First Baptist Church to hold evening service and film in Centro polis
The First Baptist Church of Centro polis will hold an evening service Sunday December 13 with Rev W H Dickinson association missionary for the Miami Fort Scott associations speaking and presenting a film Our Baptist Heritage A Williamsburg Wildlife meeting is set for Monday December 14 at 8 p m at the Legion Hall Bert Bell Jr 17 RFD 2 was cited by police for defective mufflers and will appear in Police Court December 15 Automobiles driven by Mark L Middlebusher 198 RFD 4 and Lena M Morgan 41 831 S Cedar sustained major damage in a collision at 1st and Main around 7 30 p m Middlebusher cited for following too closely and also faces a December 15 Police Court date World Book Encyclopedia is First in Sales a 1960 edition sale at 1959 price contact M L Merrick district manager 1018 W 70th St Kansas City Missouri Story hour in Carnegie library tomorrow at 10 a m conducted by Meredith Sorenson who will read Happy Christmas Heritage by Phyllis McGinley Miss Carolyn Rooney resigns as county extension secretary effective Dec 12 with Mrs Bud Schaub stepping to full time duties until a replacement is found Mrs Stanley A Mulkey of Lees Summit Mo is in critical condition after major surgery at St Luke's Hospital Kansas City and is in room 315 she is daughter in law of the late Mrs Mary Mulkey of Ottawa.
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First Baptist Church of
Centropolis
W. H. Dickinson
Miami-Fort Scott
Mark L. Middlebusher
Lena M. Morgan
S. Cedar
1St and Main
Middlebusher
M. L. Merrick
70Th St
Kansas City
Missouri
Stanley A. Mulkey
Lee's Summit
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mulkey
Mary Mulkey
Ottawa
Cited For Speed Then Cited Again In Garnett
Robert E Staadt 22 of Garnett was cited twice for speeding on Dec 9 by highway patrol officers. First on US 50 seven miles southwest of Ottawa at about 5 05 p m driving 85 in a 70 zone, then 15 minutes later downtown He was cited for 30 in a 20 zone. He is set to appear in County Court on Dec 15.
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Garnett
Robert E. Staadt
Ottawa
Staadt
Severe Storms In Sweden Abating
Severe blizzards in Sweden fade with gales easing across south and central regions. Snowfall ends in affected areas while northeast coast sees continued high winds. Titan salvage ship remains missing and believed sunk after aiding Birgitta. Hundreds treated for injuries. two killed near Uppsala.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Titan
Birgitta
Uppsala
AMA Journal casts doubt on smoking lung cancer link
Chicago sources report the American Medical Association Journal cites insufficient evidence to warrant the assumption that cigarette smoking is the major factor in rising lung cancer. An editorial questions conclusions in a Public Health Service surgeon general report featured two weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
American Medical Assn. Journal
Leroy E. Burney
U. S. Public Health Service
Subway Agent Shot To Death in New York
New York AP reports subway change agent Clyde Vincent, 57, was found shot to death Thursday night. Police believe he defied a bandit’s demand for money. the cash box was intact.
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New York
Clyde Vincent
Women Aid Veterans Gift Shop and Club News
Members of the American Legion Auxiliary assisted at the Wadsworth Veterans Hospital gift shop in Leavenworth on Wednesday. They helped veterans select Christmas gifts wrap and mail them and delivered this month’s cookie supply. Other items include Kiwanis guest Rev Van Benschoten’s missionary talk in Winfield Kansas and Crescent Club meeting with Christmas traditions and a book review.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Wadsworth Veterans Hospital
Leavenworth
Harold Good
Carl Warnock
Inez Stevens
Harold Haney
Bob Groshong
Joe Gorsage
Melvin Pierce
Kiwanis Club
Abe van Benschoten
Winfield, Kas
Lowell Dickinson
van Benschoten
Thailand
Favor Subsidy To The Student TOPEKA AP
Kansas church colleges urged a state scholarship program for students in tax supported and private schools. Dr. William J. Scarborough Baker University president said they oppose aid to private or municipal colleges and would provide student subsidies rather than institutional support. Private colleges educate about 20 percent of Kansas students and will handle larger enrollments without tax aid, Scarborough noted. Details of the proposal were to be announced later after a meeting of 19 church-related college presidents in Atchison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas Church Colleges
William J. Scarborough
Baker University
Kansas Council of
Anc Nut
Kansas
Scarborough
Hormone Poultry Taken Off Market
Washington officials announce a ban on selling poultry fattened with the hormone diethyl stilbestrol to prevent cancer risk. Birds already grown with the hormone will be withdrawn from markets, and housewives are assured safety if skin liver and kidneys are discarded. no residue has been found in meat.
