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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1957
Page
1
A theft occurred last night with a cigarette lighter and a dome light stolen from a Mercury truck parked behind a North Main cafe since last Friday. The incident, part of a broader brief, is noted along with local community patrol reminders and upcoming civic events.
Admitted patients include Mrs Clifford Wheeler of Richmond and Mrs Hiram Browning with others. Births recorded for Mr and Mrs Wayland Kirkland with a daughter weighing 6 lb 3 oz. Discharges include Sharon Lester and several new mothers with babies in Reading Lawrence Pomona areas.
Mrs Lenora Elizabeth Fredricks, 94, longtime Franklin County pioneer and widow of J Edwin Fredricks, died last night at 11 20 in Hazen nursing home. Born November 9 1862 near Sedalia Missouri she moved to Kansas in 1864 and settled in Quenemo area. Survived by one daughter Mrs W Wood four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Funeral Friday at 9 30 a m Lamb Funeral Home with Rev Gene Taylor officiating burial in Antioch Cemetery.
University of Pennsylvania Law School professors report judges in Philadelphia and six other counties waste time on civil cases. Observers found judges average 3 hours 58 minutes on jury trials and 2 hours 25 minutes on nonjury hearings, a substantial waste of time in common pleas courts.
Los Angeles reports recount a wild morning scene at Moises Vivanco’s home involving Peruvian singer Yma Sumac. The dispute erupted over personal belongings, drawn in by paparazzi, private eyes, Inca dancers, a collie dog, and a baffled harpist, all amid Sumac’s five octave voice.
In a South Main drag race incident several people faced reckless driving charges. John Phillip Toumberlin 19 Vivanco N Oak 22 and Richard Kent Trough 4th were arrested with a private detective and others while tensions rose between Vivanco and Miss Sumac. Zevallos 18 and Yola Rivera 40 worked as maids. Zevallos cried insults as Farfau played the alpa. Troughton forfeited a $25 bond posted yesterday.
Dr. C. W. Hasselblad of Ottawa will spend May 1 attending a post graduate course offered annually by the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in Omaha.
Funeral services for Harry F. Smiley who died April 20 were held April 23 at McVey-Dengel Mortuary led by Elder C. E. Andrews with pallbearers Alvin Youngman Frank Troutman B. W. Campbell Howard Hooker Avery Murray and Marion Starks The burial was at Highland Cemetery Howie Helgeson sang hymns with piano accompaniment Burial for Marvin T. Horne who died April 20 took place April 23 at Williamsburg Methodist Church with Rev Newell W Razak officiating Pallbearers were George Stewart Fester Roberts Jess Edgecomb Vernon Bethell Ralph Basel and Don Linden Hymns were sung by Mrs T Thornton and Mrs 0 M Milliken with Mrs J Elston Decker at the piano Burial was in Central Cemetery
Traffic fatalities reported by the State Accident Records Section show 1 for the last 24 hours, 152 to date in 1957, compared with 182 for the same period in 1956.
Three Ottawa High School seniors Kay Jeffries Dolores Bechtle and Lajeille Hinton will join a large motorcade to Bethany Nazarene College Oklahoma with Rev and Mrs J R Smith from Ottawa Nazarene Church Police and district attorney’s office intervened to halt a free for all that broke out during the crowd’s movements Violent fracas centered on Otash Vivanco Farfan and Miss Sumac as witnesses and reporters scrambled for vantage points during the disturbance
Harry Dole of Prairie Village has been appointed chief grain inspector effective May 1995 by Gov. George Docking. He will succeed Donald C. Lunt of Topeka whose term expires that year. Dole recently moved from Pratt to Prairie Village and remains the county Democratic chairman. Docking said he would resign that post.
Eddie Roundy spent twenty years at Colby College shaping multiple athletic programs, coaching all major sports except track, and leaving a lasting impact on the college’s athletics program.
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