Ottawa University Orchestra Impresses at Evening Service
Prof Edgar Kerr joins the cello section under Prof Howard White as the Civic Symphonette delivers a pleasing performance drawing requests for future appearances. Also reports on a hitchhiker identified as Mary Beard Harper, a statewide Red Cross drive for Hungarian relief, quail stamp sales in Franklin County, and local public notices on elections and enrollments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa University Civic Symphonette
Ottawa University
Edgar D. Kerr
Howard White
Ottawa Co Op to Launch Stock Drive for Elevator Addition
Ottawa Co Op plans a kickoff dinner at Bob's Truck Stop southwest of Ottawa to start a stock sale raising 35000 this week toward a 175000 elevator expansion. About 50 attendees will form two person teams to drive the campaign with a 125000 bank loan planned from the Wichita Bank for Cooperatives.
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Ottawa
Lyle Grier
Wichita Bank For Cooperatives
Peoples Bank 85 Years Old in Ottawa
The Peoples National Bank of Ottawa marked its 85th anniversary on December 9, tracing its founding to December 9, 1871. The bank began in a frame building, later replaced by the current brick structure built in 1879, with early history tied to a site possibly at Second and Main.
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Peoples National Bank
Ottawa
Second and Main
Minneela
To Ag Convention Invites Ike in Kansas
Gov. Fred Hall and Rep. William Avery invited President Eisenhower to attend the Kansas Agricultural Convention in Topeka during his drought area tour next month. Hall's telegram cites weather woes and agriculture as a major convention topic set for January 9 to 11. Also mentions Mack Electric’s Big Truckload Closeout Sale at G E Appliances with Easy Terms.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
William H. Avery
Kas
Eisenhower
Kansas Agricultural Convention
Hall
Mack Electric
Appeal Heard In District Court
Two appeals from police court convictions were set for hearing before Judge Floyd Coffman in district court this morning. Raymond W. Mayes of Gardner was convicted last July of driving while intoxicated and fined 100 dollars with 30 days in jail. the charge was changed to reckless driving and he pled guilty. Coffman fined him another 100 dollars and ordered a lab removal from his license. Darrell L. Propes of Columbia was convicted in police court of DWI and having an open bottle. he failed to appear, had been fined 125 dollars and 30 days in jail with license revocation. Coffman ordered his 250 dollar bond forfeited and a warrant issued.
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Floyd Coff
Raymond W. Mayes
Gardner
Coffman
Darrell L. Propes
Columbia
Myron Steere
Kansas City Star Strike Continues Against Picket Line
Injunctions target the picketing at the Star building as the Kansas City Star and Times face labor action by the Pressmen’s Union and related crafts. Distributors and other workers maintain line, while some printers and engravers refuse to cross. The Star notes a court order but reports ongoing stoppage affecting Sunday edition and press operations.
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Missouri Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Board
the Star
Pressmen's Union
John Hawley
Pressmen's Local
Kansas City
Jack Torrence
International Pressmen’s Union
Kansas City Star
Star
Pressmen’s Union
Times
Ally
Arldilinn
Cooperative Assn
L. K. Hubbard
Hubbard
The
Hyl
Oml
Jackson County
Star and Times
Sunday Star
Rigid Controls For Hungarians Rigid Controls For Hungarians
Budapest workers threaten a nationwide general strike as Soviet backed regime tightens measures. Telephone cuts and telegraph bans hinder Western dispatches while police restrain traffic and martial law enforcement escalates. Authorities claim controls target anti government groups and arms movement.
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Budapest
Geile weCuui
Vienna
Moscow
Harold Milks
Radio Budapest
Csepel
Six Names Added To State Traffic Toll
Kansas traffic fatalities rose to 623 with six more lives added from over the weekend. Victims include Sylvester D. Campbell 19 Marine Hastings Nebraska killed in a one car crash on U S 24 near Leonardville. Ronald Gee Deeds 13 Wichita died from injuries Saturday sled collision. Sammy Dillon 6 Atchison injured fatally Saturday when a car skidded into a ditch on Highway 73. Lee Birdsong 24 Kansas City Kansas died from injuries Friday in a one car crash. Argyle Wolbach 46 St Francis died Saturday from injuries in a crash 12 miles east of St Francis on Wednesday. Clarence Edward Johnson 39 Independence injured December and killed Friday in an Independence intersection.
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Kansas
Sylvester D. Campbell
Hastings
Neb
U. S
Leonardville
Ronald Gee Deeds
Frank Deeds Jr
Wichita
Santa
Sammy Dillon
Gene Dillon
Atchison
Main
Lee Birdsong
Kansas City
Kas
Argyle Wolbach
St.rancis
St. Francis Wednesay
Clarence Edward Johnson
Independence
UN Condemnation Call Unified Over Hungary Action
United States delegate Henry Cabot Lodge joined 18 other nations in urging the United Nations General Assembly to condemn the Soviet Union for its actions in Hungary. He said Soviet obstruction had ignored all resolutions and urged immediate withdrawal of Soviet armed forces under UN observation to restore Hungarys political independence.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Free World
U.N
Soviet Union
Hungary
Lodge
General Assembly
Cars Collided on Icy Highway Near Ottawa
A head on crash occurred at 4 p.m. Saturday three miles east of Ottawa on R68 as Paul E. Stane 44 of 430 South Sycamore drove a 1954 Pontiac eastbound and collided with Charles Mack driving a 1954 Ford westbound due to ice. William H. Gremminger 21 of Waverly drove the other car. Sheriff Jay Brown estimated both cars’ front ends damaged at $500.
