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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1960
Page
5
Twenty Ottawans joined 160 youth at a Paola Deanery Catholic Youth Convention featuring swimming dancing and a picnic supper. Alfonso Mayes of Ottawa was elected treasurer for the coming year. Bert Cass Jr of Burlington jailed on vagrancy and drunkenness charges.
Deaths of Jesse E. Linsdale 2 RFD 1 Baldwin aged 89 or 90 with extensive Kansas teaching career and funeral at Lambs Funeral Home Ottawa. Desmond R. Willhite 65 Red 1 farmer stockman died at St Luke's Kansas City. services at Brown Funeral Home Cottonwood Falls with burial at Bazaar Cemetery.
Rotary selects Judy Wiseman of Wellsville as attendant for Osawatomie Free Fair queen. Reigning queen Joan Banister of Osawatomie escorted by Larry Marfin. Attendant Karen Boehm escorted by James Wartford. District missionary Dr W H Dickinson to speak Aug 28 in Baldwin and Wellsville churches. Attends family reunions, birthdays, and local events. Barry Crawford formerly of Ottawa dies. Funeral plans set in Overland Park.
Rich mond Fair awards highlighted livestock judging with Steve Dunbar of Richmond winning fat steer strand champion and Sandra Herring of Williamsburg reserve hereford steer. Glenda Osborn of Garnett took grand reserve in shorthorn heifer, while Douglas Bethel Quenemo earned hereford heifer grand and reserve. Dennis Dunbar won grand champion short horn steer. Saturday events included Baby Show prizes for Debbie Chambers Wellsville and multiple Ottawa and Melvern entrants in age divisions. Float contest awarded Valentine Day theme to Antique Department, with Fortnightly Club and others earning prizes.
Admissions list names multiple patients with addresses in Cedar Miss Maye Halloren George Stansbury De Soto and others plus Sunday births including Lyndon Morlan Dunnam and Elder with weights and locations. Dismissals include James Bonine Max Likes and several families, some to Princeton Williamsburg and Kansas City.
WELLINGTON AP Republican William M. Ferguson criticized the substitution of Col Guy C. Rexroad director of penal institutions for Dale Spiegel in a Lawrence debate on pardons and paroles. Ferguson said Rexroad was forced to appear and condemned the politicization of the prison system by Spiegel, the governor's pardon attorney, who could not appear personally.
Pratt Kansas AP reports Clyde Williams about 60 was found dead Saturday in a water filled sandpit southeast of Pratt where he worked. Fellow workers noticed he was missing and alerted authorities.
A Sunday guest list includes Dr. Charles Smith a retired Belgian Congo missionary visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. Hostetter. Weekend visitors to the Davi dsieas include Mr. and Mrs. Richard Terrell of Olathe. Other visitors come from Kansas City Kansas Baldwin and San Gabriel California. The Harold Good family spent the weekend in Arkansas.
Marcellus Lidikay age 97 died August 20 at Crestview Nursing Home in Ottawa. Funeral held Monday at Coughlin's Chapel Wellsville with Rev James Nabors officiating. Pallbearers were Jeff Rice Harald Sawyer Ray Simmons Harold Phillips Seldon Brockway Ellsworth Owings. Interment in Wellsville Cemetery.
Former New York Governor W Averell Harriman will travel to Africa on a three month trip at the request of John F Kennedy. He plans visits to Senegal the Congo Guinea Ghana and Nigeria using a special attestation visa via the Congo's new government. Belgium has not yet issued Congo visas.
Kansas DeMolay elected Bert A. Walters of Wichita as master councilor and named Lyons for the 1961 conclave. Other officers include L Wayne Ammertman of Art, Don Wertz of Sharon Springs state senior councilor, Robert Swenson of Lyons junior councilor, Farl W. Hille of Wichita scribe, and Luther A. Pacman of Arkansas City treasurer. Orval Weeks Hoisington was named chairman with Jack Welch as vice chairman.
Hope faded for Henry Griffing and his wife Josephine and their children Linda and Phillip as an air land search extended from Oklahoma to New York. Civil Air Patrol planes scoured many states while a misread radio transmission initially suggested a Rochester NY sighting. Griffing, 53, is president of Video Independent Theatres Inc which has posted a $5,000 reward for information.
Courtie Blakesley, 50, a Kansas prison trusty serving a life sentence for murder from Shawnee County, fled Sunday while driving the prison superintendent Lester Berry to the Lansing post office. His clothing was later found tossed from a car near Kansas City headed toward the jetty. two men were seen in the vehicle.
A countywide glaucoma and diabetes clinic is planned for Ottawa on Oct 13 and 14. Co chaired by Mrs Bill Osburn and Norman Rodgers the event is a joint effort of the county health department and county board of social welfare to screen presumably well people for early signs. State officials E D Pulliam Nevin Starkey and Marguerite Blaze attended along with county commissioners welfare and health staff and cooperating clubs. Blaze stressed glaucoma’s potential to cause blindness if untreated and officials noted screenings at other clinics have reached up to 4000 people daily.
The annual Joplin district assembly of the Church of the Nazarene will be held in Pittsburg September 1 and 2. Pastors from 53 churches, totaling about 3,300 members, are expected to attend with Dr. Hugh Benner of Kansas City presiding.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon met at breakfast with Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell and Secretary Arthur Fleming of the Department of Health Education and Welfare. The meeting, among a series of sessions for Nixon at home, covered congressional matters.
Six persons faced County Court charges for speeding on I 35 in Franklin County. Lorene M. Moss 35 Lenexa and Charles G. Lineback 26 Kansas City Mo were cited yesterday for 82 and 90 mph in a 70 mph zone. Saturday indictments list truck drivers over 5000 pounds exceeding 50 mph: Robert Lee Prindiville 27 Raytown Mo John David Schlichting 18? Wentzville Mo Richard Michael Carder 34 Warrenton Mo all 64 mph. Kenneth J. Goodman 37 Pueblo Colo 62 mph Lloyd Alden Aldrich 27 Excelsior Springs Mo 60 mph Donald Dean Porter 37 Raytown Mo. Goodman posted 15 bond.
Two cars suffered major damage in a slick Main Street collision around 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Haverty E. McCann, 66, and John Wells, 18, were involved. no injuries or charges were reported.
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