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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1957
Page
2
A mother recalls a trooper killed in Michigan while stopping a car. The piece reflects on the dangers officers face daily during routine duties and questions police pay. It argues courage and devotion keep troopers on the job despite risks and modest pay.
Humorous verse on suburban life airs in a reader submission with lines lampooning sewage smells and high taxes. References to Milwaukee industry and pop culture poke fun at television repairmen, a TV set allergic to westerns, and Eisenhower's Newport trip. The rambling piece blends satire and local color.
Prayer excerpted from a daily Ottawa Kansas publication urges believers to weave scripture into life and share it. The notice credits editor Robert B. Wellington and Guy Snedaker with publication details and lists subscription rates for local and distant readers.
Elm Then argues that new homes favor both living and family rooms with a parlor past. He notes formal living rooms, rumpus basements, and TV driven family spaces. He warns if each room devolves into single activity zones, domestic unrest may rise.
A set of light items from multiple papers. A man with an adding machine beside his bed counts sheep in insomnia. A fisherman’s scales are borrowed as a father claims a newborn at 24 pounds. Jokes touch on nuclear fallout and paycheck costs while a quip repeats about Uncle Sam needing aid if budgets fail.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Allen Barton of 822 N Cherry. A Herb Bishop car stolen from beside his farmhouse was driven away after the thief was heard. A motorist was robbed on a highway south of Lawrence during daylight. Ellis Clarke quipped about laws and smells at a new store. M E Nichols opened a real estate and immigration office in the Franklin County State Bank building. I Baughman toured to Kansas City by car, John Nicodemus left for Wyoming to inspect the country.
An excerpt contrasts Western suspicions of imminent upheaval behind the Iron and Bamboo curtains with a counter view from inside Red states. It notes Poland, Russia, China, and Maoist leadership under pressure, while the U S public hopes for stability and dismisses sensational claims as trivial.
The page compiles TV schedules from Channel 4 NBC CBS across morning to evening blocks with soap operas news and game shows. It includes a closing paragraph claiming a medical program could extend Carter life by 15 years likening it to biblical Hezekiah noting a Dr Crane letter to The Hocking Syndicate Melott Ind.
Dr George W Crane answers a 7 year old diabetic’s questions about oral insulin, daily injections, and pancreatic grafts. He notes oral insulin fails due to digestive destruction, describes newer slow acting insulin with once daily dosing and needle aids, and explains that grafted pancreas rarely survives due to blood chemistry differences.
Kansas Turnpike travel and revenue reached records in August. General manager Gale Moss reported 360,412 vehicles, 22,828,383 miles traveled, and toll revenue of 467,515.46 dollars, marking the sharpest monthly rise since opening last October 25.
Ex penditures for the period totaled 129 495 24 leaving a record 338 020 22 in net operating revenues for the month.
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