Ottawa area notices and personnel updates roll in
A meeting of the Rotary Club featured talks on the talking machine by Bruce Briels Waller Butler of the Saunders Music Co Ottawa. Rural mail routes in Anderson County will be discontinued August 24 and merged with Garnett routes. Clergy named include Rev Elmer H Kroening and Rev Julius C Jacobsen. Captain John W Gover and family return to Lexington Mo where he teaches at Wentworth. The Gover Moving and Storage Co will operate in Otttella August 28 while Harley Gover attends Shrine ceremony in Tulsa. The Douglas County fair opens on East 19th Street. Jay Ellis lists local services including piano tuning and Wellsville warehousing by WEG Dial Telephone Co. Acme Hearing Center promotes hearing aids. Don Layton transfers to a Roswell flood project. Wellsville Picnic Fair planned for Sept 3-4. Ernest Bowlby, formerly at The Ottawa Herald, ill in California. Ottawa teenagers Barbara Simmons and David Rybolt to appear on Sam Molen’s TV Bowlin program. Circus tickets on sale. Jim Corcoran assigned to San Diego Naval Training Center. Delinquent personal property tax list totals $1,843.21. Advance circus tickets selling fast. more blocks printed. Local clerical moves include B W Bath purchasing a new Cadillac Hearse for Towner Chapel. At Winfield, Paola Rev B J Loesel reelected second vice president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod district. Rev Walter H Meyer reelected president for seventh term. Miss Martha Hoadley and Jane Ellis of Kansas City visited Mrs Mary Hoadley in Squires nursing home.
Deaths John Dillar Hughes 75 Pomona farmer
John Dillar Hughes 75 long time Pomona resident and farmer died at 6 p m yesterday in Ransom Memorial Hospital after several months of ill health He was born March 4 1882 in Pomona son of Andrew and Sarah Hughes He married Myrtle May Zimmerman in 1906 who died in 1918 and remarried Edna O Brien in 1925 He is survived by his widow one daughter Mrs Robert Parks two grandchildren and two brothers H O and Frank of Pomona Funeral services set for Sunday at 2 30 p m Lamb Funeral Home Rev Charles P Knight to officiate Burial in Woodlawn Cemetery Pomona
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John Dillar Hughes
Pomona
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Andrew
Sarah Collins Hughes
Myrtle May Zimmerman
Edna O'Brien
Lyndon
Ed Cannon dies in Topeka hospital
Ed Cannon of Abilene formerly Ottawa died yesterday morning at Santa Fe Hospital in Topeka. He was a Santa Fe signalman while living in Ottawa for about 20 years. His wife Faye Dryden, a former Ottawa schoolteacher, survives with a daughter Marilyn of the home. Funeral services set for Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in Abilene.
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Ed Cannon
Abilene
Ottawa
Topeka
Santa Fe
The
Faye Dryden
Marilyn
Hospital Notes Admits Multiple Patients Today
Admitted are Flora Straub of RFD 1 Over brook Minnie Albright of 532 N. Sycamore Rev Charles R Mason Fr Scott Irvin Myers Lane Joseph Strange of 829 N. Main Victor Dean RFD 2 Anna Smith 617 King Graden Griffin Pomona today Dismissed are Dean Kline and baby son 319 Mulberry Kate Taylor 236 Ash Mrs Robert Hooton RFD 1 today
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Flora Straub
Overbrook
Minnie Albright
N. Sycamore
Charles R. Mason
Scott
Irvin Myers
Lane
Joseph Strange
N. Main
Victor Dean
Anna Smith
King
Graden
Griffin
Pomona
Dean Kline
Mulberry
Kate Taylor
Ash
Robert Hooton
Two Eisenhower nominees approved by Senate vote
Washington reports the Senate confirmed Jer ome K Kuykendall to the Federal Power Commission by 50 to 25 and Don Paarlberg as assistant secretary of agriculture by 42 to 32 amid Democratic opposition. The approvals reflect resistance to Eisenhower policies in power and farm sectors.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
Jerome K. Kuykendall
Federal Power Commission
Don Paarlberg
Knowland-Eisenhower hold talks on foreign aid funds
Senate Republican leader Knowland and President Eisenhower met at the White House for a breakfast conference to discuss restoring a substantial part of the $802,650,000 cut by the House from foreign aid funding. Knowland said restoring the full amount is unlikely but a substantial restoration may be possible. bipartisanship will guide further estimates.
