Deaths and obituaries from Ottawa and surrounding area
Services pending for Melvin Lee Slemp 20 former Ottawan and Navy sailor who died in a Norfolk traffic crash that killed four others. multiple survivors listed including parents Gerald and Grace Slemp and wife Ida Baysinger. Also notes on Zella Lamb Wolff 94 of Baldwin with graveside service in Rosalia and Henry B. Chilton 64 Wellsville with burial in Wellsville Cemetery. Laura Ruth Gilmore's service and local admissions dismissals, births, and a 2-vehicle accident report in the county.
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Melvin Slemp
Ottawan
Melvin Lee Slemp
Norfolk
Slemp
Lebanon
Gerald and
Grace
Cox) Slemp
Ottawa High School
Town and Country Church of Christ
U.S. Navy
Portland
Ida Baysinger
Ottawa
Della Marie
Bill Slemp
San Diego
Calif
Darrell Slemp
Dale Slemp
Cleve Sanderson
Randy Hinderliter
Elizabeth Slemp
Rockport
Rose Harvey
Atlanta
Zella Wolff
Baldwin
Zella Lamb Wolff
Lawrence Hospital
Blankenship
Rosalia
Butler County
Baldwin Rest
Lamb-Roberts
Orchard Lane
Henry Chilton
Wellsville
Henry B. Chilton
St. Luke's Hospital
Kansas City
Wilson and Son
Warren Skiles
Laura Gilmore
Laura Ruth Gilmore
Wesleyan Church
Hope Cemetery
Don Rothfuss
Lee DePriest
Dan Neuenswander
Walter Potter
Gene Ames
Elden Henley
A. L. Spaulding
Lamar Fowler
Melvin Sundstrom
Damron-Towner Chapel
Holiday Laundry closes for redecorating Aug 5 to 7
Ad brief notes Holiday Laundry at 1630 S Main closed for redecorating repair from August 5 through August 7. Also lists DOG FOOD unlabeled 24 can case $2.69 net horsemeat dog food $5.49 net. Metzger Salvage at 109 N Main referenced. Ottawa Herald carrier payment advice to ask for Herald 1D card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Main
Metzger Salvage
N. Main
The
Ottawa Herald
Herald
Smith in fair condition after Onaga crash that killed wife
David R. Smith, former Franklin County 4-H agent, remains in fair and stable condition at Onaga Community Hospital after a two vehicle crash Friday near Onaga that claimed the life of his wife Janice Edna Smith. The couple had been returning from Manhattan when their vehicle met a large truck at a narrow bridge. Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating.
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Dale Carey
Princeton
Steve Hoelscher
Richmond
Bowling Green
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
I-35
LeLoup
Kansas Highway Patrol
Charles Korte
Fredrich Brown
Ottawa
Korte
Franklin County
4-H
David R. Smith
Onaga Community Hospital
Janice Edna Smith
Onaga
Manhattan
The
Smith
Onaga Road
Wamego
Robert Umschied
Robert Meyers
Stewart Funeral Home
Wamego City
Kansas tax receipts rise nearly twenty percent in July
Preliminary figures show Kansas tax receipts for July at 45.7 million, up 7.5 million or 19.7 percent from the 38.2 million projected. Sales, financial institutions, corporations, and use taxes led gains, while officials anticipate a milder growth path to fund the 1976 budget and note possible risks from a dock workers strike and potential loss of federal revenue sharing and school aid.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Robert F. Bennett
Bennett
Indian Healer Last Of A Breed
CHARENTON La AP The medicine woman for the Chitimacha Indians says her ancient snake bite pneumonia and ulcer treatments will die with her Faye Stouff last of a line of healers who brew potions from wild herbs and barks Barely 300 tribe members remain on a modest bayou reservation in southwestern Louisiana She laments that younger generations are not interested in learning yet tribal law bars teaching outsiders and she recalls a threat of prison years ago for continuing her backwoods practice
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Charenton
Faye Stouff
Louisiana
Wall Street declines amid inflation worries and light trading
The Dow 30 fell 7.74 to 818.76 as inflation fears press markets and food prices rise. NYSE decliners outpaced advancers nearly 3 to 1. AMEX index slipped 0.33 to 88.90 while producers pay higher materials costs. Boston-area doctors report poison antidote anecdotes. Basket weaving by tribe showcased to Harvard’s Peabody Museum, cane layers peeled by teeth for complex designs.
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New York Stock Exchange
Emile
Harvard
Peabody Museum
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the Daily Report
Chilton Was
Britton and
Mary (Powell) Chilton
Goldena Chappell
Paola
Mary Lynn Nickerson
Shawnee
Britton Lee Chilton
Violet Whitley
Mary Ellen Collins
American Cancer Society
Max Flager II
Pomona
Lee Hughes
N. Mulberry
Walter Doering
S. Cherry
Glenn Head
Raymond Mulcahey
Williamsburg
Paul Johnson
David Burgoon
Henry Wilson
Michael Sancho
S. Mulberry
Martin Seimears
James Bellinger
Rantoul
Police News
Altereo
D.J. Yeager
Albert Lampe
North Poplar
Ad Briefs
Dave Smith
Jason
Judy Rush
Wamega
Kansas 4-H Foundation
Umberger Hall
Kansas State University
Jason Smith
First National Bank
Franklin County Extension Office
the Herald
Lake Pomona
Rick Bagby
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Ben Streeter
Vassar State Park
Fred Zook
S. Locust
League of Kansas Municipalities
Cooperative Meteorological Observer
Warden
Roger Cook
Mary
Virginia Clark
S. Cedar
Ranstein Air Force Base
Germany
Board of Trade
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Wall Street
New York
American Stock Exchange
Porter-Spears
Agency
Tom Porter
Charles Porter
Ajamivon
Gaz
Lotwner Tawa Kapess O
Paul Damron
David Miller
David Bunch Galen Gentry
Janice Damron
Marge Miller
Rena Towner
Dorothy Reams
New IntPaper
York Stock Exchange
Kangel
Katy Ind
Kerr McGe
AllisChal
Kresger
Alcoa
Kroger
Am Airlin Bu
CBS
Oklage
PanAm Air
Chrysler
Penn Cent
Comwe
Penney
RCA
ReynMet
Curtiswr
duPont
StroMin
Echlin
Exxon
Sears
Sperryr
Texaco
IBM
Eases Eee Auto Home Health Life
American Family Mutual Insurance Company
Magieon Wieconsia
Larry Shaw
W. Usth
Raines Amusement CO
Emporia
Snoopy
Mena, Arkansas
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