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Washington
Man Sentenced to One to Ten Years in Kansas Penitentiary
An inmate at Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing was sentenced by District Judge Floyd Coffman to one to ten years for passing a forged $37.50 check dated September 16, 1958. Hobson pleaded guilty and request for a hearing under state law led to the case return to Ottawa. The sentence execution was suspended for three years per District Court records.
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Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Floyd Coffman
Marion I. Hobson
Hobson
Ottawa
Hospital Notes Admissions and Dismissals
Hospital notes record admissions for Charles Mauk Baldwin on Thursday and dismissals including Lee Mealman at 825 East 7th and Mrs Tom Welborn at 1220 East 7th on Friday. The fragment lists patient movements with limited details and multiple unreadable names. Continuous notes suggest a running roster of admissions and discharges.
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Lee Mealman
Tom Welborn
National leaders push plan to cut crop acres by 20 percent
About 20 farm leaders recommended trimming U.S. crop acreage by one fifth to balance production with consumption and reduce surpluses. Spokesman Walter Goeppinger of Boone Town, president of the National Corn Growers Assn., voiced the plan for the conferees in Wichita.
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Wichita
Walter Goeppinger
Boone
Town
National Corn Growers Assn
An Oklahoman Buys A Town In Sunflower Village
Louis H. Ensley of Lawton Oklahoma bought Sunflower Village near De Soto Kansas for 311000 at a GSA auction. The 174 homes 11 other buildings include a 500 seat theater and a school. Ensley aims to rehabilitate the wartime housing project and clear lots for more homes.
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Desoto
Kan
Sunflower Village
Ordnance Works
Louis H. Ensley
Quick Way Homes, Inc
Lawton
Ohlo
General Service Administration
Ensley
Kansas City
State Committee Tour Schedule Reveals Kansas Sites
Rep. Robert Anderson announces a five day inspection tour for the House Ways and Means Committee. Events include stops at the State Fair in Hutchinson, the Wheat Commission, the Fort Hays area, and the Kansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium. The itinerary covers Larned, Great Bend, Beloit, Norton, Hutchinson, and Beloit sites with a luncheon and dinners planned along the way.
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Topeka
Robert Anderson
Ottawa
House
Ways and Means Committee
Kansas State Fair
Kansas Industrial Reformatory
Kansas Wheat Commission
Hutchinson
Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Pratt
Kansas Soldier's Home
Dodge City
Larned State Hospital
Larned
Chamber of Commerce
Great Bend
Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Refuge
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Fort Hays State College and
Frontier Historical Park
Hays
Kansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Norton
Kansas Girls Industrial School
Beloit
Kanopolis
Lake Kanopolis
MccPherson
Kansas Air National Guard
Here's Chance To Salt Valuables
Wichita AP reports Underground Vaults & Storage Inc. invites Americans to store valuables 650 feet underground in a salt mine near Hutchinson. The facility will lock its heavy steel gate Monday, opened only for authorized personnel under guard. The mine maintains 65 to 70 degrees and 35 to 50 percent humidity, promising security against insects, vermin, fire, theft, vandalism, storms, floods, tornadoes, and even nuclear threats.
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Wichita
Kansas Corporation
Vaults & Storage Inc
Hutchinson
Steel Talks Delayed to Aid Aluminum Negotiations
Washington AP Steel labor talks paused to allow union negotiations in the aluminum sector. Government sponsor Finnegan says steel bargaining shows no progress and won’t last weeks. Aluminum talks with Alcoa Reynolds Kaiser have resumed in Chicago ahead of a January 1 strike deadline. David J. McDonald planned to join aluminum talks.
