Ottawa High Seniors Lead Morning Assembly
Ottawa High School seniors organized the activity hour program featuring The Down Beats seven piece band and the Don Dave and Timmy trio. The program included vocal numbers, a reading by Julia Phillips, and between numbers by Ted Brill. Tulips show early shoots due to unseasonably warm January weather.
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Ottawa High School
Down Beats
Don
Dave
Timmy
George Kramer
Jim Shelden
Ronnie Meyers
Mary Pickenpaugh
Jim Green
Patsy Richardson
Darrell Barkdoll
F. D. Hull
Dave Cox
Timmy Wood
Julia Phillips
Ted Brill
Rabbits Roundup Nets Over 1000 Prey Across Kansas
In Sharon Springs about 500 people joined a rabbit roundup, killing more than 1000 rabbits sold to hog farmers for 10 cents each. Proceeds benefit the Fort Wallace Memorial Assn Museum and the Wallace 4-H Club. In Liberal a drive drew about 1500 participants killing around 1500 rabbits across six sections of Stevens County. In Lakin around 400 club wielders killed over 1000 rabbits in a Saturday roundup.
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Sharon Springs
Kas
Fort Wallace Memorial Assn
Wallace 4-H Club
Here
Stevens County
Lakin
Wrecks Attributed to Loose Gravel on Franklin County Roads
Two weekend accidents on Franklin County roads injured three people. Drivers attributed crashes to loose gravel. Theo dore Fogle, 20, and passenger Allen Alterman, 22, were treated at Ransom Memorial Hospital after their 1948 Olds collided with a bridge. Fogle suffered head face and back injuries. Alterman knee and leg injuries. In the other crash, Wilma Jean Oakes, 19, received a bruised knee after her 1940 Chevrolet skidded on gravel and hit a culvert post two miles south and three miles east of Ottawa.
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Franklin County
Dean Driscoll
Williamsburg
Theodore A. Fogle
Rt. 1
Ottawa
Driscoll
Fogle
Allen Alterman
Cleveland
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Alterman
Wilma Jean Oakes
N. Mulberry
Jury Hearing Liquor Case
A district court jury was chosen this morning to hear the city's case against Harry B. Greenup of Peoria. Greenup is charged with drunk driving and was arrested on September 25 after appealing a police court conviction to district court. A second jury is scheduled this afternoon to hear the city's case against Sam Byrd at 903 E. 7th for being drunk in a public place.
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Harry B. Greenup
Peoria
Greenup
Paul Gaynor
Harvey Staadt
Ray Bloomer
Ray Talbott
C. A. Hobbs
Clarence Koch
Don Hull
Leo G. Beller
Ruby Wittan
Gilbert Robe
Alfred Nilges
Lee Shobe
Sam Byrd
Byrd
Think Ske Is Fit For Second Term
Washington report shows 246 heart specialists surveyed on President Eisenhower health. About three of five say he is physically fit to seek a second term. The remainder express concerns about his health.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Budget Session Opens In Kansas With Budget At Core
Gov. Fred Hall predicts success hinges on tight adherence to the law creating the session as Kansas begins a budget only gathering. The $262,900,000 plan aims to fund essential state services with $9.6 million in new revenue anticipated while lawmakers debate duration and procedures. House rules, automatic roll call, and a possible joint session to hear the budget message frame the opening schedule.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
Kansas
Hall
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Will Discuss Youth Problems PTA Panel Night
A Junior-Senior High PTA panel discussion on Youth Problems closes the series. The 7:30 p m event in the senior high auditorium features moderator Rev. Charles P. Knight and comments by Dr. Charles W. Southard. Panelists include Basil W. Kelsey Mrs Lee Allen Casida Norah Evans William Barker plus students Liz Keller Joel Berglund. Attendance urged for good seating.
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PTA
Charles P. Knight
First Methodist Church
Charles W. Southard
Ottawa University
Basil W. Kelsey
Lee Allen Casida
Norah Evans
William Barker
Liz Keller
Joel Berglund
Helman Named College Head at Manchester College
A. Blair Helman, former Ottawan and Brethren minister, will become president of Manchester College in North Manchester Indiana on August 1. He has served as pastor in Ottawa and professor of sociology at Ottawa University, later leading McPherson College as board president. He succeeds retiring Dr V F Schwalm and once worked as a coal miner in Pennsylvania before entering education and ministry.
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A. Blair Helman
Manchester College
North
Manchester
Ind
Helman
Ottawa University
Wichita
Pennsylvania
McPherson College
University of Kansas
McPherson College Board of Trustees
Manichester
V. F. Schwalm
Trap Door Finds Its Way Into Memorial Auditorium Stage
Otta wa University drama student Larry French discovers a trap door in the Memorial auditorium stage. He plans to use it in a one act play The Rising of the Moon to be staged by DU students. The tale, connected to an old magician show memory, features a devil rising in smoke in operas and plays, though French will omit the devil. The crowd numbering practicing drama students and local citizens anticipate the performance tonight at 7 30.
