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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1962
Page
2
The editorial notes farm income lags behind other groups while inflation eases. A Kansas estate sale shows land values holding firm: 340 acres at 167 per acre, a pasture half-section at 150, and a wheat quarter-section at 251 per acre. Buyers were not tenants but independent investors.
A group of young farmers and substantial landowners are buying farmland with modest down payments, driven by hard work to secure land for their children. These purchasers are not city bankers or suitcase farmers but regional agricultural industrialists reinvesting profits to expand operations. The sale, though limited to three tracts in one community, signals a broader agricultural revolution in the past generation.
This travel vignette reflects on Stettin now Szczecin, a Baltic port near Germany and Poland. It notes two Allied air raids, postwar border shifts, population moves, and the harbor’s varied ships while laments the constant hotel pipe outage and lack of running water.
In a letter a mother describes her three year old son who fractured his skull fifteen months ago. Despite normal reflexes balance and alertness the child suffers frequent headaches and possible post traumatic headache. The piece explains concussion signs and the uncertain relation to initial injury and advises another EEG if symptoms persist.
A reader recalls the feeding of the five loaves and two fish as a prayer query and thanks God for His gifts. The column then discusses headaches after injury, possible neck muscle spasm, and brain lining adhesions. It answers reader questions about geographic tongue and excessive perspiration with practical guidance.
A dense TV grid lists programs by time and channel, featuring cartoons, westerns, dramas, news, and sports. Notable titles include Casper the Ghost, Popeye, Lassie, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Twilight Zone, Gaslight, Peter Gunn, High Patrol, Wagon Train, and The Beverly Hillbillies, with sports and weather segments interspersed and multiple film showings like Gaslight and The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe.
The lesson argues Revelation’s value amid modern threats from communism and anti church division. It urges vigorous religious faith, warns against extremism, and defines the church as key to defending democracy and preserving righteousness in troubled times. The author frames Revelation as timely and enduring.
The Ottawa Herald lists subscription options and prices for local and distant trade areas. Rates shown include one month 85 cents, three months 2 dollars, six months 2.75, one year 7 dollars for trade area, and higher rates for non trade area, including 1.50 per month, 4.25 for three months, 4 dollars for six months, and 15 dollars for a year. The paper notes Associated Press news rights and credits, with publication by Wellington Editor and Publisher Robert Wellington.
Rt Rev James Wise, bishop of the Kansas Episcopal diocese, led a confirmation sermon at Grace Episcopal Church here. Ottawans attended a charter meeting in Yates Center. Local residents named include F H Parks Marion Hume Alvin Howell E T Harden T W Flory Harry Schmitt C A Logan and Harold Crosby. Miss Iwalani Gault, returning from Hawaii where she taught at a girls school, was among those noted. Glenn Lemaster became Ottawa agent for Flanders motorcycle. Lawyer Wm H Clark, who settled here in 1868, died at his Main Street home. Citizens also teased a Wichita beer case where 18 000 bottles were ordered emptied one by one and resealed.
Telecast schedule shows Fred Flintstone plumbing on Channel 9 at 7 50. Route 66 repeats at 7 30 on Channels 5 and 13. Raws hide at 6 30 on Channels 5 and 13 with a rough saloon fight note. Break Through on Channel 4 at 8 30 covers cancer. Gisele MacKenzie guests on Bob Newhart at 9 30 on Channel 4. The Herald offers 5 dollars weekly for top reader tip.
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