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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1955
Page
6
Topeka city commissioners have rejected further bids for a new pool at Gage Park and will pay off the design engineers. The State Board of Health condemns the current pool as unsanitary. Bids opened twice exceeded the engineer estimate.
Elizabeth Clennan, 13, of Chapman, is critically ill with bulbar polio and is in an iron lung at an Akron hospital. She is the daughter of Mrs. V. C. Clennan and had traveled to Akron to visit.
J J Chapman a schoolmaster and son of Scotland Yard’s late chief detective was charged with murdering his wife Irene Chapman 30 and their baby daughter Irene in Orpington. He called at a police station then led officers to the couple’s bungalow where the victims lay unseen details were not released.
Seventy three Austrians freed from Russian prison camps arrived at Bad Voeslau near Vienna. They were handed to Austrian authorities with information about alleged crimes and were released two hours after reaching Vienna.
Congressman Avery accepts invitation to speak at a Delta Upsilon convention in Evanston Illinois on August 23. He is a Kansas University chapter member. He will also attend Soil Conservation Service field meetings on September 1 near Highland Doniphan County and September 2 near Axtell Marshall County.
About 11,000 dial telephones will go into use at Lawrence replacing the mental operation. The switch over was set for a minute after midnight tonight. Local Southwestern Bell officials said they have not heard of any plans for a change in telephone operation in Ottawa.
Phog Allen, KU basketball coach, publicized a letter from Venice club official seeking two players for University of Venice or Padova with offers of board, room, books and tuition. Friends urge caution to avoid affecting Wilt Chamberlain and the Rotary link. Also mentions Series H Savings Bond with $500 to $10,000 denominations.
The World Council of Churches Central Committee asks the Russian Orthodox Church and other Soviet Christian churches to pursue full and free relations with the council. The 2000 word message sent to Moscow rejects the Moscow patriarchate bid for support of the Communist backed world peace council and notes the council’s history of turning down similar bids. The council, with 165 Protestant Anglican and Eastern Orthodox churches and 170 million members, says it seeks peace and that refusal to join the peace council should not block dialogue toward better understanding.
Dutch aircraft designer Simon van Munster told reporters in Copenhagen that if the moon contains any wealth it should be divided among the world’s people. He urged global cooperation to reach the moon, noting no single nation can solve spaceflight alone and proposing UNESCO collaboration through the UN.
A Kingman Kansas notices column reports the death of Dr Charles W Longenecker of Monique Demyttenaere visiting from France arrival at Kingman to spend time with family scars, comfort and funeral plans. Also noted are 4 H camp trips, entries for Franklin county fair, a divorce filing Irene McGhee vs David McGhee for neglect, Bob Beeler improving after major surgery, Clifford Flory drowning death near Sutherlin Oregon, Mrs Harry Bishop killed in a highway crash near Topeka with several injured, and other local updates including veterans hospital care and civic events.
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