Correction clarifies Gwynn's parentage and local notes
Correction fixes Gwynn's parent names Myron Steere and not Steele. Love and Loyalty Club meets with Mrs Lillian Spears. Crow returns from Topeka Veterans Hospital after surgery. Bundles of old newspapers sold for 10 cents. Adv. Jay Brown back from St Luke's Hospital. Adv. Local visitors from Tennessee and Illinois. smorgasbord advertised. Adv. Six boys cited for no bicycle lights. juvenile court handling. Rummage Sale Sept 4 at Memorial Auditorium by Faith Lutheran Guild. Adv. Burrichiers sue Stones for 2014 debt. Octavia Turley granted divorce and custody. Garden Club to meet after supper.
Deaths GROVER C. OYLER 78 RFD 4 dies at hospital
Grover Cleveland Oyler 78 of RFD 4 died Friday at 5 15 pm in Ransom Memorial Hospital after two days as a patient. Born June 11 1885 in Franklin County Virginia he moved to Franklin County at age 18 and remained there. His wife Flaval Little died 40 years ago. Survivors include nieces and nephews Mrs Jean Dorothy Kirk 60 Ottawa sister of Mrs Frank Cook who died Aug 30 who lived in San Diego Civil Service work for Navy and another sister Mrs Herman Lee Tucson Funeral arrangements are pend
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover Cleveland Oyler
RFD
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Towner Chapel
Charles DuMond
Appanoose Cemetery
Mr. Oyler
Franklin County
Virginia
Flaval Little
Oyler
Jean Dorothy Kirk
Frank Cook
Ottawa
San Diego
Calif
Navy
Herman Lee
Tucson
Ariz
Death of Dellard H. Sheffield Aged 74 in Ottawa
Dellard H. Sheffield of 306 Maple died Friday at 7 30 p m after being ill for two years. Born June 4 1889 in Mt Ida Arkansas he moved to Ivanhoe Texas and since 1941 lived in Ottawa where he owned a filling station. He married Gertrude May Baker on July 6 1941 in Lawrence and she survives. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dellard H. Sheffield
Maple
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Mt. Ida
Ark
Ivanhoe
Tex
Ottawa
Lawrence
Gertrude May Baker
Calvary Baptist Church
Fiddler Byron Berline Wins Famed Contests At 19
Caldwell Kansas teen Byron Berline, a 19 year old fiddler on a football scholarship, wins national and regional contests. His 70 year old father Sue Berline praises his son while Byron builds a repertoire of around 40 pieces. They perform together across Kansas and Oklahoma and Byron plans to return to college after contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byron Berline
Caldwell
Kan
Berline
Weiser
Kaho
AP Phalo
Byron
Sue
Idaho
Caldwell High School
University of Oklahoma
Midwest
Southwest
State Line
Oklahoma
Sumner County Fair
Leonard
Blackwell
Deer Creek
Oklo
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sally Johnson
Durang
Kansas
Brownsville
Neb
Sumner County
Oldlime
Obituary notices four sisters and extended survivors listed
Other survivors are three sons, Houston, Garland, Tex.: Calvin, Modesto, Calif., Albert, Ottawa, one step-son, John Love, Ottawa, two daughters, Mrs. Emmy Whit camp, Ft. Sumner, N.M., and Mrs. Nina Harper, Albuquerque, N.M., 18 grandchildren, eight Great-grandchildren, five broth ers, Robert Lee, Billings, Okla., Earl, Oklahoma City, Okla., Vir gil, Clebart, Okla., Oole, Carlsbad, N.M., arid Bill, Chicago, Ill, and four sisters including Miss Vada Sheffield, Arkansas City. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Towner Chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Garland
Tex
Calvin
Modesto
Calif
Albert
Ottawa
John Love
Emmy Whitcamp
Ft. Sumner
N.M
Nina Harper
Albuquerque
Robert Lee
Billings
Okla
Earl
Oklahoma City
Virgil
Clebart
Okla.; Oole, Carlsbad
Arid Bill
Chicago
Ill
Vada Sheffield
Arkansas City
Towner Chapel
Wellsville High Enrollment Decline Highlights Grades Shift
Wellsville Junior-Senior High reports 39 in6th grade 48 in10th 35 in11th and 33 in12th grade with 38 in7th and 40 in8th. Upper four grades total fell from 163 to 155 as families moved. Graduating class of 63 larger than current 8th grade freshmen. Elementary teachers attended institute in Ottawa. First faculty meeting held. Pastor speaker secured for Sept 4 at Wells ville Baptist Church. Café opening prep with redecorated dining room. Junior High B Y F held first annual retreat at Fleming Park with fourteen youths and leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellsville Junior-Senior
