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Six days into 1965 a gas blast rocks Ottawa area home
Zeke Wiggisworth recalls a deadly January explosion at the George Wallace residence in Garnett that killed 14 month old Ray Wallace. The year then yields a mix of fire trucks delays, school bonds, highway changes, factory openings, floods and drownings shaping Franklin County.
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Zeke Wigglesworth
Garnett
George Wallace
Ray Wallace
Ottawa
William Avery
Divco-Wayne
H.D. Lee Company
Bruce Company
West Seventeenth Street
Franklin County
le Loup
Kansas State Bank
Peoples National Bank
Randy Clinton
Santa Fe
Garenett
Pomona
Glenn Ainsworth