Ottawa News Briefs Highlight Local Events
Local items note church meeting in Topeka, releases from St Francis Hospital near Wellsville, and visits by Ottawa residents. Reports list business cards, a food sale by Hawthorne PTA, and officer elections at Ottawa High School Kayettes. Also included are keys found, Pomona alumni banquet May 7, a traffic court conference, a zoning decision for a home addition, and community updates from Guernsey, Burlington, and Tally Baptist church dedication with talks by long-time residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cadman
St. Francis Hospital
Topeka
Wellsville
Ottawa
Frita Brinkman
al Williams Insurance
Chris Krueger Sr
F. A. Wegener
Tally Baptist Church
Jess Ramsey
David Ryan
Robert Rice
Deaths Mrs E E Crouch Franklin County Resident
Mrs Ernest E Crouch of 322 Mulberry died at her home after a long life as a Franklin County resident.
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E. E. Crouch
Ernest E. Crouch
Mulberry
Franklin County
Stolen RAF plane crash amid British royal air tragedy
A chaotic sequence unfolds from a stolen RAF training plane crash. The report links a British royal figure in ill health to the incident, detailing a fatal barn crash near Carthage, Missouri, and noting a late night suicide amid a period of turmoil in late November. The piece also mentions a 1949 Ottawa Conserva tion Club event and obituaries for William Sweezey and family survivors, with funeral arrangements and cemetery details.
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Valenciennes
France
Carthage
Lane
Vicq
Ottawa
Willaware Anes
Crouch
Ottawa Conserva
Tion Club
Ruhamah Opp
Baptist Church
Dave Coleman
State Fish Home
State Fish Home, and Children, and Game Department
Plane crash kills British student pilot at French coal region
A Vickers Varsity twin engine plane carrying student pilot Nanik Nick Agnani, 20, crashed after takeoff from Thorney Island. A ground crewman died in the wreckage and two others were seriously injured. The craft, valued at 700000, disappeared after circling London and heading toward the Continent, ending near Valenciennes in northern France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sane Ueraseequane
Maa Gaa
Nanik
Nick) Agnani
Pakistan
Thorney Island Navigation School
Hampshire
England
London
Continent
Vieq
Valenciennes
Hospital Notes and Local Socials Briefly Shown
Admitted: Mrs John Kramer 303 Ash Mrs Rolan Davis 208 Elm Irven Horst Pomona Lloyd Robbins Pomona Robert Andrews 631 Elm admitted Monday dismissed today Mrs Louise Kristen lson 721 N Oak today. Attendance at Ottawa Births Lutheran Church meeting. Laymen's League banquet at 1220 Hickory. Hickory a son born Monday 7 lb 15 oz. Dismissed Miss Ethel Wheeler 1230 N Cedar Mrs Dale Willhite 1123 N Hickory Monday. Leslie Holloway 419 Willow Ernest Cartmell Waverly Ralph Crane 731 S Oak today.
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John Kramer
Rolan Davis
Irven Horst
Pomona
Lloyd Robbins
Robert Andrews
Louise Kristen
Lson
N. Oak
F. A. Wegener
Ottawa Births Lutheran Church
Robert Little
Hickory
Ethel Wheeler
N. Cedar
Dale Willhite
Leslie Holloway
Willow
Ernest Cartmell
Ralph Crane
Speedy Approval of Atomic Ship Plan Outlined by Eisenhower
Sen Knowland and other Republicans forecast rapid congressional approval of President Eisenhower's plan to build an atomic powered merchant ship. The ship would begin promptly to cruise for peacetime uses of atomic energy and to showcase U.S. commitment to world peace. Comets are described by the National Geographic Society as a rare, near-nothing in science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sen
Knowland
R-Calif
Congress
Eisenhower
Associated Press
New York
Man Charged With Wife's Murder in Topeka
Eugene M. Foster, 51, faces first degree murder charges in the death of his wife after an argument about his drinking. Myron Listrom, assistant county attorney, says Foster admitted firing a shot last Saturday night. Safe U. S. Savings Bonds context noted.
