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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1957
Page
1
The evening Lions Club, newly organized, will meet the first and third Wednesdays monthly at the North American location. This Wednesday the group will gather at Bob's Truck Stop at 6 45 p m. Rural notices follow including a rummage sale on April 20 at 122 South Main and local moves.
Harold Van Horn of Pomona among 45 juniors at Kansas State receiving agriculture and veterinary medicine scholarship honors from the K State chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta national honor society of agriculture. Army staff sergeant William Van Winkle, 19, son of Garnett residents, is in the 11th Airborne Division's 603d Infantry in Germany after enlisting in May 1955. Ottawa police issued parking and speeding citations as noted. Two local residents Perry Kramer and Clinton Everson enlisted in the United States Navy in Kansas City after Ottawa recruitment, with nine weeks of recruit training at Great Lakes and 14 days of passes forthcoming.
Funeral services were conducted for Wilbur V. Horne who died April 3 with Rev. W. Newell Razak at Williamsburg Methodist Church. Pallbearers included Pattie Thornton Fritts Turrell Goodwill and Sutherland. Burial at Mt Hope Cemetery. Also services for Mrs Joel H. Lockwood and Thomas J Heathman with local pastors and pallbearers, interments at Princeton Cemetery and Wellsville Cemetery respectively.
Montreal officials raise the death toll to 17 after three additional bodies are recovered from the wreckage of a suburban home for the aged following Saturday’s deadly blaze. Authorities continue investigations into the cause and circumstances of the fire.
Beir ut reports four countries occupy or threaten Jordan as Syria Saudi Arabia Iraq and Israel amass troops near Amman Mafrak Aqaba Jericho and Jordan’s northeast border. King Hussein fears collapse amid internal crisis and calls for outside aid to prevent a national death.
A Senate foreign aid survey group began work on a report likely to back Secretary Dulles on the broad outlines of the new look program. It may criticize past ICA actions and favor a revolving fund for easy term loans to underdeveloped nations and a transfer of foreign military aid to the Defense Department, though Republicans split on the latter. Senator Smith praised the fund as a potential economic saver for Eisenhower’s 4.4 billion plan and urged aid recipients to request what they need directly from the U.S. government.
Silas C. Hinkle, 85, retired Paola area farmer, died today at 8 a.m. after long illness. Born near Rantoul March 21, 1872, he married Frances Ann Mace in Ottawa on December 30, 1893. Survived by one daughter, five grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, two great great grandchildren, and his widow. Funeral at Lamb Funeral Home Saturday at 2 p.m. Burial in Stanton Cemetery.
Funeral services for Mrs. Richard Garrison 94 who died yesterday at Cedar House will be held Friday at 3 p.m. at Lamb Funeral Home with Rev. Roger Fredrikson officiating. Burial in Highland Cemetery. Born October 6 1862 in Mannsville New York she was the seventh of ten children. Survives include daughter Esther Garrison two grandchildren and seven great grandchildren with son Paul R. Garrison deceased in 1942.
Emmett L. Foster aged 18 and Gloria R. Blochberger aged 19, both of Kansas City Missouri, obtained marriage licenses. The filing lists their ages and hometowns with no additional spouses or prior filings indicated.
Ottawa University tennis players defeated Kansas City University six matches to one in Kansas City. Key results include John D Aboy defeating Lou Carpenter 6 1 6 1, Ken Cochran beating Mike Ireland 6 1 6 2, Bill Zell downing Tom Knez 6 0 6 1, Vince Driski defeating Bill Blackshire 6 0 6 4, Hisham Afghani over Ed Salyer 6 3 5 7 9 7, and D Aboy Driski defeating Carpenter Cochran 6 3 6 4. Ireland Zell beat Knez Blackshire 6 1 6 0.
Three year old Chris Long, barefoot and in a nightgown, ran through rain to a shop asking for help. She said she had locked her mother in a closet and could not free her. Clerk Mrs Herbert Aston rushed to the scene and found Shirley Long trapped in the closet.
DETROIT Dotted with bold denials Scott, a retired Los Angeles investment broker, fights extradition to California for the murder of his wife Evelyn Throsby Scott. Arrested at the Canadian border after posing as an unlicensed driver, he calls the charges asinine and insists on innocence as authorities pursue removal to face California murder charges and a May 7 hearing.
Franklin County's new under sheriff Willard Lister investigated his first auto accident in Richmond on Main Street. A 1956 Dodge driven by Adrian Taylor of Princeton collided with a 1954 Chevrolet driven by Anna Marie Wolken of Greeley. Taylor stopped to talk to a friend, and Wolken could not stop in time, swerving to avoid the car but failing to clear it.
In Topeka, appraisers for landowner Dr. Nathan D. Harwood testified the government offer for 252 acres in Blue Valley is too low as Turtle Creek Reservoir will inundate the parcel. Harwood's experts valued the land between 136,399 and 138,657, calling it excellent farm land capable of high yields. He seeks a jury verdict to set a higher price.
Victor Church of the U S Navy recruiting office in Ottawa presented two programs on career opportunities. At 10 10 a m he spoke at Pomona High School and at 2 20 p m at Appanoose High School. The students also saw two movies The Forrestal and Waves at Work.
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