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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1957
Page
2
Editorial comments critique a Chicago boy’s electrocution from a TV set, question industry blame, and note steady safety testing. The piece contrasts a Kansas City lamp shock fatality with broader device safety and cites cigarette ads facing scrutiny. It ends by advising readers to consider smoking alternatives like pipes.
This column pokes fun at summer routines and trends. It notes TV advertising in summer, declines in newspaper circulation, and a witty take on weddings and fashion. The Dodgers are playing well despite contract worries and spring relocations. Congress is idle besides routine bills.
A brief note highlights Clips And Quips Laff-a-Day as a time saving solution. The item suggests this feature reduces steps in daily routines and emphasizes convenience for readers seeking quicker humor.
A reader offers to pay to keep his name out of the paper after an illegal liquor possession charge, but the editor explains that newspapers do not sell silence. Readers weigh in on liquor advertising and city insults while letters criticise unsigned pieces. An obituary arrives too late, and highway mileage is noted on Kansas roads. Quotations from several papers provide a collage of local humor and commentary.
Sixteen Ottawa children entered a bathing beauty contest at the Strand theater named Suzanne Stubbs Irene Brown Eva Abelson Mary Ellen Ferguson Dolores Peterson Virginia Hughes Mildred Hume Barbara Sne Schmitt Dorothy Jeanne Webster Katherine Duffy Joyce Gladstone Mary Dale Adam Betty Joan Andrews Betty Lou Klein Emma Hagerty Patricia Lou Dayhoff. Ottawa post office received a car of lump coal for winter fuel. Louis Ames was fined $10 for speeding. Tremont Street sewer installation underway. William Jennings Bryan was in Ottawa changing trains en route from Emporia to Iola wearing the same hat as six years earlier. A son was born to Mr and Mrs L B Jones of 8 miles northeast of Ottawa. City council discussed pulling an electric fan. evening gas lights not used unless needed amid heat.
A brief devotional prayer asks God to have the light of Christ shine in believers lives and to grant assurance that darkness cannot overcome the light found in Him Amen.
The Ottawa Herald lists daily publication details and pricing. Subscription rates are given for trade area and outside trade area with monthly and yearly options, including one month 85 cents and $1 respectively, up to one year at $7 or $10.
A dense OCR of broadcast listings lists programs on Channel 4 Channel 5 CBS ABC and other slots. Entries include Mickey Mouse Laurel Hardy News Sports Interview Weather and several cartoon and kid shows along with dramas and public affairs.
6:00 a.m. Top of Morning program block starts the day with weather and news updates. 6:45 Weather Roundup provides regionale forecasts before more morning segments. 6:50 Top of Morning continues with program chatter and segments. 7:30 News Markets Wil features market insights and local updates. 7:45 Top of Morning returns with guest spots. 8:00 Commentary offers opinions on current events. 8:05 Radio Riddle engages listeners with a puzzle. 8:10 Top of Morning resumes. 8:30 News Weather covers latest headlines and forecast. 8:35 Top of Morning repeats. 9:00 Hymn Time presents religious music. 9:13 Sentim' Melodie showcases melodies. 9:30 News Weather wraps the morning.
New York columnist HAL BOYLE shares pavement proverbs for the man in the street. Witty maxims touch thrift, retirement, friendship, self awareness, work hours, marriage, gossip, happiness, and American habits in a brisk, period tone.
Col. E. C. Adams says flood control on the Kansas River can be achieved with eight new reservoirs and channel work, replacing a 22-reservoir plan. Sites include Wakarusa, Soldier Creek, Rock Creek, Vermillion Creek, Clarks Creek, Lyons Creek, Chapman Creek and Turkey Creek. total storage will be less than Tuttle Creek. Levees near Kansas City would be raised and the river widened at Topeka to protect Lawrence. Adams will be succeeded by Col. Lawrence E. Laurion.
Rice County Sheriff Walt Morganfield says the county jail was empty for the first time since he took office in January but that situation lasted 114 hours. He warns the jail likely to fill soon as inmates return.
Dr. George W. Crane advises on Jim W. a 34 year old insurance salesman. The wife works at a factory to support six children while Jim is urged to stay in sales. Crane praises selling as vital and suggests the family may benefit from a factory job while building a clientele.
DEFUNIAK SPRINGS 4 Circuit Judge B Stuart Gillis urged county grand jury to probe property assessments. Grand jury led by A B Covell urged a general reassessment. County commissioners advertised higher valuations yesterday. Gillis and Covell parcels each to rise by 1500 dollars in assessed value for tax purposes.
A Senate agriculture subcommittee pressed the Agriculture Department for a full accounting of drought relief livestock feed distribution. Kenneth Scott said audits of relief applications are under way and won’t finish for about five months. In hearings, Robbins Brothers ranch in Kiowa and Comanche counties Kansas was cited as receiving 4500 dollars worth of feed despite ineligibility.
New highway patrol stations will open in Topeka Leavenworth and Goodland on August 1 boosting the state total to 51.
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