Local News Briefs From Ottawa Area
The Ottawa press item summarizes community notices including moving announcements for Mrs. Lucy Davidson and family to Newton and Mrs. Willard Shoemaker moving with son Roger to Wichita. It notes Nativity at Grace Episcopal Church, hospital and police reports of break ins at Peffly Motor and Larry’s Texaco, a found bicycle, a youth banquet at First Baptist, and a Baxter Community Christmas party. It also mentions radio and TV committee chair John Milton, a Plymouth station wagon replacing a 1953 Chevrolet for the Extension Service, and local shop notices for Wilky’s Pottery and nearby products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Davidson
Helen Pacheco
Mary Jane
Newton
S. Mulberry
Walshes
Mike
Hawkins Christmas Program At School Tomorrow Evening
The Hawkins Christmas program will be tomorrow evening at the school led by pupils and teacher. Refreshments will be candy and fruit. Reed Goss has returned home on furlough from Korea after serving with the U S army. He visited his parents before reporting to Ft. Meade Maryland. He arrived from San Francisco last Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkins
Reed Goss
U. S. Army
Korea
Jack Goss
Ft. Mead, Md
San Francisco
Hospital Notes Admits and Birth Announcements
Admitted: Mrs. Carlie Capps 710 Logan. Mrs. Victoria Christie 1446 Willow. Mrs. Roger John 1924 N Mulberry. Orville McNish Route 2. Births: Calvin Duvall Pomona son Monday 7 lb 4 oz. Leonard Doughty 716 D S Mulberry son 6 lb 54 oz. Dismissed: Mrs. Charles Jones and baby son 428 Walnut. Mrs. Alvin Burgoon 708 S Cherry. Mrs. Glenn Bushnell Eudora. Mrs. Roy Warhurst and baby son Route 1 Pomona. Mrs. Deva Santee 831 S Hickory today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlie Capps
Logan
Victoria
Christie
Willow
Roger John
N. Mulberry
Orville McNish
Calvin Duvall
Pomona
Leonard Doughty
S. Mulberry
Charles Jones
Alvin Burgoon
S. Cherry
Glenn Bushnell
Eudora
Roy Warhurst
Deva Santee
S. Hickory
Injured Fatally at Cedar Vale Truck Crash
Orman B Bruner 43 of Sedan Chautauqua County shop foreman died in a Cedar Vale hospital last night from injuries suffered earlier in the day in a truck wreck near Hewins Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Vale
Kas
Orman B. Bruner
Sedan
Chautauqua County
Hewins
Reds Release Missionaries From China Border
Dr. Homer W. Bradshaw and his wife, medical missionaries held by Communists nearly five years, crossed into Hong Kong freedom. Mrs. Bradshaw, malnourished and mentally strained, was taken to St Teresa's Hospital. the couple planned to move to a farm near Pittsburgh once she recovers. The Bradshaws had been prisoners since 1951 with house arrest in Canton for Mrs. Bradshaw since 1953. They were reportedly accused of spying but Chinese charges were not public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Homer W. Bradshaw
China
Bradshaw
Free Territory
St. Teresa’s Hospital
Frontier Bridge
Kwangtung
Canton
Crash Victim Dr Parl M Agee 79 Killed in Missouri
Dr Parl M Agee 79 an Independence osteopath was killed in a Sunday motor car collision at Courtney road and U S 71 bypass in Jackson County Missouri. His wife and two passengers in the other car were injured. Funeral services will be held at 2 30 p m Tuesday at First Baptist Church Independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parl M. Agee
Independence
D. L. Young
Ottawa
Courtney Road
U. S. 71 Bypass
Jackson County
Agee
Dr. Agee
First Baptist Church
Independence, Mo
Another Woman In Murray s Life
Oklahoma City court deposition reveals a second woman in former Gov Johnston Murray s life. Highway Patrolman Jim Garibaldi identified Helen Shutt former University of Tulsa faculty member as Murray s companion on numerous occasions. He testified as Murray s driver and aide during his four years as governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Johnston Murray
Murray
Jim Garibaldi
Helen Shutt
University of Tulsa
Overbrook Stock Sales Planned in Kansas Dec 21 24
C A Myers and Son announces a series of livestock sales in Kansas towns. On Dec 21 Overbrook, Dec 22 Ottawa, and Dec 24 Lawrence, sales feature local markets and dealers including Turner, Roberts Market, and Overbrook Livestock. Contact Centrepolis 918 or 17 Ottawa Route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Myers & Son
Centrepolis
Ottawa
Overbrook
Kas
Deaths and Funeral Notices in Wellsville Area
