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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1962
Page
4
A cheerful Ottawa Junior High page notes 19 days until graduation amid prom prep chaos. Seniors face nerves, dress woes, and parents’ varied styles, while juniors plan the upcoming prom night and dance etiquette. The piece also covers Kayette installations, yearbook updates, and a Spring Supplement plus Cyclone Sounds package deal.
In Ward Science Hall on the Ottawa University campus sixteen men, including police and fire personnel, attend a Monday evening Civil Defense course on radiological monitoring. Led by E G Dick, the program uses a 60 cobalt source and eight Geiger counters to teach reading, calibration, and dose calculations for post explosion safety and entry decisions.
New York AP reports exploratory discussions for a Pan Am and TWA merger into a multibillion dollar company. The chatter adds to a confused industry as Northeast Airlines change signals hint at shifts in TWA leadership and control. Pan Am runs international routes over 70,000 miles. TWA operates a large domestic network.
Grace Metz, who began teaching in 1917 at a Franklin County rural school, will be honored at a 2:30 to 4:30 p.m open house at Eugene Field Grade School. After 25 years at Eugene Field she retires this year, holding a Kansas State Teachers College degree and decades of classroom experience.
The Wellsville Garden Club will represent Kansas with a therapy display at the national garden clubs convention in Los Angeles May 14 to 17. President Bernhard Fleming will attend with display items including pillow corsages and buck brush designs.
Members from Wellsville Methodist Church attended a district officers training at Lawrence First Methodist Church with sack lunches and refreshments. The Ottawa district session is one of six. Bernhard Fleming learned of his nephew Franz Fleming’s death in Wisch Germany. burial occurred last Thursday. Billy Lytle, a Wellsville sixth grader, received a letter from Senator Frank Carlson congratulating him as Franklin County spelling champ.
Dr. Stanley T. Stuber of the Missouri Council of Churches argues against federal aid to private and parochial schools. He warns aid would threaten a free church and free state, urging better religious education at home and in church as the path to quality schooling. About 900 attend the Missouri Association of Christian Churches meeting.
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