Local Grange to Meet at Memorial Auditorium
District Grange session will run 10 a m to 3 p m Friday Jan 8 at Memorial Auditorium with state officials including State Master Harry Colglaizer Larned and state officers Mrs William Beebe of Stanley Mrs Verna Shorthill of North Topeka Mrs Scott Kenny of Scranton and Mrs Louis Levering of Burlington attending Also listed are community notices and business ads from the same brief.
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The
Grange
Memorial Auditorium
Harry Colglaizer
Larned
William Beebe
Stanley
Verna Shorthill
North Topeka
Scott Kenny
Scranton
Louis Levering
Burlington
Fast Moving Snow Storm Impacts the South
A fast moving snow storm swept from Arkansas into North Carolina, forcing school closures and travel disruption. The system dumped up to 11 inches in Little Rock and 2 to 7 inches across Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas panhandle, and nearby states. At least six deaths were linked to the storm, with three in the Southeast and three in the Southwest, and several people remained missing after a private plane incident.
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Southwest
Arkansas
North Carolina
Dixie
Southland
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Missouri
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Little Rock
Texas Panhandle
New
Employment Outlook Brighter Amid December Jobs The Ottawa KS Office Reports
Robert F. Wasson of the Kansas Employment Service in Ottawa notes December placed 100 workers and nine in agricultural work. In the tri county area Franklin, Anderson, and Miami, 129 new applications and 210 unemployment claims were filed, double November levels and down from December 1957. He cites layoff patterns, factory inventories, and steel shortages, but expects a return to normal by spring and sees a brighter overall picture than last year.
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Robert F. Wasson
Ottawa
Office of
Kansas Employment Service
Franklin
Anderson
Miami Counties
Wasson
Taught Her More Than Mathematics
A 17 year old girl testifies algebra led to a relationship with her math teacher Dr Basil Warner 42 at Dickinson High School in Jersey City New Jersey. She recounts meetings after class in the sports functions room and later intimate relations at his apartment and in the Bergen Reformed Church parlor. Warner faces sex with a minor charges as his trial continues before Hudson County Judge Paul J Duffy with a jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey City
N. J
Basil Warner
Dickinson High School
Warner
Bergen Reformed Church
Ark City Adds Overtime Pay to Salary Ordinance
Arkansas City officials approve a new Salary ordinance adding overtime pay for municipal employees. City Manager Larry Gish says the measure increases flexibility in pay schedules and widens the range between minimum and maximum salaries while removing probationary periods for new employees.
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Arkansas City
Larry Gish
Rockefeller Proposes 100 Million Local Tax Plan
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller proposed a sweeping local tax plan to raise an extra 100 million dollars for schools. He also pledged a strict pay-as-you-go budget to hold the line on state spending totaling 2 021 000 000 for 1960-61.
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Albany
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
24 Appointments To State Senate
Kansas Senate to consider 24 gubernatorial appointments since 1959 with names including O Leary Wiles Creten Pfeifer Blattner Davis Bresette Leopold Powers Bradbury Drelling Johnson Smith Swann Lenski Mar tin Henbest Hall Lee Weltmer Brookover Seaton Thomas and others from diverse agencies and boards in Topeka and across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas Senate
George Docking
Docking
John A. O'Leary
Luray
Corporation Commission
Harry Wiles
St. John
Arthur Creten Jr
Muncie
Grain Advisory Commission
Dan Pfeifer
Hays
Board of Healing Arts
Charles Blattner
Clay Center
Stanley Davis
Columbus
Louis L. Bresette
Kansas City
Board of Health
W. A. Leopold
Garden City
Harold Powers
J. Alan Bradbury
Industrial Development Commission
Leo J. Drelling
Victoria
Harrison Johnson
Independence
Harold Smith
Norton
L. C. Hays
Cedar Vale
Clair L. Swann
Russell
Frank X. Lenski Sr
Iola
Board of Probation and Parole
Warren C. Martin
Milford
Joe L. Henbest
Board of Regents
Clement Hall
Coffeyville
Employment Security Board of Review
M. R. Lee
Wichita
L. M. Weltmer
Mankato
Board of Tax Appeals
Sam Brookover
Eureka
Water Resources Board
R. M. Seaton
C. Y. Thomas
Mission Hills
Bomber Crashes During Refueling Near Hugoton Kansas
A B47 bomber on a routine training flight crashed during refueling near Hugoton Kansas, leaving one body found in wreckage five miles northwest. Lt Gordon White 24 parachuted to safety as two crew members remained missing. Schilling AFB said the aircraft based there took off shortly before and White said the plane spun during refueling.
