Legion Meetings And Activities Highlight Community Gatherings
American Legion and Auxiliary members and families gathered for a potluck at Legion Hall with multiple groups in attendance including the Eddie Shields and Jim Shields families. Post 164 plans for 50 star flag orders and a parade float, with delegates chosen for the Wichita State Convention. Also noted were school preparations, recent visitors, and memorial book donations to the city library in memory of Mina Smith.
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American Legion
Legion Hall
Eddie Shields
Duena Park
Calif
Jim Shields
Millington
Tenn
Louis H. Hanson
Legion
Wichita
Freeman Shawen
John Gorsage
Melvin Pierce
News Briefs roundup of local moves and sales
Larry Eugene Jeffries leaves for Springfield to enter Springfield Baptist Bible College and study music. Auctions planned near Rantoul and Peoria for livestock farm goods and machinery. Appanoose High School to hold enrollment Friday morning. Fried chicken special and smorgasbord at local eateries. Pastor Mease to leave Ottawa for a Fredericksburg Iowa church. Eagles Auxiliary ad and a chemistry teaching move to Boonville. Penningtons to relocate to Pueblo for college attendance.
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Larry Eugene Jeffries
Mildred Jeffries
Springfield
Springfield Baptist Bible College
Odena Detwiler
Rantoul
Gerald Mease
Church of the Brethren
Ottawa
Mease
Fredericksburg
Iowa
Santa Fe Carloadings Fall From Year Ago Totals
Week ending August 20 1960 Santa Fe carloadings stood at 20863 cars down from 22033 in the prior year with total cars moved 31868 versus 32199 last year. Drake's Bakery advertised fresh baked goods. Clinton Fredricks family heads to Scottsdale Arizona for new teaching job and home.
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Santa Fe
Famed Builder Of Elevators Dies
Hutchinson 8 Clinton Chalmers 72 partner in the Hutchinson grain elevator firm Chalmers and Borton died Monday night after a Saturday coronary attack. The Kansas City partnership started in 1926, moved to Hutchinson in 1935. The firm built over 1,600 elevators, about half in Kansas, with total storage capacity around 600 million bushels. Funeral services set for Thursday in Hutchinson.
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Hutchinson
Clinton H. Chalmers
Chalmers and Borton
Chalmers
John Borton
Kansas City
Kansas
Kansas City Livestock Prices Report AP Style
Kansas City cattle and hog markets showed slow to steady demand with varying declines. Cattle early steady to 50 lowers, hogs 25 to 40 lower, sheep steady to weak, vealers and slaughter calves near steady. steer and heifer prices listed, ranges for highs and lows across categories.
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Kansas City
Kansas Sets Hunting Seasons And Lengths For Quail Pheasant
Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission kept quail at 19 days and prairie chicken at 3 days while extending pheasant hunting to 26 days. Quail hours end at 4 p.m. on open days. Seasons run from November to December for quail and pheasants from November 5 to 30. Prairie chickens October 29 to 31. Duck and goose seasons listed with varied counts and limits.
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Wichita
Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Elk County Farm Bureau
Prairie Chicken
Alien
Anderson
Butler
Bourbon
Chautauqua
Cowley
Coffey
Chase
Crawford
Douglas
Elk
Franklin
Geary
Greenwood Jackson
Linn
Lyon
Marion
Morris
Nemaha
Neosho
Osage
Pottawatomie
Riley
Shawnee
Wabaunsee
Wilson
Woodson
NY injunction extended to bar Nazi rally on Labor Day
An injunction keeping American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell from holding a rally in New York City has been extended to September 8. The extension was ordered to prevent Rockwell from staging a Labor Day event in the city.
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New York
New York City
George Lincoln Rockwell
Hospital Notes Admissions and Births in Wellsville Area
Admissions include Mrs J L Holtwick Emerson Davis 906 N Mulberry Mrs J S Weethee Gordon James Cromwell Williamsburg and today. Births report Mr and Mrs LeRoy Corey 433 S Cedar a daughter born today weight 9 lb 3 oz. Dismissals Calvin Miller 743 Princeton Vivian Wilson RFD 4 today.
