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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1964
Page
7
Entertainment at the Latimer Community meeting Friday includes a movies presentation and a gift exchange. Attendees are asked to bring sandwiches or cookies. Community ads note local services and happenings such as a university faculty dinner, a church bazaar, a vaccine clinic, and a rummage sale with public notices on licenses and quail stamps.
KC Markets in Kansas City report cattle 3,200 and calves 200 with cows slow to steady. Hogs 4,500 steady to 25 lower, 190-225 lb barrows and gilts 15.00-15.75, 300-400 lb sows 12.25-13.00, 400-600 lb 11.25-12.50. Sheep 200 lambs steady to 25 lower, ewes and feeders steady. slaughter lambs 19.25-20.00, choice shorn 19.00-19.25, good to choice 18.25-19.00. utility ewes 4.50-5.50, feeders 15.50-17.50. Also eggs prices: larger 27-30, small A 18-19, wholesale large 80 percent A 30-31, mediums 24-28. Other produce unchanged.
Admissions list includes Eldon Peter 601 S Elm Wallace Leecy 506 N Sycamore Debra Ann Horne Princeton RFD 1 Thursday. Births report Elmer Mccone Wellsville son Wednesday 8 lb 3 oz Chester A Worl 325 Maple daughter 6 lb 7 oz. Dismissals include May Elliott Millard Rodgers Wellsville Wednesday Ralph Langdon 609 Maple and Raymond Comstock and baby daughter Pomona.
Congo Premier Moise Tshombe arrived in Rome with police escort for a 20 minute audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. The Pontiff urged Congolese to end war and unite for the common good as the visit proceeded without demonstrations.
Sales of UNICEF Christmas cards increased after a John Birch Society protest led to removal from Bank of America branches and Holman’s Department Store in Pacific Grove. The store later allowed UNICEF volunteers to resume sales while banks kept the cards barred.
The Kansas Legislative Council endorsed a plan to create a state system of community junior colleges on an area district basis. It recommends up to 22 post high school education areas with one unit per area and allows existing colleges to reorganize or terminate. The proposal preserves a five year transition for current colleges and emphasizes a shared five program structure including terminal, transfer, technical, continuing education, and high school completion. It also favors consolidating area vocational technical schools into comprehensive schools and limits new vocational programs unless linked to new community colleges.
Mrs Bertha May Bechtel died December 4 and funeral rites were held December 9 at Lamb Funeral Home with Reverend Charles DuMond officiating. Pallbearers included Harry Flory, Lyle Enyart, Leon Michel, Homer Baldwin, Albert Baldwin and Elmer Rappard. Burial followed at Oakwood Cemetery in Baldwin. Survived by daughter Verna Staten of Bloomfield Iowa. sons Richard Bechtel Naples Florida Lee T Bechtel Silver Spring Mod and George Hillis Bechtel Roseville Michigan. eight grandchildren. several great and great great grandchildren. two sisters Stella Powell and Cassie Batterson Memphis Missouri.
A police court set fines and bonds for multiple defendants on drunkenness speeding and license violations. Howard Hartpence found guilty of reckless driving and appealing. Hartpence, Carttar, Wesen and others cited for speeding or drunk in public. Thirteen Ottawa University students charged with clinging to a moving vehicle pleaded guilty for fines of 15 dollars each.
Boeing Wichita plant announces 3000 job cuts over 90 days, with most impact in modification, tooling and assembly areas. The facility, employing 17,800, began earlier with 200 layoffs and cites realigned schedules after B 52 modifications and reduced production. Plant manager Ben Wheat laments the disruption and loss of skilled workers.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, calling nonviolence essential to end oppression. He pledged the prize money to the civil rights cause, while ceremonies in Stockholm awarded science and chemistry prizes to Townes Basov Prochorov Bloch Lynen Hodgkin Sartre declined.
AP analysis notes the post Khrushchev Soviet regime moving toward inward focus and relaxed relations with the United States. Budget statements emphasize consumer spending, domestic construction, agriculture, and social programs while signaling firmer stance against Red China. Premier Kosygin pledges continued support for anti imperialist movements but seeks long term Western trade growth. Pravda reinforces the party line on gradual evolution beyond proletarian dictatorship, prompting continued Sino-Soviet tensions.
A series of county court records show Earl A. Thompson of Kansas City pleaded guilty to operating without a valid Kansas Corporation Commission registration and paid a $15 fine plus costs. Others cited include Charles V. Simms for speeding and Telacette B18 for an accident related speed violation. Billy J. Owen and Adell W. Dean faced fines for improper left turns. Richard E. Thornbrugh pleaded guilty to a defective vehicle horn and brakes. Mary E. Kochenower pleaded guilty to speeding 70 in a 60 mph zone. Betty Jean Hubbard was granted a divorce from Robert H. Hubbard with joint custody arrangements for their children.
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