Ottawa Steel unit sold to Detroit firm sparks expansion plans
Ottawa Steel Products, now the Ottawa Steel Division of L. A. Young Spring and Wire, originated in 1943 with founders Fred Martin and Charles Mastin. By the sale last week only the Martins and Churchill remained as principal stockholders. The plant at First and Walnut began as a gray iron foundry, evolved into hydraulic tools like Hydra-Hammer and back-hoe, and now fields the Hydra-Way combining loader, hammer, and back-hoe. New owners Richard J. Rayback and family relocate from Cleveland to Ottawa as sales chief. Edwin L. Johnson remains general manager with plans for gradual expansion and more jobs. Jack O’Neal and Don Meek join as salesmen in Georgia and Texas respectively.
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Fred Martin
Charles Mastin
Topeka
Roy Churchill
W. E. Hegberg
Ernest Baldwin
J. F. Laughead
Ottawa
L. A. Young Corporation
Fred
Charles Martin
Churchill
Priginal
Martin Brothers
the Steel Corporation
First
Ottawa Steel
Iceland
Mirto
U. S.ir
Venezuela
Edwin L. Johnson
L. A. Young Corpora
Ligo
Johnson
Detroit
Cleveland
Richard J. Rayback
Rayback
L. A. Young Company
Jack O’neal
Frankl
Ottawa Steel Products, Inc
L. A. Young Spring and Wire Corporation
Fred P. Martin
Charles H
Ontario Swim Ends For Campbell At Lake Ontario Attempt
Shirley Campbell, 19, a Toronto typist, failed to complete Lake Ontario’s 32 miles from Youngstown to Toronto. She was pulled from the water at 1:15 a.m. with under two miles remaining, attempting to join Marilyn Bell as a past era swimmer of the route.
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Toronto
Shirley Campbell
Lake Ontario
Youngtown
N. Y
Shirley
Marilyn Bell
Bins defense in Senate inquiry disputes defect claims
Kenneth W. Lineberry president of Black Str alls and Bryson Co defended 1954 grain bins sold to the Agriculture Department. He told the Senate Investigations subcommittee the bins were properly constructed to government specs and blamed weather and wet soil in Kansas for most defects. C E Huff, once with Black Stralls Bryson, was to testify with a $289000 suit over alleged defective materials and costs pending in Kansas City court.
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Washington
Kenneth W. Lineberry
Black, Stralls and Bryson Co
Agriculture Department
Lineberry
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Kansas Cition
Bernard F. Lecraft
Lecraft
Kansas City
McClellan
R-Ark
Kansas
C. E. Huff
Huff Construction Co
Huff
Black, Sivalls & Bryson
Illinois
Black, Sivalis &Bryson
Large Number of Brothers in Camp McCoy Training Suite
The 127th Field Artillery Battalion from eastern Kansas began training at Camp McCoy Wisconsin with the 35th Infantry Division. Fifteen sets of brothers serve in the battalion including twins Lawrence and Leonard Burbank from Pleasanton, and numerous siblings from Ottawa Burlington Paola and Council Grove. Six veterans from Pleasanton remain in Battery A. Sgt Bernard Stovall of Ottawa praised the meals as good.
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Camp McCoy
Wis
127Th Field Artillery
Kansas
35Th Infantry
Ottawa
Pleasanton
Burlington
Paola
Council Grove
Cone
Pfc
Lawrence Burbank
Leonard Burbank
Walter
Cpl
Thomas Hopkins
Robert
Dayton Brown
Dale
John Mc
Alvin Selby
Loren
Gerald Peck
Thomas
Earl Pitts
Irving
Frank Shope
W. C
Floyd D. Fyock
Charles Courtois
Wilbur Hagege
William Whinery
Frank Wood
Bernard Stovall
River flood control plan boosts Ottawa industry
Army Engineers plan for Marais des Cygnes Osage river development will aid Ottawa industrial growth and valley agriculture. Congress authorized funds, starting with 75000 for Ottawa channel improvement and Pomona reservoir, first of nine Kansas Missouri reservoirs for flood reduction and drought relief, improving rail and road safety and attracting development.
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Army Engineers
Marais Des Cygnes - Osage
Ottawa
Congress of the
United States
Eisenhower
Ottawa Channel
Pomona
Kansas
Missouri
Fall River
Greenwood County
Fredonia
Neodesha
Independence
Coffeyville
Cherryvale
Marais Des Cygnes
Osawatomie
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First and Walnut
Rayback Ar Ee
Hickory
County
Don Meek
Ottawa University
O’neal
Georgia
Meek
Texas
N. D. Ely
Edwin N. Johnson
Ottawa Steel Division
Richard Rayback
Ontario
LEY Sitte Luis
L. A. Young Sering
Wire Corporation
Herald
Lamar Phillips
O. K
Chevrolet
Covenanive
Hevrolet
America
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