Polio vaccine progress praised by county health officer
Dr George W. Davis, 87, and his wife Dr Josephyne Davis joined physicians at University of Kansas Medical Center to view the Salk vaccine report. Davis lauded the pioneers of medicine alongside Washington and Edison, calling Salk's work perhaps the century’s greatest achievement. Crop outlook in the area shows the best in the state per Lyle Grier of the Farmers Commission Company after a Wichita convention. Local attendance at Kansas City Athletics season opener drew about 100 fans, with many community notables present including G. W. Davis and Sheriff Jay Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Davis
Franklin County
Josephyne Davis
University of Kansas Medical Center
Dr. Salk
Jenner
Koch
Pasteur
Washington
Lincoln
Edison
Davis
Salk
Lyle Grier
Wichita
Farmers Commission Company
Grier
Kansas
Kirk Olawang
Kansas City Athletics
Kansas City
Quincy Seymour
Melvin Hoots
E. S. Bennett
Paul Andree
W. E. Berger
Roger, Fredrikson
Jack Morrisey
Tom
Don
Boy and Puppy Reunited After Runaway Night
Eleven year old Johnny Long of a farm southeast of Lane in Miami county vanished with his puppy Rex after leaving home to escape perceived mistreatment. A search by about 50 people, plus police and deputies, found Johnny in a cattle car in Osawatomie. Rex appeared at the Long farm the same night. The boy had planned to flee the state with the dog before hitching a ride home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Long
Lane
Miami County
Johnny
Charles Long
Long
Highway
Art Jensen
Ottawa
Jensen
Bob Conaty
Jay Brown
Les Stallings
Jworkers
Missouri Pacific
Osawatomie
Rex
Osawatomier
Boy
Dog
Kansas Areas Included in Salk Vaccine Tests
In a multi state study of the Salk polio vaccine, three Kansas counties plus Johnson and Shawnee reported figures. Johnson County shows vaccination counts among second graders with several non vaccinated and partially vaccinated groups. Sedgwick and Shawnee counties provide detailed tallies of second graders and other grades in the study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Ann Arbor
Mich
Missouri
Doctors Prepare For Inoculations By The Associated User
Miami county grand jury report condemns private use of county labor and resources for inoculation work while praising system changes to bill and collect for private services. The panel urges proper automatic grand jury reaudits every two years and endorses county social welfare actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Icharge
Miami Count
Miami County
Miami
Thejty Board of Social Welfare
Miami County Grand Jury
U S Population Estimated at 164 Million
The Census Bureau estimates the nation’s population at about 164,367,000 on March 1, up 2,825,000 or 1.7 percent from a year earlier. The armed forces overseas are included in the figure, which also shows a 4.8 percent rise since the last general census on April 1, 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Census Bureau
Teachers Approve Social Security Plan in Franklin County
Franklin county educators including teachers, secretaries, custodians and other school staff voted yesterday to join the social security program retroactive to January 1, 1955. In Ottawa 87 ballots were cast with unanimous approval. rural teachers, 23 For and 1 Against, were counted and sent to Topeka by county superintendent John Fleming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boards of Education
Franklin County
Ottawa
John Fleming
Jone
Fleming
Topeka
Wide Areas Of State Get Heavy Rains
Kansas woke to heavy rain that soaked wide areas overnight, boosting crop and pasture prospects and easing soil blowing. Officials logged up to 8 inches in Gypsum Roxbury Saline and McPherson counties with 2 3 inch totals elsewhere. Heavy showers and a reported tornado near Jetmore accompanied hail 3 inches deep. Forecasts called for gradual clearing and fair conditions to the east with rising Smoky Hill river levels but no major flooding expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Roxbury
Saline
McPherson
J. E. Pallesen
Pallesen
Big Bow
Stanton County
Ulysses
Satanta
Garden City
Jetmore
Elkhart
Beaver
Barton County
Ellsworth
Loretto
Mee Cracken
Lindsburg
Scott City
Ness City
Alta Vista
Elmo
Healy
Alexander
Russell
Collyer
Hillsboro
Minneapolis
Hays
Cedar Bluffs
Dam
Herington
Claflin
Salina
Lyons
Valley Falls
Solomon and Ellis
Enterprise
Junction City
Abilene
ST. John
Hoyt
Holton
Washington
Clifton
Axtell
Great Bend
Inman and
Lincoln
Haislington
Milton Vale
Colby
Manchester
Hoxie
Sublette
Concordia
Oberlin
Olathe
Burdick
Pratt
la Cygne
Ottawa
Beloit
Tribune
Hill City
Em.Poria
Lecompton
Wameae
Manhattan
Horton
Frankfort
Marysville
Good Hand
Richard Garret
Weather Bureau
Garrett
Lower Smoky Hill
Librarian Attends Southeast District Meeting
Miss Nell Barnaby city librarian attends the Southeast District meeting of the Kansas Library Association in Neodesha. She chairs the Intellectual Freedom committee and will invite Ottawa to host a 1957 district gathering. The program features Rural Reading Conferences panel, The Library Story film, trustees sectional meeting, and a bulletin board film demo by Kansas State Teachers College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nell Barnaby
Neodesha
Kansas Library Association
Barnaby
Ottawa
Kansas State Teachers College
Pittsburg
Blizzard Isolates Town In New Mexico
A spring blizzard from Wyoming to Texas Panhandle isolated Clayton New Mexico and Dalhart Texas. Snow depths up to eight feet blocked highways and stranded hundreds while snowplows and National Guard aided. A Greyhound bus and 15 passengers were freed after drifts trapped them overnight. No injuries reported.
