Ottawa luminario display lights up Christmas Eve streets
Ottawa residents embraced the Mexican custom by lighting paper-sack and candle luminarias along sidewalks with more than 1,000 homes taking part. WIBW-TV will show films of the event at 6 PM on channel 18. Local photographer J B Mudke captured the displays as visitors from Illinois and other states toured the town by car.
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Ottawa
Channel
Wibw-Tv
Topeka
J. B. Mudke
Douglas
Anderson
Osage
Ninth Street
Ottawa College Teams Ready For Five Year Tourney
Eight colleges battle in Ottawa University Wil s on Field House starting tomorrow at 4 00 p m for the Junior Chamber of Commerce invitational. Pittsburg State Teachers Central Missouri State College Washburn University Drury College Northeast Missouri Teachers Oklahoma Baptist University and Ottawa University compete for awards including all tournament teams and MVP wristwatch. Miss Shirley Honn of Ottawa University is queen of the event.
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Ottawa
Warrensburg
University of Kansas City
Kansas City
Washburn University
Topeka
Drury College
Springfield
Northeast Missouri Teachers College
Kirksville
Oklahoma Baptist University
Shawnee
Okla
Ottawa University
Bob McGhee
Fred Harder
Pittsburg
Roger Casida
Washburn
Shirley Honn
Shirley
Ottawa High School
Central Missouri State College
Washburn University of Topeka
Drury
Kirksville Teachers
Oklahoma Baptist
Pittsburg State Teachers
Harold Crawford
Jim Alexander
Loren Latimer
John Lamb
Floyd Jacobs
Oklahoma Baptists
H. B. Parks
John Millard
Ted Dorkins
Don Meek
Orlis Cox
Tom Ruble
Byron Jaden
Lamar Phillips
Fire Damages Ottawa Home In Early Morning Blaze
A fire at 530 North Cherry Ottawa damaged a home owned by George Harlpence and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hughes. It started around 8 13 a.m. and caused about 6000 in losses before firefighters stopped it after 45 minutes. Building damage was 3500 with contents at 2300. The Hughes family did not own the house. Hughes worked for Bennett's Creamery and had contents insured.
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Victor Hughes
North Cherry
Hughes
George Harlpence
California
Bennett
Fire Destroys California Homes at Malibu
A brush fire in the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu roared with gusty winds and burned about 24 homes as daylight showed two thousand acres consumed. The blaze moved rapidly toward the coast from canyon communities, with cause still unknown.
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Malibu
Calif
Santa Monica
Keith Klinger
Pacific Shore
Los Angeles
Explosive Car Blast Harms Selkirk Kansas Town
A Missouri Pacific box car with a secret government shipment of explosives blew up near Selkirk Kansas, damaging half the town and knocking out power. No one was hurt. Debris spread a half mile, and the blast could be heard miles away. Railroad crews isolated the wreck, and a Kansas patrol reported debris and post office disruption. A witness described a huge fireball and shock.
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Selkirk
Kas
Main Street
Kansas
Colorado Line
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City
Highway Patrol
Gary White
Scoti
Kansas 96
White
Walter Gersuch
Bus Passenger Goes Wild Killing Two Wounding Five
A gunman on a Greyhound bus near Cleveland killed the driver Leo Alimerico, 49, and 18 year old Georgeann Kartzke from Hamp ton Virginia before being shot dead by police. Five others were wounded including 83 year old man held for observation and several Cleveland residents. The assailant, about 32, fled behind St Peters church and was identified as a Negro. police checked fingerprints. The wounded included Alice Cavanaugh 37 Larry Ebert 24 Joseph Owens 33 Leo Vanderwell 44 and Richard Reinsberg 83.
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Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Greyhound
Mike Barrett
Georgeann Kartzke
Hampton
Charity Hospital
Leo Alimerico
Emmett Jefferson
Barrett
St. Peter’s Church
Michael Sirkot
Miss Kartzke
Kenneth Jamison
Newcastle
Jamison
Udell Wintersoll
Almerica
Alice Cavanaugh
Larry Ebert
Joseph Owens
Atco, Ga
Leo Vanderwell
Detroit, Mich
Richard Reinsberg
Weather forecast shows warmer Thursday in extreme northeast
The forecast calls for generally fall this afternoon tonight and Thursday with little temperature change tonight and a bit warmer statewide Thursday. Tonight’s low 28 to 32, Thursday high in the 50s. Yesterday’s high 40, low 30. Record highs and lows noted. Hourly temps end at 8 am today. Tomorrow sunrise 7:39, sunset 5:06. River stage this morning is 0.49 feet.
Balmy Ottawa Weather Extends Christmas Calm
Ottawa experienced balmy conditions after a mild Christmas day with fair weather predicted to continue for at least five days according to officials.
