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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1959
Page
3
Community briefs from Ottawa report Christmas services at Main Street United Presbyterian Church and Wesleyan Methodist church with programs, caroling and midweek prayers. Tax payments from Kansas City Power & Light, local club activities, a State Book Company ad, and a driving muffler violation are also noted.
Pupil handicraft display at Hawkins School is set for Wednesday December 23. Family visits and extended kin are noted with plans for Christmas celebrations and relatives traveling from Hutchinson Ottawa and Wichita.
In Kansas City the 1960 Hotpoint preview shows insulation called Wonderwall promising half as thick yet twice as effective. The Do ug las brothers showcase this feature amid a broader Ottawa Herald season of Christmas notices and local business updates. Maynard and Ben from Ottawa Farm Equipment earn 10-HI Club status after leading Oliver product sales in 1959.
INDEPENDENCE MO AP Two shotgun blasts struck the home of a non striking oil refinery employee at Sugar Creek Friday night. No one injured. Mrs A H Kilpatrick was home watching TV when shots broke a storm door and window. Her husband worked at the Standard Oil refinery. It was the second time Kilpatrick’s house was targeted. Eight .22 bullets hit the home Oct 25. Refinery manager P C Livesay offered a 5000 dollar reward for solution of the crime. Local 5672 of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union has been on strike since July 8. Kilpatrick, a non unionist, was among 24 men who returned to work Aug 20.
Readable entries show barley at 85 cents per bushel, soybeans at 1.77, wheat at 1.82, corn at 92, oats at 75, and mile 1.35. Butterfat 0.50, eggs straight run 28 and graded 20 16, heavy hens 206, light hens 4, cocks 7, beans at 1.80.
Christmas dinner will be served at the Wellsville school lunch room Tuesday with a gift exchange in both the grade and high schools on Wednesday and 2:30 p.m. dismissal. After Jan. 4, Wellsville High travels to Tonoxie on Tuesday night Dec. 22. Coach Barnes spoke at Kiwanis on coaching, players, and fast-breaking play. A Christmas program by the Assembly of God Sunday School is set for Sunday at 7:30. Rebekah Lodge held its Christmas party with a gift exchange and a potluck. The American Legion toy workshop continues with toys repaired by Commander Bill Shields. Maracaibo is drilling a new well on Ada Chambers farm south of Wellsville and planning four more wells. About 60 relatives will gather for an early Christmas at Mrs. Waverly Rhoades’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Long of Drexel visited and attended a school program with their grandson.
The account traces Josiah’s rise from eight year old king to a thirty one year reign in Jerusalem. He vows to destroy heathen altars and topple idol images, inspired by his mother Jedidah and tales of Manasseh, and begins a reform to restore true faith. The narrative notes his decisive act of burning the bones of wicked priests atop pagan high places.
Oonik and Santa locate the Ice King in a frozen castle. The lonely ruler cries for the first time as they reveal winter can coexist with summer. Santa counsels marriage to the Sun Daughter, and Oonik offers to reclaim Santa's reindeer to aid the journey. Next, The Sun Daughter.
In Millburn New Jersey a magistrate fined Mrs Peter Zelinski 210 for refusing to end a party line call so Dr Marvin Becker could reach an ambulance. The codefendant Jeanette Hausler faced no final action. Becker testified he asked five times on November 11 to hang up. The women allegedly told him to go to hell.
Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth M Collins who died December fifteenth were held with burial in the local cemetery. The arrangements were conducted by the Jensen Funeral Home and attended by family friends and community members.
Funeral services were conducted at Pomona Methodist Church with Rev. Robert Starbuck officiating. Pallbearers named Maywood Hoagland Raymond Collins Richard Collins James Lindsey James Driver and Ben Nitcher. Burial followed at Woodlawn Cemetery Pomona with Mrs. N. V. Hudelson singing hymns assisted by Mrs. Neal Baxter. The note appears alongside a probate notice in Ottawa Kansas regarding Edith K. Link, deceased, estate matter.
Admissions include Elmer J. Randall 829 Hamblin and Rodney Lee Latimer 114 S Cedar. Births report Mr and Mrs Jerry Schulz 1541 S Main a son born Friday weighing nine pounds sixteen ounces. Dismissals include Cora F. E. Keeran Oklahoma City Friday.
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