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Washington
Joseph F. Finnegan
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Eisenhower
Finnegan
Steelworkers
Alcoa
Reynolds
Kaiser
Chicago
David J. McDonald
NATO warns of dangerous weakness in Allied policies
NATO military committee members alarmed by policy trends warn of weakness unless corrected. Gen Nathan Twining singles out France and Charles de Gaulle as major offenders, signaling tensions at the Palais de Chaillot during secret talks. Subsequent ministerial meetings and Western Summit talks in Paris loom with Eisenhower due December 18.
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Paris
North Atlantic Alliance
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nathan Twining
France
Charles de Gaulle
Palais de Chaillot
Fugate Loses Appeals in Starkweather Case
Caril Ann Fugate, then 14, lost two appeals to Nebraska Supreme Court in the murder case linked to mass killer Charles Starkweather. She remains at York Reformatories for Women. Appeals claimed juror bias and inadmissible home photos, plus newly discovered evidence and perjury claims. court denied both.
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Lincoln
Neb
Caril Ann Fugate
Charles Starkweather
Nebraska Supreme Court
State Reformatory For
York
Starkweather
Fugate
Supreme Court
Deaths Melvin William Cecil 59 Ottawa native
Melvin William Cecil aged 59 died yesterday at 5 30 p m in Ransom Memorial Hospital after two weeks as a patient He was born February 15 1900 in Sedalia Missouri married Clairbel Chamberlin in 1936 and lived in Ottawa since 1935 He worked with Cities Service Oil Co 30 years serving as Ottawa area agent 24 years Surviving are his widow two sons his mother four brothers and two sisters Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 11 a m Lamb Funeral Home Rev Charles P Knight officiating Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery Sedalia at 330 p m
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Melvin William Cecil
Willow
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Sedalia
William W
Louise (McClure) Cecil
Clairbel Chamberlin
Boonville
Ottawa
First Methodist Church
Stewards
Lamb Funeral Home
Charles P. Knight
Memorial Park Cemetery
Examination Set for Great Bend Kas Postmastership
Postmaster Washington AP reports the Civil Service Commission announced an examination for the postmaster position at Great Bend Kansas. The notice invites qualified applicants to compete for the opening in the federal service.
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Washington
The
Civil Service Commission Today
Great Bend
Kas
Vera Freone Hollinger Petition Notice
The record lists Vera Freone Hollinger as petitioner with Bowers and Bowers as attorneys in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Freone Hollinger
Bowers & Bowers
Attorneys
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Williamsburg
Legion Hall
Bert Bell Jr
Ellis
Carnegie Library
Meredith Sorenson
Phyllis McGinley
Wright
Carolyn Rooney
County Agricultural Extension Office
Bud Schaub
Rawleigh Products
S. Main
E. F. Risdon
Adv
Subway
Crescent Club
Walter Moore
Charles Stephens
Paul Galico
Dior
R.U. Medical Center
Robert Massengale
RFD 2
Robert Hunley
Wayne
Lawrence
Louisville
Mr. Hughley
Glasgow
Massengale
Reed Stockton
Frank Austin Young
Miami
Fla
Cuba
Charles Mauk
Baldwin
Lamb
Cecil—M. W
Iceland
Twining
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Herter
Caril Fugate
Richmond Radio and TV
Geo. A. Finley
Richmond
Melvin W. Cecil
Joe
Towner’s
Arthur Gerhold
Community Church of the Foursquare Gospel
9Th
Hickory
S. S
C. W. Mendel
Acousticon Hearing Service
Nelson Hotel
Franklin County
District Court
Geraldine Owen
Lawrence E. Owen
State of Kansas
Anderson & Byrd
Delia E. Bennett
Robert 8. Hill
Della E
Delia EK. Bennett
State of
Vera McClay
Edna Smith
Bessie Bare
Dorothy Willama
Kansas City Star
H. G. Tickner
Pho
Al-Anon Group
Alcoholics Anonymous
Jim
A. P. Glenn
Dallas
Texas
Oelwein Chemical Co
Oelwein
Iowa
Ottawa Herald
General Services
Ire Meade
Gail de Jarnett
Waverly
Henry Alban
White Pine
Quenemo
Donald Ivey
Standard Rendering Co
Callect
Conrad
Re and
McCracken Electric
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