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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1957
Page
2
A University of Kansas bulletin warns fast highways will break rural isolation and draw goods and services toward turnpike corridors. Ottawa sits far from the new US-50 relocation near Chanute as bids began, with implications for small town merchants and local centers.
A Nebraska woman, Hazel Hemple Abel, a former U.S. senator and construction company president, is named Mother of the Year by the American Mothers Committee. The notice highlights her five children, four daughters and a son, and her extensive civic, church, welfare, and educational leadership alongside her professional roles. The piece questions whether the award fully captures motherhood deeds.
A speaker urges graduates to focus on doing a good job over salary and benefits. He notes employers seek capable workers, mentions the 40 hour week, and acknowledges workplace tension. He advises considering the employer’s concerns and finding balance as careers begin.
A reflective roundup notes the Kansas City Athletics show improvement this season, still losing games but by smaller margins. The column jests about travel, humor, and a curious survey from the Gideons about Bible replacements in hotels over seven years, and lightly mocks institutions while tossing in a parade of satirical vignettes on society and recent news.
A brief prayer invoking Ephesians 6 to honor parents and live rightly on Earth. The plea asks God to help us remember His commandments and to act to guide others in the Christian way of life, ending with Amen.
The Augusta Gazette quips about modern changes from boxed pancake mix to potential helicopter landings on the White House lawn. It muses on what this means for Christmas trees and Easter egg rolling amid evolving customs and technologies.
Auld Lang Syne features two graduates Pauline Snyder and Everett Simmons from Auld Lang Syne Appanoose High School. Baccalaureate sermon by Dr W A Elliott of First Baptist Ottawa. commencement address by Dr S P Fogdall of Ottawa University. Also notes 34 tramps slept in Ottawa jail, a birth to Mr and Mrs Leonard Frazier, a $1 fine for leaving a car on Main Street, illness of Everett Adamson, schoolhouse grounds work nearing completion, Ottawa Produce Co shipping eggs to New York, John Alsop leaving Humphrey firm for Atchison saddlery, Helen Jones of Williamsburg visiting Ottawa.
A dense, era-specific channel lineup lists CBS NBC and ABC programs by time, with show titles like Wrestling Big Picture Perry Como News Romper Room Truth or Con and more scattered across morning to late night slots. It reflects a fragmented broadcast slate featuring game shows, soap operas, dramas, cartoons, and variety programs anchored by channel and time.
Franklin County May 1 1957 audit shows payrolls welfare road and bridge and general assistance disbursements. Names include Spears White Wake Letchworth Briggs Scott Fadley Brown Harris Driscoll Evans Lister Harr Ivey Blachford Church Sanford Schwarz Whirley Maendele Scott Basdale Driscoll Steele Bulson Miller Hill Abel Gould Vick Wyatt Binkley Baumann Shaw James Moberly Robe Keller Hollinger Button Berne etc. Large totals reflect salaries warrants and hospital and public aid costs with payments to vendors and services.
A cluttered list of WDAF and KCMO radio programs outlines a daily morning to evening lineup with news weather and music blocks. Notable items include News and Sports segments, Morning Devotions, Serenades, and various hourly bulletins and programs across multiple stations.
Dr Crane counsels teens to face stage fright with three efforts, citing Moses and biblical guidance. Use two choice prompts to boost audience participation, and mount notes to steady hands. The piece promises a booklet for further tips and directs letters to Dr Crane at The Hopkins Syndicate Melott Ind.
The Ottawa Herald reports probate actions in Franklin County Kansas. Basil W. Kelsey seeks allowance and final account for Eva L. Barlow estate with claims by Thomas L. Barlow for widower’s share. Notices require defenses by May 20 and May 27 1957, with hearings in Ottawa Court.
An Ottawa Kansas notice states J Kenneth Davis was appointed and qualified as Administrator of the Estate of John Samuel Davis deceased. Creditors must file demands within nine months from first publication or be barred. Dated April 25 1957 at Ottawa Franklin County Kansas.
Government figures show about two million of Guatemala's 3.2 million people were barefoot in 1957. Officials plan to distribute 100,000 sandals to the neediest as the start of a campaign to get the barefoot population, mainly Indians, to wear shoes.
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