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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1959
Page
4
A reader recounts a 15 year old affair with a married man and guilt over ending it, Ann Landers advises breaking off the affair and pursuing a safe, honest life. Other letters discuss manners, flirtation, and marital fatigue, with responses urging proper boundaries and occasional separation for variety.
Lloyd Lee Watson of Lubbock Texas, 1937, died when a car struck the Turkey Creek bridge on U S 166 about 1 1/2 miles east of Joplin early today. Maurice Cohn of Carthage Missouri was injured but not seriously. Investigators believe the car lost control and hit the bridge abutment. Watson was thrown from the vehicle and found face down under the bridge in about two feet of water. The Jasper County coroner Dr W W Hurst ruled drowning as the apparent cause.
Inmates at the New Mexico State Prison donated 100 pints to the Southwestern Blood Bank, part of a growing program. Warden Harold Cox said more than 300 donors are listed, with 1,200 inmates total and around 100 turned away for physical defects. Each pint cuts 15 days from a donor’s sentence, and donors may give every four months.
Mrs W A Hufford spent days with son Eldon Hufford in Belton Missouri. Rex Gilliland hosted a turkey dinner for his birthday with 16 relatives present. Alva Newkirk family returned to Louisville Kentucky. his mother Earl Hufford joined them. Virginia Mesigh and Judy Wisconsin visited Luella Nelson in Manhattan. Weekend visitors included Hayward Jenkins and family of Topeka and Charles Perry and family of Wichita.
TOPEKA AP reports the Kansas Motor Vehicle Department saw strong revenue growth in the first half of 1959 with license and title registration sales totaling 18,605,705 dollars, up from 17,667,321 dollars a year earlier. Plate sales rose from 1,062,687 to 1,087,961.
Gov George Docking outlines a mixed business and pleasure trip to the Eisenhower Library conference in Chicago and a two day Virgin Islands stay after the San Juan gathering. The Kansas party includes Gene Sullivan Joe Nickel James Bibb Arthur Nevans Don Hewitt and Robert Docking with wives to attend.
Washington AP reports the Eisenhower administration seeks higher long term borrowing. The Treasury will pay about 4 percent on two billion dollars for one year, the highest since 193?8. The rate follows bids and House approval of a compromise to raise the 4 percent limit for bonds five years or longer for two years.
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