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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1955
Page
8
Fort Lauderdale report describes fisherman James Jones, 24, spearfishing when a six foot shark charged him. The shark dragged him two miles into the Atlantic before the spear came free and he swam back to his boat to continue fishing. He kept hold to avoid losing his speargun.
A gun battle erupted last night between guards for Capitol City Transit Co and armed attackers from ambush near downtown Little Rock. No injuries were reported though a diesel storage tank was punctured and a company window broken.
Funeral services for Benjamin H Ben Anderson who died July 26 were held at Lamb Funeral Home Friday at 2 p m Dr W A Elliott officiated Pallbearers were Cecil Detwiler Herbert Sample Thomas Eneihen Carver Downey Paul McCracken and Lawrence Eneihen Mrs Ira Dean and Mrs Lewis Wichman sang hymns with Mrs J R Henning accompanying Interment was in Peoria cemetery
A rapid kitchen to porch table on wheels pattern details a drop leaf wheel cart with stock lumber parts. It notes two wheel types solid stock or disk metal wheels with rubber tires and a bottom shelf for serving trays. The pattern provides saw lines eight inch wheel circle tracing and a full cutting list with assembly and finishing directions. Price 25 cents. Send orders to Ottawa Herald pattern Dept Bedford Hills New York.
WASHINGTON The Senate confirms President Eisenhower's nominations of Burris B. Moore Fort Scott and Benjamin Taylor Independence as Kansas postmasters.
Oklahoma City School Board unanimously ends racial segregation in city public schools effective immediately. The integration order will likely create mixed classes in at least 24 elementary and secondary schools when the new term opens next month.
Edwin M. Gardiner 63 of Mission Kansas, former Shawnee Mission drive in theater manager, suffocated during a fire in the theater office building. Firemen say faulty wiring started the blaze and blocked his escape. firefighters worked over an hour to reach his body.
Clint on, Missouri. William R Hoover, 24, Kansas City, was sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to first degree murder in the Missouri prison riot on September 22. He received 10 years on two arson charges. Hoover is the first of seven convicts to plead guilty in the murder of Walter Lee Donnell, an inmate known as an informer. Four others were sentenced to life and one to death. Donnell was stabbed and beaten to death.
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