Popularity contest crowns OHS royalty at year end party
Kent Granger and Sally Reeder win Mr and Miss OHS while Bob Allen and Beverly Hobbs take Mr and Miss Junior honors at the annual high school Record party. Kent Granger emceed. Gary West led with a song as ensembles and solos accompanied the gala evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O.H.S
Kent Granger
Sally Reeder
Bob Allen
Beverly Hobbs
Gary West
Larry Pearson
Marilyn Mack
Patsy Harper
Tim Woods
Melvin Cecil
Richard Barr
Joyce Cutting
Ray del Hodson
Jack Henning
Harold Wheat
Rotochords
Gaylene Williamson
Betty Nichols
Elmer Benson
Sally Goss
F. D. Hull
Roger Barr
Roger Wredrikson
Ilo Henning
Fred Kaiser
Bud Gollier
Linda Barnes
Ottawa
Highways Plan Drawn By Presidential Commission
A five man advisory panel led by Gen Lucius D Clay proposes a 101 billion highway program over ten years. It favors 54 billion in federal aid and 47 billion state costs, with federal cover for most of 24 billion needed to upgrade the 40 000 mile strategic Interstate network. Debates on financing remain unsettled as Eisenhower prepares to send the plan to Congress. The report hints bipartisan interest as national defense and economic stimulus justify major highway development. The commission released only a rough outline through executive director Frank Turner. The plan aligns with Eisenhower’s grand plan and signals substantial federal funding while leaving some funding questions to be resolved. James Bay area noted elsewhere as a brackish extension due to river inflows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lucius D. Clay
Eisenhower
Congress
Commission
Capitol Hill
Frank Turner
Turner
Topeka
Red J. Hall
Dodge City
Boot Hill Country
Kansas
Hall
Edward F. Arn
Wichita
Supreme Court
Statehouse
State ‘Historical Society
John Pierce
St. John
Capitol
W. W. Harvey
Kansas Supreme Court
John McCuish
Newton Oil
Harold R. Fatzer
Kinsley
Adel F. Throckmorton
Frank Sullivan
Lawrence
Ford Voiland Jr
Kansas National Guard
127Th Squadron
Kansas Air National Guard
Executive Mansion
Menicipal
Republican Party
Elderly Franklin County Man Found Dead at Farm Home
James C. Jackson, in his late 70s, was found dead by neighbor Ralph Batdorf at his farm home seven miles east of Ottawa. Coroner Dr. R S Roberts ruled death from natural causes. The body was taken to McVey Dengel Mortuary. funeral arrangements are pending. Sheriff-elect Jay Brown and Undersheriff Dean Driscoll noted Jackson lived alone with no immediate family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin County
Ottawa
James C. Jackson
R. S. Roberts
Jackson
Jay Brown
Dean Driscoll
Deans
Ralph Batdorf
Batdorf
Mc-Vey-Dengel Mortuary
Re-elected Bank Officers At State Bank of Ottawa
Officers and directors were re elected at the annual meeting held yesterday. President C. W. Hegberg, Vice President H. W. Woods of Topeka, Cashier W. E. Hegberg, Assistant Cashiers Cilen A. Hayward and Mrs. Ruth Mahoney. Directors include C. W. Hegberg, W. B. E. Hegberg, Gleff A. Hayward, H. W. Woods, James D. Dye, H. F. E. Shaw, Ben Kiefer and Robert A. Anderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Bank of Ottawa
C. W. Hegberg
W. Woods
Topeka
W. E. Hegberg
Cilen A. Hayward
Ruth Mahoney
W. BE. Hegberg
Gleff A. Hayward
H.W. Woods
James D
Weather forecast reports partial clouds and scattered rain southeast
Forecast notes a mix of partial cloudiness, possible rain in the extreme southeast tonight and Sunday, with colder conditions inland. Tonight’s low ranges from the 20s to 30s, highs Sunday in the 30s. Records show yesterday’s high 40 and low today near 30, with light southwest winds and a small river level.