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Ruth Lathrop
O. U
Ottawa
Memorial Auditorium
Larry French
Ottawa University Drama
D. U
Lady Gregory
le Real Uing
Hall Seeks 3.6 Million for State Schools Budget
Gov Hall proposes 3,627,374 for state educational institutions in the 1957 fiscal year with only 1,159,874 to be acted on by the Legislature’s budget session starting tomorrow. The rest stems from the 1955 Educational Building Fund financed by a statewide 0.75 mill tax levy. Readily planned and proposed projects include additions and new facilities at Fort Hays, Kansas State, Emporia, Pittsburg, and the University of Kansas, with multiple supplemental appropriations for building, remodeling, and equipment across several colleges and schools.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
Educational Building Fund
Educational
Fort Hays State College
Kansas State College
Emporia State Teachers College
Pittsburg State Teachers College
University of Kansas
Animal Industries
Russ Hall
State School For the Blind
Kansas City
State School For the Deaf
Clathe
Music and Dramatic Arts
Blake Hall
Engineering Laboratory
Isotopes Laboratory
Watson Library
University of Kansas ‘Medical Center
U. Debaters Split In Tourney At McPherson College
Ottawa University debaters split six wins and six losses at the McPherson College tourney with team pairs posting 3-1, 2-2, and 1-3 records. Sixty eight teams participated in the meet. Also noted is a reference to a Puerto Rico birth-rate drop of 18 percent from 1947 to 1954 per the Population Reference Bureau.
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Ottawa University
John Ross
Jack ‘Bremer
Don Stenger
James Springfield
Don Eilenstine
Richard Hoglund
Prto Rico
Population Reference Bureau
Eisenhower Reappoints Bernard Shanley as Appointment Secretary
President Eisenhower named Bernard Shanley to return as appointments secretary at the White House after a Sept heart attack pause. Shanley will take an oath again and handle the appointment list indefinitely as the president resumes a busy day of staff work and weighs second-term plans. An informal poll suggested most reporters expected he would not run, though hints of consideration persisted. Lamb Ambulance, Phone 380. tf
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Washington
Eisenhower
Bernard Shanley
White House
Shanley
Denver
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Sherman Adams
Wilton Persons
Arthur Burns
Gerald Morgan
Key West
Fla
Bride-to-Be Returns After Flight With Old Friend
Juliette Wehle, 20, niece of state commissioner Louis A. Wehle, and Air Force Lt. John Owens split after a seven hour meeting with families in Rochester. Owens plans a year in Japan to reassess after Juliette rode with former boyfriend Stephen Hahn to Syracuse and New York before returning home.
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Rochester
N.Y
Juliette Wehle
Juliette
Louis A. Wehle
Air Force
John Owens
Owens
Japan
Dong
Stephen Hahn
Miss Wehle
Hahn
Syracuse
New York
Moisture Still Key Need in Ottawa Area
The Ottawa area faces a continuing moisture shortage after a long dry spell. Fair skies and rising temperatures are expected to continue through Tuesday. The weather bureau notes little rainfall since October, with total moisture well below average and last measurable moisture from December 10. Southerly winds stirred light dust briefly in Southwest Kansas yesterday.
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Ottawa
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Weather forecast shows fair conditions and mild swing in temps
Generally fair this afternoon and tonight with little change Tuesday. Low around 15 to 20 tonight, high Tuesday 40 to 45, northeast to the 60s in the extreme southwest. Yesterday’s high 41 at 2:35 pm, low today 15 at 7:30 am. Hourly readings end at 8 am show varied temps. river at 49 feet. Census note: 10 percent of US farms produce 51 percent of farm products.
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Ieee
Census of Agriculture
United States
Ike's Farm Plan Promises Major Agriculture Reforms
The plan outlines steps to move the present seven billion dollar surplus into foreign and domestic use, easing production controls on key crops, placing a dollar cap on price support aid per farm, speeding rural development for low income farmers, increasing aid to stabilize farming in the Great Plains drought, boosting research funding by 25 percent for new crops and markets, ensuring federal credit, and refunding gas taxes on nonhighway fuel, estimated at 60 million dollars yearly.
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Congress
Great Plains
Government To Buy Beef and Hogs
Washington officials announce a government beef and hog buying program starting next month to prop up livestock prices. Rep Jensen and a group of 25 Republican lawmakers pressed for immediate relief after a sharp rebuke of the administration during a breakfast meeting.
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Washington
Benson
House
Middle West
Rep
Jensen
R-lown
Leap Year King of Bachelors Leads Ottawa Eligibles
The Ottawa Herald lists Franklin county bachelors for 1956 leap year led by Larry Crater former city clerk and Kansas Revenue and Taxation secretary as King of the Bachelors with Merle Price as Crown Prince. The partial list names Jimmy Osburn Ray Hartshorn Clive Adams Don White Roy Bixler Gene Sappington Merle Burkhead Case 300 tractor at display Flavius Beavers Sam Zink Jim Weidner Edgar Baker Verne Robinson Hubert Fitch and other local men inviting readers to submit more names for publicity in the newspaper.
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Franklin County
The
Herald
Larry I. Crater
Ottawa
Larry l
Kansas Commission of Revenue and Taxation
Topeka
Franklin
Crater
Warren J. Sheldon
Merle Price
Price
Jimmy Osburn
Ray Hartshorn
Clive Adams
Don White
Roy Bixler
Gene Sappington
Merle Burkhead
Flavius Beavers
Rantoul
Sam Zink
Jim Weidner
Edgar Baker
Verne Robinson
Hubert Fitch
Ottawa University
Eisenhower Proposes Soil Bank To Cut Farm Surpluses
President Eisenhower proposed removing about 400 million acres from production into a soil bank. Farmers would be paid to idle land, with some payments in kind, potentially adding 750 million to 1 billion dollars in additional income. The plan aims to reduce surpluses while protecting efficient family farms and includes a possible price support cap and a temporary tax break on farm gasoline.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Soil Bank
Congress
Wisenhower
Capitol
Benson
House
Iowa
Middle West
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Rep
Hope
R-Kan
House Agriculture Committee
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Linna Bogue
William H. Fine
W. 7Th
Pamela
Lois Smith
Harold R. Fatzer
Fatzer
Herald Office
Lamb Ambulance
Bride-to-Be
Ike
King of Bachelor's
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