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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1968
Page
4
A final general meeting will be held tonight at Ottawa University student union at 7 30 PM open to the public. Five topics including transportation hotels and motels crime and protection education and strengthening local government will be discussed. Refreshments will be served. Piano tuning offered by Butlers.
The Ottawa Chamber of Commerce will host its annual breakfast to welcome new teachers in the Ottawa system on August 28 at 7 30 in the House of Douglas. Businessmen are urged to reserve seats at the Chamber office.
Pool and soft drinks advertised at a local recreation venue located at 2nd and Hickory with available facilities and refreshments for attendees.
Mrs John Rutledge of Lane was dismissed from St Luke's Hospital in Kansas City Missouri on August 17 after a week of tests.
A large rummage sale will be held in a house from August 16 to 21 open daily 8 AM to 5 PM at 112 North Locust. Proceeds may support local community programs.
Dennis McIlwain Lane is a patient undergoing therapy at University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City Kansas. The notice mentions Weddings in color with photographer Mickey at 839 West Fifth Avenue.
An August 20 yard sale begins at 8 o clock at 431 South Poplar featuring table and bed linens clothing fishing tackle and miscellaneous items advertised by the seller.
TOPEKA AP A state official said the official count in the Kansas primary may not be completed on schedule Tuesday. Nine counties have not provided certified tabulations Riley Sedgwick Shawnee Wyandotte Bourbon Cherokee Franklin Rush Coffey and abstracts were sent back for lack of certification delaying statewide totals.
Nigeria's chief peace negotiator Anthony Enahoro met Lord Shepherd at the Commonwealth Office in London for an hour to press relief aid to starving Biafrans. A second round of talks was planned amid possible discussion of arms aid. Britain has supplied arms to Nigeria. Nigeria also began an all-out offensive with federal forces advancing.
Chicago AP report on Humphrey and McCarthy clashing over open convention tactics seating rules and Vietnam plank as they campaign ahead of next week's Democratic nominating convention. Mondale defended an open convention while McCarthy pressed for fair debates and challenged Humphrey supporters.
A 16 year old, John Whitmore of Long Island City, fired on three Long Island Rail Road trains from a sandy embankment, killing Vincent Maher and wounding Gabriel Jansen on a predawn ride to Manhattan. Whitmore was charged with homicide and weapon offenses. Maher, 31, was killed. Jansen, 48, survived afterdozing before the shot.
Ocean holds vast metal reserves far exceeding land mines with estimates of copper 15 billion tons boron 7 trillion tons manganese 15 billion tons uranium 20 billion tons silver 500 million tons and gold 10 million tons suggesting immense untapped potential from seawater.
The Daily Report lists services for Pfc. L Wayne Christeson killed in Vietnam with a 10 30 a m service at Dengel and Son Mortuary and 2 30 p m military rites at Ft Scott National Cemetery Rev Loren Mohler officiating Anna Rose Norton death obsequies Aug 13 at Waverly Baptist Church with Rev Daryl McNabb and Rev George Vogt, pallbearers named Burial at Agricola Cemetery NO INJURY in a Aug 14 one car crash at 7th and Ash with Lee R Berry cited only for damage and no police citations Divorces filed Jeannette Fiehler vs Charles Fiehler Hospital admissions and discharges list births and county court civil lawsuits and charges including Southwestern Bell suit against Mary E Scott and a series of loitering, reckless driving and speeding cases with assigned bonds and notices.
Probate court records show marriages for Elizabeth Fischer and Russell Testorff, Lyle Adcock and Marilyn Shoemaker, J. R. Baxter and Gladys Klock, and John Hunton and Loretta Kendall. AP market wire reports Kansas City commodity prices for eggs butter cattle hogs and sheep, with variances across grades and weights.
Washington AP The NYSE president told a SEC hearing that abandoning minimum commissions could destroy securities markets. Robert W. Haack warned that eliminating floor rates risks destructive competition, especially in declining volume, arguing standard competitive concepts apply to the securities industry. The DOJ had said no justification exists for minimum charges and cited 1967 NYSE volume and earnings figures.
On leave from recruit training at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Navy sailor Afrida? Mark Andrews returns to family before transfer to Naval Air Station Jacksonville. He will attend Aviation Ordnance Class A School after a 16 day leave. He was a junior at Emporia State prior to enlisting.
Legal notices dated August 19 1968 show the City Clerk of Ottawa Kansas reporting fund balances and allocations as of July 31 1968. Items include Fire Equipment maintenance flood control general operation cemetery funds library construction packaging plant work retirement Social Security and other line items with varied balances and allocations.
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