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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1956
Page
2
Editorial argues Kansas trading stamp law, designed to curb stamps, now burdens small merchants as license fees rise with inflation. It calls for changing the rule to ban stamps outright or allow universal use by all merchants, noting the law has become highly discriminatory.
Editors from 31 countries at the Zurich convention offer quick takes on global affairs. Reflections span the Soviet July session, U S economic concerns, Eden’s weakness, press freedom, carrier pigeons for news, and press page counts.
A motor car maker reports pastel car colors fading as black makes a comeback and predicts all black cars may return. Two tone schemes favor dark gray with light gray, dark green with light green, and sapphire white with coral. The note also favors striped neckties over multi hue designs and mentions warts as a medical mystery with a personal wart on the neck described as a distinctive trait.
Citizens gathered at the Court House on Friday to discuss a proposed eight foot dam at the Suspension Bridge crossing. Questions about city access, property impact, potential power, and viable production months were raised, with a committee tasked to gather facts and seek manufacturer interest.
London firm Finders Limited offers legal and moral odd-job searches for clients, charged from 65 cents to 300 dollars. Hugo Dunn-Meynell, its 30 year old managing director, says business includes tracing biblical birth day guesses for a play and delivering a forgotten hotel bed from London to a customer abroad.
The Ottawa Herald lists mailing rates and subscription options including one month three months six months and one year. It also shows staff roles such as editor publisher and advertising manager and mentions post office timing and holiday notices within a fragmented historical OCR snippet.
Dr George W Crane counsels Mavis T a 17 year old with a serious love problem. She criticizes her boyfriend’s grammar hoping to win him back. He resents her corrections and she is urged to use tact and compliments to keep him engaged. Crane suggests playfully “pretend to be the court jester” to boost his ego and avoid driving him away.
Whosoever will save his life shall lose it and whosoever loses his life for my sake shall save it. O God grant us willingness to humble ourselves before Thee to know Thy love and the power of the Holy Spirit. Make us instruments to show Thy love to others. For our Saviour's sake. Amen.
First published June 18 1956 and Chast published July 23 1958 note Murl C Sloan was sentenced September 10 1951 for forgery second degree and escape in Franklin County Kansas. He will apply for executive clemency on August 30 1956 to the Governor at his Topeka office Kunnear Petiboner.
Last minute program changes render listings unreliable across channels NBC CBS ABC and local stations. Prime slots show sequential lineups with shows like Tonight Today Caesar Burns and Allen and Captain Kangaroo, plus hourly weather and news segments.
Radio listings for Monday to Wednesday show KTJO KMBC WDAF and associated programs. Items include News Music Sports and varied shows such as Morgan Beatty Dial DCalendar and campus news with a mix of religious and concert segments.
A concise explainer on how Social Security retirement benefits interact with a veteran's pension. It covers earnings limits, qualifying conditions, and how VA income limits count or exclude certain payments. Includes a worked example with a World War I veteran and the special allowance where prior Social Security contributions are not counted against the limit until repaid. Readers are invited to write with questions via the newspaper and include a stamped self-addressed envelope and 25 cents.
Jayne Mansfield, a recent guest on Person to Person, will make her first TV acting appearance on July 15 playing opposite Hal March in an NBC spectacular. Nat Wiken, Phil Silvers Show creator, sees Bilko and his platoon possibly leaving the army and Silvers taking over a trucking company in the script. Jackie Gleason’s brief Rocky Marciano camp stay ended for privacy reasons. Rocky Graniano may return to TV next fall with Cliff Norton and Mike Kellin in a new situation comedy.
A column of gossip scraps from New York recounts Gloria Vanderbilt plans, Marilyn Monroe visits Fox, Grace Kelly gown resales in England, Karloff wealth spread across banks, and Hollywood figures like John O’Hara, Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Laurence Olivier, Martin and Lewis, and others in vivid, unvarnished anecdotes. The piece blends film stars, theater notes, fashion, and industry chatter with sharp, era-gleaned tone.
The item outlines Bob Hope’s six NBC regu lar shows this season and his additional appearances to promote That Certain Feeling in which he has financial involvement. It notes Peggy King at Mati-Inee Theater sought for a dramatic role. It mentions a $495 color 21 inch TV set launch next month and rumors surrounding Arthur Godfrey and Frank Parker regarding leaks about Parker’s exit from the Godfrey team, with Godfrey planning tighter security.
Americans may suffer up to eleven times more colds in winter than summer. The Right whale earned its name for being easy to harvest and buoyant, with abundant blubber and long baleen that allows it to float after death.
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