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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1959
Page
4
Market prices for barley soybeans wheat white and yellow corn oats and feed products listed with various percentages and rates. Butterfat eggs heavy hens light hens and cocks show per unit values and changes.
Cattle numbers around 1,700 with steady to higher prices for slaughter steers and heifers and cows. Good to prime steer values 24.00 to 27.00, high choice heifers 25.50, utility cows 14.00 to 17.00, bulls 18.00 to 19.00, good to choice slaughter calves 21.00 to 23.50 and feeder steers 21.00 to 22.50. Hogs 4,000 head, barrows and gilts steady to 5 lower, sows steady to 25 lower. 1-3 190-240 lb barrows and gilts 12.00 to 12.50, sows 400-410 lb down 8.75 to 10.25. Sheep 1,000, lambs steady to 25 higher. native wooled slaughter lambs 16.50 to 17.50, shorn lambs 17.90, ewes 8.00 to 4.50.
John L. Jack Chewning 65 of Topeka died Sunday in V A Hospital Wadsworth. He was born September 29 1894 at Havensville a World War I veteran and an employee of the Kansas Blind Center. Survived by widow Orpha O Chewning a sister a brother one stepson and four step grandchildren Services will be in Topeka at Wall Diffenderfer Mortuary with burial in Mt Hope Cemetery.
Beulah May Cummings aged 63 of rural route one and Albert L. Coffman aged 16 of 1128 North Sycamore were cited and charged with reckless driving. The incident in the 1100 block of South Main near 6 p.m. damaged two cars tied to Glen A. Hayward. Coffman also faced muffler defects and both are set to appear in Police Court on December 15.
Three people were fatally or seriously injured in Kansas traffic incidents on Tuesday. Gene Dir, 34, Liberal, died in a one car crash on U S 56 near the Haskell Gray county line. James Thomas, 31, Great Bend, died when his water tank truck collided with a freight train on the east edge of Great Bend. Winnie M. Allen, 75, fatally injured after being struck at an El Dorado street intersection. she had moved to El Dorado recently from Hominy Oklahoma.
Hospital notes show admissions for Mrs Theodore Smith in Pomona and Mrs Kathleen Baldwin in Wellsville along with Mrs Percy Denniston at 615 East Wilson and Mrs Joe Mora at 621 King. Dismissals include John Lester at 1022 South Hickory and Mrs Robert Soph at 724 South Hickory and Mrs John Wilson with baby daughter at 823 King. Mrs Dan Arnold at RFD 3 and Mrs Raymond Feuerborn with baby daughter at 102 South Elm are also noted.
Colombian navy reports sighting wreckage of a twin engine C46 airliner missing since Tuesday with 46 aboard. Plane vanished after leaving San Andres for Cartagena. No signs of life. last radio contact at 11:27 am. Passengers were tourists returning to Cartagena and Medellin from San Andres. San Andres is a Colombian island group east of Nicaragua. free port recently declared to draw visitors.
An Air Force test flight reached 29,770 feet in altitude with a Kaman 4H43B helicopter, piloted by Capt. Walter J. Hodgson and Maj. William J. Davis. The climb, conducted at Bloomfield’s plant grounds, surpassed a Soviet record set earlier in the year. The record awaits official timing after instrument checks.
Walter Williams, a 117 year old Civil War veteran and last surviving vet from the conflict, remains gravely ill in Houston. He has suffered his fourth pneumonia attack since last summer and cannot swallow food, receiving liquids under an oxygen tent with a fever near 101 degrees.
Sam Frank Locigno known as Sam Lombardo, described as ex mobster Mickey Cohen's constant companion, confessed to killing Jack Whalen in self defense. He turned himself in with two lawyers and Joseph De Carlo, a guest at Cohen's dinner party, as a grand jury witness alleged a man seated near Cohen fired Whalen. Locigno was booked on suspicion of murder.