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Topeka
Eugene
M. Foster
Myron Listrom
Foster
Suitcase farmer a threat to national farm economy
Denver reports the suitcase farmer seen as a national threat alongside dust storms as Secretary Benson tours the Great Plains to assess drought driven wind erosion. Farmers urge residents to stay on land to prevent land misuse and further erosion while Benson warns federal aid must target root causes and long range solutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Great Plains
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
State May Use School Property At Topeka
Kansas Attorney General Harold R Fatzer states the state can repurpose land and buildings of the Kansas Technical Institute in Topeka after the school closes July 1. He notes the state would hold legal title and could shift use from the previous educational purpose. The 1955 Legislature had voted against funding continued operation beyond this fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Harold R. Fatzer
Kansas Technical Institute
Fred Hall
Fatzer
Cessna Unveils High Speed Copter CH1 prototype
Cessna Aircraft Co announces the CH1 helicopter capable of hovering above 15,000 feet with a pilot and passenger. It records a sea level speed of 122 mph and, upon CAA certification, would have the highest top speed for helicopters and a hovering ceiling about twice current standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Cessna Aircraft Co
CAA
Cessna
Cowboy Museum Plans Revealed in Dodge City Effort
Topeka reports a plan to create a cowboy capital of the world museum at Dodge City modeled after the Eisenhower Foundation in Abilene. Gray Graham said a foundation style organization is to be formed soon with Willard Mayberry of Elkhart as chairman. The drive aims for one million dollars.
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Topeka 8
Dodge City
Hisenhower
Abilene
Gray Graham
Eisenhower Foundation
Willard Mayberry
Elkhart
Four Dead In Navy Explosion at Newport Station
Four civilians died in an underwater ordnance station blast at Newport Rhode Island. One man is missing and five were injured. Rear Adm. Joseph H. Wellings said the blast, caused by compressed air and fluid used in testing torpedo propulsion, occurred in the dynamometer room. The fourth body was recovered about 24 hours after the explosion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R. I.P
Navy
Joseph H. Wellings
Naval
Picket Lines At Atom Plant Near Albuquerque
Two unions today formed heavy picket lines around Sandia base, an atomic center near Albuquerque. Strikers await management moves from the contracting company Lесторан Taft Hartley Act invocation hoped for if no settlement is reached, says union leader Martin Serna of Lodge 1689.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerquem
Sandia Base
el Corp
Martin Serna
Lodge 1689
International Assn. of Machinists
Marriage Licenses for Arthur Dragoo and Mary Hanshew
Arthur Ray Dragoo of Paola aged 24 and Mary Ann Hanshew of Paola aged 18 obtained marriage licenses and were married by a probate judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Ray Dragoo
Paola
Mary Ann Hanshew
New Jersey Builder to Appeal Ruling on Fort Lee Project
Newark New Jersey builder plans to appeal a federal court ruling that his Fort Lee housing project violated its contract with the Federal Housing Administration. Judge Thomas F. Meany described the windfall profits case as the first of its kind against a builder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
New Jersey
Fort Lee
Federal Housing Administration
Thomas IF. Meany
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Pinhom
St. John’s Lutheran Church
McVey Ambulance
Maxine
Hawthorne P.T. A. Wise
Kayettes
Ad the Gas Service Co
Alberta Baldwin
Linda Schwarz
Marilyn Mock
Linda Igel
Patsy
Hickman
Guernsey
Ahaut
Questee House
Pomona Methodist Church
Eileen Bowman
Jeanne Hunt
Floyd H. Goffman
Les Stallings
University of Kansas
William L. Trader
Hast Logan
Zoning Board of Appeals
Trader
First Methodist Church
Roger Biddle
Ft. Scott
Ottawa High School
Kaw Valley
Keith Houston
Kansas State College
Wendell D. Rings
Burlington
Rings
Don White
Charles Peterson
Leroy Hood
Garden City
Kansas
Jesse Stewart
Rantoul
Eugene Saffron
Martha ‘Crouch
Clifford Stipp
Jake Hieber
Roy E. Crouch
W Leavenworth
Raymond H. Crouch
Ben J. White
Oelwein
Ruhamah Baptist Church
R. B. Shoemaker
Ruhamah
McVey-Dengel Mortuary
Iwilliam Ee, Sweezey
William Ernest Sweezey
Kansas City
S. C. Sweezey
Cleveland
Bennington
Ind
Tulsa, Okla
Mattie
Spencer) Sweezey
Herbert
Towner
Alpine Cemetery
Olivet
Kas
Moler's Cafe
Mra
Moler Mae Chappell
Mary E. Crouch
Ruhamah Cemetery
George J. Kramer
St. Therese
Richmond
Owen Cote
St. John's Catholic Cemetery
Hanover
The
National Geographic Society
Sweezey
Wm. E. Sweezey
Joe Towner
U. S. Savings
Belver FK
America
Thorfinm Karlserns
Leie Gricbon
Greenland
Cowboy
Atom
CG. A. Myers & Sons
Centrepolis
Jack Nelson
Neill George
Waverly
Ottawa Lumber Company
Main
the Post
Terminix
First National Bank
Build Credit
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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