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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1977
Page
11
A two week display in Ottawa University art center features Richard Mattsson a Kansas City area artist and chair at the Kansas City Art Institute. The show includes landscape watercolors ink and pencil works reflecting his theater like landscape view and viewer participation.
News briefs note a postponement of the Horse Club party to 7 p.m. on December 15 at the Nearot residence. Booster Club formation for Central Heights Athletic Dept. invites attendees to a Tuesday organizational meeting in CH Little Theater after the basketball game. Ottawa University foreign students housing needed Dec 16 to Jan 2. contact Myrle Mordy at 242-5200 ext 307 or 201. Myrtle Calte of Kansas City, formerly Ottawa RFD 3, died November 24. Mrs. Ida Kimball of Lane recovering from a broken hip in Denver at St. Anthony's Hospital room 389. Herman Mader of Richmond discharged from Anderson County Hospital. Gerald Hermbeck of Richmond transferred to KU Medical Center for observation and tests. Gospel Chair of Emporia State Univ will present gospel music Sunday at Bethany Chapel Baptist Church, 1318 Poplar.
Death of Gertrude Meeder 78 of Denver announced with funeral 2 p m Sunday at Wilson and Son Funeral Home Wellsville. Burial in Clearfield Cemetery. She born May 11 1899 daughter of George and Mary Brechiesen. Survived by husband Phillip G Meeder a sister and three brothers. Cited police and traffic fines for multiple Ottawa area incidents and local property damage.
Community notices list dances at Royal Rangers Church and Eagles Lodge with times and reservations, a Salvation Army sale of The War Cry in Ottawa, local beauty appointments at Wild Woody's, 10 percent dinner discount at Mike's Kozy Kitchen, craft and bake sale at Ramsay's and a Penny Supper by Quenemo Ladies Aid. Vendors advertise canned meat, paneled sheets, and Indian jewelry while car wash and advertising prompts appear across Young Place and Elks events.
Wellsville residents must register by December 7 at 5 p.m. to vote in the $815,000 waterworks bond referendum planned for December 27. Of 673 registered, 285 voted in the prior election, 143 against, with 21 percent turnout. The council backs the bond, which funds a Baldwin project now reduced to 427,000 gallons daily to cover growth through 2010. grant aid of $190,000 from Farmers Home Administration approved.
Joe Dennis of the Olathe Air Industrial Park urged Ottawa area leaders at a Dodson Aviation steak fry that a corporate aircraft capable airport boosts town attractiveness for industry. He noted the airport, with a larger civilian workforce post Naval station closure, enhances the county tax base to about 450 million dollars and favors a county supported airport over city managed exposure.
ECEAN receives a 59000 grant from the Community Service Administration to continue weatherization crisis intervention and consumer information projects for low income and elderly residents in Franklin Coffey Douglas Lyon Miami and Osage Counties. Since 1974 the agency has assisted numerous homes with storm windows caulking weather stripping and insulation. 200 requests are on file as funds become available Ottawa Little Symphony selects conductor and rehearsals begin at Ottawa High School with Gerald Carney named to the Kansas Music Educators Hall of Fame.
Five mailbox vandalism incidents were reported to the Franklin County Sheriff's Department over three weeks. Detective Brad Gilges said shots from a rifle struck mailboxes at Ottawa RFD 3 and Princeton RFD 3 on weekend afternoons. The Postal Inspection Service in Topeka sent a warning letter this week. Call 242-3600 with any sightings.
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