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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1957
Page
6
Mrs. Earl Ford will host a wiener roast at 6 p.m. for about 15 neighborhood children at 207 S. Cedar. The event features hot dogs, popcorn, marshmallows, and soda. Children invited are not Ford family members.
Custodians finish repairs as Ottawa gears up for school start on September 3. Teachers meet Aug 30 and 31 for term prep with enrollments projected to rise by about 50 students. Elizabeth Haggard moves to seventh grade math, replacing Jim Clark. County schools vary in opening days with some on Labor Day. Enrollment last year totaled 1,798 across districts.
The former Ottawa Federated Church pastor now teaches at the College of Emporia and serves a church near Emporia on Sundays. He was appointed justice of the peace at Emporia by Gov George Docking. Ottawa friends say they will steer some business to his court. The Bergers reside in Emporia’s Country Club district.
Howard Shaver displayed a dollar bill in an envelope outside his Cortland clothing store and slashed the price to 77 cents. Scores of passersby looked at the sign and 27 picked up the bill to inspect it, but none bought it.
Rev. Charles R. Mason former Bethany Chapel pastor in Ottawa was hospitalized at Ransom Memorial with a severe concussion after a north Lincoln approach collision with Ralph Pristernik of 513 W seventh. Pristernik’s car sustained major damage while Mason’s was totaled. Doctors report Mason remains semi conscious but stable and improving as expected.
The forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms today and tonight with scattered showers Saturday. Temperatures will be much cooler this afternoon, highs 75 to 85. Tonight’s low in the 60s. Saturday highs around 60.
The New York Herald Tribune cites a major Army advance in long range ballistic missiles with a successful re entry of a Jupiter intermediate range missile. The material withstood extreme heat during ascent to above 600 miles and descent at about 15,000 miles per hour, enabling the nose cone to return intact.
Gov George Docking denies highway sign notices were political. Rep Hubert Fatzer accuses using funds for party gain. Docking and Lynn Brodrick defend signs as safety prompts and say they will continue with plans.
Washington reports Speaker Rayburn and leaders expect a civil rights bill to pass and be brought to the House floor next week as adjournment nears. A modified jury trial amendment appears likely, and Rules Committee action is anticipated to clear the measure for floor debate amid GOP cross-faction convergence.
ANN ARBOR Mich The 10th congress of the U S National Student Assn opens Tuesday on the University of Michigan campus with about 900 delegates from 350 colleges. They will address civil rights and aid for Eastern Europe’s communists while disputing issues that reveal U S student stances.
A 103 degree high was recorded yesterday by Ottawa weather observer John Kelsey, with a 73 degree minimum and no drop below 80 until after midnight. Temperatures stayed high and residents observed a continuous lightning flash from northeast to northwest across the area.
Grainmen from five states gathered in Dodge City to promote hard red winter wheat sales abroad. A five-member survey team from Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma Colorado and Texas will assess Western Europe markets and attend the World Trades Fair in Cologne Germany September 28 to October 6. The meeting, run by the National Association of Wheat Growers, also formed a seven member committee to plan future marketing meetings. Kansas members Ora Martin Garden City and Melvin Mustoe Norton attended.
TOPEKA m The taxable value of all Kansas property has topped the five billion mark for the first Eldon Sloan chief of the State Property Valuation Department said the 1957 assessed valuation is $5,025,518,394 an increase of $82,497,606 over last year Sloan attributed the increase to new housing industrial development expansion by public utilities and a move by some counties to bring assessed valuation more nearly in line with true values.
Police stopped a car in Kansas City and rescued a Kansas couple from a car trunk. James Richard Essen, an escaped Ohio convict, was arrested after the wagon owners said he forced them into the trunk with a gun. The Wagner couple, en route to Salina, were injured and treated at a hospital. Essen had escaped from an Ohio prison and said he fled from a life sentence for murder.
Ottawa University president Andrew B. Martin announced four staff appointments and two resignations. New hires include Maude Adams Gunnison Harry Walthall Marion and Ted Sparks Green River. Resignations include Mildred Pray and Robert Bowline. Adams becomes assistant professor of education Walthall librarian Wall becomes admissions counselor Sparks campus store manager and student work director.
A squirrel attacked children and dogs on South Cedar near 1400 block, prompting rabies concerns. Neighbor Lowell Fouts killed the animal after it attacked. Humane Officer Leo Edington and Dr. W J Conger arranged tests in Kansas City. results expected tomorrow. If positive, neighborhood checks and 30 day dog observation follow.
Rev. Jerry Tyler and his wife Barbara relocate from Louisburg to assume duties at North Baptist Church beginning Sunday September 1. The Tylers graduate from Parsons Junior College Ottawa University and studied at Iowa State College with three years at Central Baptist Seminary. Their daughters Deborah and Rebecca are aged two and six months. They will move into the church parsonage at 1016 N Poplar on September 3. NORFOLK VA P A fishing boat rescued 16 Navy blimp crew members after a coastalsound crash during the night Navy Coast Guard and air force teams prepared to search for a missing jet pilot Lt Cmdr Waldo Atkins who was later picked up from a raft by the Western Sun tanker and the blimp was en route from Cuba to New Jersey with last position reported 40 miles southeast of Wilmington North Carolina.
An Army court martial board acquitted 22 year old Second Lieutenant Rosser L Moody of four negligent homicide charges in the deaths of four infantrymen and injuries to 13 when mortar shells fell during an attack demonstration. Moody attributed the incident to misreading firing data after reviewing two sheets. Lt Col Walter P Berger of Philadelphia faces trial on four counts in the coming week.
J E Kirchner director of revenue proposes six new audit inspection positions to investigate tax frauds similar to the IRS. Estimated annual salaries would total 30 000 to 35 000 each, with potential state returns multiplying the investment. He disclosed the plan in a letter to the legislative efficiency and economy committee amid previous departmental reorganizations reducing field agents from 136 to 75 and saving 242 524 annually.
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