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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1968
Page
4
Local brief notes a community meeting at 8 p m Tuesday in the grade school to feature the Sweet Adelines with no charge. Patrons to bring sandwiches. a salad and drinks furnished. Also listed are Teen meeting at Antone's Hall, a large yard sale, a Buick for sale, Easter dinner reservations, a dance at VFW Hall, Princeton recreation ball meeting, an on campus choir event at Ottawa University chapel.
New York markets rose as peace hopes in Vietnam grew. Trading volume on the NYSE reached a record 20.41 million shares, lifting the Dow Jones average by 65.02 points since mid March while gold prices gained in European centers. Unemployment fell slightly in March to 3.6 percent with total employment at a record 75,802,000. A bill extending the 10 percent telephone tax and 7 percent car tax was sent to Congress.
W Floyd Smith 86 of Wellsville died Friday at Downtown Hospital Gardner after a two year illness. Services set for 2 p.m. Monday at Coughlin Chapel Wellsville with Rev. Clarence Harder officiating. Burial in Wellsville Cemetery. Survived by wife Minta and a niece and nephew in California. Smith was an oil field promoter and farmer, formerly at Union Station Kansas City. He belonged to Wellsville Methodist Church.
Mrs. William Henry Sullivan Jr., national DAR officer, told a news conference that she believes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated by Communist-directed forces. She linked rioting and looting in many cities to Communist activity and described communists as behind every type of disorder.
An encyclopedia salesman Floyd Buddy Ayers of Stone Mountain Ga, not cleared by security, acted as an usher at Dr Martin Luther King Jr s funeral. He seated VP Humphrey and assisted dignitaries including Sen Robert Kennedy, later drawing FBI scrutiny for seeking publicity.
John Lennon and wife Cynthia landed in London after leaving the Maharishi Yogi center in India. Lennon declined to discuss reasons for their departure while George Harrison remains in India. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr had already returned home last month.
Patient admissions include Marguerite Loux Wanda Mace Rodney Cox Charles Schamle and Mrs Blanche Vail with addresses in Ottawa Kansas plus attending notes for Theron J Wray Max Wade kin Hugh C Coon Harvey Gunn and Robert W Lands Dismissals include Theron J Wray Max Wade kin Hugh Coon and Harvey Gunn with Ottawa RFD addresses and Friday entries.
In Franklin County Probate Court Gilbert C Robe deceased Case No 11 663 Petition filed by Madge N Robe and Rowena R Selby coexecutrices of the will for final settlement of the estate approval of their acts proceedings and accounts as coexecutrices allowance for attorney’s fees and related steps in the estate case with notices to all interested parties April 6 1968 through April 20 1968
The petition seeks court action to determine heirs executors and legatees and to distribute the estate of Gilbert C Robe deceased to those entitled under the will. Defenses must be filed by April 29 1968 at 10 00 AM in Ottawa City Court where the matter will be heard. Madge N Robe and Rowena R Selby petitioners Gleason and Pinet Att for Petitioners
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