Ottawa area briefs highlight local moves and notices
L Allen Troutman represented Appandose School at a state workshop on teacher supply and salaries in Topeka. Donald Ackley returned to Miami after illness of his mother Marion Ackley. Lauretta Dinson is recovering from surgery in Kansas City and welcomes messages. Bertha Richardson to Topeka for training and a Christmas party. Don Brown attends a live stock clinic in Kansas City. Red Cross Civil Defense class wraps up tonight. A transistor radio was stolen from Western Auto. Private music lessons offered by Jack McGee. Freda Bacon seeks divorce from Parke A Bacon for gross neglect and cruelty. Well-Child Clinic set for Wednesday in Co-Op room. Henry Van Loenen mourns uncle William Van Loenen's death in Los Angeles. Ground Observer Corps to participate in area alert tomorrow. Dental inspection of students begins with Ottawa Dental Association at Wellsville and Lane schools. Wanda Vincent to address Ottawa Kayettes. Call 47 for Herald delivery. Airman Edwin Duffield visiting from Loring AFB. Donald Watson works in Chicago after Clark School degree. William Melnig to hold farm sale near Paola on Dec 17.
Breckenridge Property Relocation Case Jury Seated
A Breckenridge district court case moves toward testimony as a jury selected this morning begins proceedings for the appeal over an award for property taken for relocating US 50. Jurors named include Horace Avery Warren Baker Artie Chaney Donald Higdon Dean Kennedy Earl Hicks Frank Kreusch Martha Burnett Richard Fritts Carl Moore Philip Jacoby and Mrs Jim Cook.
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QO. L. Breckenridge
Horace Avery
Warren Baker
Artie Chaney
Dona'd Higdon
Dean Kennedy
Earl Hicks
Frank Kreusch
Martha Burnett
Richard V. Fritts
Cerl Moore
Philip Jacoby
Jim Cook
Mother to be charged after Park Falls fatal fire
Eight children died when a four room frame house burned in Park Falls Wisconsin early Sunday. District Attorney Carl Bjork said the mother Ardetta Klein 38 will be charged with neglect after she was found in a parked car with another man while the blaze occurred. Neighbors reported the fire around 5 30 a m and officials say Klein had been at a tavern until closing time and returned with a local man before leaving again.
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Bjork
Andrew Pilch
Best Quail Season In Years Closes
Pratt Kansas quail season closed at sundown yesterday. Dave Leahy director of the Forestry Fish and Game Commission said this season was the best in many years and prospects for next year look equally good. The duck season also is unusually good with potential gains if Canadian ducks head this way.
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Pratt
Kansas
Dave Leahy
State Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Leahy
Canada
Kidney Death Among Twins Highlights Transplant Series
Boston boy Jimmy Foster aged 14 died from a congenital kidney ailment two weeks after receiving a healthy kidney from his twin in a transplant at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He was the first fatality in a series of six twin donor operations. the others donated kidneys for ill siblings with kidney diseases.
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Boston
Jimmy Foster
Jimmy
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Search For Missing Girl Is Extended
Sycamore Illinois residents joined a wide search for 7 year old Maria Ridolph missing since last Tuesday. About 500 people scoured Fox River bottomlands north of Sheridan near the Illinois Industrial School for boys thirty five miles south of Sycamore under Police Chief William Hindenburg supervision.
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Sycamore
Ill
Fox River
Maria Ridolph
William Hindenburg
Sheridan
Illinois Industrial School For Boys
Sycemore
Pravda Ridicules U S Missile Failure
Pravda ridicules U S missile attempts to launch a space satellite. The Soviet paper reprinted international criticisms from Berlin Peiping London New York and Paris. Its own comment was a headline declaring American prestige has fallen lower than ever before.
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Moscow
Pravda
U. S
Soviet Communist Party
Berlin
Peiping
London
New York
Paris
Busy Season For Musicians In Ottawa High School
Ottawa high school music departments enter a holiday schedule with final rehearsals this week. The senior high orchestra directed by Bill Barker and the chorus and chorale led by Paul Worley perform Wednesday at Memorial Auditorium for the Skilton Club and public audience, featuring Christmas carols and international pieces. Kathy Archer and Linda Kerr sing solos, with P. R. Jamison narrating and Jo Archer on electric organ. A junior high orchestra rehearse Monday for a December 18 12 20 Memorial Auditorium program for students and civic groups and again for high and junior high at the school.
