Main
Ottawa
Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
Associated Press
Bethel Centennial Skating Party for Centropolis Eighth Graders
Arlyss Baker hosted Centropolis School eighth graders at a skating party at the Ottawa Roller Rink with guests Vicki Clark Loretta Neilson and J D Wood sum. Bru baker teacher Frank Soontag returned home after his mother’s death in Hill City. Mr and Mrs Ben Baker announce a granddaughter Ramona Jean Pelkey born December 29 in Jaffrey New Hampshire weighing 6 pounds.
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Arlyss Baker
Centropolis School
Ottawa
Frank Soontag
Brubaker School
Hill City
Ben Baker
Ramona Jean Pelkey
Jaffrey, N. H
Television Getting Back To Normal
New York AP reports TV returns to routine after holiday hiatus as networks gather for annual on air retrospectives on 1961 and 1962. Filmed golf shows push live football off weekends while Ed Sullivan and Rosemary Clooney juggle moments on camera. NBC previews Hans Brinker in color and Gene Sarazen debuts World of Golf on CBS. NBC plans weekly hearings coverage on FCC state of programming starting January 23 with Robert Sarnoff among defense witnesses.
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Gene Sarazen
CBS
Golf
NBC
Federal Communication Commission
Robert Sarnoff
Hold Two Men For Robbery In Kansas City
Airline ticket agent Tom McCauley alerted police after two nervous men with a light suitcase checked in. They were stopped before boarding a Tulsa flight. A suitcase held $2,013 in small bills. Suspects Higgins 21 of San Diego and Reynolds 33 of Kansas City were taken to police HQ. An employee linked Higgins to a prior market robbery.
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Kansas City
Tom McCauley
Tulsa
James Hugh Higgins
San Diego
Calif
Maurice Reynolds
Kan
Higgins
TV Highlights for This Evening
A rundown of Channel 9 and Channel 4 programs including Huckleberry Hound Cheyenne Mantovani Price is Right and Surfside 6. The list also mentions To Tell the Truth Groucho Danny Thomas and Andy Griffith plus a murder a wax museum and a late movie Paris Calling with Randolph Scott.
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Cheyenne
Mantovani
Pete and
Gladys
Main St
Video Village
Harry Reasoner
Newas
Channel 5
Randolph Scott
Channel 9
JFK and Clay reach unity on Berlin crisis handling
President Kennedy and Gen. Lucius D. Clay announced full agreement on how to handle any future Berlin crisis. The White House stressed there is no rift, following talks that included Rusk and concerns about West Berlin command authority.
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Kennedy
Lucius D. Clay
Berlin
Clay
West Berlin
White House
Dean Rusk
U.S
Albert Watson II
Pierre Salinger
Alone, Helpless Five Days After Fall In Missouri Home
Flora Oberlander, 84, lay on her floor five days and nights without food or water after fracturing a hip. Discovered when her brother Henry Oberlander could not reach her, police forced entry after finding the doors locked.
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Springfield
Flora Oberlander
Henry Oberlander
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