Flood Control Tops List Of Chamber Projects Next Year
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce annual meeting backs flood control on the Marais des Cygnes river as the top 1956 project and approves a bond issue of about 620000 to leverage about 3 million in federal funds. Also urged were attracting new industry, good government, youth programs and broader civic involvement. Parke Carroll of the Kansas City Athletics made a surprise appearance.
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Marais Des Cygnes
Ottawa, Chamber of Commerce
Ottawa
Army Engineers
Carroll
J. T. Morrisey
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Fredrikson
Morrisey
Don
Dave
Timmy
F. D. Hull
Dave Cox
Timmy Wood
George Lister
Berndt
Glen Hayward
Robert F. Miller
Kansas City Athletics
Kansas City
Jay Barrington
Lou Boudreau
J. R. Cheney
League of Women Voters
John Christian, Jr
A. B. Martin
Ottawa University
Ottawa Chamber
George Dunkin
Barr
Russell Crites
Rod Cupp
Roger Fredrikson
Don Hull
Lee Shelden
North American
Parke Carroll
The
Kansas Citian
Aenarsl Adraamant
Fredrik
Man Of A Thousand Secrets Surrenders In West Germany
Otto John, once Bonn’s security chief known as the man of a thousand secrets, surrendered to West German authorities after fleeing to East Germany 16 months earlier. He crossed to West Berlin yesterday and was flown to West Germany to be questioned by the Supreme Court prosecutor. John had previously accused Adenauer’s government of reviving Nazism and militarism while he aligned with the Communists.
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Bonn
Germany
Otto John
East Germany
West Berlin
West Germany
West German
Supreme Court
Konrad Adenauer
John
Hitler
Russia
East Berlin
Washington
Allen Dulles
United States
Central Intelligence Agency
Secret Service
West
Office For
Bonn Republic
East
Potsdam
Dallas
Tex
Buford V. Calhoun
G. E. John
Mary Calhoun
Bobby Lynn
John Warren
Calhoun
Nationwide Ford grant funds Kansas colleges and hospitals
The Ford Foundation announced a half billion dollar program to support privately funded higher education and hospitals. Ottawa University received 119600, Baker University 109000, and several Kansas schools were included among 615 colleges and 3 500 hospitals nationwide. The money aims to raise faculty salaries and meet academic needs over 18 months, with emphasis on improving teaching quality across private institutions.
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Ottawa University
Ford Foundation
O. U
Baker University
Kansas
Andrew B. Martin
Ottawa
Ford
Henry Ford II
Ford Foundation Board of Trustees
Baldwin
Bethany College
Lindsberg
Bethel College
Newton College of Emporia
Emporia Friends University
Wichita McPherson College
McPherson
Marymount College
Salina
St. Benedicts College
Atchison
Martin
Weidmann
Tire & Bete
New York
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Foundation
Harvard
Nathan Pusey
America
Chicago
American Medical iAssn
American Hospital ‘Assn
Ottawa De Molays Win Gavel Contest
A large Franklin County De Molay visitation to Shawnee chapter produced a gavel contest win for Ottawa De Molays. The Ottawa group earned the top score by the highest membership distance traveled, with members including Ross Martin Jimmie Woods Richard Towd Jackie Reddick Charles Hicks Mike Martin Donnie Douglas Keith Thompson John Going Dennis Ainsworth Jess Cullison Alan Whitacre Ralph Gage Don Howell Kermit Keelin Robert Keelin Lauren Ward Jimmy Menchen Meredith Williams and Master Councilor Don Sexton John Harkins Jerry Patterson. Ottawa Masons will attend a chartered bus trip to Atchison on January 17 and present the initiatory degree on December 22.
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Franklin County de Molay
Shawnee
Ottawa
Ross Martin
Jimmie Woods
Richard Towd
Jackie Reddick
Charles Hicks
Mike Martin
Donnie Douglas
Keith Thompson
John Going
Dennis Ainsworth
Jess Cullison
Alan Whitacre
Ralph Gage
Don HoWcell
Kermit
Robert Keelin
Driver Arrested After Accident on Santa Fe Viaduct
Ottawa local Roy W. Cearfoss, 58, of Box 218, was arrested early today on drunk driving and reckless driving charges after a side swipe between his 1938 Chevrolet and a semi on the Santa Fe viaduct at Ottawa's north edge. The other driver was Charles Verner, 33, of Wichita. Cearfoss posted $300 bond and will face county court Saturday.
