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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1956
Page
1
Ottawa area items include church activities, school events, and community notices. Reflects program changes, upcoming gatherings, and personnel moves such as resignations at The Herald, a hospital Red Cross meeting, and school track and art displays with local volunteer involvement and ceremony plans.
In Great Bend the Fined-Doonan Truck and Implement company was fined twenty dollars plus costs in county court today for improper use of dealer tags. The arrest was made by Highway Patrolmen Art Jensen and Bob Conaty.
Secretary Benson said the administration boosted price supports on select farm crops to bridge the gap until a sound soil bank operates. He testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee that the action aims to bolster farm income since tools to reduce surplus were not available. Wheat supports rose from 76 to 83.7 percent of parity, corn from 41 to 86.2, and rice from 75 to 82.7, with parity used to measure fair farmer prices.
Twenty Ottawans joined 120 women at the Rebekah School of Instruction in Wellsville. Lodges from Quenemo Pomona Baldwin Ottawa Garnett and Wellsville attended. Officers elected include Odessa Anderson president Raffelock vice president and Viola Peters secretary treasurer. The 1957 meeting will be in Garnett. Garnett hosted a memorial service with Baldwin staff presenting the degree to three candidates. Mrs Ines Larick of Wellsville received a gift and corsage for 64 years of service.
Two obituaries note infant Blaine Harrod of Long Beach formerly Ottawa died in Seaside hospital. Funeral plans call for burial in Ottawa Highland Cemetery. Addie Elnora Spears of Richmond area dies at 73 after late health decline. survivors include Johnson brothers and Spears relatives. funeral at Lamb Funeral Home with interment at Richmond cemetery.
Hospital notes list admissions for Mrs Elizabeth Briles Floyd Ogg Mrs Stanley Denton Francis Russell Mrs Cora Burner Mrs Arnot North Judy Pope Alleta Smith Bill Osburn and Mrs Wiley Broers Births record Mr and Mrs William Le Valley welcoming a daughter weighing 6 lb 10 oz Dismissals include Mrs Alpha Matteson Ottawa Mrs Joe Selby Mrs Stanley Denton and others returning home or from Winter General hospital in Topeka with treatment dates noted
More than fifty prisoners demonstrated for ten minutes in the Cook County jail yesterday. Guards subdued the outbreak after inmates broke twenty six windows and smashed furniture in a dayroom on the jail’s ground floor. Warden Jack Johnson said the incident appeared staged in resentment over a cell shakedown. The prisoners showed the disturbance while waiting to be led back to their cells after a routine check.
Four Kaiser Steel No 2 mine workers are trapped after a hillside tunnel collapse near Sunnyside Utah. Two escaped, four remain buried as rescue teams clear rubble and listen for any sign of life. Identified trapped miners include LaVell Marion Golding Wellington Utah Joe Archuletta Dragerton Utah Lloyd D Heath Sunnyside Utah and Joe Otterstrom Sunnyside Utah.
Independence residents awaited E C Daniel Jr arriving from New York by air to wed Margaret Truman on Saturday. The couple will stay at the Truman home with President Truman and his wife hosting, as Daniel's parents from Zebulon, North Carolina, plan to join tomorrow for a large family gathering tonight.
City hall records list new building permits including residences, garages, alterations, and additions. Notable entries include Dr George W Davis for dwelling restoration at 118 Park for 10000 dollars and Francis J Gibbon for garage at 1009 North Oak for 300 dollars.
U S Senator Hubert Humphrey. D Minn. says the Democratic party must embrace school integration despite 1956 platform. He will join a two day rally in Washington with informal sessions. party leaders aim to avoid public civil rights debate to protect unity.
SAN PEDRO Calif The Navy purchases plastic landing craft. One of the first molded plastic LCVP boats patterned after those used on which thousands of American soldiers stormed beaches is to be launched here today. It is all glass cloth and paper except for steel armor plating to resist small arms fire.
U Alexis Johnson of the United States and Wang Ping of Communist China held their 44th negotiating session in nine months over an imprisoned American in China and related issues. They plan to meet April 26 with no other public announcements. The Daily Telegraph reports Soviet ramjet missiles exceed 3,000 mph with 180 mile range. Pvt. Sidney Ray Sparks, 29, of Tennille Georgia, was sentenced to 16 years hard labor by a US military court for robbery breaking arrest desertion and seeking asylum in East Germany after three years in Soviet camps.
Gail Griffin aged 19 and Nadine Clabaugh aged 18 of Ottawa obtained marriage licenses.
Leavenworth federal prison was inspected yesterday by Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. It marked the first inspection by an attorney general since 1940. Accompanying Brownell was James V. Bennett, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Brownell then flew to Lincoln to visit his mother.
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