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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1955
Page
2
The piece argues public involvement is key to reducing sex offenses. It cites Edgar Hoover’s estimate that only 20 percent are reported and urges open action by police and press to avoid wrongful accusations or hidden abuse. It frames citizen courage as essential to safer society and effective use of resources.
A dated chronicle lists notable August events from 1565 to 1903, including first cable cars in San Francisco 1873 and New York 1885, Denver mail 1860, Annapolis Naval Academy 1845, and the 1903 motor car crossing the United States in 52 days. It frames these items with humorous asides about tourism and souvenir shops.
Humorous column notes _This and That_ on local scenes and public figures. Items include Faure returning as premier after Geneva, summer weather following readers home, Air Force academy traditions, a hole in one by a daughter in law, and a preacher moving services earlier for cooler mornings. A playful quip about Santa Fe and Disneyland ends.
Auld Lang Syne recalls Ottawa girls weaving for the Red Cross a century ago as water pressure lagged from heavy use. Motion picture star Guy Kibbee visited today. Twenty five years back a Princeton road extension petition reached county commissioners. A Waverly Boy Scout troop formed. Governor candidate Harry H Woodring visited Ottawa. Fifty years ago corn benefited from rain while county schools needed more teachers this fall. L C Judson of Rantoul was in town.
Pardee Butler, an Atchison county clergyman and Free State sympathizer, arrived August 16, 1855, to seek river passage but faced a proslavery mob. He was seized, taken to a raft with two logs, branded with R for rogue, and set adrift on the Missouri River as townsfolk looked on, then escorted downriver a distance before departure.
A series of meter connections disconnections and removals are listed with names and new addresses. Individuals include Akers Leo A to 221 S Oak Beatty Estus from 315 N Main 2nd Fl to 111 N Elm Eddy James E to 1240 S Cedar Hashagen Clyde from 206 S Main 2nd Fl to Rockwood Drive High Mrs Marvin to 736 N Poplar Kimball Mrs L F from 624 N Oak Phillips Charles M from 736 N Poplar Rayback R J to 634 S Hickory Shaw Charles to 710 N Poplar Schoon t over Ralph H to 744 Walnut Shriver Russell from 221 S Oak Thompson Carl from 1132 N Poplar Wards Ralph A from 744 Walnut
Six Ottawans travel Monday to Kansas City for a testimonial dinner honoring Willard Breidenthal president of Riverview State Bank and longtime chairman of the Greater Kansas City Flood Control Planning Committee. Attendees include George Lister Lamar Fullips A. C. Richeson Don Capper Robert A. Anderson and Verne Chesbro.
In Geary county district court a temporary restraining order bans T. J. Tidwell shows from operating on a Grant avenue site opposite a drive-in theater. The theater operators allege nuisance and seek $500 damages, citing noise that disrupts their public address system.
The salts of tin are used in dyeing or loading silk.
Dr George W Crane writes of Fred H Croninger once principal of Central High School Ft Wayne Indiana and later a mathematics professor at Ft Wayne Technical College. The author credits Croninger with guiding his early public speaking and even meeting his future wife through church youth work while noting Croninger's lifelong church service.
A dense listing of TV programs across channels KFEQ KMBC WDAF WIBW KOMO KMBO and others for Saturday July 30 with time blocks from early afternoon through late night. Programs include Western Theatre Counterpoint Ozark Jubilee Damon Runyon Two for the Money and shows across genres from news to variety to sports and dramas.
A fragmented radio listing shows programs across KMBC WDAF and ENBC stations for Sunday July 31 and Monday August 1. Entries include music, news, sports, and feature shows with names like Gary Crosby Gene Autry Morgan Beatty Henry Taylor Ernie McGee and bands such as Band of America, plus the AM and FM frequencies and time blocks.
TOPEKA The State Board of Health will hold public hearings in the final week of September on pollution abatement policy for the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers. The staff will publish a report in a few weeks detailing a study of the two rivers from Great Bend to the Oklahoma line.
The fragment shows masthead details for The Ottawa Herald including post office entry as a second class matter in Ottawa Kansas. It lists editorial and staff positions such as Editor Den Hula Managing Editor Guy Snedaker and Advertising Manager Howard Roadley along with subscription rate placeholders and rates outside the area.
In 1855 Kansas territory stories detail proslavery vitriol from Atchison editors, a whipping of an abolitionist named J. W. B. Kelly, and a forceful town move led by Grafton Thomason. The piece notes Walnut Creek settlement by Wm. Allison and Booth, mail-route plans, and frontier commerce in Lawrence with prices and goods, ending with the Havasupai home within Grand Canyon National Park.
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