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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1958
Page
4
Mr and Mrs Bennie Medlin announce an auction sale at the farm 11 miles east of Ottawa Ori Kon on Tuesday April 22 starting at 42 30 p m local time.
Television history marked by Father Knows Best wins for best actor Robert Young and best actress Jane Wyatt as Emmy Awards honor Miss Shore Benny and Ustinov. Other winners include The Comedian and Seven Lively Arts. pre kindergarten enrollment planned at Lincoln School Thursday afternoon.
Senate Democrats weigh how to secure a two thirds vote to override President Eisenhower after his veto of the 134 billion rivers and harbors bill. Leader Johnson and Mansfield anticipate a likely override, while Knowland and Dirksen expect the veto to stand. Eisenhower has vetoed 103 bills with no overrides to date.
PFC LaVern W Early and family noted after field training with 1st Cavalry Division in Korea. Kansas State College seniors including Darlene Larkin and Harold Van Horn elected to Phi Kappa Phi. Essay prize worth 15 dollars awarded at KSC. Music students from multiple towns to perform at state high school festival in Emporia. Rovell Shawnee pleads guilty to speeding in a heavy truck. fined ten dollars and costs. Old newspapers for sale at 10 cents per bundle.
Quay Cleon Kilburn, 34, Salt Lake City native and escaped Utah State Prison fugitive, joins the FBI’s Top Ten. He fled last October using a prison press card as editor of the prison paper and planned interviews with inmates on an honor farm. Kilburn is also a federal fugitive for violating a 1956 parole from Leavenworth after a 1951 bank robbery in Orem Utah.
Williamsburg high school and grade school athletes were honored at a covered dish dinner in the school gym. OU athletic director Dick Peters spoke on football’s future, rules changes and how they affect area schools and recruiting. He listed four traits of a good athlete: hard work, ability to take orders, faith in the coach, and a desire to win.
Lawrence residents approved a 1,205,000 school bond issue by 1,882 to 1,181 yesterday. Most funds will build a junior high for 750 students and expand existing facilities. The junior high is slated to open in 1900.
Rep George of Kansas says constituents seek more jobs and an accelerated highway program. They favor water tap projects to aid industrial growth and quotas on lead and zinc imports. Oil producers want curbs on foreign oil and oil product imports.
Tulsa police and FBI agents arrested 30 year old Calvin Christenberry for a $21,000 armed robbery at a Bakersfield supermarket on March 10. He was held at relatives' home.
A 14 year old Kansas City youth fled hitchhiking near Baldwin and sparked a one and half hour chase in Ottawa. Sheriff Jay Brown and detectives pursued to South Main where the boy was captured and held at headquarters until his parents arrive.
Hospital notes list admissions including Mrs. Gerald Johnson and Mrs. Judson Lee in Wellsville and Princeton respectively, with patients such as Michael McClay Alan Gatlin and Diamisseg Mrs. Damon Highie Jr and baby daughter. Other names tied to addresses include Alfred Cooper Jr and Joe Wilbern, plus several with spouse and newborn references.
Mrs M D Lewis of Bedford Town died Tuesday at the Methodist Hospital in St Joseph Missouri after a year of ill health. She had many friends here and often visited in Ottawa. A member of General Edward Hand Chapter DAR. Mr and Mrs M Kinnison plan to attend funeral services Thursday at the Presbyterian Church Bedford Town.
Funeral services for Gary Lynn Barr four month old son of Harold and Mrs Barr of Westphalia were held at Farris Funeral Home Garnett with Gary McMillan Emporia pastor officiating. Burial followed at Garnett Cemetery. The infant died from suffocation after placing a plastic bag in his mouth while his mother briefly left the room. Survived by parents four siblings Paul Katherine Dean and Jane and grandparents.
Five prisoners broke from Summit County Jail in Akron using hot coffee to blind a jailer. A fugitive was shot and killed in a nearby home while two other escapees were later captured. Jailer DeWitt Whittaker suffered first degree burns and Sheriff’s Capt. Ray Malloy was treated for head and face injuries.
In New Jersey the 1958 senatorial primary pitted Harrison A Williams Jr a youthful Democrat against veteran Robert W Kean with Williams backed by Gov Meyner and county leaders while Kean won his race by about 25 000 votes over Bernard M Shanley In a related Kansas notice the probate court in Franklin County fixed times for hearings on wills and estates and the secretary of state announced a primary election schedule for August 1958
Ira BR and Mende were issued licenses in Ottawa. Burst P Hutcheson received a license in Ottawa. Darrell Dean Gregory 18 of Alma Nep and Carolee Ann Burns 18 of Ottawa obtained licenses.
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