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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1964
Page
2
A brother editor laments audience taste after a touring Boys From Syracuse draw 539, a star-filled hootenanny 300, and the Grand Old Opry two shows drawing 3,000. The piece suggests the public prefers cheaper, familiar fare and questions TV's lure, noting preferences may drive programming.
Readers write about stomach air bubbles from swallowing air during meals. Dr. Molner explains adults can have air in the stomachs, best relief comes from not swallowing air and eating slowly. He suggests slower bites and sips, and notes medication offers little help. He also addresses pinworms and harmless lipomas with practical guidance.
Auld Lang Syne column notes Miss Madeline Elnor Mall engaged to Gerald Eugene Angelton. Miss Jean Marie Philippi visits Ottawa from Rio de Janeiro with her father Julius Philippi. Miss Mercedes Hughes departs Shreveport for New Orleans to work for Walgreen Drug Co. Willie Bancroft improves after pneumonia. Local medical committee discusses Semple sanatorium as a general hospital. Julian Defenbaugh buys a new Ford automobile.
Friday May 1 1964 marks day 122 of the year with 244 remaining. Notable events include Adm George Dewey's Manila Bay victory in 1898 and the penny post card debut in 1873. World’s Columbian Exposition opened in 1893 and Mandalay fell to the Japanese in 1942.
A dense schedule listing NBC CBS ABC and Channel 4 5 9 and 13 airings across day and night. Programs include Rifleman Huckleberry Hound Magilla Gorrilla Lawman Twilight Zone Gunsmoke Dragnet Captain Kangaroo Weather and numerous movies such as Virginia City Maytime Phantom From Space and China Gate with notes on sports programs and news blocks throughout the day.
The listing notes 1814 scenes with French pirate Jean Lafitte living a bold life aboard Atlantic plunder routes and New Orleans auctions. It mentions Ricardo Mont alab an in The Pirate and the Patriot at 6 30 p m and Bob Hope on Channel 4 at 7 30 p m. Actor Buddy Wren has spent 10.
A roundup of local TV and film options features Burke's Law on Channel 9 at 7 30 p m, a mock wax figure on Channel 4 at 8 30 p m, TW3 rites lampoon on Channel 4, and movie selections across channels including Virginia City My Favorite Wife Journey Into Fear Boots Malone with stars such as Errol Flynn Irene Dunne Cary Grant Humphrey Bogart Joseph Cotten Orson Welles Ruth Warrick William Holden and more.
In 1963 a total of 42,700 people died and 3,460,000 were injured in automobile accidents. The figures highlight the high human cost of driving and road safety concerns during that year.
About 1,100 guests were invited to a Kentucky Derby breakfast at the governor Edward Breathitt's residence in Frankfort, but no alcoholic beverages would be served due to the executive mansion policy.
The 1964 World’s Fair commemorates 300 years since the city first bore the name New York. Officials note the milestone ties to the founding era and historic growth reflected in the exposition.
Eighty observation stations worldwide measure earth tides as part of the International Geophysical Year program begun in 1957 58. Stations use gravity meters and horizontal pendulums set deep in rock to detect tidal shifts.
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