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Tey
Ottawa
Paul E. Stane
South Sycamore
Charles Mack
William H. Gremminger
Waverly
Jay Brown
Warm Sun Melts Sleet Blanket Over Kansas
Weather improved as thawing temperatures spread from Ottawa to eastern Kansas after a weekend of sleet. Strong northwest winds were forecast in the west while the north faced continued cold and mixed precipitations. A local man named Frank Bennett, 44, died after an accident involving torn rubber gloves and a downed electric wire amid the ice storm.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Alton
Frank Bennett
Elect
Easy Termas Mack Electric Truckload Closeout Sale
No reasonable offer refused as Mack Electric conducts a truckload closeout sale of GE appliances with discount pricing. The sale features a wide range of GE products available for quick purchase and removal, inviting customers to act fast for best deals.
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al Mack Electric
G.E
Dulles and Lloyd Reach Accord on Middle East Policy
U S Secretary of State Dulles and British Foreign Secretary Lloyd in accord after talks at the American Embassy aimed at clearing the Suez canal plan and future control. They met over an hour then conferred with France’s Pineau, with NATO ministers and Western alliance talks opening the week.
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Parisp
U.S
Dulles
Selwyn Lloyd
Suez
Middle East Waterway
Lloyd
Christian Pineau
France
Dulles-Lloyd
NATO Council
Western European Union
of the Treasury
George Humphrey
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Windy Warmer Today With Dust Rising Across Regions
Forecast calls for blowing dust in the west and increasing clouds from north to south. Winds 25 to 40 mph this afternoon, tonight partly cloudy then Tuesday warmer but cooling north. Tonight's low in the 30s, Tuesday's high 50s to 60s, yesterday's high 40, river stage 0.49 feet.
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Doday
Unis
BO Wa
S.W. Light
Six Nurses Die In Highway Crash Near Patterson
Six student nurses aged nineteen and twenty died when their car skidded on Route 22 and hit a milk bank truck near Patterson New York. The truck driver escaped unharmed. The victims were en route to Harlem Valley State Hospital at Wingdale in Putnam County.
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Patterson
N.Y
Harlem Valley State
Wingdale
Putnam County
Vote Tomorrow On Crop Controls
Washington farmers in 94 states face five referendums on crop program and price supports for 1957. About 31 million eligible voters. corn turnout largest. Two price support options: base acreage at 1.31 dollars per bushel or acreage allotment at 1.36 dollars, with two thirds needed to approve. Benson supports base acreage. Humphrey and Patton oppose.States include Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Soil Bank
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
James G. Patton
National Farmers Union
Patton
Kansas
Arkansas
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Plane lands on car to save damaged gear
Norfolk pilot Manning Rooks, with 160 flying hours, landed his light plane with a dangling right landing gear atop a moving car after guidance from veteran Hornbaker. The stunt, on the Municipal Airport field, involved a sedan acting as wheels while two men steadied the aircraft.
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Norfolk
Rooks
Earth
Fherd Hornbaker
Municipal Airport
Hornbaker
Mannbaker
Gantly
Nornbaker
Debaters from Ottawa University Reach Quarterfinals at Southwestern Meet
Ottawa University debaters Don Eilenstein and Vernon Baster, along with three junior Ottawa teams coached by Prof. Horton Presley, posted five preliminary wins at the Southwestern College tournament in Winfield before being eliminated in the quarterfinals. They defeated Oklahoma A. fant M Sterling College and Southern Winois University. the junior pairs finished 3-2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Eilenstine
Vernon Bat+ser
Ottawa University
Southwestern College
Winfield
Jeams
Oklatona A. Fant M
Sterling College
Southern Winois University
Ottawa
Tom Allen
Paul Girling
Jerry Watts
Dennis Evans
Jim Smith
Clausie Smith
Horton Presley
Search Fails To Find Missing TCA Plane In British Columbia
A Trans-Canada Airlines DC4 variant with 59 passengers and crew disappeared last night in a windstorm over Chilliwack area. RAF and civilian aircraft, from Hope and Chilliwack, plus radar fixes, scoured the region without sighting the missing craft. The flight bound for eastern Canada left Vancouver at 6 p.m. PST and radioed engine trouble before vanishing near Hope. Passengers included Americans Mrs. A A Kafour of Portland and Mrs. L C Burt of San Francisco.
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Vancouver
B.C. Tm
Trans-Canada Airlines
Chilliwack
British Colmbia
Royal Canadian Air Force
Hope
G. L. Sheahan
RCAP
TransCanada North Star
Sheahan
RCAF
North Star
Aireraft
Canada
Montreal
Calgary
Regina
Winnipeg
Toronto
TCA
A. A. Kafour
Portland
Ore
L. C. Burt
San Francisco
No Tax Cut In New Budget
A Treasury spokesman told Congress the coming year’s budget has no room for a tax cut and makes no provision for any reduction that would lose revenue. Dan Throop Smith said the final figures are still being assembled and that the budget President Eisenhower will present next month covers fiscal year starting July 1, 1957.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
Dan Throop Smith
House
Ways and Means
Smith
Rep. Eberharter
Dpa
Eissenhower
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Wayne Lewis
John Sheldon
Kathy
al Yost
Ricky Rayback
Dick Rayback
Herald
Lamar Phillips
Beta Junction
Douglas MacArthur
Mary Beard Harper
Kansas City, Mo
Pplite
Milo Harris
Franklin County
Bruce Spears
G. C. Fredeen
Red Cross
Spears
Ottawa Lions
To Ag
K.C. Star
Janos Kadar
Pete
Red
Asath
Pulidhawie Uy Uemud Gin
Mack
Electric
Lamb Ambulance
Roy Pearce
U. N
Hickory
J. Aphi
Missouri River
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