Encephalitis May Be Responsible For Local Death
Ottawa widow Mrs. Allie Louderback died at Kansas University Medical Center from a suspected case of viral encephalitis. Doctors had not confirmed results by press time. Survivors include husband George, two daughters, a son, and four sisters. Funeral set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Dengel and Son Mortuary with burial at Rose Lawn Gardens.
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Ottawa
Kansas University Medical Center
Medieal Center
Louderback
S. Los Cust
Delmont C. Hadley
Hadley
Arla Lickteig
R. N
Franklin County
Kansas
Donald Wilcox
State Board of Health
Epideme
Wilcox
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kanesas
Texas
William Plake
Carrie (Appier) Plake
George Louderback
Trinity Methodist Church
White Shrine of Jerusalem
Royal Neighbors of America
Leonard Hughes
Belton
Pamela Sue Louderback
George W. Louderback Jr
William Lang
Ora Burgoon
Osaewatomie
Jack Micheal
Waverly
Joe Claypool
Sunflower Village
Carrie Plake
Otetawa
County Forecast With Clear To Partly Cloudy Skies
Weather forecast shows clear to partly cloudy conditions through Friday. High Friday in the mid to upper 80s, tonight’s low around 60s. Today's high 56? Noted values include Wednesday 78 and year-ago highs 92 with lows 69. Record high and low for this date stand at 107 in 1936 and 46 in 1958. Hourly temps wrap up at 8 a.m.
City Commission Approves 17 Stop Sign Proposals
The Ottawa city commission approved a plan from City Engineer Steve James to install 17 stop signs around the new Ottawa High School area. The measures cover intersections on Tenth Walnut Locust Maple Willow Ash Eleventh Olive Fifteenth streets with four way stops and updated red signs replacing older yellow signs. The commission also discussed speed limits on Ash Street and granted VFW approval to hold a Veteran’s Day street dance on Hickory Street, with Mayor Williamson absent.
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City Commission
Steve James
Ottawa High School
James
Ash Street
Tenth and
Walnut
Walnut Street
Tenth Street
Locust
Willow
Tenth
Ash Streets
Eleventh Street
Eleventh
Olive Streets
Olive
Fifteenth
Ash
Fifteenth Street
Laurence Wightman
Streets and Utilities
Williamson
Ottawa
Avery
VFW
Commission
Hickory Street
Second
Third
Committee Seeks repeal of under 21 cigarette law
TOPERA AP Kansas lawmakers urge repealing a law that bans giving or selling cigarettes to anyone under 21, calling it unenforceable amid vending machine ubiquity. The Assessment and Taxation Committee backs revising cigarette tax rules to remove inconsistencies and clarify enforcement. Rep. Lawrence Slocombe voices concern over moral questions decided at home. The committee took a voice vote with no opposition.
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Kansas
Assessment and Taxation Committee
Legislative Council
Red Guards close Sacred Heart Academy in Peking
Yomiuri reports teenage Red Guards and supporters seizing the Catholic mission school, raising the Red flag, blocking classes, and forcing tests of loyalty amid Maoist reforms. Posters target landowners and capitalists as the purge expands in Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin.
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Tokyo
China
Sacred Heart Academy
Peking
Yomiuri
Kensaburo Seki
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Sacred Heart
Seki
Catholic Mission School
Mao Tzeetung
Mao Tze-tung
East
Tung Fang Hung
Red Guard
House Refuses Bill To Call Up Reserves
WASHINGTON AP The House rejected 162 to 39 a Senate amendment to authorize calling up individual National Guard and Reserve members for Viet Nam service without a national emergency. The move would have allowed up to 24 months active duty, minus prior training time, but opponents warned it would wreck the Reserves. The measure now returns to the Senate for possible conference.
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Washington
House
Johnson
Viet Nam
Senate
National Guard and Reserve Organizations
House Armed Services Committee
Senate House
Former State Lawmaker Kidwell Shot In Car Tragedy
In Kansas near Topeka former state representative Thomas M. Kidwell was found shot twice in the chest in a wrecked car. The nude body of Betty Goetsch, 37, identified as Kidwell’s wife by Reno marriage records, lay in the vehicle. Authorities said the woman was killed about an hour before the crash and Kidwell’s wounds were inflicted after the accident.
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Topeka
Thomas M. Kidwell
J. L. Lattimore
Betty Goetsch
Sambetha, Kyu
Shawnee County
Kidwell
Test Of Apollo Rocket Crucial To US Plans
Cape Kennedy Florida AP Saturn 1, America's most powerful rocket, roared aloft with 22 stories of flame and 663 tons of thrust designed to propel an unmanned Apollo moonship three quarters around the world. The 93 minute test aimed to validate design for a December earth orbit mission with recovery to follow. Astronauts Grissom White Chaffee watched. Gemini flights precede the moon effort, as Hurricane Faith influenced delay considerations.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
Spacescraft
Earth
Air Force
Virgil I. Grisson
Edward H. White I
Navy
Roger B. Chaffee
Poultry judge awards blue ribbon at Franklin County Fair
Elmer Hobart of Garnett, a poultry judge, inspected Roy Dunn's charred rock hen at the Franklin County Fair and Rodeo last night. After a thorough look he opened the cage door and the hen laid two large tan eggs, prompting Hobart to award the blue ribbon.
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Elmer Hobart
Garnett
Roy Dunn
Franklin County
Hobart
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William L. Ryan
Red Flag
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Lin
Liberation Army Daily
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