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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1955
Page
2
A Sioux City case illustrates how a sexually ill offender, allowed back into society after minor charges, can trap and kill a two year old. The piece urges treating such offenses as medical plus legal problems, advocating indefinite confinement until mental health experts judge safe release to prevent further tragedy.
Census experts predict Kansas will grow to about 2 137 000 people by 1960 but lose one of its six representatives in Congress due to nationwide apportionment. The 435-seat House requires constant adjustments, with faster growth in the Far West shifting seats from the Midwest and South. Kansas may face redrawing its districts as experts project shifts in state and regional representation.
A short vacation plan details a different kind of holiday in the Colorado mountains. The writer rejects uranium prospecting warns of rattlesnakes and IRS plots, despises hiking long ascents and trout fishing, and vows to sleep through a week like Rip Van Winkle, avoiding card games, and fireworks of mountain life.
The column recalls decades past customs such as hotels with sidewalk rocking chairs for travelers and jeers at women from drummers on summer nights. It notes a bear tale as a perennial joke, a silly nickel for a buffalo, and a corporate tale of non cents bookkeeping. An 89 year old dies in a crash with his booted foot on the accelerator. The Iron Curtain lifts as Russia invites tourists, and Matsu and Quemoy vanish from headlines.
Fifteen years ago Torrid temperatures hit Ottawa as Jim Nebergall won a model airplane flight contest at Conard Field. Twenty five years ago the new thirty thousand dollar Shell Oi station opened at 211 North Main. Years ago Matt Getchell of Williamsburg started for Ottawa in his automobile but had a fat tire.
Dr Paul Horton a famed St Petersburg clergyman notes a church gift list works like a menu card. Parishioners choose specific projects such as song books or a nursery sandbox, seeing tangible results and feeling ego satisfaction from giving. Circulate gift lists to spur targeted donations.
Dr. Henry David of the National Manpower Council warned at a regional conference on womanpower that if women keep working at the current rate men may not need to work. He noted female employment rose 125 percent in ten years while men's employment grew 85 percent.
The Ottawa Herald evening edition lists staff roles including managing editor Howard Headley and business advertising managers, with reference to Ottawa location and a note about published classified material.
Saturday July 16 schedules list KMBC and WDAF with Monitor and baseball broadcasts, followed by KMBC fine music, Opry, and baseball blocks. coverage includes WDAR monitor, WDAF news, and KMBC concerts. The long list also shows hourly program blocks across multiple stations with varying shows and sports events.
A dense broadcast grid shows July 17 radio slots across stations KMABC KMBC WDAF WDAYF KMSBC EMBC and others. Programs include music news sports the George Burns Amos and Andy and national shows with hosts like Gene Autry Morgan Beatty Clooney and Ernie.
Ruth Wyeth Spears pattern 306 offers a combined sandbox and wading pool using solid stock or marine plywood. Features a jolly whale ends with tracing outlines and color chart. Top raises and lowers by thumb screws to deter birds and dogs. pattern included with Outdoor Play Equipment packet for $1 postpaid.
Six private Kansas power companies organized Atomic Power Associates for Kansas to study atomic development and its impact on future statewide power supply. Members include Kansas Gas and Electric Wichita Kansas Power & Light, Kansas City Power & Light, Empire District Electric, Western Light & Telephone, and Central Kansas Power.
Tokyo based Bungei Shunju cites eyewitness Hiroshi Akiyama claiming 1500 to 2000 deaths at a germ warfare center 25 miles south of Harbin Manchuria. He says civilians were drafted as soldiers and daily given germ injections, with bodies burned in an incinerator.
Kenneth Walter Floyd, 26, accused of theft forgery and uttering government checks. Arrests were made by local authorities along with Secret Service and post office officials. Five government checks involved totaling $412.96.
Three cars collided on US50S east of Waverly Kansas Wednesday afternoon. Ted Bidleman of Ottawa, a former Waverly resident, was driving west and planned a left turn. Tommy Joe Barnett, 17, an evangelist from Kansas City, attempting to pass, caused the crash by turning into a driveway. Nelda May Spanger of Kansas City, driving the third car, said Bidleman signaled then turned to miss Barnett, striking her vehicle from the rear.
In Summerton, Clarendon County, a three judge federal court heard a bid to keep racial segregation in the coming school year. Attorney Robert McC Figg argued the trustees feared other plans would disorganize schools impair efficiency and harm public support of education, making continuation of segregation the only workable option under present constraints.
John H. Sala a 65 year old retired Denver carpenter waived preliminary hearing on a first degree manslaughter charge and was bound over to district court in Lawrence Kansas. He is free on a $2000 bond after admitting he fired the shot that killed 18 year old Paul Den of Topeka as Denning opened a car door along US 40 west of the city on January 22.
Gen Maxwell D Taylor Army chief of staff told 170 secretaries at the annual conference that further reductions in American military strength in the Far East are possible. He had just left Far East supreme command to become chief of staff and briefed on the military situation there.
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