Local notes and society items from Tonganoxie Herald
A batch of short notices covers campus candidates Betty Bethell of Pomona at Pittsburgh State Teachers College, the Kanza Queen ball sponsor PEMM club, and a Cecil Be-DeMille selection. Also listed are truck weight tag reminders, a bicycle theft report, a convention note in Hutchinson, Soroptimist luncheon results, Carl Marshall’s move to Tonganoxie as Cities Service promotion, William J. Story’s rural route transfer, visiting Margaret Miller in Kansas City, and PTA Sacred Heart meeting with speaker J W McClellan on school lunch program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Bethell
Pomona
Pittsburgh State
Teachers College
Pemm Club
Cecil Be-DeMille
Lofgreen
Wallace Wells
Tonganoxle
Carl “Marshall
Willow
Tonganoxte
Homie
Cities Service Co
Cities Services
Marhalls
Ann
Lee Kent
Howard
Pgs
PTA
Sacred Heart TA
J. W. McClellan
Topeka
Hospital Notes Admits and Births Reported
Hospital notes list admissions including Mrs. Fred Disque and Mrs. Vernon Parks today. Births recorded for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rose a son weighing 6 pounds 4 ounces. Discharges include Mrs. Lincoln Ellsworth and several others with infant births noted at multiple addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Disque
N. Ce. Jar
Vernon Parks
Pomona
Frank Rose
Deaths Former Ottawa Woman Ward Galer Rites Set
Word came that Mrs Ward Galer of San Jose California formerly of Ottawa died after a four month illness in a hospital. She was aunt to Robert Coleman of 1026 Olive Street. Survived by two daughters Mrs Roy Burnett and Mrs Rory West and by her mother Mrs Kate Whitenack all of San Jose. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 1 p m in San Jose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ward Galer
San Jose
Calif
Robert Coleman
Galers
Roy Burnett
Rory] West
Kate Whitenack
Arrival of Search Party to Identify Missionaries Bodies
Quito reports a search party gathered to identify four bodies believed to be American missionaries missing since last weekend in the Ecuadorian Andes. The fifth missionary remains unconfirmed. Names include Peter Fleming and Roger Youderian among others, with diary entries suggesting they were lured by Auca tribesmen. An Inter Mission Fellowship official notes four months of effort to win trust with the Acuas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tukkeg
Kansas City
Will Barker
Air Force
Ottawa High School
Peter Fleming
Seattle
Wash
Nathanial Saint
Huntingdon Valley
James Eliot
Portland
Ore
Edward McCulley
Milwaukee
Roger Youderian
Lansing
Mich
Fleming
Caraway River
Abraham Vanderpuy
Inter-Mission Fellowship of Ecuador
Acuas
Case Of Missing Girl Is Solved
Sanity trial for plane saboteur set for March 5 as John Gilbert Graham faces a sanity issue over the United Air Lines bombing that killed his mother and 48 others. Four psychiatrists found him sane. defense challenges that finding. In New York, two men arrested for homicide in the Jacqueline Smith case admit dismembering her body, with a grisly investigation ongoing as authorities locate the victim’s remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver P
John Gilbert Graham
Graham
New York
Jacqueline Smith
Thomas G. Daniel
Leo Pijuan
Sans- Welfare
H. C
Black
Ramiro Morales
Leonard Black
Daisie EH
King
Short Creek
Daniel
Manhattan
Arizona
Lie Wswinghy
We Lour P
United Air Lines
Colorado State Hospital
Polygamy Case Divides Utah Family In State Custody
In SHORT CREEK Utah a frail woman of the Black family battles state welfare over custody of seven children after the Mormon group disavows polygamy. Vaughn Black, four, ill with whooping cough, cannot be given to welfare aid. Officials press the mother to sign an affidavit to allow keeping the children. Delegates from Colorado Wyoming Nebraska and Kansas discuss irrigation storage projects and related funding at a four-state meeting ending today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vaughn
Vera Black
Provo
State Welfare Commission
Colorado
Ming
Four States Irrigation Welfare
Faneatt Sau
Black
Spencer
Wyoming
Nebraska
Kansas
Bride Remarries After Slaying Bridegroom In Fort Worth
Fort Worth Texas Frankie J Wilcoxen 28 a draftsman who earlier killed her jilted suitor John Hoyt Blythe 23 a railroad employee and Arlington State College student was married to Janice McKee 18 in a locked church ceremony attended by seven people Five uninvited onlookers a reporter photographer and three boys watched through glass Wilcoxen said Blythe grabbed his car keys and he fired a pistol the weapon went off He was charged with carrying a pistol and released on a 1000 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Tex
John Hoyt Blythe
Arlington State College
Wilcoxen
Blythe
Slim Pickings For Stevenson
