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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1956
Page
1
Local notice urges Ottawa Herald subscribers to aid delivery staff by ensuring carrier payments are up to date every two weeks. Readers advised to call 47 if a carrier cannot be reached, with specific hours listed for contact.
Admitted Nelson Reed 128 N Cedar Mrs Fount Bullock 1017 Main George L Griffith Baldwin Samuel W Reed Princeton Wednesday Mrs Vida Adams route 1 today Births Mr and Mrs George A Zook 712 Pecan son born Wednesday weight 8 lbs 4 ozs Dismissed Mrs Minnie Hudelson Pomona Wednesday Charles O Hazelrigg Pierre D Mrs Hart Bond 418 N Sycamore Mrs Louise Stephen 834 N Mulberry Mrs A B Cooper 810 S Cherry Mrs Ber ytha Craig Waverly today
COPE reports labor groups filled the gap as big city machines weakened. Labor supported Democrats. Congress remained in Democratic hands, while Eisenhower’s landslide was seen as due to his perceived qualifications and a global outlook. COPE calls the congressional outcome a draw.
Mrs Bessie Holler Fritts aged 60 died yesterday at the home of her daughter Mrs Everett Simmons near Overbrook Born December 20 1896 in Doniphan County Kansas she is survived by three daughters Mrs Simmons Overbrook Mrs George Fulton Topeka and Mrs Paul Pruett Quenemo one son George W Holler Topeka ten grandchildren five great grandchildren two brothers Charles Roseberry and Joe Rosberry Topeka and two sisters Mrs Ethel Hamlin Topeka and Mrs Katherine Van Hooser Santa Barbara California Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 pm at the Appanoose Brethren church with burial in Appanoose cemetery.
A report urging gradual elimination of government regulation of individual farming operations moves toward adoption as 1987 policy of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Walter L Randolph of Alabama will submit the resolution at the 38th annual convention, highlighting soil bank use and price support land in the soil bank.
Morton Sobell 37 files a new appeal from an 80 year Alcatraz sentence for aiding the Rosenbergs. He alleges government perjured testimony at trial and argues the conviction should be reconsidered by the U S Court of Appeals.
An 82-year-old woman, Miss Alice Fairman, was trapped in her second floor bedroom for 314 days when the door knob fell from the door. Police forced entry into the large frame house after a neighbor reported no activity. She had no food or water and her coal bucket rang empty before rescue. A note she lowered on a string was found.
Vice President Nixon will fly to Austria next week at President Eisenhower's request to study Hungarian refugee issues. He will recommend further U S aid after reporting to Eisenhower and Congress on admitting more than 21 500 Hungarian victims of Soviet oppression. Eisenhower created a 15 member committee on refugee relief, based on Tracy Voorhees recommendation.
New York Giants announce the purchase of Jackie Robinson from the Brooklyn Dodgers in exchange for pitcher Dick Littlefield and an undisclosed cash amount. Horace Stoneham and Dodger president Walter O Malley completed the deal at the major league meetings in Chicago earlier in the week, keeping details until players were informed.
The worst gales of the winter swept Britain killing at least four people and sending heavy snow across Scotland. A small boat capsized near the Shetland Islands, a lighthouse assistant drowned in the Outer Hebrides, and a man was killed near Sheffield when a bus shelter was toppled by a high wind. Snow fell heavily in many Scottish regions as winds reached up to 112 miles per hour in parts of Northern Scotland.
PORT AU PRINCE Haiti a cald revolution has toppled Maj Gen Paul Magloire s week old dictatorship restoring constitutional authority today Joseph Nemours Pierre Louis president of the Supreme Court took office temporarily He will govern until a new president is named in a national election The army backed Magloire and Gen Antoine Levelt chief of staff announced the change.
Kansas chamber leaders meet in Topeka urging defenses of the state sales tax distribution to local units, warning that any cut would force higher property taxes. Directors support posting speed limits, industrial districts, and a comprehensive Kansas education survey before state aid to junior colleges and municipal universities. They back water resources funding and prompt basic fees.
Nehru told Parliament that Indian diplomats in Hungary estimate about 25,000 Hungarians and 7,000 Russians killed in the anti-Soviet revolt. He cited J N Khosla and K P Menon as reporting the event as a revolution and a national one, with Russian intervention deemed not justified.
An estimate suggests each American family consumes about 800 pounds of sulphuric acid annually due to its widespread use in household and industrial products.
State Accident Records notes 3 fatalities in the last 24 hours and 630 to date in 1956 for the Topeka area. The report includes 553 fatalities in the same period for 1955 and records one earlier death not previously reported.
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