Ottawa Herald News Briefs Highlight Local Events
Christie, Rantoul, and 45 students selected for the first group admitted to Kansas State College Veterinary Medicine next fall. Other items note music program by Williamsburg students, Santa Fe rail car totals, weekly Cheney Market specials, and local officials at a Kansas Peace Officers meeting.
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Idyd Christie
Rantoul
Kansas State College School of Veterinary Medicine
Don Brown
Rex Christie
Chanute
Farm Management Association of
Kansas
Christie
Franklin County
Kansas State College
Doerfer Urges Broadcasters to Editorialize Fairly
FCC Chairman John C Doerfer urged radio and television stations to broaden editorial use on public controversies while criticizing some newspapers for news handling He warned broadcasters must provide air time for opposing views as public frequency users and stressed careful fairness.
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Los Angeles
John C. Doerfer
Federal Communications Commission Today
Doerfer
Deaths Mrs. Ottie Kent at 73 in Ottawa
Mrs. Ottie Kent, wife of Charles Louis Kent aged 73 of 1428 South Main, died at 8 25 p m in Ransom Memorial Hospital after becoming ill the day prior. Born February 6 1885 in Anderson County she was daughter of Robert and Amanda Cunningham. Surviving are widower two sons Glen Topeka and Robert in Honolulu one daughter Mrs Richard Brooke Topeka two grandchildren one sister Mrs Ruby Hur Dodge City and three brothers Robert Harry and Ray Cunningham. Funeral Thursday at Lamb Funeral Home with burial in Colony Cemetery.
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Charles Louis Kent
Ottie Kent
S. Main
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Anderson County
Robert
Amanda Clark Cunningham
Kent Dee
Mt. Ida
Ottawa
Colony
First Methodist Church
Glen
Topeka
U. S. Customs
Honolulu
Hawaii
Richard Brooke
Ruby Hur
Dodge City
Robert Cunningham
Hugoton
Harry Cunningham
Jetmore
Ray Cunningham
The
Lamb Funeral Home
Charles P. Knight
Colony Cemetery
Body Of Kansan Found In Submerged Car
The body of Paul Edwin Young aged 28 was found today in a partly submerged car by a passerby in Dry Wood Creek two miles west of Nevada. Coroner Richard Shorten ruled the death a drowning. Young, a fieldman for a tractor manufacturing firm, had recently been in Fort Scott on business.
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Nevada
Paul Edwin Young
Richard Shorten
Young
U. S. 54
Drywood Creek
Fort Scott
Kas
Hospital Notes and Birth Announcements Singled Out
Hospital notes list admissions for Linda Watts at RFD 2 Over brook and Harley Decker at 541 N Cherry. Births include a son to Mr and Mrs Duane Dickinson and a daughter to Mr and Mrs Raymond Brooks. other dismissals and local residents shown with addresses and dates.
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Linda Watts
RFD
Overbrook
Harley Decker
N. Cherry
Duane Dickinson
Raymond Brooks
Maple
Would Lease Parsons Plant Would Lease Parsons Plant
Kansas officials urge the Army to declare the Parsons Kansas Ord nance Plant surplus for permanent leasing to a private or public group. A Mid-America Development Assn delegation plus Sen. Carlson and Rep. George met at the Pentagon with Secretary Brucker taking the request under advisement. The plant remains on standby with partial use by a private firm and a government agency. Delegates from Kansas included H Gordon Anguin Pittsburg F G Howell J H Flynn and W H Caldwell Parsons.
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Washington
Southeast
Kansas
Army
Parsons Surplus
Mid-America Development Assn
Pentagon
Frank Carlson
Myron George
Carlson
Brucker
H. Gordon Anguin
Pittsburg
F. G. Howell
J. H. Flynn
W. H. Caldwell
Parsons
Call 8 Cases In Police Court
Eight moving traffic violators faced Police Court this morning. Five pleaded guilty, one forfeited bond, leaving two with innocent pleas. Glenn Wallace, 49, Hillsdale, pleaded innocent to drunk driving and reckless driving. Judge Winter set May 6 trial and kept bonds at $200. Robert Wayne James, 16, 230 S Cedar, pleaded innocent to reckless driving. trial set for May 6 with bond $50.
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Glenn Wallace
Hillsdale
Winton A. Winter
Robert Wayne James
S. Cedar
Winter
Vote on Sales Tax Bill Passes House in Kansas
The Kansas House approved sending Gov. George Docking a bill to raise the sales tax from 2 to 2 and a half percent. The roll included 68 Republicans in support, 3 Democrats, and 7 Republicans opposed. Absentees numbered 8 Republicans and 2 Democrats.
