Ottawa area briefs tease local happenings
Local items report a patient released after an appendectomy at Ransom Memorial Hospital. Church and state events include a university speaker at La Cygne Christian Church and a Kansas State Placement Officers meeting in Manhattan. Other notes cover a trash fire in Ottawa, hearing aids ad, obituaries, private music lessons, hotel ownership illness, and a Lions Club Christmas tree sale location change.
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Roy W. Browning
Ottawa University
la Cygne
Longer Hours For Post Office Here
Ottawa post office windows will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through Christmas starting Monday. Postmaster T. J. Cummings announced the change. On Dec 14 and Dec 21, two Saturdays before Christmas, windows will stay open in the afternoon. they normally close at noon.
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Ottawa
T. J. Cummings
Three Cases In Police Court
Three cases heard in Police Court this morning involved hard liquor. Fritz Sanders of Ottawa pleaded guilty to being drunk. Judge Winton A. Winter sentenced him to 30 days in jail but suspended the sentence. he also revoked a March 5, 1957 parole and ordered Sanders committed to jail for the March sentence. Roba Thorn Thomason, 38, Garnett, pleaded guilty to being drunk and was fined $25 by Judge Winter. Gary Earl Thomason, 37, Coffeyville, pleaded innocent to drunk driving reckless driving and driving without a valid license. Judge Winter set trial for December 31 and released him on a $300 bond.
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Fritz Sanders
Ottawa
North Main
Winton A. Winter
Winter
Sanders
Roba Thorn Thomason
Gary Earl Thomason
Coffeyville
Deaths Mrs Mary I Armstrong 75 Granada native dies
Mrs Mary Isabel Armstrong age 75 of 514 Maple died at 5 a m at her brother John Neelys home where she had lived 18 months Her birth was April 26 1882 in Granada Brown County She was married in 1919 to Alfred G Armstrong who died in 1934 A former Topeka Junior High history teacher she later worked nine years at Shawnee Medical Center Surviving are three brothers John Ed Vernon and two sisters Funeral at Towner’s Chapel Saturday at 10 a m with graveside service in Granada Cemetery at 3 p m conducted by Rev Charles Walz
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Mary Isabel Armstrong
Maple
John Neely
Granada
Brown County
Alfred G. Armstrong
Topeka
Shawnee Medcal Center
Episcopal Church
Wetmore
John
Pomona
Vernon
Downey
Calif
Oscar Marconett
Ottawa
Ed. Hale
Quenemo
Towner’s Chapel
Ralph Hunt
Gerald Mease
Ray Gerhard
Lawrence Ott
Charles Walz
Funerals for Miss Mary Ferguson and Mrs Fred Noel
Funeral services for Miss Mary A. Ferguson who died December 2 were held December 5 at McVey-Dengel Mortuary with Rev. Charles Knight officiating. Pallbearers included Walter Rodgers C E B Twining Wayne Gilliland Grover Knight John Fisher and E V Lash. Burial in Hope Cemetery. Funeral services for Mrs Fred Noel who died December 2 were held December 5 at Lamb Funeral Home with Rev. William Ward and Dr W A Elliott officiating. Pallbearers were W E Bancroft W P Morrow Ernest Brown W B Devilbiss Wilhelm Johannes and Carl Cayot. Burial in Oakwood Cemetery Baldwin.
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Mary A. Ferguson
McVey-Dengel Mortuary
Charles P. ‘Knight
Walter Rodgers
C. E B. Twining
Wayne Gilliland
Grover Knight John Fisher
E. V. ‘Lash
Albert J. Williams
R. Il. Stevens
Hope Cemetery
Fred Noel
Lamb Funeral Home
William G. Ward
W. A. Elliott
W. E. Bancroft
W. P. Morrow
Ernest Brown
W. B. Devilbiss
Wilhelm Johannes
Carl Cayot
Bruce Spears
J. R. Henning
Oakwood Cemetery
Baldwin
Call Out Troops To Quell Polish Riot
War saw police telephone and militia reserves were summoned to quell rioting in Gorzow after a police car hit a woman cyclist. Hooligans, many intoxicated, pelted police and bystanders with stones and bottles. Trybuna Ludu denied the woman’s death and noted arrests of known hoodlums and black marketeers. Workers at several Gorzow factories condemned the rioting in special meetings.
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Warsaw
Poland
Gorzow
Communist Party
Trybuna Ludu
Trybuna
Twelve speeders cited on US 59 north of Ottawa
Twelve motorists were cited in three hours from 7 to 10 p.m. during a highway patrol radar check on US 59 north of Ottawa. Speeds ranged from 58 to 85 mph with several drivers from Lawrence, Baldwin, and Wellsville among others. Citations are returnable in County Court before Judge Weston A. Winter on December 11 and 12.
