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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1958
Page
2
An editorial urges Franklin County residents to cooperate with personal property tax assessors and truthfully list income and assets despite frustrations. It defends assessors as neighbors doing essential work to fund schools roads and support for aged and dependent children, urging a friendly approach over hostility.
From Our Readers voices oppose beer advertising in the home paper and urge removal. Letters criticize Kansas legislators over tax policy, calling for a substantial severance tax and noting a perceived corruption. Names include Victoria Twining, Ralph Paul, Arthur C Cunningham, W C McConachle, Pearl Shoemaker, F C Sanford, H H Siegele.
A stitched set of tips from grandfathers on how to welcome a newborn grandson. Avoid early toys like trains for month old infants, wait until one year. Start teaching moderation in drink at home. Let the child follow his own milks and meals until age seven or eight for bikes. Forego baby talk, use a manly hey there monologue. Boast sparingly, limit mentions to three times daily.
A retrospective column recalls Franklin D Roosevelt becoming president, the fil ter tip debate on cigarettes, and social life shifts. It notes Air Force Atlas missiles exploding before orbit, Vanguard’s failure record, and Navy rivalry. Also mentions Gisele MacKenzie ending, TV ratings, a clergyman mortgage foreclosure remark, and GM’s self steering car prototype.
Ovidio A Souza from Brazil shares a personal conversion story of sin and pardon. He recalls reading that God pardons the chief of sinners, describes repentance and joy, and notes twenty years as a pastor reaching many to Christ. He prays for God’s pardon to enable forgiving others.
Front page banner notes expectation of Franklin D. Roosevelt's coming program. Miss Edmonia Dyer, assistant librarian, confined at home due to illness. Art Wiswell, city tree-trimming crew, injured topping a large tree. Wallace called to Delaware for a brother's death. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Elwin Stannard 820 S Cedar. E A Hanes nominated as top prize among businessmen. carbuncle on nose noted.
A dense OCR style listing shows a Tuesday broadcast grid across Channel 4 NBC CBS ABC and additional channels. Programs include news, dramas, game shows, variety and kids fare with times ranging from early evening through late night featuring many named shows and hosts.
Mrs. Bill Jones returned home from Kansas City after ten days under care. Harold Richards and family of Moran visited with Robert Richards and W. R. Byrn families. Wendell Byrn and family from Olathe joined them. Mrs. Leonard Gilbert stayed overnight to attend Frank and Doncasters 50th wedding anniversary. Earl Vink came back from Denver with Clyde Evans for a relatives visit. Evans reported his wife has a broken leg from skiing. Floyd Jackson Jr and Wayland Kirkland went to New Mexico seeking oil field work.
To Your Good Health explains inguinal hernia types and treatment. Indirect and direct ruptures arise from tissue weakness. surgery is the permanent cure. A truss is only temporary, while many with weak hearts tolerate operations. Individual assessment required.
A Quenemo area reunion honored Mrs. Walter Hutchison and Ernest Green with many relatives and friends attending from Ottawa Osage City and beyond. The MYF met for a church business session, World Day of Prayer was observed, Mike Weiss turned four, Corner Cafe changes hands, Fidelis Club discussed Mexico, and Polio Drive total reached 180.12 dollars.
A Calvary Lutheran Church congregation in Indianapolis watched organist A C Sehwark bounce on the bench during hymns. He later explained a squirrel had hidden in the organ and ran up his leg as the music began.
AP Science Reporter describes Grand Bahama Island range near Cape Canaveral used to test guided and ballistic missiles. The piece covers base operations, radar tracking by GBI, computer analysis, and the commander Maj Amos H Shoup handling launch controls amid civilian staff and carrier partners.
Subscription rates for Ottawa Herald in trade area and outside trade area are listed, detailing monthly, quarterly, semi annual, and yearly prices for mail delivery and noting post office publication details. The text references editors and publishing staff in a brief masthead-like fragment.
London reports Dr. Wernher von Braun says the United States could launch a rocket to the moon immediately if the goal was simply placing a beer can there. He notes sending a man could be achieved within five years with the proper objective.
TOPEKA Rex Woods editor of the Arkansas City Traveler was named by Gov George Docking to a four year term on the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board Woods succeeds Angela Scott editor and publisher of the Iola Register who had served since 1949 Both Woods and Scott are Republicans the other two members are Democrats
Leroy Swearingen of the Navy spends furlough with his parents the Rubeli SwearIngenens. Two new telephones on Rich land line are George Chambers and Lawrence Wobkers. Mrs George Brassfield received a letter from sister Mrs A J Adams of Emmetsburg Iowa noting 24 below last Monday. Maude Myres accompanies daughter Mr and Mrs Carol Healy and family to El Dorado to visit son Frank Stull Jr and family. Eldon McKeon and children were Sunday dinner guests of grandparents J L Redick Gridley. Norman Haight and family moved from Wichita to his mother Maude Haight's farm.
Sir Winston Churchill, age 83, hopes to return soon to his seat in the House of Commons after recovering from pneumonia and pleurisy contracted while vacationing on the French Riviera. Parliamentary leaders had urged a speedy recovery and Churchill replied that he hopes to be back in his seat soon.
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