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J. L. Holtwick
Wellsville
Emerson Davis
N. Mulberry
J. S. Weethee
Gordon James
Ape Cromwell
Williamsburg
LeRoy Corey
S. Cedar
Calvin Miller
Princeton
Vivian Wilson
RFD
Three Cited In County Court
Two Ottawans were among three persons charged in County Court here yesterday. Gary L. Prager, 16, and Stanley F. Ricker, 24, were cited for reckless driving in the 1400 block on South Main Aug. 20 and for passing in a marked no passing zone at the junction of US 50 and US 59 Aug. 18, respectively. George Donald Young, 26, Kansas City MO, was cited on Interstate 35 Aug. 21 for failing to yield the right of way.
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Gary L. Prager
S. Main
Stanley F. Ricker
S. Mulberry
Prager
South Main
Ricker
US 59
Highway Patrol
George Donald Young
Kansas City
Young
One Pleads Guilty In Police Court
In Police Court Oscar W. Baker 33 of 834 Poplar pleaded guilty to failing to yield the right of way and was fined 10 dollars. Franklin D. Franks 19 of 1002 S Locust failed to appear and a warrant will be issued. Bert Cass Jr. 52 of Burlington Iowa pled guilty to vagrancy and drunkenness and was sentenced to 15 days in jail.
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Oscar W. Baker
Poplar
Franklin D. Franks
S. Locust
Franks
Bert Cass Jr
Burlington
Iowa
Jurors Picked For Court Term In Ottawa
Twenty four Ottawans are among 34 prospective jurors selected for the September term of District Court. The panel includes William H. Adcock Floyd Blakesley Sidney Morris Mrs Lucille Burrow Chester L. Clement Max Cramer Howard L. Garrison and others. Prospects will report Sept 19 though term opens Sept 12.
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Ottawans
William H. Adcock
Floyd Blakesley
Sidney ©. Morris
Lucille Burrow
Chester L. Clement
Max Cramer
Howard L. Garrison
Louis C. Geiger
Fr. L. Heathman
Melvin Hoots
Hazel E. Hough
Paul A. Jones
Betty J. Knoppel
E.V. Lash
Clarence E. Martin
Lowana Minckley
S. M. Mott
C. C. McFann
J. W. Nuhn
Leon B. Paine
Mrs
Mildred Pritchard
Ben F. Park
Steve Ralph
Phil Rice
George M. Stewart
RFD
H. L. Wherry
Verdin Christeson
C. O.heidner
Gardner Hayden
Carl Wemmer
Princeton
Cecil Honn
Richmond
Ross Kimball
Lane
Eileen Finch
Wellsville
Charles O’neill
Williamsburg
Faces Murder Charge In Stepson's Death
TOPEKA AP John Wesley Hertzler 49 Topeka charged with first degree murder in the fatal shooting of his stepson Jack E Thompson 28 Bala Iowa near a Topeka apartment building Saturday night Thompson died about 30 minutes later after Hertzler who ordered don t come another step or I ll shoot fired once Detectives said Hertzler then called police and said his stepson had been shot
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Topeka
John Wesley Hertzler
Jack E. Thompson
Bala
la Riley
Thompson
Albert King
Funeral notices for Clyde R. Smith and L. E. Grenier
Services for Clyde R. Smith died Aug 18 at Mc Vey Dengel Mortuary Aug 22 officiated by Rev Robert H Powner with both honorary and active pallbearers named. Burial in Highland Cemetery. Mrs L E Grenier died Aug 17 and funeral held Aug 20 at Lamb Funeral Home with pallbearers listed and burial at Highland Cemetery. Benjamin Rucker of Columbus Ohio died Aug 19 burial in Hope Cemetery. survived by widow Helen D Benson of Ottawa. longtime city employee.
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Clyde R. Smith
McVey-Dengel Mortuary
Robert H. Powner
Walt J Skeels
Andy Mietchen
Floyd Snider
John J. Bulson
Ernest H. Finch
L. B. Wedman
Fred Hartman
Floyd Schmoe
Merle Taylor
Robert Freer
Bernard Aaron
L. W
L. E. Grenier
Lamb Funeral
William I. Hastie
Fred Adamson
Richard Hewitt
Robert Hughes
Gene Mavity
Keith Paine
Charles Gonser
Kenneth Davis
J. R. Henning
Highland Cemetery
Benjamin Rucker
Columbus
Ohio
The
Lamb Funeral Home
Hope Cemetery
City of
Helen D. Benson
Ottawa
Escaper Captured By Manhattan Police
A 24-year-old escapee from a North Carolina prison farm was captured in Manhattan Kas by state highway patrolmen acting on an anonymous tip. Samuel Jerry Green said he escaped August 9 from a Whittier North Carolina work gang, hid in the mountains, then reached Knoxville Tennessee and rode a bus to Manhattan. Police had been watching for him.
