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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1955
Page
8
Norfolk businesswoman Minnie G. Mangum 52 faces a $100000 grand larceny charge in an embezzlement case that may reach $1 million. She is free on $25000 bond as auditors extend review and a Feb. 7 court hearing is set.
Washington reports growers approved marketing quotas for burley Maryland and Virginia sun cured tobacco for the next three years. Flue cured fire cured and dark air cured tobacco also chose continued controls. Pennsylvania cigar filler type growers rejected quotas.
Wichita Police report Mark Y. Blum found his 13 year old son held by three armed men after they stopped him outside a theater. The intruders demanded money and threatened violence as Blum waited, convinced they were serious.
CHICAGO A 15 year old boy was fatally stabbed by a flying shard of glass when he dropped a bowling ball through a glass show case at Humboldt Park Bowling Center. William McGowan died after the shard pierced his chest. cashier Sigmund Hertel recalls the moment as the boy staggered wounded and died en route to a hospital.
In a Ottawa County town gas service was cut for hours after a road grader broke a main west of Ada Kas. Temperatures in the 20s left homes without heat while utility crews repaired the line yesterday.
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