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Newspaper

Ottawa Herald

Location

Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Jan 24, 1955

Page

3

Kansas City Shows Opportunistic Insight in Baseball Move

Editorial notes Kansas City plans for a major league team with a new stadium funded locally while Missouri hoteliers miss a chance to house visiting A’s. Kansas City Kans hotelier partners quickly to host teams, illustrating the need to spot opportunities early and act decisively. The piece ends with a moral about recognizing opportunities at the street’s end.

Kansas City Athletics Kans Missouri Kansas Hotel

Backseat TV and Swans Hiss in Farewell Tales

A jumble of short notes cites GM experiments with backseat television risking leg injuries to see screens. The piece ponders swan songs and swans hissing, a Topeka teacher’s million from early retirement, a stylish man’s tailor, and Wichita State coach Jack Mitchell moving to Arkansas amid fuss over sportsmanship and aging Florida California versus Arkansas clime observations. Public offices in Washington are described as circular and noisy.

Jack Mitchell Wichita University Arkansas Kansas Institution

After All Good Month So Far By Elm

A reflective row of personal notes recounts a courthouse visit to buy a motor tag, a remembered number puzzle, breakfast soups with onions, and nostalgia for manual car chokes. The writer folds daily details into a light month’s progress and small humor about routines.

Ottawa leaders win new terms in local groups

Auld Lang Syne recalls re elected Walter Pleasant as Ottawa Mortgage Co president. C T Wallace re elected Ottawa Hunting and Fishing Club president. 50 years ago George Alves and C W Hjorth walked to Princeton on a wager. Pomona residents optimistic about oil or gas as blizzard disrupts telephone service briefly.

Walter Pleasant The Ottawa Mortgage Company C. T. Wallace Ottawa Hunting and Fishing Club George Alves C. W. Hjorth Princeton

Venezuela Teem City Shines Yet Slums Persist

Caracas emerges as a booming metropolis with new 11 mile highway costing 71 million dollars and landmarks like a 300 million dollar Rockefeller Center styled complex but stark poverty remains. Government plans 24 million dollar housing for low income workers will replace shanties with forty 15 story apartments, though uprooted families miss their rural yards.

Caracas Venezuela Venezula Texas Iement U.S Klondike Bolivar Oklahoma Germany United States Minnesota Wange Dians Lis Centro Bolivar Rockefeller Center

Clever Secretary Urges Youth Programs And YMCA Support

Wallace Wade, Covington YMCA secretary, advocates youth groups including YMCA YWCA 4 H CYO and Hi Y to curb delinquency. He promotes church collaboration, school gym use, and community clubs to provide wholesome Friday and Saturday youth activities. He urges readers to contact Dr. Crane for psychological charts and notes savings bonds.

YMCA YWCA Covington Kentucky Kiwanis Rotary Crane Hopkins Syndicate Metott Ind Hopkins Synificate Inc U. S

Ottawa Herald notices and staff and subscription rates

The Ottawa Herald lists staff positions including S F Harta as editor Doc Hulstoa managing editor Guy Snedaker business manager Don Shipman advertising manager Howard Hood mechanical staff. It also shows subscription rates for the trade area with monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual options and mail delivery pricing.

Ottawa Herald Uliawa Kan S. F. Harta Doc Hulstoa Guy Snedaker Don Shipman Howard Hood

Television Program Schedule for Several Stations

A dense OCR listing TV appearnces for channels KFEQ WIBW KMBC WDAF KOMO KMBO and others on Monday Jan 24 and Tuesday Jan 78. The page lists show titles such as Superman Frontier Theatre Capt Video News Weather and more with times ranging from 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. including The Eddy News and various dramas games and variety programs.

Radio Station Schedule Fragment

A fragmented list shows multiple radio station call letters and program titles for WDAR KMBC WDAF EMBC ETJO and KUBC. The items note programs like News Window of World Dragnet Radio Theater Amos and Andy and Dean's Downbeat with times ranging around 7 to 10 p m on Tuesday June 26.

KMBC Morgan Beatty WDAF Your Land KMEC Mrs North Ktjo—Globe-Sporta Godfrey Perry Como KTJIQ Tenn Ernie KATBC EMBC Radio Theater Amos Andy Etjo—Dean Eros McGee

Do You Know Mt Everest Growing Higher Claim

Indian surveyors believe Everest is rising. New Zealand kiwi lays an egg a quarter of its weight. In 1954 infant mortality in the United States fell to a record low of 26.7 per thousand.

Mt. Everest New Zealand United States

Senator Predicts Congress Will Approve Aid for Islands

Senator H. Alexander Smith stated Congress would likely grant President Eisenhower authority to use U S air and sea power to assist in possible evacuation of Chinese Nationalist islands if Red Chinese pressure forces action. Dulles and Radford discussed the idea with congressional leaders. Smith noted the president would receive needed authority, though he did not claim the request was imminent.

Washington H. Alexander Smith R-Nj Congress Eisenhower U.S Yikiangshan Tachen Chiang Kai-shek Formosa Dulles Adm Arthur W. Radford Joint Chiefs of Staff State Department Smith Senate Foreign Relations Committee

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