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Hugoton
Kan
Kansas
Gordon White
Schilling Air Force
Salina
White
Hospital Notes Admissions and Births in Several Areas
Admissions list includes Mrs. Robert Prewitt Pomona A M Scott Crestview nursing home and others in Rantoul Pierre S D and today births show Mr and Mrs Dale Skilling RFD 2 son Lorn weight 7 lbs 402 May include dismissals Marjorie Collins 736 S Mulberry Mrs Josephine Bivins RFC 12 Linda Sue and Jean Marie Fitzgerald 616 S Locust Mrs William Hay infant son 1201 S Mulberry Mrs Maurice Pons ton 731 Ash Mrs Eldon Rule 311 W 11th Mrs Norma Moore infant son 719 Cypress Mrs Marvin Neill infant daughter Quenemo Mrs Donald Willford infant son 1115 N Mulberry Diana Rose Elder 118 S Poplar
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Marjorie Collins
S. Mulberry
Josephine Bivins
RFC
Linda Sue
Jean Marie Fitzgerald
S. Locust
William Hay
Maurice Ponston
Ash
Eldon Rule
W. 11Th
Norma Moore
Cypress
Marvin Neill
Quenemo
Donald Willford
N. Mulberry
Diana Rose Elder
S. Poplar
Funerals for Floyd Lawson and others listed
Services and burial arrangements are announced for Floyd Lawson who died Jan 1 in California with service at Lamb Funeral Home Saturday at 11 am and burial in Highland Cemetery. Charles E Shaffer died Jan 2 with services at Towner's Chapel on Jan 5. Pallbearers listed and hymns sung. Burial Mt Hope Cemetery Williamsburg. Samuel V Vanhuss died Jan 3 with services Jan 5 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial Mt Calvary Cemetery. Eugene Osmund Hoyt died Jan 1 with service Jan 5 at Lamb Funeral Home. Burial Princeton Cemetery.
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Floyd Lawson
California
The
Lamb Funeral Home
Highland Cemetery
Charles E. Shaffer
Towner’s Chapel
Wayne Caldwell
Joe Ross
Deck Jones
A. C. Watts
Albert Jones
Charles Jones
Morris Ferguson
Albert J. Williams
Lawrence Ott
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Williamsburg
Sameul V. Vanhuss
Samuel V. Vanhuss
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Robert Pool
Baldwin
Howard
Claude
Fred
George
Charles Myers
Leslie Churchbaugh
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Eugene C. Hoyt
Eugene Osmund Hoyt
Lamb
Jarrett Clinton
Princeton Methodist Church
M. J. Lawin
Carl J. Wemmer
Robert Lingard
David Brown
Robert Knight
Willard Ransom
Dean Zook
J. R. Henning
Princeton Cemetery
Inflation report battle looms in Senate committee
New York observers expect a sharp split in economic policy views as the Senate House Economic Committee releases a staff economists report. It questions tight credit, tax policy, and debt limits while favoring growth over inflation and provoking pushback from administration allies and financial groups.
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New York
Congressional
Senate
House Economic Committee
Congress
Senate House
Treasury
U. S
Charge Brothers In Family Fuss
Two Rantoul men Ronnie Kirkland and Larry Kirkland pleaded not guilty at county arraignments on charges of disturbing the peace on January 2. Ronnie is also charged with assault, with Frank Byrn as complainant. Mabel Byrn appears in the peace charges. Bond for Larry is $100 and for Ronnie $1,100. They are due back in court January 18.
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Rantoul
Ronnie
Larry Kirkland
Ronnie Kirkand
Frank Byrn
Mabel Byrn
Donald White
Ronnie Kirkland
Man Held For Shooting Officer in Kansas Case
Cleveland police arrested 24 year old Eddie Cox who was sought for wounding a Junction City Kansas policeman. Detectives say Cox also faces questioning in a Fort Worth Texas supermarket robbery and carried a loaded pistol. He claimed Army rank and CIA assignment, but authorities say he is not in the Army. The Junction City officer had earlier questioned him for a bad check and a felonious assault warrant was issued.
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Cleveland
Junction City
Kan
Eddie Cox
Fort Worth
Tex
Cox
East Side
Central Intelligence Agency
Wylie Farrier
Lyle Roberstein
FBI
Kansas
Wesley Denzine
Maj
Edward Radunsky
Clutter family murder case stalls on key questions
In Garden City Kansas the fate of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith remains unresolved as prosecutors await their return from Las Vegas with the confessed killers. A major issue is which defendant wielded the knife and fired the shotgun that killed Herb Clutter and his family.
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Garden City
Kan
Kansas
Herbert Clutter
Finney County
Duane West
Richard E. Hickock
Perry Smith
Clutter
Brown to call March special session on smog and education
Gov Edmund G Brown said in a statewide radio address that he will call a March special legislative session to tackle smog and education issues. He proposed installing anti smog exhaust devices to improve California air quality.
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Los Angeles
Edmund G. Brown
California
KC Livestock Market Report from Kansas City AP
KC Livestock data shows cattle totals around 2 000 head with calves and stockers present. Prices across steers heifers cows and bulls rise, with high ranges for good and prime slaughter cattle. Hogs and sheep volumes rise with higher barrows gilts sows feeder lambs and slaughter lambs noted along with ewe and feeder lamb price bands.
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Kansas City
Deaths IMRS. CORA LACY REMEMBERED IN OTTAWA SERVICE
Mrs. Cora Lacy of Ottawa at 76 died yesterday at Ransom Memorial Hospital after months of illness. Born January 9, 1883 in Independence, she married William E. Lacy in 1906. he died last April. Survived by two sons, three daughters, 17 grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren, a brother, and many relatives. Funeral services set at McVey Dengel Mortuary tomorrow at 2 p.m. with Rev. Thomas E. Ingle officiating. Burial in Hope Cemetery.
