Editorial Saturday Notebook’s Wide World of Oddities
A meandering column riffs on junk mail trends and quirky facts. It notes a national association of salad dressing makers, Celery Week, a Hertz Survival Manual for traveling businessmen, dangers of night driving, Germany’s castle hotels, Gas Service Co. revenue, OEO funding plans, U S Savings Bonds push, Pillsbury snacks, Chicago Bears ticket sales, teenage generalizations, a pro rights promoter on reducing crime, Ann Landers in Vietnam brief, Flipper the porpoise’s Patsy Award, and ends with a jab at the janitor dumping the wastebasket.
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Hertz
Germany
Office of Economic Opportunity
North Carolina
Johnson
Treasury
Fowler
U. S
Pillsbury
Chicago Bears
Ann Landers
Vietnam
Flipper
American Humane Association
Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth End of an Era
A reflective piece notes Cunard Line ships Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, once the largest and fastest luxury liners, facing retirement after years of losses. The author recalls lavish service and seasickness, then warns that prestige liners are fading as jets dominate long distance travel.
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Cunard Line
Southampton
North Atlantic
Mary
Elizabeth
Ile de France
Allergy Rashes and Safe Synthetics Question
An reader asks why synthetic fabrics irritate skin and if safe synthetics exist. Dr Molner says reactions are individual, suggests avoiding irritants, and consulting an allergist for treatment options. A second letter asks about camping with knee arthritis and nose polyps, with reassurance that activity may continue and polyps often recur but are not typically cancerous. removal is possible.
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A.S.H
Paving Underway On Massachusetts Main Street
Work has begun on pouring concrete on the south end of Massachusetts Avenue in La werence after months of weather delays. The street is torn up and blocked off, disrupting traffic for an extended period. 50 Years Ago Ottawa High School girls donated the picture Washington Crossing the Delaware to the school.
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Massachusetts
Lawerence
Ottawa High School
Washington
The
Delaware
Prayer for Today Leads Believers to Listen for Thy Voice
A church prayer thanks God for the desire to hear Thy voice and follow Thy guidance in all times, not only emergencies, asking for alertness to Thy call and presence through Christ.
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Christ
Television Log Chronology of Saturday Broadcasts
A dense schedule lists programs from Zoo World at noon through late night. Notable items include Mr Muggs Steps Out, Flight Command, The Quiet Man, Preakness coverage, Lawrence Welk, Mission Impossible, The Joker Is Wild, Gaslight, Isle of the Dead, Gunfighter era features, and multiple news weather and sports segments.
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Flight Command
Yankees
Tigers
Phil Silvers
Daktari
Sam Snead
Bat Masterson
Jackie Gleason
Lawrence Welk
Piccadilly Palace
U.S.A
Bullwinkle
Camera Three
Jackson County History
Profile
Meet the Press
Garden Wise
Dick Powell
Virgil Ward
Arizona Legion
Marshal Dillon
FBI
Smothers Brothers
Ottawa Herald Publisher Rates Notice
Ottawa Herald lists subscription rates for trade area by mail: one month 1.00, three months 3.00, six months 5.00, one year 9.00, and outside trade area by mail: one month 1.50, three months 4.25, six months 8.00, one year 15.00. The paper is published daily except Sunday and holidays with Robert B. Wellington as editor and publisher. The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to local news and AP dispatches.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
Associated Press
Woman's Worth Eight Thousand Three Hundred Dollars
A survey in Envoy magazine calculates an average American housewife at 8,300 dollars yearly, based on 12 tasks and hours totaling about 99.6 weekly, with dietitian cook and seamstress as top paid roles. Ambassadors’ wives earn more due to hostess duties, while a diplomatic attache’s wife earns about 8,000 dollars. Educational and personal qualities are noted as vital though not easily monetized.
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Christopher Minicler
New York
Envoy
Meteropolitan Life Insurance Co
Chase Manhattan Bank
Restaurant &Hotelmen’s
Destructive Burma Storm Hurts Thousands, Destroys Villages
A two day storm battered Burma's southwestern coast destroying 809 villages and leaving over 100000 homeless. At least six killed and 16 missing in initial reports from the disaster area. Tidal waves swept acres, flooding villages as families climbed trees to escape drowning.
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Rangoon
Burma
Burema
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