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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1957
Page
1
Washington President Eisenhower called reports he will resign before his second term end and turn duties to Vice President Nixon the worst he has heard since taking office. He noted his fast Gettysburg trip last Friday and said his limousine will never exceed the speed limit.
Karl E. Fogle son of Mr and Mrs Dan Fogle is stationed at the Naval Air Technical Training Center Memphis Tenn attending Basic Aviation Structural Mechanic School. The course covers maintenance techniques and methods for aircraft. Mrs Paul Williams will hold a farm auction one mile north and four and a half miles west of Beto Junction on Monday April 8 at 11 am. Ottawa students at Kansas State College promoted in ROTC James R McCrea to cadet first lieutenant and John R Milton to cadet first sergeant. Eisenhower comments on rumors amid reports of Santa Fe carloadings for week ending March 30 1957 show declines from 1956.
The piece lists visitation details for the father with relatives including Steve Needham of Rantoul and Mr and Mrs W L Pickering. It also mentions dinner and overnight visits among the Ward family of Excelsior Springs Missouri and former Omahan ties, plus Ottawa post office receipts for the first quarter rising by 958.50 from 1956 and Chamber of Commerce activities and farm program discussions in the area. The political notes cover Eisenhower tax cut prospects and U S stance on Quemoy Matsu and Suez Canal tensions.
Hospital admissions include Greg Reynolds at 925 Ash and Vicky Moody at 603 Cleveland. Army Pvt Wayne L Brooks, wife Elnora, family in Osawatomie. Baby born Tuesday weighs 8 lb 8 oz. Fort Knox training noted. Lt Col F G Stith leaves for Europe. chief intelligence officer at Shaw AFB. Prof Howard White to judge instrumental music at Missouri district festival. Carrier reminders and mother-daughter reception at Eugene Field School. Katherine Oshel leaves A&B Cafe for Southwest Bell. Ralph H Schoonover cited for blocking alley. PTA plans civil defense event at high school auditorium. Sgt Walter Huff leads civil defense meeting. Menace From the East film planned. Divorce granted Zelda A Livingston from William A Livingston. Custody awarded to mother.
Funeral services were held yesterday in South Gate California for Mrs Lillian Evans Fishburne formerly of Ottawa born March 17 1884 in Asher Ville Kansas. She died March 30 at the home of her daughter in Downey California. Also reported is the death of Hazel M Maxwell 67 of RFD 1 Ottawa who died in Downey California after a heart condition and stroke. She was born in Council Grove June 30 1889 and married John R Maxwell in 1907. Funeral services for Maxwell will be Friday at 2 pm at the McVey Dengel Mortuary with burial in Highland Cemetery. Survivors include four children and six grandchildren, plus sisters and nephews and nieces.
Ottawa University hosts a three day ministry conference for 80 high school students from Kansas and nearby states with Dr Milton Danielson directing sessions on campus. Leaders include Andrew B Martin and Dr Charles Southard among others. Attendees will take aptitude and personality tests and participate in private sessions.
Senator Carlson plans to accept an Izaak Walton League commendation on behalf of former Representative Hope for leadership in conservation work. Hope, resident of Garden City, cannot attend Friday and asked Carlson to receive the award.
Mrs Harvey KE Owen died March 27. Funeral services held March 29 at Lamb Funeral Home with Rev William R Weber officiating. Pallbearers were Ray Eaton Frank Davis Kenneth Davis Wendell Davis Sanford Shaw and Cleo Nitcher. Wesley Dyer sang hymns with Mrs J R Henning. Burial in Princeton cemetery.
Provisional President Franck Sylvain resigns under pressure amid an armed plot probe after police found caches of arms. Brig. Gen. L. M. Cantave may assume presidential duties as Haiti faces a political crisis with elections set for April 28 and François Duvalier among nine candidates.
Ralph Yarborough, 43, won the U S Senate race in Texas, defeating 18 opponents including Martin Dies and Thad Hutcheson to secure the seat for the Democratic party.
TEHRAN Iran The Interior Minister said tribesmen fatally shot Ghaderdad the assistant to fugitive bandit Dadshah who had wounded Mrs Anita Carroll and an American in an ambush. The tribesmen spotted him near Benet village as he sought food and water for the gang.
ST. LOUIS Missouri voters decisively rejected a pay raise for state legislators in a special constitutional referendum with 80 percent of the votes counted. The tally stood 236,796 against to 180,799 for the amendment.
A proposed constitutional amendment to allow state water conservation and flood control projects will go before Kansas voters in 1958. The Senate adopted a House amendment capping bond issuance at 2 million dollars, creating the second constitutional amendment approved this session after one on Supreme Court justice appointments.
Fragmented local market notes show prices for rye, white corn, yellow corn and shelled yellow corn. Entries include butterfat, straight run eggs, graded eggs, heavy hens, light hens and cocks with unclear figures.
The four air bases being built by the U S Strategic Air Command in Spain are active for emergency use though construction is incomplete. SAC flights in Europe and Morocco are using the fields in ongoing exercises.
TOPEKA A bill to set a Kansas daytime speed limit of 70 mph and a night limit of 60 mph has been sent to Gov George Docking. He favored a speed limit earlier in the session. The bill would authorize the State Highway Commission to create speed zones where deemed advisable. present law allows reasonable and prudent speeds.
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