Sleet and parking woes clash with rural desires
Ottawa reports sleet and freezing rain blanket eastern Kansas with 2 to 4 inches on highways from Topeka to the Oklahoma line and 1 to 3 inches west to Alma. City crews sanded intersections while motorists urged to drive carefully. Beneficial moisture will aid wheat and spring plantings. Temperatures linger below freezing with snow expected in Goodland and across the state.
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Ottawa
Atchison
Fred Gardner
Bob Conaly
Areca
Kansas
Pratt
Conaty
Oklahoma Line
Topeka
State Highway Patrol
U. S. 75
Missouri Line
Alma
Goodland
Weather Bureau
Lawrence
Waverly
el Dorado
Garnett al
Wichita
Oswego
Toronto
Eureka
Arkansas City
Beaumont
Fort Scott
Paola
Hill City
Pittsburg
Six Deaths On State Highways Record Toll Rises
Six new traffic fatalities push Kansas highway deaths to a yearly high of 617, surpassing prior records. Victims include Bill Cooper 47 and Mrs E S Merrill about 65 of Lincoln Nebraska and a woman unnamed. Other fatalities involve Ford Spangler 70 near Newton Vernon Unruh 24 Burrton and Charles Kile 39 of Topeka in multiple accidents.
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Topeka
Lindsborg
Bill Cooper
E.S. Merrill
Lincoln
Neb
Gene Stevens
Ford Spangler
U.S. 81
Newton
Vernon Unruh
Burrton
Charles Kile
Man Held In Wife's Death At Roadblock Closer Look
A man identified as Ivan Odgers, 38, of Junction City was detained after a roadblock near Manhattan. His wife Roberta May Odgers, 36, was found fatally wounded by a shotgun. Odgers had been sought in a statewide alert following a child’s warning to a neighbor.
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Junction City
Manhattan
Ivan Odgers
Odgers
Roberta May Odgers
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Weather forecast for Kansas with heavy snow and freezing rain
Southeast Kansas faces a glazing snow and freezing rain threat with heavy snow northeast and northwest zones accumulating up to four inches this afternoon and tonight. Snow persisting into Sunday morning northeast, with a mixed sleet snow zone east central. Clearing tonight, cold conditions continue, low around 10 west to 20-25 east, highs Sunday mid 20s east to near 30 southwest.
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Kansas
Temporary Permits For Two Hospitals
Kansas Board of Health gave conditional extensions for two hospitals. The Axtell hospital license is extended six months with a 50 percent construction requirement for a new 12-bed facility by then. Anthony’s Community Clinic and Hospital Assn. license extended for one year if an emergency exit and other changes are completed. The board tentatively approved $75,624 in federal funds to build a diagnostic and treatment center at Anthony, with plans for a new all‑bed hospital financed by local juries.
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Topeka
Axtell
Anthony
Kansas Board of Health
Community Clinic
Hospital Assn
Brought Back On Check Charges Eugene Flagg
Eugene Flagg was extradited from Indianola Jo to Ottawa to face charges of passing bad checks at Pence A and P and Safeway stores on November 14. He waived a preliminary hearing before Judge Milo Harris and was bound over for district court. He is accused of stealing blank check forms and a check protector identification plate from Baldwin Metal Products, then cashing them for about 78 dollars each.
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Eugene Flagg
Des Moines
Towa
Indianola
Ottawa
Pence
Safeway Food
Flagg
Milo Harris
Harris
Baldwin Metal Products Company
Fire Test Rocket For Satellite
Navy and civilian scientists launched a Viking rocket as the first test of the earth satellite program. The 45 foot vehicle reach 4000 mph before landing in the Atlantic 180 miles from Cape Canaveral. A minitrack transmitter and telemetry equipment were ejected, collecting temperature and pressure data.
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Washington
Naval
Defense Department
Atlantic Ocean
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force Missile Test Center
Patrick Air Force Base
Department
Navy
Glenn L. Martin Co
Baltimore
IGY
AFMTC
Two Teens Arrested In Stolen Car Case
Ronald William Barnhart and Steven Milum, both 14, of Kansas City Missouri, were arrested last night by Lt. Max Bolton of the Ottawa Police for driving a stolen car. The vehicle had been stolen in Kansas City and was turned over to Kansas City Police this morning.
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Ronald William Barnhart
Kansas City
Steven Milum
Max Bolton
Ottawa
Carriers Picket Kansas City Star
Carrier pickets from Newspaper Carriers Local 526 lined the Kansas City Star while some union printers and craftsmen refused to cross. Star officials said no reason for the picketing had been presented. Early workers crossed, later press and stereotypers refused entry.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Star
The
Star
International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union
Docking Pushes Relief Money for Welfare Clients
Kansas Governor George Docking opposes raising medical payments to doctors and hospitals for relief clients. He argues any extra funds should go to the relief clients themselves and directs state officials to seek using the $8 per client federal relief money for client payments rather than physician reimbursements. The Board of Social Welfare plans a formal budget hearing next Tuesday.
