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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1957
Page
2
The National Safety Council warns 120 deaths are likely on Memorial Day and urges holiday drivers to inspect brakes and steering, check tires, headlights, and load, take breaks every two hours, and avoid highway hypnosis. It says common errors include speeding and improper yielding. The article ends with a blunt safety tip: stay home.
Kansas newspapers react with elation to Wilt the Stilt remaining at Kansas University to finish his education and play basketball. He is praised as level minded and grounded, with Phog Allen also noted as influential, reinforcing the decision.
A column argues for authentic strawberry shortcake using dry porous shortcake, cream and fresh berries. It warns against sweetened cakes marketed as shortcake, claiming they ruin strawberries and mislead younger readers while urging laws to ban such misrepresentation.
A column argues France fights in Algeria to protect 10 centuries of colonial progress for eight million Arabs, to restore national pride after 1940 and Dien Bien Phu, and to unite a divided nation. It notes a civilian, insurgent war with no formal army, high costs, and symbol-driven stakes.
A devotional prayer asking God to guard against small sins and to seek His will. The supplicant acknowledges God as exact and prays in Jesus' name for strength to live righteously.
Old Ottawa items recap events from Le Loup fire at the Merkel home to a host of local notes. Highlights include Helen Spears studying at State Teachers College in Pittsburg, a buffalo fur warmed old fool warmer, and Gwendolyn Davis injuring an arm after stepping from a plank. Ottawa youths return from Conard Park camping. Ottawa Manufacturing Co incorporation with 50000 capital to make windmills. directors listed. South Main Street paving advances. Stucker using twenty teams and thirty men. Nellie Largent sick with typhoid fever.
The Ottawa Herald lists daily publication details and subscription options. Trade area rail rates cover one month to one year with prices, while outside trade area mail rates are also shown, alongside editor and publisher names and general masthead information.
Television program listings show CBS Channel 4 NBC Channel 9 and ABC networks offering a mix of news, dramas, comedies, and features across prime time slots. Programming varies by region with channel selections and schedule blocks noted for a typical evening lineup.
A fragmented two day radio guide shows WDAF KCMO KTJO and other stations airing news, sports, comedies and dramas May 28 29. Names such as Beatty Keene Bob Sanders Robi Lewis and Philo Vance appear amid program titles like Amos n Andy News Sports Newas and World Tonight.
Washington reports the United States has nearly filled its wheat export quota for the marketing year ending July 31, with sales totaling about 119 million bushels, nine million under the quota. New quotas will be set next year as the international agreement aims to stabilize prices and supplies. Canada has filled about 50 million of its 99 million bushel quota.
NORFOLK VA The old battleship San Marcos once christened the Texas in 1889 has sunk another ship while lying at the bottom of Chesapeake since 1911 A 15 foot yacht the Moby Dick snagged on the sunken battleship in rough weather Yachtsmen headed for a buoy they believed marked safety but it marked the wreck The battleship was sunk in naval gunnery practice 46 years ago
Molly D., a 27 year old Detroit waitress, is praised for customer care and efficiency. The piece extols fronting patrons, greeting new diners, accurate billing, and cheerful service, likening a good waitress to a nurturing mother in a restaurant’s success. It discusses how smiling staff improve dining experiences and urges polite, prompt attention to customers.
A Fort Smith shopper recalls how Governor Orval Faubus asked for an increase in the state sales tax. A ten year old girl reportedly sent a letter and a penny to the governor, describing her father s shoes and charging him ten cents. She also left a penny for a waiter during rush hour, reflecting mixed reactions to public pleas.
CHICAGO The National Safety Council estimates about 120 Americans will die in traffic accidents during the 130 hour Memorial Day holiday period from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Thursday. The council warns that extra dangers require extra care and cautions, noting 75 deaths on a typical nonholiday Thursday at this time of year.
TOPEKA The Kansas Turnpike Authority awarded a 2 214 390 dollar contract for the superstructure of a bridge to carry the proposed 16th Street Trafficway at Kansas City across the Kansas River. The bid by Kansas City Structural Steel Co Kansas City Kas covers seven million pounds of steel for a seven span 2227 foot long bridge and is contingent on successful sale of bonds to finance the project.
Hollywood starlet Yvonne Lime rejects marriage reports to Elvis Presley after dating since last February following their film Loving You. A Mexico City paper published the claim, denied previously by a Presley spokesman, leaving Lime feeling all shook up.
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