Weather near Topeka shows below normal moisture in 1954
December in Kansas recorded seventh straight month of below normal precipitation and above normal temperatures. The Weather Bureau reported moisture from snow and rain averaged 0.49 inches, 0.36 inch below normal, while average temperature reached 36.1 degrees, 3.2 degrees above normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
K U Museum asks hunters to send in horned rabbits
Lawrence Kansas Special: the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History asks hunters to freeze and ship horned rabbits. Include hunter name date miles and direction from town. Dr Rollin Baker explains the horned growth forms on fur and notes five specimens date back to 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Kas
University of Kansas Museum of Natural History
Rollin Baker
Museum
Baker
U. S. National Museum
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Arresting Teens End Theft Wave Here
Police rounded up five local teenagers aged 13 to 15 who confessed to a spree of car break ins and warehouse thefts on Wilson street. They admitted stealing flashlights, gloves, sweaters, and about 12 cases of empty bottles, and two sacks of bottles were recovered. Juvenile Judge Milo Harris urged restitution and a report on the losses. no formal charges were filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Fisherry
Pete Shirley
Pepsi-Cola
Wilson Street
Milo Harris
Harris
Bank Robbers Captured After Tacoma Bank Heist
Federal custody is holding peglegged painter Faye Pebsworth and six others linked to a Tacoma bank robbery that netted about 67 055 in cash. Clarence Ramsey confessed the daylight heist using a wooden gun. Pebsworth named as getaway driver and recipient of roughly half the loot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
FBI
Tacoma
Faye Pebsworth
Clarence Wayland Ramsey
Auerbach
Ramsey
Pebsworth
Wilms
John William Murphy
Kenneth R. Springer
Virgil K. Gunnarson
Ramseys
Murphy
Springer
Gunnarson
Rent Payment with Stolen Nickels Sparks Arrest in Dallas
Dallas man Fred Biel Davis, 21, paid a $30 rent with stolen nickels and was arrested after police intercepted the odd payment. Davis pleaded guilty to stealing 4,000 nickels from a car at a lot where he worked and received a suspended one year term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Fred Biel Davis
David
Hall To Take Oath Of Office Monday
Plans for meeting the Flying Farmers at Municipal Airport at 3 p.m. were finalized at a March of Dimes committee meeting led by Paul Archer, Rotary Club sponsor. A Polio Party at the Ottawa Roller Rink, an auction, and a Pumping for Polio event were planned to boost the drive, with service stations contributing a day’s net receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal
Paul Archer
Ottawa
Lloyd Stafford
Ralph Curby
R. C. Capron
Marvin Bond
Ben Park
C. L
Ottawa Women to Workshop in Kansas League Meeting
Members of the Ottawas League of Women Voters will attend the Kansas League workshop in Lawrence January 10 to 12. Attendees Monday include James F. Indall John Pierson E E Dorkins Milo Hewitt E G Stith Wilbur Gaughan C D Ate Carthy John Okerberg and J J Pinney. Mrs Bexer Berndt attends Tuesday and Wednesday joins Mines Jack Pringle Wayne Capron M V Holmes H W Myers and B F Park. Monday features Legislative Action day on assessment equalization budget, with a workshop on legislative procedure by the KU government research staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawas League of Women Voters
Kansas League
Lawrence
James
F. J. Indall
John Pierson
E. E. Dorkins
Milo Hewitt
E. G. Stith
Wilbur Gaughan
C. D. Ate Carthy
John Okerberg
J. J. Pinney
Bexer Berndt
Goring
The
Mines
Jack Pringle
Wayne Capron
M. V. Holmes
H. W. Myers
B. F. Park
Kansas Citizens Commission On
State Board
K. U
League of Women Voters
Much Building In Past Year In Ottawa 1954
City hall records show Ottawa issued 149 building permits in 1954 totaling 788,485 dollars. Permits covered all construction types including homes remodels enlargements garages and business buildings.
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Ottawa
Car Skids on Frosty Overpass West of Loho
One person lightly injured when a 1953 Pontiac driven by Mrs. Jim Smith of Arkansas City skidded on a frosty US 505 overpass west of Loho. The car, total loss, bounced side to side injuring her husband. a 3 month old baby unharmed. All three were taken to Ransom Memorial hospital. Trooper Roy Phillips investigated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
US 505
Loho
Art Jensen
Bob Conaty
Jim Simith
Arkansas City
Homewardbound Father Returns With Adopted Daughter
Lt Norman Moose Donahoe departs Athens with his seven month old adopted Greek daughter Roni Marie aboard a U S Air Force C47 bound for Naples. He clings to the child as winds bite at Ellinikon Airport, hoping his dwindling diaper supply lasts to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Greece
Norman “Moose” Donahoe
Naples
United States
Roni Marie
Eltinikon
KU medical student's body found in abandoned well
Norman Seibel, 24, a University of Kansas Medical Center student missing since December, was found dead in a 25 foot well near Hillsboro. A note on a file card tied to the case suggested suicide. investigators were awaiting handwriting tests. Authorities noted bruises and shots fired records at the scene. hunter James Earnshaw discovered the body and gun near a brush pile. The coroner said the marks could stem from the fall into the dry well and pending tests will determine if the death was self-inflicted. Seibel was the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Seibel of Hillsboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holliday
Kas
Norman’ Seibel
Hillsboro
Seibel
University of Kansas Medical’ ‘Center
Kansas City
Tolstoy
Pierre
David $. Long
Johnson County
Long
James D. Earnshaw
Earnshaw
Lid Seibel
Flllshoru
Clarke Wescoe
Medical School
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C. L. Hough
North Baptist Parsonage
Dan R
Gott
M. L. Bliss
Ralph Williams
Rose Campbell
Bliss
Williams
Record
Journalism
Herald
Lois Smith
Bank
K. U. Museum
Newspapera Ibener Bundie
Herald Office
E. Haff
C. Christerson
David Woods
Memorial Auditorium
Woods
Ottawa High Swing Kings
Women To Workshop
K.U
Lamb Ambulance
Fred Hall
By James & Lawso
Hollywood
Hecama Apa
Angeles
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