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Ottawa
Bill Barker
Paul Worley
Memorial Auditorium
Skilton Club
America
Kathy Archer
Linda Kerr
P.R. Jamison
Jo Archer
Tito To Continue Independent Policy
Belgrade Yugoslavia has told the United States it will maintain an independent foreign policy. President Tito assured U S Ambassador James Riddleberger last Friday on Brioni, with Foreign Minister Koca Popovic present. The talks followed Yugoslav recognition of East Germany, alarming the Western bloc who saw signs of alignment with the Soviet sphere.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
United States
Tito
U.S
James Riddleberger
Brioni
Koca Popovic
East Germany
Soviet Bloc
Southern Baptists Form Organization for Church Loans
Wichita dispatch reports the Kansas Convention of Southern Baptists organizes a nonprofit to lend funds for building churches. It plans six percent first mortgage bonds to finance a $1 million construction program next year. Rev. H H Whatley resigns as pastor of First Southern Hutchinson to become executive VP of the new corporation.
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Wichita
Kansas Southern Baptist
J. N. Westmoreland
Kansas Convention of Southern Baptists
Westmoreland
H. H. Whatley
First Southern Baptist Church of
Hutchinson
Births and dismissals listed in local notices
Births Mr and Mrs Raymond McConnell Wellsville son born Sunday weight 7 lb 5 oz. Mrs Sherie Coons 527 S Cherry son born today weight 9 lb 14 oz. Dismissed Mrs Wilfred Bugner RFD 1 Wellsville Mrs Bernard Wolken Garnett Saturday. Susan Figgins Williamsburg Mrs Alfred Green Osawatomie Mrs Jack R Elder and baby son 628 N Locust Mrs William West and baby daughter 615 Beech Sunday. Harvey Morris 523 N Hickory Mrs H C Constant 714 W 6th today.
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O. P. Barnett
Pomona
George Hopkins
E. 4Th
M. E. Reinecke
S. Cedar
John Kaub
N. Poplar
Fred Piper
Joe Button
RFD
Po‘mona
George Dunlap
Donald M. Collins
Maple
Mary E. Spears
E.irth
Raymond McConnell
Wellsville
Sherie Coons
S. Cherry
Wilfred Bugner
Bernard Wolken
Garnett
Susan Figgins
Williamsburg
Alfred Green
Osawatomie
Jack R. Elder
N. Locust
William West
Beech
Harvey Morris
Hickory
H. C. Constant
Deaths JAMES GIBBONS 55 Garnett Ottawa area veteran
James Gibbons 55 of 904 Cypress died today at Ransom Memorial Hospital at 3 p.m. He had been ill since last February after a stroke and was a World War II veteran. Born January 2 1902 in Lane he lived most of his life in Garnett and Ottawa. Survived by four brothers and three sisters. Funeral at Towner's Chapel Wednesday at 2 p.m. Garnett Cemetery burial.
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James Gibbons
Cypress
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Lane
Henry
Mary J. Swegar Gibbons
Garnett
Ottawa
Meritt
Gladwater
Tex
Frank
Iola
Patrick
N. S
Agnes Showalter
Ella Goins
Richmond
Lena Gray
Towner’s Chapel
Garnett Cemetery
State Death Toll Up Four
Four fatal traffic accidents were reported in Kansas over the week’s end, lifting the 1957 state toll to 526. The report notes 626 fatalities by the same point in 1956, with three deaths recorded a year earlier. Chauncey Beach, 73, of Luray, died in an auto truck collision six miles south of Osborne on U.S. 281. Patty Thorne, 17, of Kansas City Kansas, was killed Saturday night in Johnson County. Gerald Brotzman, 22, of Manhattan, died early Sunday near Topeka on U.S. 24. Larry W. Koch, 20, of Turon, died Sunday from injuries from a Saturday night accident near Turon on a county road.
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Kansas
Chauncey Beach
Luray
Osborne
U.S
Patty Thorne
Kansas City
Kas
Johnson County
Gerald Brotzman
Manhattan
Topeka
U. S
Turon
Larry W. Koch
Segregation In Bonner Springs Schools Ends
Bonner Springs officials dispute claims of segregation flagging Lincoln School as segregated. The State Supreme Court ruled Lincoln School remained a segregated Negro school and ordered the practice halted by the 1958 59 term. Attorney J Donald Lysaught said parents could choose their children's schools and that about 30 Negro students were in previously all white schools.
