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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1964
Page
4
The piece covers reasons jars fail to seal including using nonstandard jars, dirty sealing edges, or residues on lids. It discusses convenience foods costs versus home prepared, noting meats and dairy costs, and explains effective discipline as guidance rather than punishment, with growth stages affecting behavior and strategies to prevent crises.
HKU notes describe a May meeting at Mrs. Dean Sauer's home with Mrs. Charles Mavity Jr. assisting. Roll call asked How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time. Reports included a Kansas Home Demonstration meeting in Lawrence and earning 15 gold seals. Several craft displays, a toy fund of $10 for Ransom Memorial Hospital, clothing for welfare, and refreshments for 16 members and a guest. Next meeting June 9 at Anchor Savings and Loan recreation room.
Melvern area news notes Leanna Correll earned the Grant scholarship for 1964 1965 at Emporia State Teachers College. A freshman raised 80 dollars at a May 16 food sale. The Senior Class returned May 14 from a trip across southern states with Mr Bryson Mr Otis Mrs Mochamer and Mrs Bush. The Jobs Daughters hosted a May 25 supper honoring 8th grade and high school graduates. Isabel Phelan Margaret Catlin Vera Young attended a May 15 Methodist Sunday School Teacher training in Garnett. Richard Schultz, longtime Melvern resident, died May 25 at Hill Top Nursing Home Lyndon. The Auxiliary held a May 23 food sale and poppy sale by children.
Mr and Mrs Don Bach welcome a daughter Brenda Anne born May 27 at Anderson County Hospital. B H Truck Line sold to Rollin Wright Parker. Baseball and softball teams being formed with first games soon coached by Bill OConnor and Dick Sommer. Practice to be on the new church diamond.
Mr and Mrs Furman Porter traveled to Neosho Falls on Tuesday May 26 to attend the funeral of their brother in law Charley Melvin 77. Melvin is survived by his wife Ruby Porter and six children plus several grandchildren.
Roy A. Miller of Pomona wins a 525 pound Angus heifer in the final drawing of the Kansas City Livestock Market Boosters Club. The club has issued daily drawings for baseball tickets for tonight’s Kansas City A’s versus Baltimore Orioles game. Stockyards Baseball night gathers livestock people seated together in one ballpark section.
Rain in the county over the past week soaked soil while some areas suffered crop damage from quick-runoff. Emphasis on holding water on land to improve soil moisture, reduce losses, and encourage grass cover and terraces to minimize erosion and conserve water resources for farms and livestock.
Kansas State University horticulturist Claude Derting advises watering bluegrass and fescue 1 to 2 inches weekly when rainfall is lacking, preferably 2 inches. Do not fertilize from June 1 to Sept 1. Mow regular at 2 inches or higher, removing no more than one third of top growth, to avoid weakening and slow growth.
Unusually loud cicadas appear 17th year, with males serenading mates amid heavy infestation. Details describe size black bodies orange wings red eyes a W mark on wings and eggs on twigs. Nymphs damage young trees, emerge after 17 years, and birds are best control. chemical methods risk harming birds.
Bethel W S C postponed its June 3 meeting due to the death and funeral of Mrs. Bryan Stewart of Centropolis. Overbrook High School graduates include Reba Turner who won a Kansas University scholarship, and Bethel area residents Harold Atchison and Bill Kay both earned degrees from Kansas University this spring. Bill Kay, nephew of Mrs. Lawrence Gruver, visited the Gruver home as a weekend guest.
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