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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1963
Page
2
A summary of the shift toward gender equality in U.S. labor law. The 19th Amendment gave women voting rights in 1920, and recent action aims to end pay discrimination by prohibiting sex based wage scales. The piece notes women’s breakthroughs in politics and law, while identifying ongoing salary biases in clerical and routine work.
A reflective column lampoons dwindling play habits as Kansas City faces a marble contest with seven entries and laments vanished pastimes like tree houses mumblety peg and whittling. Local flood news, civic notes, and brief items close with a prayer and biblical quotation.
Today's history highlights include 1898 U S Army of Invasion ships departing Tampa for Cuba and 1778 Virginia declaring a rights charter later shaping the Bill of Rights. Noting Belle Boyd death in 1900 and 1918 WWI rail yard raid near Mez. Also 1987 Pan American Exposition opens in Dallas. Birthdays include Anthony Eden and Vic Damone.
In Saigon Buddhist protests against President Ngo Dinh Diem are rising despite his calm appeal. Anger targets the United States over weapons used against Buddhists in a broader religious persecution claim. Diem, a Roman Catholic, expressed sorrow over a monk's torch suicide and blamed extremists for stirring public opinion with false propaganda. About 8 percent of South Vietnam’s 15 million population are Buddhists, while the government is controlled by Diem’s Catholic family.
A dense OCR of a 1960s TV guide lists numerous programs across days and networks including Sea Hunt Torey and Friends Quick Draw McGraw Dragnet Rebel, Weather News and sports segments, soap operas like General Hospital and Love of Life, game shows, films such as Blood on the Moon, and many cartoon blocks. The entry page maps a full broadcast day with times, titles, and channel notes for a broad audience.
A reader asks about an adult umbilical hernia found at a checkup. The doctor says larger hernias may require surgery, obesity and pregnancy raise risk, and most cases have no pain. Pregnancy may worsen but often does not. surgery only if symptoms appear.
Hollywood star Broderick Crawford recalls blindness in his right eye after a sword fight on the Spain set of The Castilians. A traumatic cataract required surgery, but within six weeks he returned to work with 20 20 vision in the right eye using glasses and new contact lenses.
Tonight Channel 5 airs the Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall special from last June. Channel 4 features the Kansas City Athletics versus Minnesota Twins at 6 55 PM with further Channel 4 highlights of Cleopatras New York premiere on Johnny Carson at 10 15 PM.
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