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Bonner Springs
State Supreme Court
Lincoln
J. Donald lLysaught
Lysaught
Bethany College Wins Central Kansas Tournament
Bethany College captured the seventh annual Central Kansas Basketball Tournament with a 77 to 56 win over McPherson College in Moundridge Kansas. Bethel College took third by defeating Tabor 51 to 42.
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Moundridge
Kas
Bethany College
McPherson College
Bethel College
Tabor
Six Students Rescued From Flooded Kettlewell Cave
Rescue workers pulled six college students from a flooded cave near Kettlewell after 45 hours trapped 400 feet underground. Two girls were among them. They clung to ledges as waist deep water swirled through passages. Rescue effort began after parents reported the girls missing.
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Kettlewell
England
Peter Clough
Clough
Themo
Funeral services for Guy K. Barker held at Lamb Funeral Home
Guy K. Barker who died December 3 was honored with funeral services at Lamb Funeral Home on December 6 led by Rev. Charles Knight. Pallbearers included Logan Fulks Charles Cade Eugene Saffron and others with organ music by Mrs. J R Henning. Burial followed in Highland Cemetery.
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Guy K. Barker
Lamb Funeral
Charles Knight
Logan Fulks
Charles Cade
Eugene Saffron
Charles Rhoads
C. M. Ott
Eldon Mahoney
Alva Hoover
Kenneth Andrews
J. R. Henning
Highland Cemetery
Ottawa School Officials To Speak In Lawrence and Manhattan
Miss Bonnie Hughson Ottawa High School guidance counselor and Norris Burke OHS principal will address 17 Ottawans in Lawrence as part of KU freshman orientation. Nora Evans joins mathematics meetings with Dean Albert E. Meder Jr of Rutgers as principal speaker on developments in high school and college mathematics. On Thursday Hughson and Burke travel to Manhattan for talks with seven Ottawa freshmen at Kansas State College.
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Bonnie Hughson
Ottawa
Norris Burke
OHS
Lawrence
Nora Evans
Albert E. Meder Jr
Rutgers University
Rutgers, N. J
Anti NATO Feelings Rise in Bonn Republic Germany
FRANKFURT Germany reports proposals to pull West Germany from NATO and neutralize its forces, as Chancellor Adenauer and Foreign Minister von Brentano prepare to attend the NATO summit. A growing minority questions the government's policy though most West Germans still back it.
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Frankfurt
Germany
West Germany
NATO
Bonn Republic
Konrad Adenauer
Heinrich von Brentano
Adenauer
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N. Sycamoareé
Appandose
Kansas State Teachers Association
Donald W. Ackley
Marion Ackley
Miami
Fla
Lauretta Dinson
Lakeside Hospital
29Th
Flora
Jay Ellis
Bertha Richardson
Kan Gas Employment Security Division
Don Brown
Franklin County
Red Cross Civil Defense
Western Auto Store
S. Main
Jack McGee
Freda E. Bacon
Parke A. Bacon
Henry van Loenen
S. Oak
William van Loenen
Los Angeles
Calif
Wolferman
Ogg
West Side
Ground Observer Corps
Willa Henderson
Olathe Naval Air Station
Ottawa Dental Association
Wanda Vincent
Kansas State High School Activities Association
Ottawa Senior High
Vincent
Kayettes
Edwin Duffield
R. S. Duffield
Loring Afb
Limestone
Donald D., Watson
Wesley Stevenson
RFD 2
Santa Fe
Chicago
Clark School of Business
YMCA
William H. Melnig
Paola
McVe'’ - Dengel
Louis H. Dengel
Ary
Breckenridge
Southern Baptists
Mr Tesla Fe
Willis
Garden Center
Aspia. Hales
THE
Associated Press
Radio & TV Service
Sta Ea
Artis
Dorothy Gray
Kramer
Cinemascoope
Robert — Joan Edmond Wagner - Collins - O'Brien
Cious
Eral
Ness
Saffron Glass CO
N. Main
Harry
Harry Smith
Porter Spears
Agency
Tom Porter
George Spears
Edmiston
Audio of Savings and Honessociation ——T, Salad Ak the
Laseee Bia Te Chartered Mavings Association
State of
Kangs
Member
Federal Savings Be and Loan Insurance Corporation
North American Building
D. William Overton
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
J. Dean Nofsinger Manager
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