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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1957
Page
2
The editorial backs the county commissioners decision to approve a mental health clinic in Franklin County and suggests placing the issue to a remonstrance ballot within 30 days. It notes the cost about 10000 dollars yearly and discusses public input, signatures needed, and differing views on funding and scope.
G H Marshall, retired Ottawa superintendent of schools after 16 years, visited from Augusta where he left 25 years earlier. He compared Augusta’s modernized main street, paved streets, white way lighting, and newer schools with Ottawa’s progress, urging readers to assess their cities during summer travel. The narrative then shifts to a travel feature through France from Nice to Paris, highlighting towns, meals, and historical sites along the Rhône and Saone valleys.
An ad in the New York Times offers a 14K gold toothpick in a leather case for 7.30 warning of fashion shifts from toothpick use. The column recalls toothpick stories from childhood to a prisoner’s enduring possession in Shanghai, with humor about etiquette and war memories.
Grace Bell returns to Santa Fe shops office after two week illness. Forest Park Sale proceeds with seven hundred cattle hogs and horses sold in a single day. Dr. J M McWhart aged 90 visits Fort Scott and travels to Girard in a Star car enduring three flat tires. Robbers used roofing nails on a road they fled the police on. A marijuana filled cigar box found near a Santa Fe tool house by the Marais des Cygnes bridge. Horseshoe pitching suspended at Forest Park Chautauqua with Carey Porter and Dr Herr among enthusiasts. Sung Lee is hired as cook at the Sims restaurant. Ottawa officers monitor strangers ahead of Laft day crowd. Pickpockets expected to operate during the Chautauqua. Pearl Martin reports two horses overheated and lost while hired to a farmer near Ottawa to work on a hay press.
A devotional prayer thanking the Father for divine love and asking for worthy living in response. The petitioner asks that every action be an expression of love, ending in Jesus name.
A brief Augusta Gazette feature notes the wealthy may never experience the thrill of buying the last installment of a popular line. The quip suggests scarce finality in owning the last piece of a sought after collection.
Reader notice lists CBS Channel 4 and NBC Channel 5 13 and CBS Channel 9 and Channel 5 13 as networks for a block of television programs. The snippet outlines channel assignments for CBS NBC and ABC services without program titles.
Radio listings show June 21 schedule with KCMO WDAF and KOMO stations. Programs include News by KCMO and WDAF, boxing and sports segments, Boston Blackie crime program, World Tonight, and Monitor updates. Notable anchors Q Lewis and Morgan Beatty are listed among the line up.
In Appanoose area news Mrs Ruth Morgan notes visits and dinners among residents. Families from Grandview Overbrook Topeka and Emporia shared meals and calls while Clyde Morgan Norwood and others received praise for hospitality and community quilting at the Ladies Ald meeting.
The article recounts Dr. George W. Crane counseling Tom T., a 31 year old troubled man exploring heterosexual dating. Crane prescribes practicing dating motions, hand holding, and kissing to cultivate heterosexual emotion, likening reluctance to a diabetic resisting sugar and urging steady dating to regain interest in women. The piece portrays Crane’s step by step guidance and emphasizes learned romance over instinct.
Emporia residents are asked to donate to a fund for a storm warning system. The Lyon County Red Cross chapter seeks 3000 to 3500 dollars to install four air raid type sirens across town. Signals would be controlled by the Emporia Police Department. Collins Mandel, Red Cross disaster chair, cites strong public demand for warning coverage.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Porter and daughter Peggy of Derby Kansas visited family in Quenemo Area, while Sharon and Richard Hubbard of Bonner Springs joined grandparents Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Harris. Mrs. Clarence Rose moved from Ransom Hospital to her daughter’s Ottawa home. Ernest Perry and Jim left for a Arkansas vacation.
The Ottawa Herald prints a daily edition except Sundays and holidays. Subscriptions in the trade area cost 86 cents for one month, $2 for three months, $3.75 for six months, and $7 for one year. Intra trade area rates are higher, with monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual pricing. Robert Beslaine notes delivery details. Balo Guy Snedaker is referenced in the publisher line.
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