Susan Kelly Sings at Starlight in Ottawa Star Turn
Susan Kelly, Ottawa student and Starlight Theatre chorus girl in Kansas City, earning Best Performance award for Guys and Dolls scene mishap. She has 13 weeks on stage, plans senior recital, and weighs professional singing prospects after KU graduation.
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Rosie
Susan Kelly
Ottawa
Starlight Theatre
Kansas City
Guys and Dolls
Susan
Salvation Army
Ray B. Kelly
N. Cedar
Gisel MacKenzie
Issac van Grove
Chicago Opera
Hollywood
Inspiration Point
Eureka Springs
Ark
Antique roller organ earns blue ribbon at fair
Garnett fairgoers crowded the Anderson County Fair as Mrs. F. D. Richards demonstrated an antique roller organ playing Silver Threads Among the Gold. The crank driven instrument uses a wooden cylinder with pegs, goatskin bellows, and metal gears and keys. Age is estimated over sixty years.
Attempt To Tame Faith Canceled As Storm Blasts
Hurricane Faith nears the Bahamas delaying a historic attempt to disrupt its eye with silver iodide. Warning issued for Grand Turk Island Caicos Islands as Faith travels west northwest, forcing scientists to stand by while Project Stormfury is canceled and preparations proceed amid swells and winds near hurricane strength.
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Miami
Fla
Faith
Bahamas
Grand Turk Island
U.S
Hot Lunches Not Ready At School
Unified School District 288 in Ottawa reports hot lunches won't be served at the new high school next week. Pupils at the high school junior high and nearby schools must bring sack lunches while milk remains available. Incomplete kitchen equipment caused the delay. students driving to the high school should park in the north lot off Eleventh Street.
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Marvin P. Forker
Unified School District 288
Ottawa
Forker
Euguene Field
Garfield
Eleventh Street
Senate Approves Minimum Wage Measure Increases Coverage
The Senate passed its minimum wage bill by 51 to 57, extending coverage to at least seven million more workers and raising the base pay from $1.25 to $1.60 an hour. Conferees will reconcile with the House, which approved a similar measure last May.
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Washington
Senate
House
Johnson
Afl-Cio
Winston L. Prouty
Saved From Deportation Ottawa Man Given Rare State Pardon
Ottawa man Higenio Hernandez was pardoned by Gov. Avery in Kansas, the first state pardon in the state since George Docking era. Hernandez, born in Mexico, had a 1930 misdemeanor conviction for marijuana possession tied to his father’s boxcar affair. The pardon followed support from Sen. Bill Bowers and local officials amid Hernandez’s wish to visit his ill aged father in Mexico. Hernandez, wife, and two sons are not citizens.
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Avery
Hernandez
Kansas
George Docking
Mexico
United States
Pomona
Santa Fe Railroad
Santa Fe
Franklin County
L. C. Geiger
Donald White
California
White
Bill Bowers
Ottawa
William Avery
P. A. Townsend
Parole Board
Geiger
Gene
Johnny David
U.S
Higenio Manuel Hernandez
Andrea Her
Cicero Threatens Guard If Negro March Proceeds Sunday
CHICAGO AP The town of Cicero says it will seek National Guard troops if a group of Negroes march there Sunday The move comes amid civil rights tensions after King ally groups disputed an earlier housing agreement and a parade permit question. Cicero officials plan boundary confrontations to bar entry unless the governor permits the march with troops.
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Chicago
Cicero
National Guard
Christy Berkos
Chris Vlahopolos
Otto Kerner
Berkes
West Side Organization
Neegroes
Martin Luther King Jr
WSO
Berkos
Cook County
King
Stone Temple Baptist Church
West Side
Weather highs and lows on this date
Friday’s high 83 and today’s low 60. A year ago the high was 88 and the low 70. The record high for this date is 106 set in 1913 and the record low 41 from 1910. Hourly temps wrap up at 8 a.m. today.
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Ottawa High School
John Jones
OHS
Irene Peabody
University of Kansas
Starlight
Caicos Islands
National Hurricane Center
Puerto Rico
Sun
Ter
San Juan
P.R
Gordon Dunn
Africa
Caribbean
St. Martin
Virgin Islands
Florida
Broward Williams
US Senate
Topeka
Higenio Hernandez
Nandez
Don White
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