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Cora Lacy
N. Mulberry
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Ottawa
Independence
David
Mary Ann (Fowler) Goodwin
William E.lacy
United Brethren Church
William
Tipton
Ind
Glen
Hammond
Ralph Ekis
Chicago
Joe Bittenbender
Pomona
Alta McCain
Richard Goodwin
Alton
Ill
McVey- Dengel Mortuary
Thomas E. Ingle
Hope Cemetery
Mrs J R Stowers Dies in Kansas City Hospital
Mrs J R Stowers of Kansas City Kansas died early today at St Luke s Hospital after a week s hospitalization She was mother of Mrs F Harris who has lived in Hutchinson since her husband Ottawa Herald publisher for years Other survivors include daughter Mrs Hale Jackson Osceola Arkansas two grandchildren and three great grandchildren Services will be held at St Paul s Episcopal Church in Kansas City Kansas likely Friday afternoon.
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J. R. Stowers
Kansas City
Kas
St. Luke’s Hospital
8. F. Harris
Hutchinson
Ottawa Herald
Hale Jackson
Osceola
iArk
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Lane Area Social Roundup Across Local Families
Mr and Mrs Dean Green of Movile Iowa visited his nephew Harry Hedges recently. Mr and Mrs Alan Stark of Topeka called on Mr and Mrs Earl Porter. Mr and Mrs Ralph Chase of Overland Park spent days with Mr and Mrs C A Gleason. Families of Dan Chambers Alamoza Colo and A L Creeger of Kansas City visited Gail Chambers. New Years guests included Mr and Mrs Dan Hettier of Yates Center and Jimmy of Kansas City Mo. Ale and Mrs Mitchell and girls toured Topeka then Cincinnati with his family. Mitchell returned to base in Alaska Tuesday. Merle Cole Lane and Ralph Morsine Osawatomie guests of Kyle Edwards Kansas City. Edith Crites returned home New Years Day after holidays in Lorraine Kas with daughter Mrs Paul Schroeder.
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Dean. Green
Movile
Iowa
Harry Hedges
Alan Stark
Topeka
Earl Porter
Ralph Chase
Overland Park
C. A. Gleason
Dan Chambers
Alamoza
Colo
A. L. Creeger
Kansas City
Gail Chambers
Dan Hettier
Yates Center
W- H. Hettier
Glenn Hedges
Jimmy
Ale
Mitchell
Joe Luther
Charles Mitchell
Cincinnati
Ohio
Alaska
Merle Cole
Lane
Ralph Morsine
Osawatomie
Kyle Edwards
Edith Crites
Lorraine
Kas
Paul Schroeder
Richmond Area Visitors and Holiday Gatherings Summary
Richmond area residents hosted and visited numerous guests over the holidays. Families from Kansas City Fairmont MinnArkansas City Pittsburg and Spencerville attended gatherings at the Pickert Dietrich and Monroe households. Additional visits included Overland Park Salina Waymore Neb Denver and Harrisonville with local hosts. Reverend Purvis to begin meetings January 10 and Everett White announces January 6 scholarship tests with the first semester ending January 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Pickert
George Kippers
Kansas City
Elizabeth Greischar
Fairmont
Minn
James Gershar
Arkansas City
Patty Burns
Laurence Pickert
Pittsburg
Frank Gerholds
George C. Dietrichs
George M. Dietrichs
Overland Park
Wilhelm Ackman
Henry Jurgens
Waymore
Neb
Howard Dossmans
Denver
Del
Farlinville
Everett White
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M. J. Klein
Fostoria
Ted Everett
Toledo
Finley
Wilma
S. Oak
Wilma Hickman
Mozelle Gagne
Calvary Baptist Church
West 7Th Street
Don Lang
Chile
South America
Drake’s Bakery
Adv
Wf. H. Britain
Ottawa Steel
Ellis
Estel F. Scott
District
Glenn C. Scott
Irwin
Howard McCurdy
S. Cedar
Doctors Hospital
Gillham Road
M. L. Merrick
70Th St
Rotary Club
Nixon
Bill Graham
Garnett
George Hill
Paola
Hugh Bryan
Rolla Thomas
Calistoga
Calif
Associated Press
Ark City
Rocky
Sterling Hayden
Superior Court
Tahiti
Grant Cooper
Hayden
Betty Ann Hayden
Robert Prewitt
A. M. Scott
Crestview Nursing J
William and Juanita Hubbard
Charles Hazelrigg
Pierre
S. D
Dale Skilling
Hickock
Smith
West
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
al Dewey
Earl Robinson
Las Vegas
Nev
Edgerton
Hickock and Smith
M. C. Schrader
Logan Sanford
KBI
Walter Hickock
Richard Hickock
Sanford
Banaseeurnes
KC Livestock
Robert Eugene Bryan
Jeannie Lucille Rose
Glenna Hettler
Chappell Cleaners
Richmond Area
Joe Totwner
Lebo
Iaetrea
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