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Clayton
Wyoming
Nebraska
Texas Panhandle
Dalhart
Tex
Greyhound
H. D. Prater
Amarillo
Capulin
N. M
Raton
H. C. Haddock
Prater
Clayton-Raton
Wayne Curry
National Guard
Curry
W. J. Josey
Frank Vail
Power Company
Keres
Okla
Conlon
West
Texas
Potter
Neb
Flood Hits Gypsum Kansas Town
Heavy rain and flooding struck Gypsum Saline County as three creeks converged overflowing main street. Up to 2.5 inches had fallen by 7 a.m. with heavier runoff upstream in Hobbs and Spring Creeks and Roxbury reports of eight inches along Gypsum Creek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saline County
Gypsum
Spring Creeks
Roxbury
Hobbs Creek
Spring Creek
Abilene
Salina
Weather forecast prompts east showers and cool night
Occasional showers are expected in the extreme east with fair to partly cloudy skies elsewhere this afternoon. Tonight will be fair and cooler, especially in the north west to southeast. Thursday looks generally fair in the east with partly cloudy skies in the west, warmer conditions and low temperatures around 30 to 40 and highs near the 60s.
Rainy Ottawa Sees .52 Inch Rain Pouring Through Night
Ottawa received .52 of an inch of rain last night, bringing April moisture to 1.31 inches. The showers aided gardens and lawns while clouds lingered with sun breaks. Yesterday’s high reached 77 degrees and the low was 53 this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ottawa T
Ike Approves Atomic Plan For NATO Data Exchange
President Eisenhower approved a proposed NATO data exchange accord on atomic weapons among the 14 alliance members. The pact covers defense planning, training, and evaluating enemies’ nuclear capabilities, with formal signing pending. He notified Senator Anderson of the terms and noted the North Atlantic Council’s March 2 endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Eisenhower
NATO
Sen. Anderson
D-N.m
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Anderson
North Atllantic Council
Export Controls On Salk Vaccine
Washington imposes export controls on the Salk polio vaccine. government action aims to restrict overseas distribution and safeguard supply for domestic use amid public health concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Spring Tour By OU Choir
Ottawa University concert choir departs for a spring tour through Kansas and Colorado with 37 singers and staff. The schedule includes stops in McPherson Great Bend Scott City Denver Colorado Springs Center Rocky Ford Garden City Pratt Hutchinson El Dorado and Wichita plus brief high school concerts. Members include Esther Bremer Betty Kerr Kimball Joe Henning II Shirley Copeland and Sylvia Petersen with nine states and one Danish representative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa University
Kansas
Colorado
Edgar D. Kerr
McPherson
Great Bend
Scott City
Calvary Baptist Church of
Denver
All Baptist Churches
Colorado Springs
Center
Rocky Ford
Colo
Garden City
Thureeday
Pratt
Hutchinson
el Dorado
First Baptist Church
Wichita
Ottawa
Esther Bremer
Betty Kerr Kimball
Joe Henning II
Shirley Copeland
Garnett
Sylvia Petersen
Copenhagen
Denmark
City Election Costs Released
Ottawa officers reveal total cost of the recent primary and city election at 1925.97 dollars. City Clerk L Crater states the expense will be shared equally by the Ottawa board of education and the city. He notes the bill is likely 300 to 400 dollars less due to a very light March 22 primary vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
L. Crater
Ottawa Board of Education
City of
Crater
Fire Prevention and Clean-up Week Proclaimed in Ottawa Kansas
Ottawa Kansas mayor W W Jube proclaims April 18 to 23, 1955 as Fire Prevention and Clean-up week urging civic groups and citizens to join in the effort. City wagons will collect trash and rubbish in rear alleys from April 18, but will not haul brick bats stones ashes joinders or earth. items must be disposed of by residents. Wagons visit each alley once. have rubbish ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Jube
Ottawa
Kansas
W. W. Rob
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Dianna Shuck
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Roger
Billy
Judy
Peggy
Bob Leonard
Herald News
Johnson County
Sedgwick
Shawnee County
Grand Jury
Bet
San Diego
Calif
Justi
Herald Office
Lamb Ambulance
U. S
County Road Department
Wilbur
Wilbur Payne
Comptroller of the Currency
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve
Kansas Town
Ike
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