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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1958
Page
2
Editorial notes an Ottawa school system survey favoring continual growth assessment and centralization for a future high school. It recommends acquiring land now if needed, prioritizing teachers and curriculum before a building, and praises committee work guiding the district toward centralized facilities and prepared growth.
A reader laments highway and township litter on roads and terraces resembling a city dump and asks if something can be done, suggesting a solution may exist. Mrs. Carl Richardson, RFD 3, signs the message.
Readers from Ottawa protest beer advertising in the Ottawa Herald praising a clean, home-friendly paper. Letters urge youths be steered from drinking, linking alcohol to broken homes and ruined lives while calling for ads to vanish from day pages.
A devotional piece reflecting on Galatians 6 7 about sowing and reaping and the law of consequence for sin. A mother’s warning and a child’s fall illustrate that forgiveness covers sins but not natural outcomes. Miller Lydick Pennsylvania petitions guidance to sow love and mercy for an abundant harvest to God.
A reflective piece contrasts TV and magazines with reading, noting the time split among daily periodicals. It lists local notices: a bicycle theft by Mary Francis Stubbs’s family, a Paola freight-house cigarette theft, a burn injury to Roscoe Lancaster, an invitation to Mayor John Nelson from San Francisco, and steam-plow equipment visit by E P McCoy. The Bison theater announces a solo act Spooning With Your Lady Love. The narrator doubts the value of reading after revisiting a wartime Honolulu story and Mamie’s house of ill fame.
Burns News ponders the paradox of ex office holders claiming fixes to problems. The piece questions accountability and the persistence of confident solutions from people no longer in power.
A station schedule lists cartoons, news, sports, and game shows across channels 4 and 13 with programs like Mickey Mouse Gr'teh'n Leon, Treasure Hunt, The Price is Right, Truth or Dotto, and The Love of Life, plus daily news and talk segments.
Dr Molner explains Antabuse cannot force sobriety and urges willingness to seek help. He cautions against calling the alcoholic a stinker and emphasizes support, AA, and personal resolve. The column also covers sterilization questions and vitamin advice, ending with a request for a health pamphlet order.
New York column urges workers to butter up the boss during job scarcity and outlines eight tips from recognizing the boss to tactful behavior. The piece adds humorous caution about office dynamics and potential layoffs amid economic downturns, alongside social notes from surrounding community events and visits.
The Ottawa Herald lists subscription options with indoor trade and outside trade rates. Pricing shown include monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual amounts for mail delivery and trade area exchanges.
Mrs Ora Cunningham and Charles hosted Sunday guests including Ray and Cunningham families from Shawnee and Iola. Art Holland and family from Kansas City visited the Triplett parents Saturday. W H Hettler hosted Wayne Hettler and Marsha, Bob Hoyt, Paula, and Ruthie from Kansas City and Pete Hiles and family. Wedding shower held at Lane Methodist annex for Vernon and spouse.
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