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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1972
Page
3
Oasis Club will meet Tuesday at noon for a luncheon in the First Christian Church. Mrs. Ruth Rader will lead group singing. Adv: OASIS notes and local event listings.
Atchison High School in Kansas reopened after a week of racial disturbances. One thousand one hundred students gathered in the auditorium with ten parents patrolling the halls and heard Black and white student leaders discuss the outbreak. Duane Anthony urged moving past publicity while John Holmes urged dropping prejudice. Andy Carrier outlined formation of a mixed youth group to handle disputes.
Albert Ranson Roush aged 50 dies. Survived by wife Dorothy. Relatives and friends will meet at Woodlawn Cemetery Pomona Tuesday at 2 30 p m for graveside services led by Rev. Earl J Zimmerman.
Lisa Sergio, first official English interpreter for Benito Mussolini, will give two public lectures at Ottawa University this week. The first talk, The Middle East Global Struggle for Power Prestige and Oil, is at 8 tonight in the Administration Building Auditorium, followed by Future Triangle of World Powers USA USSR China at 9 40 a.m. Wednesday in Chapel. A tireless world traveler and Danforth visiting lecturer, she has spoken at more than 150 campuses and stays current on European and Communist as well as free nations news.
Liberal Kansas AP reports in the 23rd International Pancake Race Liberal women face Olney England on a 415 yard course through town streets. They carry a skillet and flip pancakes at three points. Trans Atlantic phone timing will rank times. Weather worries loom after near blizzard conditions hindered practice.
Admissions list includes Mrs. Harry Ledom and Mrs. Leroy Bien with dates Saturday and Sunday. Dismissals feature Elizabeth Bradford and others. birth reported for Wayne Parker's family. A two vehicle mishap injures none, with drivers Waymire and Roller. Multiple traffic citations and divorces noted. Obituaries for Charles E Davidson Albert Roush Mary B Moore Paul Norton with service details. Military graveside honors observed at Mount Hope for Davidson.
KC markets show cattle 2,000 head mostly steady to down with select declines. feeders steady, hogs up 25 to 50 points with higher weights lifting some sales. sheep small supply with wooled lambs 28 to 29 dollars and ewes 3.50 to 5.50. Tomorrow’s estimates: cattle 1,000. calves 100. hogs 3,500. sheep 100.
Funeral services for Luella Pilkington 81 of Garnett who died February 7 were held February 10 at Farris Memorial Chapel with Rev Vernon Dillon officiating. Mrs OO Meisenheimer accompanied soloist Mrs Dale Fooshee. Pallbearers were James Anderson Clyde Johnson Dale Fooshee Harry McAfee Clark Howerton and Robert Archer. Burial followed at Garnett Cemetery.
In Richmond, the Eastern Kansas Sportsman Club elected new officers and directors at a Sunday meeting. Jim Garber became president with Jerry Brock as vice president, Ruby Parks as secretary, and Bill Ackmann as treasurer, succeeding Henry Ackmann. New one year directors are Lonnie J. Riley and Bob Hayden. two year directors are Raymond Seaton and Ray Parks. The club remains affiliated with the Kansas Wildlife Federation.
New York AP columnist Hal Boyle notes the high upkeep costs of racehorses, jokes about mothers-in-law in the New Hebrides, and folklore tales on lucky and unlucky rites. He cites experts on women’s beauty vs voice, and shares quips from Quotable Notables. Also includes a Bryan quote and Nat Geographic stat.
This week's OU calendar lists February 14 lecture by Lisa Sergio on Middle East power, 8 p.m. in Administration Building Auditorium. February 14 convocation by Sergio at 9 40 a.m. in Chapel Auditorium. February 14 jazz mass directed by Robert Mitchell with OU and Lincoln University students. February 18 basketball Central Methodist at Fayette. February 19 high school music scholarship auditions at Tony Jones Recital Hall, basketball at Wilson Field House versus College of Emporia at 2 p.m.
Public record items include a February 14 1972 hearing notice for Hazel Wood sentenced 67 for forgery in Franklin County Kansas seeking executive clemency with written comments due by February 25 1972. Also ordinances set a 35.00 monthly 3 phase electric installation and meter minimum, repeal incompatible ordinances, and establish licensing revocation rules for cereal malt beverages with appeal procedures and penalties.
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