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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1960
Page
2
Editorial notes public mood swings around President Eisenhower. Gallup data show 52 percent support in 1953, 71 percent now, with disapproval dropping to 17 percent. The piece cites economic improvement and ongoing peace efforts as factors, concluding public opinion remains fickle.
The El Dorado Times argues many speakers mumble and fail to articulate, making conversation hard for the partially deaf. It urges a New Year resolution to speak clearly and understandably, noting that garbled words can carry poorly even to normal listeners.
A collage of opinion snippets notes world scholars at a distant university with a high English failure rate, a federal judge branding a group as two-faced, liberal notions, and Kansas politics. It mentions mobile missiles on rail cars, paroled vagrants, Russia building a golf course, and wary East West score exchanges.
The Ottawa Herald lists publication details and staff including Robert B. Wellington as editor and Guy Snedaker as publisher. It also provides subscription rates for trade area and outside trade area by mail, with monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and yearly options.
In this readers column Dr Joseph Molner offers practical tips on toilet training and bladder control for toddlers, noting stool control often by 12 months and daytime and nighttime continence timelines. Advice covers gentle encouragement, comfortable toilet seating, cautious use of laxatives, and preventing pressure or anxiety to promote well adjusted development.
Auld Lang Syne notes Earl Brown ill with pneumonia. Ottawa High School initiates nine students into the OQ club. Gray writes from Colby about 19 below zero and dust storms in western Kansas. An ice jam on the Marais des Cygnes River is deemed harmless after inspection. Electric service goes into a new home at 941 S Main. J W King of the gas company is ill. A Bible verse and prayer conclude this item.
Local TV guide lists channels NBC CBS ABC and Channel 4 5 13 9 with hourly lineups. Prime shows include Wagon Train Gunsmoke Bonanza Top dramas and late night sports news plus weather and sign offs.
A collage of observations and quips cites storm safety about oaks under lightning, Kefauver on drug prices, rhinoceros horn demand, library book theft, funeral costs, a birthday quip by Joe E. Lewis, prison recidivism, Istanbul business, liquor in traffic deaths, alcoholism vs disease rankings, cheetah speed records, and witticisms attributed to Arthur Murray and Errol Flynn.
New York AP report notes about 500 million Valentine cards will be sold next month with women buying more than men. The piece suggests the gap reflects expectations of men providing a more substantial token rather than greater romance among women.
Howard White aged 12 used Boy Scout lessons to save Douglas Poplin seven and David Staley nine who fell through a city park pond in Tulsa. He slid on the ice on his stomach with a pole, keeping the boys afloat until passers by revived them with a rope. White’s father Robert Lloyd White is a scoutmaster.
In Durban South Africa nine policemen were beaten to death by an enraged African mob in the Cato Manor suburb Sunday night. Police reinforcements restored uneasy peace as armed patrols roamed the area and residents barricaded themselves in homes following reports of a murder. An unofficial account says officers had gone to investigate an African's murder when the attack began.
W Carl Marty Sr., an early Swiss cheese maker and leader in Swiss American culture in Wisconsin, died Sunday after several weeks illness. Born in Switzerland, he arrived in Monroe in 1887 and helped shape regional dairy industry.
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