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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1959
Page
2
The editorial criticizes the 1959 circus tour for dull acts and inflated promises. It contrasts the show with Ringling Bros and Clyde Beatty, notes high prices and old gimmicks, and argues modern audiences prefer television to live acts. It laments dwindling crowds and rising pandering to kids.
In Belgrade the Danube plain stretches flat and varied in crops across the river. A Yugoslav cooperative system guides 3,000 farmers over 25,000 acres with 35 tractors and 1,300 horses, aiming to socialize farming while preserving peasant landholdings for now. The scene shows large scale potential tempered by farmers’ attachment to ancestral plots and gradual state push.
A reader asks if womb and ovary transplant is possible after hysterectomy. The Dr notes the operation does not affect a wife's attractiveness or marital life, except she cannot bear children, and rejects organ transplant ideas while addressing other medical queries about nails and arthritis.
Auld Lang Syne Dale Forsythe and Hugh Mullen hitchhiked to Chicago to view the AAU track meet. Guy Turner near Ottawa reports theft of truck tires and battery. Lewis Fisher northeast of Ottawa loses a mare to indigestion. Stoltz loses a cow struck by lightning in Barthh pasture. School boards remove front walkways at Eugene Field School for brick sidewalks. H Barner ships two carloads hides east and L Taylor ships a car of eggs east. Forest Park mill ships a car of flour to Humboldt.
Prayer text echoes Genesis 32 26 asking blessing from God Our Father thanks for earthly blessings and seeks enlarging the divine image through Jesus Amen.
A dense listing of Wednesday programming across Channel 9 and ABC 5 at various times includes news Weather sports dramas comedies talk shows films and late night features. Notable titles feature Ozzie and Harriet Trackdown The Price Is Right The Millionaire and Ben case listings for regional audiences.
Gov. George Docking reappointed John A. OLeary Sr. of Luray to a four year term as state tank commissioner effective June 30. Additional appointments include C Y Thomas and R M Seaton to four year terms on the Water Resources Board, Maj Arnold J Esiham to the Kansas Armory Board, Melvin A Collier to the abstractors examiners board, and Lawrence A Baalman to the State Barber Board, with C W Bower and R E Williams joining the board of veterinary examiners.
A humorous travel guide explains tipping abroad without fear of insult. It suggests tipping all non relatives who speak to you, with country specific quirks for Britain France Switzerland Germany and Italy. The piece advices using multiple wallets to fractionally tip, turning the act into a game and avoiding extravagance or offense.
Washington AP Gen Frank F Everest was named head of the Tactical Air Command replacing Gen Otto P Weyland who will retire as full general. Gen Earle E Partridge will retire as full general, to be succeeded by Gen Lawrence Kuter. Lt Gen Frederic H Smith to lead in Europe, promoted to full general, with Maj Gen James E Briggs succeeding him at the Air Training Command and promoted to three stars.
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