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Manhattan
Kas
North Carolina
Samuel Jerry Green
Green
Whittier
N. C
Knoxville
Tenn
Deaths IMARRY A SUFFRON and YOUNG here record Ottawa notices
Funeral services for Harry A. Suffron 84 of Inglewood California who died August 15 were held August 17 with burial at Pleasant View Cemetery Pittsburg August 20 He was born September 5 1875 in Oak Ridge Illinois and survived by his widow one son Harry A and two grandchildren plus one sister Mrs Clara O Brien Ottawa residents attended the graveside in Pittsburg and other relatives from Lawrence Baldwin Melvern Garnett Wichita and Iola Also noted Jesse J Young 78 longtime Ottawa resident died yesterday at Crestview nursing home He was a retired Santa Fe railroad employee survived by his widow the former Anna Rohrer and one son Robert P Young in the US Army stationed Augusta Georgia who will arrive today
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Harry A.suffron
Inglewood
Calif
Pleasant View
Pittsburg
Ottawa
Pomona
Charles C. Suffren
Oakridge
Ill
Harry A
Clara O'Brien
Lawrence
Eugene Saffren
Thomas Michel
Baldwin
Melvern
Garnett
Wichita
Iola
Jesse J. Young
Crestview Nursing Home
Santa Fe Railroad
Santa Fe
Anna Rohrer
Robert P. Young
U.S. Army
Augusta
Farewell Planned For Eisenhower By Senators
Washington AP reports a farewell reception for President Eisenhower and cabinet members to be hosted by Republican senators on Wednesday night. Though Eisenhower leaves the White House next January, the event is timed before Congress adjourns as many legislators will be out of town for the rest of the year and January would not allow for the gathering.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Flash Flood Hits Central North Carolina Area
A flash flood triggered by nearly six inches of rain swept through central North Carolina cities including Asheboro causing multiple evacuations, washed vehicles from highways and closed bridges. No deaths or injuries were reported.
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Carolina
Asheboro
N.C
North Carolina
Docking To Make Campaign Trip To Southwest Kansas
Gov. George Docking will make a brief campaign swing into southwest Kansas this week with events in Kingman Coldwater Meade Liberal Dodge City and Larned. The schedule includes luncheons and night meetings across six towns from Wednesday through Friday.
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PEKA
George Docking
Kansas
Kingman
Coldwater
Meade
Liberal
Dodge City
Larned
Milwaukee teacher faces discharge over sex talks
A Milwaukee board committee recommends firing Edwin M Wasilewski of Boys Technical High School for inefficiency and lack of good behavior after he led classroom discussions on premarital relations prostitution and homosexuality. The full board will decide Sept 6 after the committee’s report.
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Milwaukee, Wis
Milwaukee Pane Board
Edwin M. Wasilewiski
Boys’ Technical High School
Wasilewski
Harold S. Vincent
John Pederson
Setback For Wage Measure in Senate to House Rules
The Senate passed minimum wage bill was stalled by Rep. August E. Johansen. It would raise wages to 1.25 per hour and extend coverage to about 4 million workers, backed by Sen. Kennedy. The House bill would set a 1.15 wage and cover about 1.4 million more workers.
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August FE. Johansen
R-Mich
Senate
House
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
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Saucer Pharmacy
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Peoria
Lauren Y. Gaddis
Appanoose High School
N. Amer
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4Th & Main
Eagles Auxiliary
Roland G. Anderson
Boonville, Mo
Kemper School
Harold Pennington
Estabrook
Pueblo
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Midwest Business College
Russell Leach
Eis
Drake's Bakery
Clinton Fredricks
Steven
Kerry
Scottsdale
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O.A
Rucker
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John Macdonald
Nazi
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Gordon B. Noland
W. 15Th
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Hardwick
Claude & Harold Myers
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Imarry A. Suffron
Rock Creek School
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DHIA
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de Laval
John Deer
I.H.C
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Walter Hand
Mulvane
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Centropolis
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Louis Dale
I.M
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John W. Taylor
E.H.P
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Robertson
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