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Washington
Knowland
Calif
Eisenhower
Senate
House
White House
Firemen Answer Three Alarms in Ottawa
The Ottawa Fire Department responded to three alarms yesterday. A 1948 Chevrolet upholstery fire at 121 S Main in front of R. G. Browns, a refrigerator motor blaze at Kellys Cafe on South Main, and a trash pile fire at 926 N Poplar started by burning boxes and a telephone pole. Neighbors initially fought the blaze before firefighters arrived, finishing by 7:45 p.m.
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Ottawa Fire Department
R. G. Brown
S. Main
Kelly's Cafe
South Main
Ray Sullinger
N. Poplar
Sullingers
Paralytic Polio Cases Fall in Latest Health Report
Washington Public Health Service reports 70 paralytic polio cases among 356 total for last week, far below 1956 levels with 360 paralytic cases and 876 total polio. Over four weeks ending Aug 10, paralytic cases were 243 of 1,173, or 21 percent, with July 13 showing 37 percent.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Bank Robbery Suspects Sentenced In Abilene
J D Alexander aged 30 from Chapman and Philip Roger Burkholder 24 Ft Riley soldier pleaded guilty to the Dickinson County State Bank holdup at Enterprise last Saturday. Each received 7 to 50 years in prison with parole denied by District Judge Walter J Hembrow. A third suspect William Robert Brown 34 of Abilene remained jailed in default of 5000 bond awaiting September trial. All money was recovered.
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Abilene
Dickinson County
Enterprise
J. D. Alexander
Chapman
Philip Roger Burkholder
Ft. Riley
Walter J. Hembrow
William Robert Brown
To Open Hearing On Tuttle Land
A three man commission begins hearings Monday on land condemnation for Tuttle Creek Reservoir projects in Irving Kas. The panel, appointed by Federal Judge Delmas C. Hill, aims to speed compensation decisions and may be the first time Turtle Creek properties are reviewed by a commission. Two farm trials last spring lasted over two weeks.
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Topeka
Irving, Kas
Tuttle Creek
Delmas C. Hill
Hill
Turtle Creek
Still Seeking Young Forgers
Two teenage boys who passed four forged checks in Ottawa Monday remain at large as police and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation pursue leads. They stayed in Ottawa about two days and were linked to attempts to cash a $25 check at Briscoe Drug Store and Kramer Drug Store after cashing at OK Bargain Store and Harrison Grocery.
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Ottawa
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Eugene Flaherty
OK Bargain
Harrison Grocery
Briscoe
Kramer
Teamster Lacey testifies tearfully about ouster in fraud claim
Washington D C hearing hears Martin Lacey 74 recount his 1956 removal as New York City Teamsters boss amid alleged fraud and deception with President Dave Beck's office. He denies taking bribe and questions role of Sam Goldstein and racketeer ties while noting reforms within the union.
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Washington P
Martin T
Lacey
Teamsters
New York Teamsters Council No. 16
John O'Rourke
Midwest Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Beck
Einar O. Mohn
Sam Goldstein
Johnny Dio
O'Rourke
Goldstein
Tony
Ducks) Corallo
New
Harrowing Kansas Turnpike Dash Delivers Baby in 200 Miles
Mr and Mrs Donald Kubicki of Wichita rushed 200 miles toward Kansas City to have their baby born in Trinity Lutheran Hospital. The drive included ambulance escort through Lawrence and a police escort into Kansas City Missouri. The boy, tentatively named David Lee Kubicki, weighed 7 pounds 13 4 ounces and both mother and child were reported doing fine.
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Kansas City
Donald Kubicki
Kansas Turnpike
Wichita
Kubicki
Lawrence
Kas
Cleanup Man Supports Hoffa
Washington reports say John F. English, AFL-CIO chosen to clean up the Teamsters, backs James R. Hoffa for president. Hoffa faces Senate Rackets Committee scrutiny over alleged ties to New York mob influence. English, 68, also linked to proposed convention changes.
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John F. English
Afl-Cio
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters
Hoffa
Midwest
Senate
New York
Chicago
Meany
Teamsters Convention
Road Worker Dies On Pratt County Project
Pratt County reports a fatality as sand truck wheels killed Nick Carter 16 while resurfacing a county road northwest of Pratt. Carter lived with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bowman in Pratt.
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Nick Carter
Carter
H. E. Bowman
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