Wellsville
Franklin County Teachers Institute
Elliott Mall
Ottawa Baptist Church
B.Y.F
Post Office Maneuvering Area Labeled Traffic Hazard
Postmaster T. J. Cummings and Chief E. W. Flaherty warn that the post office maneuvering area near Hickory Street is misused as a traffic route to the alley courtesy box. Postal vehicles and large mail sacks need the space. dozens of cars use it daily, risking backovers. Alley entrance on East 5th Street is a designated one way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Cummings
E. W. Flaherty
Hickory Street
Cummings
Flaherty
East 5Th Street
CORE Holds Bank Protest in St Louis
About 70 CORE demonstrators entered Jefferson Bank and Trust Co to sing protest against discriminatory hiring. A judge had issued a restraining order permitting picketing but not interfering with operations. Demonstrators shouted freedom songs as 250 supporters, including children, lined the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Jefferson Bank and Trust Co
The
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Feller
Hospital Notes Admissions and Dismissals
Hospital notes list admissions for Yetta Raulston 833 South Sycamore Mrs David Kelly 1113 North Mulberry Harvey Joe Everhart 318 West 2nd Rhondi Whitacre 810 North Mulberry Roger Garber RFD 1 Pomona Friday and dismissals for Janice Moore 306 East 1th Homer Baldwin RFD 2 Mrs Robert Chambers and baby Topeka Mary Sjogren 803 South Poplar Saturday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yetta Raulston
S. Sycamore
David Kelly
N. Mulberry
Harvey Joe Everhart
Rhondi Whitacre
Roger Garber
RFD
Pomona
Janice Moore
Homer Baldwin
Robert Chambers
Topeka
Mary Sjogren
S. Poplar
Defense Notes Army Pvt Virgil A Rice Completes Course
Army Pvt Virgil A Rice son of Mrs Frances H Randel Bald win has completed a 15 week radio teletype operation course at the Southeastern Signal School Fort Gordon Ga He entered the Army last January and completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood Mo The 18 year old is a 1962 Baldwin High School graduate Billy J Owen and Claude Sluder Naval Air Reservists from Williamsburg completed the two week Recruit Training course at US Naval Air Station Olathe They have returned to their homes and civilian occupations but will drill one weekend a month at NAS Olathe in their respective squadrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Virgil A. Rice
Frances H. Randel
Baldwin
Southeastern Signal School
Fort Gordon
Fort Leonard Wood
Baldwin High School
Billy J. Owen
Claude Sluder
Naval Air
Williamsburg
Naval Air Reserve
U. S. Naval Air Station, Olathe
Nas Olathe
Guard volunteers complete training from Kansas to Germany
Army National Guard Pvt. Franklin A. Blackmore of Greeley Kansas finishes a light-vehicle driver course at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. Specialist Four James Co Johnston aged 23 from Ottawa Kansas completes an eight week combat engineer NCO course in Murau Germany and serves as a truck driver with Company B 168th Engineer Battalion. Pvt Leslie R Castleberry of Osawatomie Kansas completes an automotive maintenance helper course at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. Castleberry is 19 and a 1962 Osawatomie High School graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army National Guard
Franklin A. Blackmore
Buford Blackmore
Greeley Kan
Fort Leonard Wood
Blackmore
Greeley High School
Fort Scott Jr. College
James Co. Johnston
Myrtle Johnston
S. Oak
U. S. Army School
Murnau
Germany
168Th Engineer Battalion
Ottawa High School
Leslie R. Castleberry
Alvis H. Castleberry
Osawatomie
Kan
Osawatomie High School
Meharry Serves Aboard Little Rock In Sixth Fleet Cruise
John R. Meharry a fire control technician seaman USN son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Meharry RFD 1 Ottawa is serving aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Little Rock flagship of Commander Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean The ship recently visited Barcelona Spain and is completing a regular Sixth Fleet duty tour Atlantic Fleet unit normally operates from Norfolk Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Meharry