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Ottawa
Weather Bureau
Soviet Shake-Up Elevates Pervukhin to Plan Chief
Moscow reports a top-level reorganization of the Soviet economic planning staff after the Central Committee's push for revisions to the five-year plan. First Deputy Premier M. G. Pervukhin is named chief planner, replacing Maxim S. Saburov, with six deputy premiers and ministers forming a supercommittee to guide the economy as heavy industry remains the priority. The sixth five-year plan is returned to the Supreme Soviet for revision.
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Moscow
Communist Party Central Committee
M. G. Pervukhin
Maxim C. Saburov
Pervukhin
Central Committee
Kremlin
Khrushchev
Saharov
State Economic Commission
A. N. Kosygin
V. A. Malyshev
M. V. Khrunichev
V. A. Kucherenko
Agriculture
V. V. Matskevich
Famis I. A. Benediktov
Supreme Soviet
Hegberg Quits Franklin County Draft Board
Clarence W. Hegberg resigns as Franklin County Selective Service Board member effective January 1 He served on the original 1946 board during World War II and was reappointed during the Korean War The county appoints Wayne Gilliland to replace him and praises Hegberg for his service while noting the loss of the chairman position
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Clarence W. Hegberg
Franklin County Selective Service Board
County Draft Board
B. F. Bowers
Edmund Lister
Tom W. Flory
Harry Woods
Topeka
A. F. Stephenson
Woods
James Alexander, Jr
Verne Alden
Hegberg
Wayne Gilliland
Phil Hartis
Alexander
Alden
Wolves Kill Three Calves Near Princeton Area
Three 400 pound calves have been killed in the Princeton region over recent weeks, with reports from Leo Wiederholt, near Ottawa, and neighbors the Stewarts and Jim Hull. Wiederholt urges forming a wolf drive to stop further losses.
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Princeton
Leo Wiederholt
Ottawa
Stewarts
Jim Hull
Wiederholt
Three Holiday Car Accidents in Ottawa Weekend
Police report three auto accidents in the Ottawa area over the Christmas weekend. Trexel Bruner, 60, collided with a parked car on South Oak at 7 45 PM, causing $70 damage. Louis Ferns, 19, struck a parked Plymouth on North Main at 8 07 PM, with $45 damage to the station wagon. Forrest Louk ran off a culvert on K 68 at midnight, damage $300. Also, Mr and Mrs Dietz announce the birth of son Bradford Vern on December 24.
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Clyde Bruner
Cleveland
South Oak
John P. Wallace
Louis Edward Ferns
South Ash
North Main
Felix E. Lucand
Osawatomie
Chevrolet
Forrest C. Louk
Ottawa
Louk
Highway Patrol
Maracaibo
Two Million Acres Damaged By Wind In Drought Areas
The Agriculture Department reported that nearly two million acres in the drought plagued Great Plains were damaged by wind erosion during the fall, with about 29 million more acres in a wind blown condition as of December 1. The bulk is in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, and President Eisenhower plans to visit these states on his inspection tour to hear farmer and rancher concerns and discuss remedies.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Great Plains
Eisenhower
Colorado
Kansas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming
Holiday traffic tolls shatter records in longest Christmas weekend
Traffic deaths reached a historic high for a holiday period with 701 highway fatalities, 50 in fires, and 121 in other accidents for a total of 872 over a 102 hour span from Friday 6 p.m. to Tuesday midnight. California led with 70 plus deaths. Illinois Texas Ohio New York Michigan followed. Kansas reported 20 traffic deaths and three other fatalities.
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National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Safety Council
California
Illinois
Texas
Ohio
New York
Michigan
Kansas
Arkansas
Colorado
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Traffic Death Toll In Kansas Tops Holiday Record
Kansas totaled at least 20 traffic deaths during a four day Christmas period ending last night. The 1956 statewide toll reached 669, surpassing 1952 and 1954 records. Victims announced include Mrs. Ernest Beebe of Colony and Melvin Lee Armstrong of Wellington, among others. Frank D. Ekengren of Olathe died from injuries suffered December 10, not counted in the holiday toll.
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Kansas
Ernest Beebe
Kas
Erie
U.S
Melvin Lee Armstrong
Wellington
Sedan
Benson Debus
Herington
Ralph Coder
Manhattan
Frank D. Ekengren
Olathe
No Deaths Reported Across North Dakota During Holiday
North Dakota, amid its worst traffic year, recorded zero accidental deaths over the Christmas holiday. The state had no deaths from traffic, fires, drownings or other accidents while Maine and Wyoming reported fatalities from other accident types.
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Bismarck
N.D
North Dakota
Maine
Wyoming
Deaths In Canada Traffic Reaches 39
Ottawa Ont Death toll from the Christmas holiday on Canadian highways rose to 39 as a Canadian Press survey tallied fatalities. A tally from 6 pm Friday listed 50 accidental deaths including nine in fires four drownings and six in miscellaneous accidents amid a five day holiday period ending at midnight tonight.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canadian Safety Council
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