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Pera
Kansas House
George Docking
Abildgaard
Adams
Wabaunsee
Allen
Douglas
Anderson
Arthur
Beaman
Bell
Bentley
Blair
Blythe
Boles
Bower
Dressler
Brownlee
Buchele
Casement
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Christensen
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Weaver
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Wellman
White
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Williams
Woodward
Joseph Nance
Schartz
Ball
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Davis
Fribley
Geiger Sonnenberg
Vermillion
Osborne Apps
Barstow
Bauman
Bendure
Dogart
Browne Carter
Casebeer
Crow
Chiles
Dempsey
Dreiling
Ford
Gardiner
Graves
Hedges
Ingwersen
Kolaeny
Lill
McClinton
McClung
Mikesic
Mussemann
Novotny
Rock
Saffels
Schaud
Scott
Shattuck
Stonecipher
Stutz
van Cleaves
Wiegers
Wolf
Neosho
Edwards
Hibbard
Lervold
Lewis
Meyer
Salmon
Taylor
Deer
Newcom
Navy Vanguard Fails to Reach Orbit in Atlantic Splashdown
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla The Navy Vanguard rocket failed to ignite its third stage and plunged into the Atlantic about 1500 miles from Cape Canaveral after a promising start The 20 inch sphere aboard carried X ray instruments to study solar flares but the mission yielded only partial data The first Vanguard satellite remains in orbit while Army explorers I and III have already reached space The Navy plans no recovery of the missing stages and notes some useful information was gained despite the abortive flight
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Navy
Vanguard
Atlantic
Earth
Returns To Serve Sentence For Gibler Drunk Driving Conviction
Ivan T. Gibler began a 90 day sentence after being rendered to a sheriff to serve on a drunk driving conviction. He faced charges of fourth degree manslaughter negligent homicide and drunk driving after a Baldwin LeLoup Road crash on Sept 2, 1956 that killed Seth Welch a passenger in Gibler’s car. The Supreme Court upheld the drunk driving conviction and the mandate was read into district court records this morning.
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Ivan T. Gibler
Lawrence
Jay Brown
Gibler
Baldwin - LeLoup
Seth Welch
Welch
Supreme Court
The Way He Bounces Tricycle Injury in Truck Crash
Michael Davis five, riding with his father, survived a truck overturn in Eureka California with minor injuries. Two days later in hospital he received treatment for facial abrasions and a split lip from a fall from a tricycle.
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Eureka
Michael Davis
Michael
Smelly Loot Leads To Arrest Of Three
Louisville police caught three youths after a break in at a shack netting 400 dollars of smoked meat. Officers Morgan and Jones said the suspects smelled of smoked meat, admitted the theft, and implicated two others. A fourth youth was being sought with the loot.
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Louisville
Earl Morgan
Orville Jones
Spring Beats Hasty Retreat
Cold snap grips the Midwest as spring heat reverses. Chicago set a new date low of 31 while Dubuque 23 Des Moines 24 Omaha 26 and Sioux Falls 19 posted late spring records. Frost warnings stretch from northern Illinois to western New York as a south moving front spurs thunderstorms and wind damage near Birmingham.
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Chicago
Dubuque, Iowa
Des Moines
Omaha
Sioux Falls S. D
Bemidji
Minn
International Falls
Casper
Wyo
Yellowstone
Mont
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Missouri
Kansas
Ohio
Michigan
New York
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Birmingham
Frantic jet pilot narrowly misses aerial collision near Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS Nev The jet fighter colliding April 21 with a United Air Lines DC7 tried to bank away and nearly cleared the liner The crash sheared eight feet from the DC7 wing the jet’s wing fragment found in the transport wing Both pilots of the F100F and 47 aboard the DC7 were killed Investigators at Nellis Air Force Base and civil aviation probes examined wreckage.
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Las Vegas
Nev
United Air Lines
DC7
Civil Aeronautics Board
Nellis Air Force Base
Skelton Son Richard Skelton Fighting Leukemia
Red Skelton's nine year old son Richard battles leukemia with the family saying he is holding his own. The boy has not attended school lately and is tutored at home while visiting UCLA Medical Center weekly for checkups.
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Hollywood
Red Skelton
Richard
Ucla Medical Center
U S Ready To Strike Back In 30 Minutes
General Twining told Congress United States forces are ready now to strike back within 30 minutes of attack without new legislation. House critics seized on the claim while debating Eisenhower defense reforms and the command structure. The debate focused on which service chiefs hold command under current law and proposed changes.
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Washington
Nathan F. Twining
Congress
U.S
Eisenhower
House Armed Services Committee
Twining
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Arkansas City Youth Named Star Farmer in Kansas
Eldon Eastman aged 17 of Arkansas City was named Star Farmer of Kansas at the 30th annual Future Farmers of America convention. He won a 200 dollar award and serves as president of the Arkansas City FFA chapter. Eastman manages 69 purebred hogs, 16 steers, and 25 Angus cows and heifers. Ralph Young, 17, of Tribune was elected state FFA president.
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Kas
Eldon Eastman
Arkansas City
Kansas
Future Farmers of America
Eastman
FFA
Ralph Young
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