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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1973
Page
7
A letter writer describes 14 years of marriage dominated by sports and TV watching. After four months of sleeping alone she sought companionship with an attractive man, improving her own happiness but leaving her husband facing regret as his priorities remain sports.
A dense digest of Ottawa area clubs meetings and activities by day from Monday to Friday, listing groups like TOPS, VFW Auxiliary, Beta Sigma Phi, Garden Club, and WSCS, with times and venues at Ottawa locations. The page also includes a Dear Ann Landers advice column responding to reader letters about same sex marriage legality and cashier identification.
Linda Ostmeyver reports Eugene Field Elementary will host a 7 to 9 p.m. retirement reception in the school auditorium. The event honors Helen Durbin Mary Lee Harvey and Grace Hocking for a combined 53 years at the school. Harvey says she began teaching in 1948 after previous work in Missouri and enjoyed guiding students from primary to intermediate in the fourth grade.
After 29 years in the Ottawa school system, music teacher Coralee Shipps will retire. She has visited every class at Field Hawthorne and Garfield, taught in Oklahoma and Field, and speaks of music education evolving with more materials. Shipps plans sewing and handwork, time with three grandchildren, a Europe trip, and more family time.
Grace Webb led the Friday Senior Club session at the Youth Center with 32 members. Celia Wichman directed group singing, Ina Strickland organized the Mother's Day program, and a series of poems, readings, and recitations by members and guests followed, with refreshments served by Wichman and Strickland. Child Study Club men hosted a dinner and card party for husbands, retiring president Don Lytle received a gift, and new president Tony Van Leiden announced committees for the year with September set for a salad supper.
A collage of reader tips includes cleaning methods for sliding screens using soapy water and towels, vacuum attachments to remove lint, using a corrugated cardboard cylinder to aid bag filling, repurposing old hats and racks for storage, improvised pot holders from pants knees, reusing old electric blankets as lightweight extra blankets, frugal fritter ideas, and repurposing cut pant legs into child pillowcases.
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