Side Swipes and Taxes Highlight Busy Ottawa Week
The new phone book will boost listings in Ottawa and Williamsburg with 1060 more entries. Tax payers can use the noon hour next week as the county treasurer extends noon hours to 4 pm. penalties apply after December 20 for real estate and personal property taxes. A thief stole 100 outdoor Christmas lights from Ransom Memorial Hospital Thursday night. Ottawa also sees a labor dispute as the company aims to avoid service disruption during contract talks with the union today.
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Roselyn Whirley
Ottawa
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Santa Claus parades to hand out candy this weekend
Santa Claus will be on the streets this afternoon with candy for youngsters. He appears Saturday December 21 and also Monday and Tuesday December 23 and 24. Stores stay open tonight and next Wednesday evening December 18. On Christmas Eve December 24 stores close at 5 30 p m to give staff time with families.
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Selection of Good Used Furniture and Can Goods Auction
Auction advertised for Saturday in Ottawa at 118 Main features a selection of good used furniture and a large lot of can goods. Bids expected from local residents and collectors.
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T-crat
Partly Cloudy Weekend Forecast With Mild Temperatures
The county forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions this afternoon tonight and Sunday with a small warmup tonight. Lows in the 30s and highs around 65 to 66 degrees. A dance at Blue Moon is planned for Saturday December 14 with reservations via Jack McGee Music, phone 1982.
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Gas Service Strike Set For Midnight
A strike by United Mine Workers of America District 50 against Gas Service Co. is planned for midnight in eight communities across Kansas and Missouri. The union says 516 Gas Service employees will walk out in Wichita, Mission, Pittsburg, Newton, Kansas City Kansas, and northeast Johnson County in Kansas and Independence and Lee's Summit in Missouri, though Kansas City Missouri division workers are not covered.
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Ottawa Gas Service Manager Comments On Union Dispute
H. D. McGrath of the Ottawa division says no statement beyond newspaper reports. He notes service men in Ottawa are United Mine Workers Union members and protected by the contract in dispute.
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Ottawa
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Bank Holdup Man Caught in Las Vegas Nevada
LAS VEGAS Nev John Harris Hudson 43 accused of three bank holdups in the Kansas City area was arrested at a bar by FBI agents and police He carried a .32 caliber revolver but did not draw it Police said he had 2000 and gambled lavishly Hudson pleaded innocent at arraignment before U S District Judge A G Blad and was jailed on 50000 bond He is connected to two Riverside Mo holdups for 7500 on May 14 and over 3000 on Oct 24 and a 9464 Stand ard State Bank of Fairmount Mo robbery on Nov 27 Police found two suitcases of expensive clothes and railroad tickets in his rooms and a bank book showing a 3000 deposit at Drovers and Merchants Bank in St Joseph Mo the day after the Federal robbery
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World News In Briefs From Across The Globe
Death toll from the Western Iran earthquake rises to 1,287 with 500 dead in Seraab village as aid rushes to the area. Shakes hit Athens and parts of Turkey. Tass reports a Mongolia quake on Dec 5 with no casualty data. A French report details torture of Algerian rebel prisoners. eight concentration camps housing 5,000 inmates noted. A discharged Kentucky official accuses Gov Chandler and two wildlife workers of illegal hunting after-hours. UN General Assembly debates adjournment amid Cyprus wrangle. Soviet resolution on peaceful coexistence faces U.S. objections. Florida faces retreating freezing weather as study probes eligibility for emergency federal aid. Von Braun named Huntsville’s outstanding citizen. New York subway service runs at 70 percent as motormen union rift grows. bus strike deadline extended to Jan 1. Beeville rocket group readies missiles. one aims for two miles up. Maj. Gen. Medaris testifies lack of 1954 funds delayed a 1500-mile missile. go-ahead only in 1955 after Killian committee study.
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Ike
Telephone Texas Seeks Regional Telephone Circuit
Interest is revived in wiring Telephone into a regional telephone circuit. School Supt. Homer Sledge said a cooperative rep surveyed the area and promised to hook Telephone to a circuit if enough subscribers are secured in surrounding communities. The local system was wiped out by 1949 ice storms.
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Yack McGee Music Featured in 1982 Reservations Ad
A brief 1982 notice invites readers to call for reservations, promoting Yack McGee music as the feature. The line emphasizes phone numbers and booking details for events or performances.
Fatal Fire At Rocket Plant In Elkton Kills Four
FBI teams probe a flash fire at Thiokol Chemical Corp Elkton plant that killed four, injured four and damaged a main unit. The blaze started in a mixing vat triggering a rapid explosion. rockets may have ignited and been ejected, with no landing reports.
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Car crashes into Ark City drug store
Four people in a car and three in the drug store escaped injury when a vehicle rammed through a store window in Ark City. Earl Robert Kelly, 30, said the accelerator stuck and the car surged over the curb and 14 feet into the shop. he started to leave a parking space when control was lost. A note about a Blue Moon dance with reservations follows.
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Arkansas City
Earl Robert Kelly
Ike Says NATO Can Meet Continuing Soviet Threat
In Paris Eisenhower declared NATO can meet the pot i die threats of Soviet Russia as he attends the NATO summit. He urged a true partnership of spiritual military and economic strength to defend freedom against Red despotism. The trip follows his stroke last November and featured careful speech and weathered reception at Orly Field.
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Police Help Small Boy With Christmas Gift
Chicago police fulfilled a seven year old boy’s plan to give a girl a cuddly gray kitten for Christmas. Brian Soncrant sent a note with $5 to Commissioner Timothy O Connors office asking for a policeman to buy a purring kitten for Kathleen Brown. Capt. Leroy Steffens and Patrolman Bes Palets delivered the kitten from the anti cruelty society to Kathys North Side home, while the boy's $5 was returned with six cents postage due.
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Bes Palets
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O'Connor
Girl 15 Found Half Frozen in Abandoned Store
Rosella Auxier disappeared five days ago after leaving her grandmother's home. She was found unconscious in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, with both legs frozen solid from ice used to control thawing. Doctors described her condition as serious but she showed no pain and began eating again.
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Rosella Auxier
Prestonsburg
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Richard Auster
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George Archer
Tulsa Henery Inc Wins Floodway Slope Stabilization Contract
The U S Army district engineers announced a contract award to Henery Tulsa Harry Henery Inc of Ottawa Kansas for 208685 dollars to stabilize slopes of the Wichita Valley Center floodway in Kansas.
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Harry Henery Inc
Ottawa
Kas
Wichita Valley Center Floodway
Kansas
U. S.army District Engineers
Ann Landers Column Weighs In On Your Problems
Ann Landers delivers blunt advice in her daily column focusing on reader issues and personal dilemmas. The piece emphasizes frank judgment and practical guidance for readers facing everyday troubles.
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Cier Daily
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Say All U. S. Planes Can Carry New Weapons
The Air Force announced virtually all front line U S fighters and bombers have nuclear or thermo nuclear capabilities. It noted the B58 Hustler is the newest aircraft to carry a nuclear system and cited a Kirtland Air Force Base weapons command directorate working on mating special weapons with carriers this year.
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