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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1955
Page
2
An editorial argues for installing voting machines in the Kansas House to replace roll calls, saving time and enabling fuller debate. It suggests further reform by eliminating multiple readings of bills, noting centuries-old printing costs and the availability of many printed versions to ensure bill content.
The Army announces it has built a wave making machine to show ongoing separation of services. The Navy plans a superior foxhole. The column ridicules press hype on Princess Margaret and critiques White House staff, 1956 candidate absence, and a 1955 junior high report card. It notes income tax blank shipments and Bermuda shorts coming soon.
The post office offers a free pamphlet on wrapping gifts for mailing and stores provide free wrapping services during Christmas. The writer ridicules overdecorated packages, notes high costs for ribbon and paper, and aims to promote a more lighthearted holiday, while admitting little chance of changing traditions. Gift wrapping remains costly and ritualistic, with many outlets and households continuing the same practices.
Auld Lang Syne reflects on past events as a Halloween parade is planned with several bands. A straw vote at Lane shows a landslide for Willkie. Police begin cracking down on Halloween pranks amid the season’s events.
HAL BOYLE surveys quirky notes from American life. From blindness rates and old dollar values to weather tricks and fashion columns, the item catalogs odd statistics and cultural tidbits across decades. It blends trivia about health, industry, and entertainment with breezy, humorous asides.
The Herald records recent new subscriptions and renewals by town. Ottawa names Carlson Gilliland Briles Shoemaker Wicke Daugharthy Fabert Yockey DeWitt Williamsburg Hurley Schaub Demoret Mulcahey Richmond Kramer Beasley Whiteford Lane Theele Wellsville Cordle Todd Hopkins Princeton Schmitt Cook Bryan Anderson Hally Carey Bates Pomona Morgan Jones Warhurst Clark Waverly Deay Sheaffer Michigan Valley Baldwin Gilliland Robinson Osawatomie G D James
Ed Keefe Circulation Manager for the Tribune in La Crosse Wisconsin argues against a minimum age limit of 14 for newspaper routes. He cites Boy Scouts and Eagle Scout examples to show maturity varies and asserts 12 year olds can handle routes, noting newspaper carriers are independent merchants teaching sales and accounting. He urges allowing work for eager children and criticizes restrictive legislation.
RANDOLPH Kans Taxpayer differences allow federal flood plans with limited benefits says L C McDonald a Kansas City private consultant at a Blue Valley open house He questions lack of protest from urban areas over Garrison Dam spending while Fairfax levee could have saved about a million in 1951.
The Ottawa Herald advertises its mailing and subscription rates with varied terms. It lists staff roles including Guy Shedaker Buiter Publisher Don Hale Managing Editor Don Shipman Advertising Manager Howard Hoadley and a mechanical superintendent. Rates show options by mail and trade area with multiple month plans and prices.
An OCR fragment shows a dense slate of radio listings across stations such as WDAF KMBC KTJO and WDAF. Program names span news shows dramas comedies and music with times from morning through night and mentions of personalities like Morgan Beatty and Glenn Miller alongside ads and specials.
Ralf Hardester previews TV Today and Tomorrow with notes on Preston Foster in a new series Test Pilot and the Alberghetti family featured on Thanksgiving Variety Hour. NBC Dream Girl stars Vivian Blaine air December 11. Miss Gulliver’s Travels stars Joan Davis. Climax! debuts December 1 with Zsa Zsa Gabor and Michael Rennie.
Kansas City police investigate William Robert Lott 32 after an alleged beating of his former wife Elizabeth Lott 23 and abduction of her two year old daughter Cheryl. Lott allegedly handed the child to John B. Thomas 29 on a street and fled before being arrested in St. Joseph. The child was returned to the mother.
Removals and disconnects listed include Fred Anderson from 1037 S Locust to Westphalia Kansas Arthur Burgoon from 113 N Hickory to 1132 N Poplar Dale Brown from 110 S Sycamore to 609 E 8th Wayne Garrett to 1037 Locust Donald E Jones to 113 N Hickory Frank Kinsman from 724 S Mulberry to 739 S Sycamore Edward E Kramer to 616 Willow Curtis J Miller from 319 Ash to 412 W 1st Melvin Miller to 1011 W 7th A E Nichols to 915 S Willow Floyd Robertson to 1021 N Poplar J Manuel Sanders to 907 E 8th Delbert P Stevenson from 1021 N Poplar to 1112 N Cedar Charles Wells from 2145 Oak to Waverly Kansas Bonds are an investment.
Four month old Judith Ann Leitner died from a brain concussion after a crash on U S Highway 36 fifty miles southwest of Yuma. Mother Betty Ann Leitner twenty year old from Hernden Kansas injured and hospitalized with chest injuries and shock. Husband John J. Leitner twenty seven unharmed.
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