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US 59
Ottawa
Eugene Blaylock
Lawrence
Paul Joseph Long
Kansas City
Kas
Max Omo
Coldwater
Mich
Clarence Jan Bartz
Richard Newton Pearson
Willow
William Warren Winegar
Kenneth R. Andersson
West Dorm
Eugene Arthur Rieder
Baldwin
Robert Lee Leach
Wellsville
William H. Adcock Jr
Lee Edward Taylor
RFC
Paul William Mohler
Winton A. Winter
Thousands Driving Without Licenses in Kansas Ministry
TOPEKA authorities report thousands drive without valid licenses in Kansas. State Highway Patrol checks suggest up to 100000 or 200000 unlicensed drivers, while 635 individuals have been summoned to court for license violations.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Highway Patrol
Jack B.jenkins
Motor Vehicle Department
Hospital Notes Admits Several Local Patients
Hospital notes show Mrs. Elsie Collins admitted in Pomona with Harvey Morris at 523 N Hickory and Margaret Jane Alexander at 325 E 12th. Births include a Lyndon girl to Danny Brecheisen and wife, and a son to Jack Elder at 628 N Locust weighing 7 lb 9 oz. Dismissals list Mrs. Fred Wilhite at 311 E 3rd. Transfers include Mrs. Ivan Jacobsen to St Marys Hospital, Kansas City. Additional entries note Pat and Jerry Mooney, Mrs. George Sowers, RFD 4, and Mrs. Billy Rose and baby son in Quenemo.
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Elsie Collins
Pomona
Harvey Morris
Hickory
Margaret Jane Alexander
Danny Brecheisen
Lyndon
Jack Elder
Fred Wilhite
Ivan Jacobsen
S. Cedar
St. Mary’s Hospital
Kansas City
Pat
Jerry Mooney
Quenemo
George Sowers
RFD
Billy Rose
Big Stink Forces Evacuation At KU Union
A strong odor emptied about 400 students from the KU Student Union Building in Lawrence. The Hawk's Nest shop closed as 15 organizational meetings dispersed without adjournment motions. Fire crews ruled out a gas leak while Derwood McCabe and seven engineers searched for a stench bomb but found nothing. The gas was described as odorous but not poisonous.
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Lawrence
University of Kansas
Hawk’s Nest
Derwood McCabe
McCabe
State Revenue Sources Sought for Kansas schools
A governor's conference on education panel urged Kansas to explore increased sales, income, or severance taxes as possible school funding sources. They warned of a shortfall in current elementary and high school formulas and urged deficiency appropriations to cover the year. Raubinger warned against adopting Russia’s education system.
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Topeka
Kansas
Governor's Conference On Education
Fredrick M. Raubinger
New Jersey
Russia
Raubinger
Stevenson Offered to Go to Paris as NATO Advance
Adlai E Stevenson offered to travel to Paris last month as an advance missionary promoting a new Cold War strategy. The Eisenhower administration ignored the move, using him instead as a Democratic consultant on plans to strengthen the 15 nation NATO. Stevenson believes plans could be ready for a December NATO conference in Paris, though he declined to join the delegation. He urged a Marshall Plan style aid concept for underdeveloped countries, funded by long term loans from Western nations to Asia and Africa. He remains pessimistic about the Paris meeting, a view reportedly shared by some Democrats.
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Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Paris
Eisenhower
Stevenson
NATO
Asia
Africa
Traffic Toll Reported In State Accident Records
In the last 24 hours tolls show 2 fatalities on record. To date in 1957 the toll is 420, compared with 626 for the same period in 1956.
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Topeka
Kansas
Hiatt Land Claim Reduced in US80 Relocation Case
A district court jury cut the original award for Hiatt land taken for US80 relocation from 14 343 25 to 12 520 after the highway plan changed to add a cattle underpass. The Hiatts appealed while the state offered 11 739 50 as a revised figure.
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Joseph and
Stewart Hiatt
Hiatt
Hiatts
Blast Claims 17 Lives in Villa Rica Ga
A gas explosion in Villa Rica wrecked a two story block in the business district yesterday killing 17 people and injuring 20 to 30. Lt Col H T Clary National Guard says all bodies found. Police blame a faulty basement gas line as two plumbers and a gas company superintendent die in the blast. The town was cut off from gas service and residents warned not to use appliances.
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Villa Rica
H. T. Clary
National Guard
H. G. Black
Marriage Licenses Glenn Miler and Martha Yount
Glenn F. Miler, 23, Williamsburg, and Martha Beil Yount, 19, Ottawa, obtained a marriage license.
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Glenn FE. Miler
Williamsburg
Martha Beil Yount
Ottawa
Osawatomie State Hospital Appeals for Christmas Gifts
Hospital officials seek community help to gift every patient with items for holidays. They request clothing, toiletries, games, craft supplies, magazines, books, music, and instruments. Do not wrap gifts. send to Patients Christmas Party, Osawatomie State Hospital, Osawatomie, Kansas. checks to Patients Benefit Fund.
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Osawatomie State Hospital
Osawatomie
Kansas
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Organization of Safe Saving
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