Seaman
USN
Ralph Meharry
RFD 1
Ottawa
Little Rock
Sixth Fleet
Mediterranean
Barcelona
Norfolk
Inmates Escape from Leavenworth Honor Farm
Two federal penitentiary honor farm inmates fled Thursday night at Leavenworth. Ora Lindell Hitchcock, 31, from Grants, New Mexico, and Albert John Schlecht, 28, of Enid, Oklahoma, both truck drivers, were missed at the 10:30 p.m. count. Hitchcock had a two year sentence for taking a stolen vehicle across state lines, Schlecht three years for theft of government property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Kan
Honor Farm
Ora Lindell Hitchcock
Grants
N.M
Albert John Schlecht
Enid Okla
Hitchcock
Kansas City
Schlect
Oklahoma City
New Book Selection Varied at Carnegie Free Library
A potpourri of new books includes Annette Ross Good Cookies Plain and Fancy a cookie recipe collection. Gerald Clarks The Coming Explosion in Latin America analyzes forces in the region and U S role amid communism and dictatorship. How to Live through Junior High School by Eric W Johnson offers guidance for parents. Library hours and Labor Day closing noted with schedule for Adult and Children's Rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Free Library
Annette Ross
Gerald Clark
Latin America
Clark
United States
Eric W. Johnson
Parents’ Magazine
Public hearing on zoning changes in Ottawa Kansas
Notice of a public hearing before the City Planning Commission on October 1 1863 at 7 30 p m in City Hall Ottawa Kansas. Petition seeks reclassification of Lots in Park Place Addition from Second Family District to Heavy Industrial District. Protests may be filed. final action forwarded to city governing body. Also probate notice for Florence L Cates estate appointing J W Dickerson administrator and demanding creditor claims within nine months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hall
Ottawa
Kansas
City Planning Commission
Miguel Garcia
Albert E. Coffman
Hazel I. Coffman
Zona V. Fritts
Park Place
Planning Commission
Dwight Haworth
State of Kansas
Franklin County
Florence L. Cates
J. W. Dickerson
Samuel Arthur Cunningham
Theresa M. Price
Bowers
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Gwynn
Myron Steere
Steele
Herald
Love and Loyalty Club
Lillian Spears
W. Ath
Russell Crow
S. Cypress
Veterans’ Hospital
Ottawa Herald
Jay Brown
St. Luke’s Hospital
Kansas City, MO
Clyde Warber
Gayla
Mike
Dyersburg
Tenn
Otawa
Ellis
Ken Harris
Scott
Janet
Brian
Ronnie Maybell
Rhonda
Mark
Sparta
Faith Lutheran Guild
Leon E. Burrichier
Franklin County District Court
Carl Stone
Burrichters
Robert C. Smith
Carl D. Conner
Poplar
Octavia Turley
Irving J. Turley
S. Main
Ottawa Garden Club
First Methodist Church
Grover C. Oyler
Jean D. Kirk
Stewart Newlin
Wellington Daily News
Associated Press
Wellsville News
Nelen Cramer
Wellsville Baptist Church
Homer Ganong
Colorado Springs
Colo
Ganong
Velma O'Connor
Colorado
Rolly McMahan
Fort Morgan
Denzil O'Connor
Fort Lupton
Wellsville Cafe
Roy Green
Louis Harra
Virgil Rice
Blanche Lamb
Bob Roberta
Library Notes
Nell
Barnaby
Legals
Jess Gilmore
Towner
Sheffield
Delard I. Sheffield
Jim
Reward
Ward Underwood
C.E.S
LaVerne Pence
W.M. Vola Phillips
Secy
Retta
Order of True Kindred
Potluck
Clara Finch
W.C. Marie Raffelock
Darby Corporationist & Walker
K. C
Allison
North American Hotel
John G
Kaiser Drug Store
Colbern’s
Myers Bros
Centropolis
Claude
Howard
Franklin County Sale Company
Mveary
Mae Fance
Overbrook
C. Ray Miller
L. A. Reeder
Ottawa, Ks
Jack Nelson
Kas
Alien County
Gas City
Nate and
Leona Gibbons
Bank
Harold Stewart
Neosho
Missouri
Rodney FR
Hartrick
Gladys I. Norton
Benn
Printy
Ben Printy
N. Main
Milford
Leland Monroe
East 17Th St
18Th St
Fair Grounds
Todd Mobil Homes
Bennett Retail Store
Jack Bennett
General Services
Gene Powell
Ottawa Herald General Services Section
Standard Rendering Co
Callect
Conrad
McCracken
Nebraska
Delbert Rotas
Davenport
Carpenter
Homewood
Allis Chalmers
Forrer Rantoul
Woods Bros
Orn Picker
M. W. Fishburn
Richmond
Leeds
Fort
Rex Christie Farm
Rantoul
Poultry & Supplies
Kenneth Cunningham
Rustoleum
Budge’s Hardware
Court House
White
Bouse
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