Ann Landers Advice Rows Through Family Turmoil
A challenging reader column chronicles a young woman's engagement plans tainted by an aunt's meddling and a cuff link inheritance. The note details parental pressure, financial asks, and a drive-in dating embarrassment while seeking guidance. The reply commends sentimentality of cuff links and suggests adding to the gift. It also offers comfort for a sister's late-life pregnancy and a blind deaf daughter case with Helen Keller as inspirational counsel.
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Ann Landers
Katherine Coryen
Jerry
Turners Celebrate 50th Anniversary in Girard
Mr and Mrs Archie W Turner of Ottawa will hold an open house on July 4 to mark their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple lived on a farm near Waverly until 1928 before moving to Ottawa. Turner worked 30 years for B D Bennett Ice Company driving a horse drawn wagon. They have two children and several grandchildren. Activities and visits by relatives are noted along with conferring plans and prior travels including California and Yosemite on recent trips.
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Girard
Archie W. Turner
Nisnt
King
Royland
Waverly
E. Turner
Vionita
Ottawa
Harold Loy
Pittsburg
Turner
B. D. Bennett
Myra Mopkins Wins Ridge Scholarship at Emporia College
Myra Mopkins daughter of Mr and Mrs G E Hopkins 504 FE 4th receives the Ridge scholarship for the 1960 61 year at Kansas State Teachers College Emporia. She has studied two years with majors in biology and home economics. The award is funded by a generous Emporia woman whose travel agency earnings fund an annual scholarship to a sophomore junior or senior woman.
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Myra Mopkins
G. E. Hopkins
Partridge
Kansas State Teachers College
Emporia
Fan Emporia
Author Fiory Peterson Visits Ottawa House Guest
Mrs. Fiory Culp Peterson of Seattle has been a week long guest at the Deck Jones home in Ottawa. Her book Life And She, published by Christopher Publishing Co of Boston, is autobiographical and recounts pioneer life in northern Indiana grain farming teaching in Washington homesteading in Alberta and mentions Kansas. Peterson is the aunt of Deck Jones's wife and of Merrill Blosser creator of Freckles cartoons.
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Fiory Culp Peterson
Seattle
Wash
Deck Jones
Christopher Publishing Co
Boston
Indiana
Washington
Alberta
Canada
Kansas
Peterson
N. Cedar
Merrill Blosser
Accompanying Operas Pianist Jo Archer Named
Jo Archer age 18 daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul W Archer attends Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony in the Ozarks near Eureka Springs as the festivals accompanist for two of ten operas. She will accompany Hansel and Gretel and Mozart impresario during Festival Week July 23 30. She has performed on Sunday Student Artists concerts as soloist and accompanist and holds a No 1 rating in district music contest and alternate first in the Women's State Federation of Clubs contest.
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Jo Archer
Paul W. Archer
Hickory
Inspiration Point
Ozarks
Eureka Springs
Hansel and Gretel
Humperdinck
Mozart
Ottawa
Vacation trip of the Gilroys ends in California
The Henry Gilroys and their children Greg and Paula Jo returned from a three week vacation visiting an Army buddy in Yuma Arizona. They spent four days in Los Angeles at Disneyland then two days in Fresno with relatives before concluding their trip in Me.
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Henry Gilroys
Greg
Paula Jo
Yuma
Ariz
Mr. Gilroy
Los Angeles
Disneyland
Fresno
Baby Debbie Sue Born to Fanchers in Rocky Ford
An infant daughter named Debbie Sue was born to Mr and Mrs Kenneth Fancher in Rocky Ford Colorado in June.
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Debbie Sue
Kenneth Fancher
Rocky Ford
Colo
June
Fanchers Welcome Another Daughter Kathie at Four
The Fanchers announce the birth of their daughter Kathie, age four, with great-grandparents listed as Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Watkins of 1027 S. Main and great-grandmother Mrs. Pearl Allen, RFD 3.
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Millard R. Wren JR
Osawatomie
Sher Joe
M. BR. Wren
Williamsburg
Ray F. Koontz
RFD 3
Fanchers
Kathie
Ernest Watkins
S. Main
Pearl Allen
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Panaomics
Terry
Ann
Helen Keller
Toych
Shoo
Scott's
Gapawan
Paula Perkins
Erveng Hranevee
Toom Laury
Hoenie Meiers
J and Allen Genn
Jack Smith
Vera Goodman
C. Carl Fitch
Freddie
A. W. Turner
Wright
Chares
P. Knight
Jelf Stout
W. C. Coleman
Wichita
B. F. Bowers
Laura Penny
Clarence M. Sheldon
Ethel Bell
Lafalot Club
Lowell’ Fouts
Lizzie Armstrong
Floyd Coffman
Texas
Mexico
Richard Turner
Bers
San Antonio
Margaret
Barbara Schadt Emporia
F. E. Warner
Eloise
Marvin Schadt
Kay
Gordon
Warner Home
Wanda Baird
Cheryl
Jane
Las Cruces
N. AL
Mr. Watkins
W. E. Watkins
Watkins
Cole
Fancher
Carol Ann Watkins
Elizabeth
W.S.C
Mary Huderson
Pomona
Carroll
James’ Eddy
Bob Barrows
James Duncan
John Kuchera
Don Lauver
First Baptist Church
Green Lake
Wisc
Sarah Circle
W.S.C.S
Glenn Bigelow
Don Waldo
Cliff Reynolds
Fred Adamson
Don Sellers
Waldo
Olin Wollen
William Ford
Claire Hutchison
Langer
Karl Melzig
Don White
Grant Titley
Albuquerque
M. M
Baldwin Institute
Baker University
Yeti
Eltee
Lips In Town
Tussy
Deetfee
Coral Cloud Garden Party
Youngtime
Briscoe Drug Store
RED Cross
Paines Bootery
Sunrise Dairy
Ue Eet
Maytag
AS Bros
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