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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1959
Page
2
An Ottawa editorial recalls a Washington visit praising the new Senate office building built for $26 million. The piece echoes a national engineering report noting poor soundproofing, privacy issues, underequipped hearing rooms, undersized desks, slick floors, and costly carpet. It argues reform is needed as election years arrive.
Dr. Molner explains histoplasmosis of the lung in plain terms. Funguses number about ten thousand species, but only 30 to 40 affect human health. A fungus is a plant without chlorophyll, needing another living organism to obtain food.
A playful radio announcer jokes about 69 seconds of news. A traveler notes taxis for quick city travel, but walking if late. Washington expects quiet as senators campaign for President. JPR Moths to cost $5 billion in woolens. Car brands gain grand names. Liquor taxes vary by state. A joke about an egg yolk repellent necktie. Arthur Godfrey is described as humbly learning life’s lessons.
A note lists John Laws of Princeton displaying a large turkey egg at The Herald. Floyd Warner sustains a severe burn from accidental acid contact at the Warner plant. A baby boy is born to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Scofield of 514 S. Ash. Dogs disrupt Main Street as Ottawa prepares G A R convention decorations. Q A Thompson of The Herald ill with acute indigestion. B Cargay of Baldwin buys A B Collins second hand store at 122 S. Main. The piece also covers medical notes on fungi and histoplasmosis, blood type basics, and a reader letter about sleep and diet advice.
A concise devotional prayer asks for God’s love and forgiveness. The speaker requests grace to love and forgive those who offend, guided by the example of Jesus and seeking spiritual strength.
The Ottawa Herald presents its masthead with editor Robert B. Wellington and publisher Guy Snedaker. Subscription rates in the trade area are listed for by mail one month eighty five cents, three months two dollars, six months three dollars and seventy five cents, one year seven dollars.
A sprawling rundown of Channel 4 NBC Channel 5 13 CBS 3 ABC schedules with times and program stacks across dayparts. Includes news weather sports films theater variety and late night Talk and Sign Off entries featuring hosts and shows like News Parade Bandstand and Dateline with multiple shifts into the early morning.
Relatives traveled to attend the Rubick funeral including Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hess Wichita Earl Rubick and Emma Keiser Kansas City the Andrew Setter Henry and Jim Hess Humboldt Mr and Mrs Earl Orr Fort Scott visited Rev Earl Orr and wife Chester Cline returned from Topeka Veterans Hospital to his home Willing Workers finished a quilt at Mrs Ross Spencers Berea Club met at Mrs Nogh Hutchison The Will Spencer family visited Preston with Mrs Ruth Atchison Mmes Hattie Johnson Allen De Garmo Ruth Atchison Will Mersman and R E Mersham hosted a shower for Velma Hoyle bride elect of Donald Willford.
Washington AP reports juvenile delinquency is largely sport not sickness, with experts from six fields saying most delinquents are essentially normal youths who join gangs by choice. Lower class youths dominate, with 70 percent normal lower class and 15 percent lower class with emotional disturbance.
AP reports CBS films produced two half hour programs in Manhattan. A trip to Czardis adapts Edwin Granberry's 1932 Henry Memorial Award story set in Florida pine country with an honest tragic ending. Miles Davis delivers a pure jazz set with top musicians in a studio, no talking, moving cameras and microphones.
Hollywood AP Fred Astaire says he wants to return his 1958 Emmy claiming confusion over the best actor category sparked the move. A spokesman for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences counters that the award was rightly won and remains Astaire's. Critics like Ed Sullivan argued a dramatic performance deserved the prize.
In Walnut Creek California AP report says a 5 year old girl Debbie Wilson heard muffled cries from a car trunk near a pool party. She alerted Mrs Harry Hemstalk who owned the car and pool and released her son Kip Stephen Fredericka and Robert Perona. Parents rewarded Debbie with ice cream and cake after a day of celebration Tuesday.
Gov. Price Daniel signed a bill to help Lyndon B. Johnson win the Democratic presidential nomination. The law shifts party primaries from July and August to May and June, allowing Johnson to run for re election before seeking the nomination at the July 1960 convention.
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