Walter Sande lius, professor of political science at the University of Kansas, appeals to the public for help in locating his missing daughter Carol Amy Sandelius, 24, who fled from an aide at Topeka State Hospital October 28. He says she may have hitchhiked to another state and may be using another name. She is about 5-8, 135 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Four inmates from the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing face arraignment in county court under the Mandatory Deposition of Detainers Act. Keith L. Smith and Duane Hart seek preliminary hearings on breaking and entering and grand larceny tied to an August 1958 Richmond burglary. Hobson and Malone waive hearings and go to district court for trial.
In Vinita Oklahoma two robbers beat and killed 63 year old World War I pensioner Jesse Goforth and battered his wife Julie 76 to force disclosure of life savings. They fled with about 1500 dollars cash and a 56 dollar pension check from their northeast Oklahoma farm home nine miles southeast of Vinita.
In Harrisonville Missouri an attorney for Betty Lou Moore entered an insanity plea in magistrate court after she confessed to killing her husband Charles Moore and their two children Monty Janelle and David. The 29 year old woman, pregnant, waived a preliminary hearing and no circuit court date was set. The family home in Belton was the scene on November 28. Moore was later arrested in Grand Island Nebraska.
The National Farmers Organization wrapped a two day convention pledging to pursue collective bargaining by withholding farm products. Resolutions urged next holding action, possible inclusion of all crops and livestock, and opposition to low wheat supports and dairy cuts. Oren Lee Staley of Rea Mo was elected to a fifth NFC term.
Henderson North Carolina AP reports the Henderson Cotton Mills South Henderson plant winding and spinning room was damaged by dynamite explosions late Tuesday. About 20 workers escaped serious injury as police suspect a passing vehicle tossed the dynamite, part of a year-old strike wave at the mill.
The Atlas intercontinental missile completed a 5,500 mile flight from Cape Canaveral down the Atlantic range at 15,000 mph. Officials said a dummy warhead was dropped on target off Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. The test marked the sixth straight success since Atlas was declared operational last September with 13 successes and one partial since July.
DETROIT AP Mary McCallum Averill 58 sat silent in court as she was arraigned on charges of embezzling 100518 from a former employer. Prosecutors call it the largest embezzlement in Detroit history with at least 876168 missing since 1950. Bound for Circuit Court trial, she posted a 1000 bond. The former head bookkeeper for Giffels Wallet Inc retired in 1957 after 29 years. She and her husband, 62, live in Florida with extensive real estate including a 300 acre Michigan farm, four homes, Windsor Ontario properties, and a Northern Canada summer home.
A fire destroyed Marshall Hall the three story men s dormitory at Tarkio College in Tarkio Missouri. 34 students escaped unharmed. The blaze started in the basement and was reported around 3 30 a m. Tarkio volunteer fire department aided by crews from Rockport Fairfax and Westboro prevented damage to other buildings. The college enrolls about 350 students and Tarkio lies about 70 miles northwest of St Joseph.
Skies cleared across most of the country today and warmer weather appeared for the East and South after storms and cold. Temperatures moderated in the Southeast after frosty mornings as a warming trend began to take hold.
Below freezing temperatures settled over Cross City in northwestern Florida with many areas in the north reporting mid 30s. Central and southern Florida logged 40s and 50s as growers reported damage to truck crops in the Gainesville and Deland districts from the season’s heaviest frost.
Legal notice lists sealed proposals due December 30 1959 at 10 00 a m for the 8B-160 Bridge over North Appanoose Creek in Franklin County Kansas. It details bid documents deposit 10 and refund rules, bond requirements, and county rights to reject or waive formalities. Also includes probate notices for W F Streeter and C E Bethell estates with hearing and defense deadlines in Ottawa Kansas.
In Ottawa Franklin County Kansas the petitioner Sulena May Gray seeks relief against defendants. The filing includes Lot 7 in Block 43 and undivided halves in Lots 2 4 and the north half of Lot 6 in Block 3 Lathrops Addition plus all other property owned by Charles L Gray at death. Defenses must be filed by the 24th day in Ottawa City Court.
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