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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1960
Page
5
J C Floyd longtime Ottawa political figure turned 90 today with a small party at the Elm Street nursing home where he now resides. Floyd has lived in Ottawa since 1913 and remains active in local Republican circles.
Eugene Wingert, a Kansas youth, attends a two week summer camp at Miniwanca on a scholarship, joining siblings and parents in a Kansas family involvement in 4 H and FFA activities. The article notes Camp Miniwanca as a leading youth leadership camp at Stony Lake, and mentions related family and community events, displays, visitors, and local happenings.
Mr and Mrs Harold Wingert joined Johnson County Farm Bureau at Hilltop School Monday evening. Mr and Mrs Bill Shields and family vacationed in the Ozarks. A picnic honored Eddie and Jim Shields at the Harry Shields home with Ira Elrod Gardner Walter Revey Jr and Bill Shields also present. Eddie displayed pictures and slides of California.
Livestock totals include cattle calves and feeders, sheep with slaughter lambs and ewes, hogs noted as 2,500 head moderately active. Prices listed per hundredweight and varied by category, with figures like 14.001925 for cattle and 153 20-280-Jb for hogs. The report cites typical auction activity and market notes on demand.
NASA released a Friday timetable for the Echo 1 satellite over Wichita and Topeka. It lists visibility times, directions, and elevations for Topeka and Wichita with multiple passes including overhead, south and north tracks across early morning and evening hours.
In Minersville Pennsylvania a 17 year old, James Namiscavage, was accidentally shot in the chin when he tried to crush a grasshopper with the butt of his 22 caliber rifle. Police said the gun discharged Wednesday night. Friends reported the incident to police.
Mrs. Olive Edna Lynch Greiner 76 Ottawan died yesterday at Ransom Memorial Hospital after a long life as Avon representative. Born February 26 1887 in Mt Ayr Iowa she graduated from Ottawa University in 1908 and taught before marriage to Lionel E. Greiner in 1915. Surviving are her husband son Richard and a granddaughter. Services Saturday at Lamb Funeral Home with Rev Hastie officiating. Burial in Highland Cemetery.
Twelve racial integrationists arrested at a Miami restaurant chose to remain in jail rather than bond out. Six others, including a CORE instructor, posted $100 bond and gained freedom. The group, 18 in all, traveled to attend a three week CORE course on nonviolent methods of integration when they sat at four tables at Shell's City Restaurant. They were jailed under a Florida ejectment law that allows a merchant to refuse service to anyone.
Bernard Baruch, marking his 90th birthday, told reporters at his New York home that inflation is the single greatest peril to national health. He urged economic, military, and spiritual strength to meet dangers, but avoided commenting on presidential candidates Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
An anti WHAC demonstrator hanged Rep. James Roosevelt in effigy outside the Shamrock Hilton Hotel in Houston as Roosevelt urged abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Roosevelt spoke at a luncheon for delegates to the National Congress of Petroleum Retailers.
Polaris submarine missile blasted off from Cape Canaveral on a 1100 mile test run. The Navy reported the rocket met all objectives by striking a water target northeast of Puerto Rico, confirming successful performance of the test.
A four engine military transport crashed in southern Morocco killing 20 aboard including Hutchinson detective R Moore aged 33 and French sailors with families. Great Bend Kansas police chief Roy Hester succeeds in taking command after the disaster.
Senator J William Fulbright said he may investigate possible Republican influence in funding for a project to bring 250 African students to U S colleges He criticized claims that the State Department pressured funds while Kennedy denied the sequence of events The row involves James Shepley Nixon aide and a political funding angle in the campaign.
Washington AP the nomination of North Carolina Governor Luther Hodges to head a national committee of business and professional men and women for the Democratic ticket was announced by presidential candidate John F Kennedy. The committee headquarters will be at 333 North Michigan Avenue Chicago with Earl L Lathrop as executive director of the Reuben Donnelly Co a Chicago direct mail firm.
Washington reports personal income for individuals rose to a record annual rate of 407 billion dollars last month. Commerce Department cites federal pay raise and construction surge as main drivers, offset by declines in farm income and manufacturing payrolls. The increase from the prior year is about one-fourth of one percent.
New Orleans faces a federal state showdown as Governor Jimmie Davis took over city schools under a 1960s law to block integration. Judge Wright ordered first graders desegregated next fall, while a federal suit seeks an injunction to halt Davis action. A four man legislative panel may reclassify schools, with a possible special session.
Hospital notes show admissions of Henry J. Chenoweth 326 Maple I Mrs Minor Brown Williamsburg Acre Eugene Reeves Princeton Jesse Rice Pomona Leonard Baskett Topeka on Wednesday. Dismissals include Michael Kent Ratliff 612 Le cust Wednesday Leonard Baskett Topeka Mrs James Hogue and infant daughter Pomona today.
Two escapees from Larned State Hospital, Robert Brown aged 18 and Scott Logan aged 17, were believed surrounded in a rural area between the hospital and Larned. Officers said both were armed, with Brown described as dangerous and Logan as diabetic. Bloodhounds from Salina and a plane were to aid the search.
Topeka AP report notes Constant Construction Co of Lawrence is the apparent low bidder for the general contract to build a three story brick classroom building at the State School for the Deaf in Olathe with a bid of 318,930. Kendall Plumbing Inc of Wichita is top bidder for mechanical work at 386,831 and Wiggins Electric of Ottawa for electrical work at 43,482.
Manila AP reports flood waters receding in central Luzon after two weeks of nonstop heavy rains. A provincial official, surveying the devastated area, fears hundreds of bodies remain to be found as more than 42 people are dead and hundreds more are injured or missing in three provinces.
Mr and Mrs S T Thornton and Mrs P L Shrader have returned from a two week trip through northern states to Canada. On the way home they visited C R Gelvin near Chicago and Harold Malone and family at Osceola Missouri. Mrs Shrader of Kansas City Missouri is visiting at the Thornton home. Mrs Nelson Hoffman learned of her father's death in Quinter with funeral and burial at Gove. The Hoffman family plans to move to Georgia next week. Ed Crabb and children hosted Crabb's brother and family Joe Smith and four children from Phoenix Arizona. Terry Rob ADS has been on navy duty at Corpus Christi Texas and will be stationed in Hawaii for a year after a month’s leave. Miss Linda Whatley of Robstown Texas visits Terry and his parents for a few days.
Oren Lee Staley president of the National Farmers Organization will speak in Garnett Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the School of Angels. Farmers from the Second District are expected to attend as Staley discusses farm problems and solutions.
The Kansas Highway Commission opened low bids totaling 1,876,000 for nine miles of Interstate 70 from the Maple Hill spur to McFarland. Bids include Schwerwnerd Construction Wichita 253,122 for 2.6 miles grading. J. A. Tobin Construction Kansas City 930,600 for 6.7 miles grading. King Construction Hesston 573,071 for nine pier bridges. Midwest Holton 694,119 for six box bridges. Wick's Nursery Osage City 25,526 for seeding along the roadway. The bids will be acted on at the next commission meeting.
Legal notices published in The Ottawa Herald issues August 11 1980 and August 28 1980 detail hearings in Franklin County Probate Court. Floyd L Jackson seeks appointment of a guardian ad litem for Clarina Jackson deceased and Ann Elizabeth Dettrickson minors seeks authority to sell oil and gas land in Franklin County.
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