Deaths report Reverend G L Taylor age eighty four died Friday funeral held yesterday in the Methodist Home for the Aged he was former pastor of Pomona and Richter Methodists survived by his widow two sons and six grandkids Mrs Roy Churchill and family mourn the death of Mrs Will Churchill in Bedford funeral likely tomorrow Mrs Gertrude Smith elderly Wellsville widow died at Ransom Memorial hospital burial pending at Wellsville cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baxter Community
Baxter Community Club
W. G. Ransom
Jack Ransom
Topeka
Davenport
G. L. Taylor
Methodist Home For the Aged
Taylor
Pomona
Richter
Gene Taylor
Humboldt
John Taylor
Torrence
Calif
Roy D. Churchill
S. Cedar
Bedford
Will Churchill
Gertrude Smith
Wellsville
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Cedar House Nursing Home
Sidney A. Smith
Coughlin Funeral Home
Wellsville Cemetery
Funeral services for Mrs William H Fisher
Funeral services for Mrs William H Fisher who died December 14 were held at Lamb Funeral Home on December 19. Rev R B Craig officiated with honorary pallbearers J G Lytle Earl A Reed Dean Holmes Ralph B Turner Ralph Weinheimer and pallbearers H L Wherry T T Shelton Harry Fisher Ellis Carman L A Reeder Fred Proffitt Elmer Perkins and Artis Hutchinson. Albert J Williams sang hymns with Mrs J R Henning accompanying. Burial followed at Highland Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artis Hutchinson
Albert J. Williams
J. R. Henning
Highland Cemetery
Attorney General Names Lawyer for State Liquor Office
Topeka James L. Galle, an assistant attorney general since July 1953, has been appointed attorney for the State Liquor Control Office. Atty. Gen. Harold R. Fatzer made the appointment with the governor's concurrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
James L. Galle
State Liquor Control Office
Atty
Harold R. Fatzer
Tuttle Creek Contract Let
Kansas City reports the award of a 4 238 093 dollar contract to List and Clark Construction Co for earth fill work on the Tuttle Creek dam north of Manhattan Kansas. The project aims to raise the dam to 157 feet, including extensive spillway and foundation excavations and large fill volumes. Completion is targeted for December 15 1957 with bids opened December 8 at Manhattan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
List
Clark Construction Co
Tuttle Creek
Manhattan
Kas
Col. E. C. Adams
Big Blue River
Tecon Corp. of
Dallas
Sapling to towering tree grows from sun water air
From sun, water and air plus chemicals and minerals from the soil a sapling can grow into a tree that may weigh 1,000 tons and tower 300 feet high.
Local Market Prices With Mixed Commodities Report
Prices listed for barley soybeans rye and corn along with oats eggs and poultry terms show varying figures. Butterfat and assorted egg grades are noted with small decimals and approximate weights.
Westinghouse Stands Pat and Aids Idle Workers
Westinghouse Electric Corp urged a five year contract stand pat on disputed issues and refused arbitration. The firm also launched a aid program lending $100 to each idle employee to help them through Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Bids Open January 12 for Turnpike Lighting Project
Kansas Turnpike Authority announces bid opening for mercury vapor lighting at toll plazas service areas and interchanges along the 236 mile corridor from the Kansas City to the Oklahoma state line. Also bid invites for 40,000 gallon water tanks at Wellington El Dorado Matfield Green Emporia Topeka and Lawrence service areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas Turnpike
Turnpike Authority
Kansas City, Oklahoma State Line
Wellington
el Dorado
Matfield Green
Emporia
Lawrence
Also Mentioned on This Page
Phone Herald Office
Wilky's Pottery
L. R. Wilkinson
Tamac
Children of the Grace
John Milton
H. T. Milton
R1. 3
Kansas State College
K-State
Milton
Peffly Motor Company
N. Main
Larry’s
Texaco
Peffly’s
Lester Mills
Skunk Run
Mills
North Baptist
Bethany Chapel
John Lavender
Morgan Park Baptist Church
Chicago
Ed. Johnson
Robert McCrea
Minnick Motor Company
Don Brown
Brown
Louis H., Dengel
U. S
Jim Fredricks
Herbert R. Pfister
Popular Science Monthly
Homer E. Newell, Jr
U. S. National Committee For the International Physical Year
American Museum-Hayden Planetarium
New York
Pfister
Reds
Goodyear West
Richardson
Jack Nelson
Anderson County
Neill George
Waverly
Marvin Carr
Bob George
Artie Lenhart
North Waverly
Chet Hermreck
Richmond
Albert Stewart & Son
Harold
Printy & Son
Ben Printy
Mac
Quin Furniture Store
Court House
STC
Westinghouse
The
Ottawa Herald
Don L. McKelvey
Bennett
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