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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1964
Page
5
Various community ads and brief notices include political calls to vote for Kansas candidates James Everson and Bill Avery, ride to polls numbers CH 2-4460 and CH 2-4460, plus local events at City Park and Masonic Hall. Also mentions a hospital treatment for Mrs. Norris Burke and a Navy promotion aboard USS Ranger, plus a 1963 Plymouth wagon for sale and piano tuning services.
Kansas Land Company moves to 211 S. Main next to Plaza Theater and has been open at the new site since Saturday after a nearly month vacant period. Porter Spear Insurance Agency at 107 E. 2nd will occupy the former Kansas Land Co building at 310 S. Main. moving date undecided.
Mr and Mrs Loren Offenbacker have become caretakers at the Franklin County Humane Society Shelter arriving from Mound City Missouri after 25 years there. Offenbacker worked at the Desert Gold elevator in Mound City and the couple will reside in newly decorated quarters at the shelter.
Budget notes reveal electric fund moves create reserve for emergencies. Estimated $150000 earmarked grows to $600000 on paper, with $450000 unrealized. Combined with a $300000 general operating expense, the city budget appears $750000 below the published $3,022,064.90 total.
Approximately 100 delegates are expected to attend the Neosho Valley District Association of the Missionary Baptist State Convention of Kansas as it opens its 60th annual session at the church with the Young People's division in charge led by Milton Jackson of Chanute. Delegates will come from Olathe Paola Osawatomie LaCygne Ft. Scott Chanute Humboldt Iola Garnett and Ottawa. Special guests include Mrs Primrose Fundies of the Home Mission Board and Dr E A Freeman president of the Missionary Baptist State Convention of Kansas along with Rev W G Williams Rev S M Stevenson and Rev S J Royal.
T D Warren, formerly assistant cashier at First National Bank, is appointed cashier at Boulder National Bank in Boulder Colorado. He has also served as cashier at First Western State Bank of Abilene this past year and holds a B S in business from Kansas State University. He and his wife Elaine bought a home at 340 S 39th Street Boulder.
Pairings for the second round of the Ottawa Country Club Women’s Championship Golf Tournament list in championship flight 18 holes Doris Peters with Mary Lou Sheldon June Foulks with Esther Goss and championship consolation Connie Huderson with Doris Elder Audrey Shade byes. A flight 9 holes Rose mary Malouf with Alice Hysom Bernice Evans with Helen Kraemer matches due on August 10 final rounds August 11 and 17 awards August 18.
David Carpenter 11, son of Mr and Mrs Clarence R Carpenter, RFD 2, nearly won first in his class at the annual soap box derby trials in Kansas City last weekend. Hawkins School pupil built the racer in his Shawnee Mission uncle Chauncey Gorsage's home. Among 51 entrants, he won a badminton set and hopes to compete again next year.
NORBORNE Mo AP Robert DePugh national Minutemen leader says federal agencies are interfering with his mail. Mail covers have been placed on 50 to 100 Minutemen addresses, DePugh said Sunday in a letter to Senator Edward V Long who denounced mail covers by government agencies.
An out-of-control car driven by 18 year old John D. McQueary struck two parked cars at the E John Brown highway Burts Bend intersection. McQueary and passenger Danny Coffelt, 16, escaped injury. Vehicle damages totaled 1 000 for the McQueary car 250 for a 1955 Mercury and 200 for a 1950 Chevrolet. Owned by Robert Sobba and Howard Brown of Rantoul, the parked car owners were absent.
A two car head on collision occurred Saturday afternoon 7 1/4 miles west of Centropolis. Mrs. Edythe Hufford 56 Centropolis suffered minor injuries. The 1957 Ford she drove damaged about 400 dollars. Charles Rich 20 Michigan Valley drove a 1952 Ford truck with about 25 dollars front end damage. Passengers David Crown and Mike Marconette of Overbrook uninjured. Sheriff Joe Ferns said both drivers did not see each other in time on a timbered blinded curve on a narrow roadway.
Mrs Mary Belle Chappell announced Chappell s Cleaners 116 W 2nd has gone out of business after 18 years of management. She negotiated sale of most equipment. Building owned by Elk s Club. Sept 1 move to Lawrence to be housemother for Theta Tau at the University of Kansas.
Over the weekend city police arrested multiple drivers including Floyd E. Hamilton 27 in Lyn don RFC 1 for 39 mph in a 30 mph zone and Roger E. Shoemaker 18 of Wichita for 42 mph in a 30 mph zone on E Logan. Other cases include reckless driving drag racing and vagrancy as officers logged 15 arrests from Friday afternoon to Monday morning.
Admissions include Mrs Spencer Ball and Pamela Ball from Lewis Center Ohio Mrs Albert Sheffield at 415 N Sycamore Sunday Jeffery Lynn Hahner from Princeton Sunday William F Wheeler Jr at 635 S Locust and Mrs Albert Swallow Pomona Monday Dismissals list Lee Perez 517 Willow Mrs Jessie Mundy 133 S Elm Mrs Howard Johnson RFD 1 Emma Jean Martin RFD 5 Paola Mrs Lloyd Prentice 416 S Oak Saturday Mrs Sarah Dickey Pomona Mrs Spencer Ball and Pamela Ball Lewis Center Ohio Sunday Mrs James Ralston 1343 Elm Monday
Mrs Grace Branson died in Baltimore on a Friday and funeral services are set for 2 p m Tuesday at Overbrook Methodist Church. She was born October 24 1895 near Overbrook and belonged to the Overbrook Methodist Church Cosmos Club and Valley Brook Club. Survivors include husband George Branson. sisters Zella Miller of Topeka May Baker of Overbrook. brother Earle Reed of Denver Colorado.
Lowell Farr of 1133 S Cedar wins the $5 tip prize for reporting the Harold Cade farm barn fire on the north edge of Quenemo. Other tipsters include A E Coughlin, Mrs C R McCreary, Mrs Raymond Care Penter, and Mrs Floyd Barton from Pomona RFD 2.
Funeral services were held in Williamsburg and Richmond for Flora A Goodwill who died July 28 and John Craycraft who died July 31. Rev. David Wilson and Rev. Gerald Snell officiated with hymns sung by Mrs S T Thornton Mrs L T Pattie Mrs Dorothy Milchelt and others. Pallbearers included Dick Logan Ed Goodwill Bill Goodwill Felix Thomas Howard Beard Guy Reichard Melvin Kuiken Lon Mishler Albert Pickett Clifford L Goodwill and others. Burial followed at Mt Hope Cemetery Williamsburg and Richmond Cemetery.
First published July 27 1964 notices in Franklin County Kansas probate court announce Glenn Greenfield appointed administrator of Mary E Roberts estate and Kenneth K Andrews appointed executor of Charles E Andrews estate creditors must file claims within nine months from first publication and be barred thereafter. attorneys Gleason Gleason Doty and Logan listed.
Slag from the Kaw power station, once a nuisance, is now used as an adhesive in asphalt for resurfacing turnpike shoulders from Topeka to Kansas City. Kansas City officials shifted to see its value as demand grows in the Midwest, with eastern producers already marketing it for oysters, fertilizer, and beer bottles.
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