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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1956
Page
2
The piece condemns organized crime within the New York dock unions. It notes investigations reveal brutal conditions and fear-driven voting patterns in federally supervised elections. It argues government and labor federation have failed to eradicate the corrupt influence despite past prison sentences.
Willy Nilly muses on comic books and anonymous groups in a rambling column. He recalls a poor man who quits comics, discusses why readers want comic strips, and muses on masculinity in pictures of men with pipes cigars or cigarettes. He notes shifts in advertising and billboard attitudes toward smoking.
A collage of light reflections on living within income, social trends, and modern quirks. Highlights include a nurse’s note to Dr Crane, a restaurant dining quip, Suez tensions, Future Farmers of America growth, Elvis Presley records, Miss World and Miss Universe, and plastic surgery puns about noses and social nosiness.
Readable fragments show a list of girls in a junior high school playlet including Bernice Lichtenberger Shirley Jewell Polly Gowans Dorothy Allen Jane Geiger and others. Ottawa University YWCA discussed partial payment for dates with no action. Local residents and moves noted including the Von Berg family moving from Bentonville Ark and leasing 919 North Oak. Also letters and comments on Dr Crane columns and public correspondence are mentioned.
Fragmentary listing shows last minute changes across stations KMBC WDAF and WRAF with news weather sports boxing and variety segments. Entries include anchors Bob Hope Fat Club Morgan Beatty Jim Burke and B B Dilson along with an orchestra and boxing coverage.
A fragmented OCR radio timetable lists stations KMBC WDAF KNBC WLAF and KAMBC with show slots from Saturday into Sunday including news, music, weather, and monitors. Several misspellings and misreads blur times and program titles but indicate a broad weekend schedule across multiple local stations.
A New York financier William Zeckendorf escorts top executives to weekly Madison Avenue breakfasts to steer US and Canadian projects valued at a billion dollars. The session debates an ice rink at Roosevelt Field, a $50 million Long Island shopping center, with Rose and Silverson clashing before Zeckendorf backs Rose’s plan and adds a double deck parking lot. The column notes the breakfast format accelerates decisions and maximizes stress, describing the manager’s philosophy shift to “teaspoonfuls of land.”
The Ottawa Herald letters criticize the garbage and trash ordinance as vague and costly. Attorney Tom Gleason justifies flexibility in the proposed system while Mayor and ex city attorney Douglas Gleason offer no specifics on cost or dump site, yet taxpayers remain expected to pay.
Letters to the Ottawa Herald discuss pension plan details and what is covered under Social Security. Questions cover requesting plan specifics from employers, whether medical doctors are included, and how to replace a lost Social Security card. Also noted is Corporal Vernon Burge as the Army's first enlisted air pilot in 1912.
A Mrs E Bennett signs a brief letter asserting American citizenship and the right to vote. She emphasizes loyalty and patriotism, stating citizens retain voting rights regardless of governing bodies. The note closes with her address at 115 East 5th.
On October 1 Kansas stored 383 719 000 bushels of wheat, surpassing last year’s record of 335 million. Interior plants held 180 113 000 bushels, merchants mills 25 901 000, farms 41 934 000, with the rest in terminals, in transit or under Commodity Credit Corp control.
Ray Henry answers reader questions about creditable active duty for military retirement and how to estimate total retirement benefits via Social Security. He notes Navy service counts with honorable discharge and suggests consulting an insurance agent, banker or lawyer to plan retirement and assess expected Social Security payments.
A giant swamp gum in Australia is said to be 320 feet tall and grew 200 years before European settlement. The piece notes a Wall Street “bull” broker buying stock in the tree and mentions Liechtenstein as a 65 square mile independent country with over 3,000 industrial foresters managing its timberlands.
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