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Topeka
George Docking
Docking
State Board of Social Welfare
Board of Social Welfare
Kansas Department of Administration
James W. Bibb
City Sees Water Sufficient Until Next Spring
Ottawa officials state current water supply should last until about March 1 if used carefully. Mayor Kenneth Andrews and Commissioner Ivan Brown report the Hope cemetery dam is full with about 50 million gallons, and daily use is around 1 million gallons. Groundwater remains available and upper Miller dam shows rising water behind it. No restrictions yet, but residents urged to conserve.
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Ottawa
Ivan Brown
Brown
Kenneth Andrews
Hope Cemetery
Miller Dam
Keifer
Kiefer
Kiefer Dam
Death Sentence For A Kidnaper
In Mineola New York a 12 jurors sentenced Angela LaMarch to death by electric chair for kidnapping and murdering 32 day old Peter Weinberger. The defense cited temporary insanity due to debt stress while prosecutors labeled him a cold blooded criminal. The Weinberger parents witnessed the verdict in Nassau County court. LaMarch admitted taking the infant from the Weinberger home on July 4 and abandoning him in a Long Island thicket.
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Mineola
N.Y
Angela LaMarch
Peter Weinberger
LaMarca
Frank Gulotta
Peter
Morris Weinberger
Nassau County
Weinbergers
Westbury
N. Y
Long Island
Special Appeal For CROP Funds In Franklin County
Franklin county CROP drive sits about 250 dollars short of a 1700 dollar quota. A county wide appeal will be made in all churches tomorrow to push the total past the goal. With returns at 1447 dollars from James Driver and St. M. Clogston, the drive aims to meet the increased Hungarian emergency need. Contributions can be given to treasurer Clogston at the First National Bank.
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Franklin County
James Driver
St. M. Clogston
Clogston
First National Bank
Favored Oil Severance Tax Debate In Kansas Forum
Kansas Chamber of Commerce Legislative Forum participants favored a severance tax on oil and gas production as a revenue source by 46 to 34, preferring it over a sales tax increase. The group also backed state aid to junior and municipal colleges by 54 to 7 and opposed a statewide speed limit by 48 to 21 while supporting zone limits 55 to 15.
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Manhattan
Kansas Chamber of Commerce
Kansas
Three Dead Four Hurt In Kansas Car Crash Near Lindsborg
A three car collision north of Lindsborg Kansas last night left three dead and four injured. Deceased are Bill Cooper 47 and Mrs. I S Merrill about 65 both Lincoln Nebraska and a woman identified as Mrs Gene Stevens mother of three children injured in the accident. Children Merle 10 and Norman 14 are in serious condition and William Stevens 11 suffered head injuries. Also injured was Airman Carlyle Gentry of Offutt Air Force Base Omaha Nebraska.
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Lindsborg
Kas
Here
Bill Cooper
I. S. Merrill
Lincoln
Neb
Gene Stevens
Merle
Norman
William Stevens
Carlyle Gentry
Offutt Air Force Base
Omaha
Driver Fined On Hit Run Charge
Ottawa police arrested Tom McGinnis Jr for a hit and run that damaged Robert Detwiler’s parked car at 115 West Fifth Street. Judge Myron Steere fined him twenty five dollars and sentenced ten days in jail, paroled for one year on good behavior. Contempt fines against the defendant’s father brought total penalties to ten dollars.
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Ottawa
Tom McGinnis, Jr
N.mulberry
Robert C. Detwiler
W. Fifth
McGinnis
Myron Steere
Steere
Tom McGinnis, Sr
End Legal Block On Water Line
Legal entanglements delaying the 66 inch water pipeline to underground resources northwest of Wichita were cleared yesterday. City manager Frank Backstrom said 11 Harvey County farmers by Wichita had dropped appeals from appraisers awards and accepted payment by the city. A total of $73,144 was awarded to 19 landowners along the right of way of the pipeline.
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Wichita
Frank Backstrom
Harvey County
Oklahoma A and M tests 75 grass strains on campus
The Oklahoma A and M College campus invites visitors to walk on the grass while researchers plant 75 grass strains to determine which variety best resists wear for golf course use.
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Oklahoma A & M College
Middle East Crisis Moves Eastward
Lebanon notes the crisis spreading east across the Middle East with violence in Iraq and Syria.报道 cites unrest in Mosul and Najaf, attributing blame to external influence and internal resentment toward the Baghdad Pact led by Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Britain.
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Lebanon
Middle East
Iraq
Syria
Britain
Nuri Said
Mosul
Baghdad
Najaf
Iran
Tudeh
Nuri
Egypt
Turkey
Pakistan
NATO Ministers Set Meeting Among 15 Nations
NATO ministers from 15 nations convene in Paris next week to review cooperation after Hungary and the Suez crisis. The gathering marks a turning point with possible Big Three talks and focus on preconsultation, and expanding NATO interest to the Middle East amid Cold War pressures.
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Paris
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Hungary
France
Britain
America
NATO
Kremlin
Budapest
Dulles
Selwyn Lloyd
Christian Pineau
Middle East
Russia
Three-car crash killer claims Topeka man Charles Kite
A Topeka man, 39 year old Charles Kite, died in a hospital early today from injuries suffered in a three car collision on U S 40 east of Topeka last night.
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Topekan
Charles Kite
U. S. 40
Topeka
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