Parsons Eliminate City Band Levy in Quiet Editorial
The Parsons city commission voted to drop the municipal band concert tax levy due to waning interest in summer entertainment. Newton also stopped its band for similar reasons as changing times push people to home TV and car radios. The editorial notes it is regrettable bands face declining crowds despite summer sports and park activities.
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Parsons City Commission
Parsons
Newton
Dr. Melner
Ottawa Band Concerts Foster Social Relaxation
A Relaxing Affair notes sociable recreation for players and a chance for future musicians to perform, arguing bands thrive as social events even in summer. Ottawa's ice cream social and band concert drew a large crowd, with the Tuesday 8 pm park performance praised as a worthwhile city pastime.
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Ottawa
Television Log From Ottawa July 12 1961 Listing
Ottawa Herald TV log lists NBC CBS and ABC programs for Wednesday July 12 1961. It names channels and a dense sequence of dramas news weather sports and variety shows with titles such as Wagon Train Gunslinger Untouchables Doris Day era programs and late night segments. The log mentions Huntley Brinkley News Jack Paar program Five Star Theater and a wave of early evening to late night offerings across NBC CBS and ABC.
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Highway Patrol
Quick Draw McGraw
Dey Neleomay
Johnny Yates
Harold Mack
Cochise
Don Harrison
Monts Moore
Bill Yearout
Huntley-Brinkles
Dougine Edwards
Mallou Tun
Hong Kong
Privé
Wanges
é—Anerla
Donna Reed
Vert-Galant and Paris Sighs Through Time
The piece recalls dining at Vert-Galant on Isle de la Cité near the Palais de Justice, a quiet summer spot once offering scarce red meat after the war, and reflects on Paris landmarks from Notre Dame to Sainte Chapelle. It wanders through La Huchette, the Sorbonne area, and Saint-Germain des Prés ending with a Deux Magots farewell.
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Palais de Justice
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Rive Gauche
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Eliot Paul
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Deux Magots
Dear Dr Mother on shift work and sinus moves
Readers ask about shift work and sleep patterns affecting health. Advice notes that adequate long sleep offsets night to day shifts, with balanced meals. Separate queries address sterility and adopting, climate moves for sinus trouble, and the dangers of fad diets and fat gain.
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J.R.W
Dr. Mother
Mother
Prayer Reflection on Lilies and Outdoor Wonder
A devotional fragment praising the lilies of the field and urging appreciation of nature as God’s creation. The text cites Matthew and the Lord’s Prayer, emphasizing God’s providence and tenderness in daily life.
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Solomon
Matthew
Moffatt
Travel tips from stars for European tours this summer
Hollywood reporters pass along advice from Anne Baxter, Lana Turner, Debra Reynolds, and Bob Hope on how to tour Europe. They suggest half day trips to Chartres, renting a car to roam from Paris to Rome, staying out of tourist traps, behaving as guests, and packing light with space for purchases. The writer plans to visit Stockholm, Munich, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Rome while filing from each stop.
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Hollywood
Europe
Anne Baxter
Paris
Chartres
Charles Laughton
Lana Turner
Rome
Sorrento
Bob Hope
Stockholm
Munich
London
Amsterdam
Justice Dept. Aims to Restore Negro Voter Rolls
The Justice Department charged that about 4,800 Negroes were legally purged from Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, by a woman registrar with a White Citizens Council. Atty. Gen. Kennedy said court orders are sought to restore registrations and require equal access to voting. Defendants include the White Citizens Council of Ouachita Parish, registrar Mae Lucky, and Louisiana.
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Justice Department
Lousiana
White Citizens Council
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Heaunty
White Citizens Councy
Ouachita Parish
Louisiane
Mae Lucky
Louisiana
This Evening's TV Highlights
TV guide style listing shows multiple channels with titles like Man From Co chise and Hawaiian Eye. A cook named Charlie Loo wins a sweepstakes but is killed, while other channels air dramas and crime shows. Late movie reference includes The Old Main from 1939.
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Cochise
Charlie Loo
Charlie
Love and marriage trends and moon science alert
A look at American marriage ages shows men marrying at 21 and women at 18, with median grooms at 22.8 and brides at 20.3. Separately a moon soil analyzer called a black box will search for life-related carbon chemicals on the Surveyor mission. Also a daytime camera system, the Facet-Eye, enables daylight images of planets and rockets using 19 telescopes to combine images for clear daytime observations.
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United States
Planets
Population Reference Bureau
Moon
Earth
Venus
Jupiter
Turnpike Tolls Go Up Aug. I
Wichita AP notes tolls on the Kansas Turnpike, first hike since opening in 1956, scheduled to take effect in August. Auto rates rise 45 cents from 3.80 to 4.25 full length, commercial increases set as a flat percent in the nearest nickel, tied to boosting earnings on bonded debt.
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Wichita, Kan
Wedding in Topeka Highlights Local Residents
Mr and Mrs Melvin Schwarts and family attended the wedding of Larry Schwartz and Mary Sue Albright in Topeka. Mr and Mrs Gale Gilbert visited relatives near Somerset. Eleanor Knop and Susan Vallejo, Calif., visited her mother Mrs Martha Coffman. Maude Springer has returned home from Denver to join her daughter Mrs H E Robbins. Richard Springer of Olpe and Mr and Mrs Robert Hubbard with Ramona and Dusty visited their daughter Mrs Charles Cox in Medicine Lodge. Ray Birkerstaff and Borne Kirkland on 30 day military leave from Fort Riley visit their families before reporting back.
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Mary Sue Albright
Topeka
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Centerville
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Ralph Coler
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Olpe
Ottawa
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Ramona
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Medicine Lodge
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Bornie Kirkland
Fort Riley
Ottawa Kansas newspaper rates and masthead notice
106-198 Main Published daily except Sunday and Holidays. Second class postage at Ottawa Kansas. Robert B Wellington Editor Guy Snedaker Publisher. Subscription rates trade area by mail one month .88 three months $2 six months $3.75 one year $1. Outside trade by mail one month $1.40 three months $4.95 six months $9.00 one year $15.00. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to local news and AP dispatches.
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Kansas
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Associated Press
Minneola emerges in Kansas Free State history
In 1857 a mass convention at Centropolis debated Free state participation in the October 5 election. Free state success led to control of the Territorial Legislature and the brief town of Minneola forming near Centropolis, with Perry Fuller promoting the site. Landowners Robbins, Crum, Shore, Mewhinney, Critchfield, Bernard, Ruch and others financed the town venture totaling about $3,700 including land and fees.
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Kansas
Missouri
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Congress
Minneola
Lecompton
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Lawrence of Starling Minneola
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