Gov Averell Harriman says Adlai Stevenson will find slim pickings among New York delegates to the Democratic national convention. He expects solid support from New York 98 vote delegation, the biggest prize at Chicago next August, after the governor’s presidential candidacy was unanimously endorsed by 62 Democratic county chairmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Averell Harriman
Adilal Stevenson
New York
Chicago
Drought Cost Kansas Year Of Rainfall In 1955
Drought since 1951 cost Kansas about one year of normal precipitation. Weather Bureau notes 1955 average moisture 22.1 inches, 4.5 below normal, with Tribune 8.96 inches and Pleasanton 43.02 inches. Extreme temperatures ranged from 14 below zero at Smith Center to 109 at Hays and Smith Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Tribune
Greeley County
Pleasanton
Linn County
Smith Center
Hays and Smith Center
Kirwin
Displeased Over the Appointment
Washington Republicans voiced anger at President Eisenhower's nomination of Robert R. Bowie as assistant secretary of state. Bowie, on the State Department Policy Planning Board since May 1953, faced opposition from Dulles and party leaders who reportedly sought to soften the stance. Some Republicans fear Bowie supports admitting Communist China to the United Nations, a position opposed by Knowland and Bridges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Robert R. Bowie
Bowie
State
GOP
Knowland
California
Bridges
New Hampshire
State Property Taxes Increase Across Kansas in 1955
Kansas 1955 tangible property taxes totaled 205 659 186 dollars, up 24 732 132 from 1954. Intangible, special and other taxes pushed total property taxes to 218 045 622 dollars, with 1954 at 103 248 704. State 16 027 770. county 48 363 632. township 7 612 051. city 30 001 491. school 104 044 939. special districts 1 349 000. State rise largely due to higher state taxes and school district hikes. County up about 3 million. city up 2.4 million. township and district up 780 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
State Commission of Revenue and Taxation
Commission
One Of His Bad Days on Animal Vegetable Mineral TV
London an erudite archaeologist shocked viewers by saying he would like to murder a few million people in a husky voice. Dr JGlyn Daniel of Cambridge University, ill with influenza, presided over the quiz where experts identify archaeological specimens. He remarked coolly that there are a few million people he would like to kill, mostly viewers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
British Broadcasting Corp
Jglyn Daniel
Cambridge University
Daniel
Britain
C A Myers & Son Sale Notices and Listings
Local sale notices list multiple farm and livestock auctions with dates in January at Lawrence Overbrook Pomona and Mast locations. Items include Roberts Market Sale and Overbrook Livestock Sale with venues on Main and St streets and vehicle route details noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Myers & Son
Centrepolia
Ottawa
Robert's
Lawrence
Kas
Overbrook Livestock
Overbrook
Licmial Bhaw
Pomona
Tan
Roberts Market
11Th St
Tire Sales Legal Washington Action Targets Major Firms
The Federal Trade Commission charged three agreements involving six firms as illegal. Hearings set for March 20 with 30 days to answer. Firms named include B F Goodrich Co Texas Co Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co Atlantic Refining Firestone Tire and Rubber Co and Shell Oil Co. The agreements allegedly steered substantial business from other tire and accessory makers at oil company filling stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
B. F. Goodrich Co
Texas Co
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Atlantic Refining Co
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Shell Oil Co
Local Markets Terse Summary
Market figures show varied activity with prices cited as 680, 185, 132, 40, 86, 32 and 128. Details are sparse and no entities beyond numeric values are clearly identifiable.
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Engurer
William J. Story
Jelly
Harley Ivey
Max Hunter
Mia
Margaret Miller
Princeton
Marjory Miller
Tonganoxica
Los Angeles
Howard Duncan
Warren H. Kasper
First Methodist Church
Charles P. Knight
Warren Black Post No
American Legion
Highland Cemetery
Imcvey
Razer
Louis H, Dengel
Oldsmobile
Quito
Ecuador
Utah
The
Latter-Day Saints
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Wwe
Wid
Yeserung
John N. Spencer
Bureau of Reclamation
CID
Eeges
Pat
DUCO
DU Pont
Stevenson
Lester Sink
Towner’s Chapel
Joe Towner
Renee Es
Jack Nelson
Anderson County
Jack Quaintance
Milqaa
W. Genterville
Kanana
Liomial Shaw
E Tan
Neal Mullett
Mi. N.W
Neill George
Waverly
Sala Pavilion
Thurdday
Chet Hermreck
Miles Nouth
Richmond
Albert Stewart & Son
Albert
Harold
Franklin County
Wilson and Locust
Franklin Co
Wilson & Locust
C. L. Kapp
Don Janaen
Princeton Cemetery
Printy& Son
Ben Printy
Cap
Merieiad
Meu
Lamb Funeral Home
Ittawa
Directora Singh
Holy Bible
Hennes Reeves Milo
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