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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1963
Page
7
East German trapeze artist Horst Klein 36 fled over border guards by sliding on a power cable into West Berlin on December 27. He climbed a pylon, slid along the cable despite cold and numb hands, jumped to a canal towpath, and was rescued after breaking both arms.
Osawatomie in Kansas marked a historic step in mental health care when a 1863 bill proposed the state’s first insane asylum. Led by free-state figures like Dr W W Updegraff and James Hanway, the site was set in Osawatomie with support from Rev. Samuel Lyle Adair. By 1886 the hospital opened as the Kansas State Insane Asylum later renamed Osawatomie State Hospital. In recent years experts note rising awareness and community involvement improving care, contrasting past crises such as the 1948 staff resignations at Topeka State Hospital.
By Mrs J C Cook busy Bee Club meets Thursday Feb 7 at Central Community Center with hostesses Mrs Etla Fox and Mrs Dick Fox. Quilting to be done and a cafeteria luncheon served. Mrs George Fuller injured a broken ankle Saturday and is at Ransom Memorial Hospital Ottawa. Rev and Mrs Ross Sackman and Annette Augusta visit and stay with Mrs Lloyd Schweitzer family. Mr Schweitzer in St Luke's Hospital Kansas City recovering from surgery. Coyotes become bolder. one circled Jim Cook henhouse three times at chore time. Two coyotes spotted at Frank Hahner pond east of house. John Sutton frost bitten thumb while hunting.
A Corps of Engineers survey party led by John Swank begins on site work to map the Osawatomie local protection project. The plan calls for 3.8 miles of levee and three pumping plants integrated with upstream reservoir control on the Marais des Cygnes River and Pottawatomie Creek.
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