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Ottawa
Roy W. Cearfoss
Box 218
Art Jensen
Bob Conaty
Cearfoss
Charles Verner
Wichita
New Phone Books Out This Week In Ottawa and Williamsburg
Brand new telephone directories will be mailed to all subscribers this week. The manager for Southwestern Bell Telephone announced the book includes names, addresses, and numbers for residents and a yellow pages section for businesses. Subscribers are advised to copy notes into the new directory and carefully review and retain any loose papers before discarding the old book.
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Ottawa
Williamsburg
Southwestern Bell Telephone ‘Company
Moisture Needed Across Kansas Now
Snow has barely reduced Kansas moisture deficiency, prompting urgent calls from federal and state agriculture departments for more rainfall. While fall crops gained some frost protection and moisture in favored districts, wheat is dormant and small, offering little soil cover, leaving fields prone to wind erosion across all regions.
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Topeka
Kansas
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Ottawa U Gets Grant From Ford Foundation
Ottawa University secures a 119600 grant from the Ford Foundation to support institutional projects. The funding will aid research and program development at the university.
Wesleyan Methodist Programs Planned
Two Christmas programs will be presented by Wesleyan Methodist church. The first is the annual program by church children on Sunday December 18 after Sunday school at 9:45 am, arranged by Mrs Wayne Caldwell and Mrs Hal Adamson. That evening at 7:30 the Wesleyan Youth present the pageant To Them That Sit in Darkness, featuring speakers Francis Hubbard Ethelyn Campbell J B Reeves Myra Hopkins and Marie Gilmore. For Sale Old newspapers 10c per bundle. Herald office.
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Wesleyan Methodist Church
Wayne Caldwell
Hal Adamson
Wesleyan
Jesus
Francis Hubbard
Ethelyn Campbell
J. B. Reeves
Myra Hopkins
Marie Gilmore
Weather forecast briefed with cold, snow flurries and winds
Much cloudiness and markedly colder conditions across the west and central areas this afternoon and tonight. Scattered light snow northwest this afternoon and west and extreme north tonight. Wednesday will be cloudy and cold with snow flurries northwest and occasional snow east, winds increasing to 25 to 35 mph. Highs near 20 northwest to 25-30 extreme southeast. lows tonight near 10 northwest to the 20s southeast. Yesterday's high 39, low 32 today at 12:15 am. Record highs and lows for the date noted. River reading 49 feet.
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Vane
S. W
New Cold Wave to Move Across Kansas and Dakotas
Bright winter weather in Ottawa gives way to a moving cold air mass. A new winter storm will enter northwest Kansas tonight and spread across the state by morning bringing much lower temperatures and strong northerly winds. Snow is expected as flurries or light accumulations, with arctic blasts reaching the Dakotas and parts of Minnesota and below freezing in the central Gulf States.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Dakotas
Minnesota
Gulf States
Dixon Yates Sues Government Over Cancelled Plant Contract
Mississippi Valley Generating Co filed in the U S Court of Claims seeking 3 534 778 in expenses tied to the cancelled private power plant project in the Tennessee Valley area. E H Dixon, president of Mississippi Valley Generating and Middle South Utilities, stated confidence in the litigation.
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Washington Wi
Dixon Yates Power Group
Tennessee Valley
Mississippi Valley Generating Co
U. S. Court of Claims
E. H. Dixon
Mississippi Valley Generating
West Memphis
Ark
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Frank Jones
George Santarpia
Ottawa Post Office
Herald
Lois Smith
Clinton Birdsong
Astoria
N. Y
Chester Ray Birdsong
Chester
Chester Ray
Ross Mill
New York State
Harold Tetwiler
Tetwiler
Kansas - Missouri
Douglas Bros
Skull-Whitacre General Auto Repair
S. Hickory
Lamb Ambulance
Ottawa U
Kansas Baptist Convention
C. C. Mammel
Hutchinson
Coleman Company of
W. C. Coleman
Tonight's Herald
Ottawa de Molays
Fess
Hammlin
Yelenae
Wesleyan Methodist
Herald Office
Dixon Yates
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