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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1955
Page
8
Convertible Va Power Midte radio heater two tone red green Chev for sale near 1404 Willow. Chav condition with new seat may need work. Brirnbart Motor Raftles Richmond Kansas advertise.
Kansas residents perished in Missouri wrecks over the weekend. Walter Motz 65 and Richard Sharp 20 of Leavenworth along with Nadine Harper 51 and Fern Woods 39 of Butler died in a two car crash near Lamar. Harper’s husband Page 55 was critically injured. Harry Eugene Bedgood 31 of Wichita died from a broken neck after a motorcycle went into a ditch near Seligman. A separate two car collision west of Boonville injured seven, including three children.
Actress Suzan Ball dies of cancer at 21 and funeral services are set for tomorrow at 2 p m at the Church of the Recessional in Forest Lawn Glendale. Ball was the wife of actor Rich ad Long.
Lyndon B. Johnson, the Washington senator, is said to have made steady improvement since his heart attack on July 2 and has returned to his Washington home yesterday.
Deputies to be posted at gates of the Westinghouse jet engine plant in Kansas City to protect nonstriking workers. Jackson County Sheriff Arvid Owsley will place patrolmen at peak hours as needed after nonstriking workers petitioned Gov. Donnelly for his ouster over alleged failing to shield them from violence by strikers. The plant has been on strike since June 12 by Local 324 of the UAW CIO over wages. Owsley urged sharing any evidence of unlawful violence with prosecutors or the county grand jury.
Fred W. Knapp of Topeka, grand treasurer of the IOOF Grand Lodge of Kansas and former state auditor, will resign effective Aug. 15 and move to St. Louis. H. W. Dille of Emporia will succeed him in the lodge post.
Seventeen year old Joycelyn Pilapil from Long Beach recounts stowing away on HMCS Athabaskan en route from Hawaii aboard a Canadian destroyer. She said it felt wonderful and she would like to attempt it again legally. A chief petty officer found her in the aft awning locker one day out of Honolulu.
Topeka Kansas Park and Resources Authority visited Oklahoma today to study its state park system and learn about park management and resources.
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