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Newspaper

Ottawa Herald

Location

Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Aug 20, 1956

Page

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Vacation Pack Aids Herald Subscribers On Leave

News briefs detail a free Vacation Pack service for Herald subscribers to receive missed copies during absence. Local items report a First Baptist Church choir at Ottawa University and various community updates including birthdays, soil bank meetings, lane fair coverage, and multiple police court actions.

Herald Office Herald Herald Circulation Department First Baptist Church Kansas Baptist Assembly Ottawa University

GOP Appeals To Labor On Wages And Welfare

In San Francisco GOP platform writers pitched for labor votes by highlighting rising employment and wages, claiming the Eisenhower era offers the highest living standards. They criticized Democrats for blocking Taft Hartley reforms and health welfare proposals while a 105 member drafting panel finalized a civil rights plank sat to be approved at the convention.

San Francisco Congress Law of the Land Supreme Court

Multiple farm sales and livestock auctions listed in Kansas notices

A dense listing of sale dates and contact points for farm auctions across Kansas towns including Overbrook Ottawa Waverly Richmond Pomona Quenemo and nearby counties. Entries cite sellers such as G A Myers & Son Anderson County Sale and East Central Kansas Holstein Breeders with dates in August and September and locations at various sale barns and farms.

G.A. Myers & Son Centropolis Ottawa Overbrook Lawrence Joe de Noon Wellsville Bruce Roush Richmond Alfred Seele C. R. Goodman Pomona Neilson Kas Anderson County Ept Kansas Holstein Breeders Association Bill George Waverly Robert Gifford Inile Highland School Melvern Kenneth Miller Quenemo Kaa Stewart & Son Farm Albert Harold Ches. Loney J. L. Hutchinson Stephenson Franklin County Wilson

Hospital Notices and Births in Pomona and Nearby

Admits list includes Mrs Francis Watson Osawato mie Ralph Emerson 920 Walnut and others with dates Saturday Sunday. Births report Coburn Parkin Pomona a son born Sunday weight 7 lb 6 oz. Discharges include Mrs Jack Hensley and baby Jere Lynn Lawhorn Lyndon. Other named patients and addresses appear with dates of today.

Francis Watson Osawatomie Ralph W. Emerson Jackie Reddick Jack Hensley S. Mulberry Jere Lynn Lawhorn Lyndon Robert Craig N. Cedar Richard Barber E. Logan Frank Tedrow N. Mulberry Calvin Hicks S. Oak

Richmond Fair Tents Going Up

Richmond merchants are putting up tents for the upcoming fair to be held Wednesday through Friday. Main tents include a 50 by 110 foot commercial tent, a 42 by 128 foot cattle tent, and a 22 by 33 foot poultry tent, with two overflow tents added this year. City water arrives for the fair with Brummel Construction Co providing a tank for free ice water. Winners will be judged on window decorations, and an amateur hour begins Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Virgil Smith reports 25 entries, the largest amateur show yet and nine more than last year.

Richmond City Brummel Construction Co City Water Project Virgil Smith

Bank embezzlement arrest in Santa Fe overseen by FBI

Harold Eugene Norris, 31, former Santa Fe National Bank assistant cashier, was arrested by the FBI and charged with embezzling $12,300. He is free on $5,000 bond. No depositors’ accounts were affected. Norris, married with two children, was arrested after returning from a two week vacation. officials reported the entry on the head teller’s control sheet on Aug 10.

Berlin Santa FE N. M Harold Lugdl Var Norris Santa Fe National Bank FBI William H. Vernon Santa Fe National Federal Reserve Act

Deaths William Means 68 Ottawa resident dies in Ransom hospital

William Means of 933 Walton died Saturday at 5 20 p m in Ransom Memorial hospital He was born June 20 1888 in Council Grove and lived in Ottawa the past 35 years He was a Methodist Church member His wife Alice Bradshaw died Aug 15 1954 Survivors include step son Leon Wyatt Ottawa two brothers John Means Ottawa Allen Means Eudora a sister Mrs Dolly Garnett Ottawa two nephews and two nieces Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced by Mc Vey Dergel Mortuary Burial will be in Hope Cemetery

William Means Walton Ransom Memorial Hospital Council Grove Ottawa Methodist Church Alice Bradshaw Leon Wyatt John Means Allen Means Eudora Dolly Garnett McVey-Dergel Mortuary Hope Cemetery

Funeral services for Mrs Noah Barnhart

Funeral services for Mrs Noah Barnhart who died Aug 16 were held Aug 19 at the Church of the Brethren with Rev Gerald Mease and Rev John Ward officiating Pallbearers were Roy Davis Lester Pegg Carl Nutt Jr Ray Simmons Kermit Blunk and McKinley Fishburn Mrs Gerald Mease and Mrs Raymond Bainer sang hymns accompanied by Mrs George Royer Cliff Dale and Arthur Jones assisted with flowers A large attendance of friends and relatives was noted Burial was in Pleasant Hill cemetery Centropolis

Pleasant Hill Cemetery Centropolis

Much Activity At City Airport

The Ottawa Municipal airport sees rising use from locals and transients. Notable visitors include Minnie Pearl from Nashville with pilot H R Cannon in a Beech Bonanza, Ralph Taylor from Toledo in a DeHaviland Dove, Edward Lepley of Des Moines in a 172 Cessna, and others from Enid, Shenandoah, Wichita, Osawatomie, Paola, and Topeka. Local crews also flew to Copper Harbor for a fishing trip, highlighting a busy week at Ottawa.

Ottawa Municipal Chuck LeMaster Minnie Pearl Nashville Tenn H. R. Cannon Ralph Taylor Toledo Ohio Edward Lepley Des Moines Iowa J. C. Hamilton Enid Okla May Seed Co Shenandoah Doolittle Construction Co Wichita Charlie House Topeka Ted Miller Osawatomie Joe Butes Joe Butes, Paola, In A Luscomb Ottawa Steel Copper Harbor Mich Bob Jenkins Roy Taylor Ross Johnson Joe Tucker

Flights and air travel notes widen in local Herald

Wichita report notes Dr. L N Speer directing his 170 Cessna to Wagner Oklahoma for a Flying Physicians meeting. This morning Chuck LeMaster Oscar LeMaster Orin Hughes and Jack Likes departed for Backus Minnesota on a fishing trip. The Herald will begin a weekly column tracking incoming and outgoing flights and other airport activity.

Wichita L. N. Speer Wagner Okla Chuck LeMaster Oscar LeMaster Orin Hughes Jack Likes Backus Minn The Herald

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