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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1956
Page
3
Detroit report details Tanya Dieczok’s return from Britain where custody was settled after her father Alexis Chwas tov pursued her behind the Iron Curtain. The child was placed with her mother Elena Dieczok after British courts intervened and granted custody.
The Kansas Corporation Commission recessed until a date to be set later a hearing on Peoples Natural Gas Co. request for a 123000 dollar annual rate increase. Commissioner Richard C. Byrd said the hearing likely will not resume for at least two months.
The report notes two small tropical forest areas lingering in the United States, one in southern Florida and another in southeastern Texas, highlighting their unusual presence in these regions.
Miss Clara Kaiser runs a long established Ottawa nursery school now in its sixteenth year. The informal program centers on games and manners with no fixed schedule. Pupils recently presented a Christmas program, tea followed by cookies, and shared health concerns. Kaiser maintains scrapbooks on Ottawa history and counts many former pupils who moved on to college.
Ft Carson agronomist says retirement of 301 mules and 21 horses could threaten a planned 10 year improvement. Animals supplied 5000 cubic yards of fertilizer annually but current stock will last about three years. No immediate threat yet, as animals will be quartered on post pending word.
Providence Rhode Island Republican Christopher Del Sesto 49 former Democrat leads Dennis Roberts by 509 votes with 340 absentee ballots yet to be counted. Roberts seeks a fourth term and threatens a coalition over the validity of absentee and shut in ballots.
Las Vegas police are rounding up hundreds of counterfeit coins dumped last weekend in the gambling center. Authorities say the silver-coated lead quarters and half dollars are the most genuine-looking fakes they've seen, prompting a citywide investigation.
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the State Accident Records Section show 4 in the last 24 hours and 638 to date for 1956, with 565 for the same period in 1955. The note includes one earlier fatality not previously reported. Also mentions killer whales swallowing small seals and porpoises.
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