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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1965
Page
4
Almeda Edwards reports 1,100 truck license tags and 3,039 car tags sold. Upcoming events include Eagles Lodge dance Saturday from 9 to 12 and the Dewey Richardson band from Lawrence. Ottawa bands to perform at Memorial Auditorium January 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Two Americans were killed and two wounded when their helicopter hit a power line while escorting a road convoy nine miles north of Saigon. The pilot, a gunner, and a Vietnamese observer died. co pilot and another gunner injured. compilot in serious condition. The crash was deemed likely accidental with no hostile fire. The event raises U.S. casualties in Vietnam from non combat causes to 109 since December 1961. In nearby Thu Dau Mot, terrorists attacked downtown with mines and grenades, killing five villagers and wounding twenty, as anti government demonstrations potentially quieted. Representatives of a central Vietnamese student group urged Phan Khac Suu to act.
KC Markets reports hogs steady to down with various weight classes cited and sows steady, 800 cattle and calves absent, 25 sheep noted. wholesale eggs mostly unchanged with large 27-28 cents, mediums 25-26 cents, other produce steady.
Mrs Loy Dean Knight and daughters plan to move to Bitberg Germany on Jan 26 to join Mr Knight there since November The trailer home will be relocated to Mrs Knights parents near Princeton and parked until the Knights return in three years Seventy one guests attended the 55th wedding anniversary open house for Mr and Mrs Bill Sutton on Jan 10 at Central Community Center Relatives and friends came from Overbrook Baldwin Lawrence Waverly Lyndon Richmond Geneseo Emporia and Princeton The Stitch and Chatter Club hosted at Central Community Center on Jan 13 Dinner guests for Emment Thompsons 83rd birthday included Lee Martin Patricia Mare fon Thompson Ralph Hartpence and families from Manhattan and Tonganoxie Jan 12 Mrs Ward Reed and Mrs Bill Sutton hosted The Busy Bee Club at Central Community Center Jan 7 a noon cafeteria dinner was served with plans for the Feb 4 meeting at Central Community Center
An Ottawa woman suffered a facial laceration when a Pepsi Cola truck rolled into her car in the 1600 block of Main Street at 7:40 am. Driver Morford, 58, and truck driver Cromwell, 31, were not inside the vehicles. brakes reportedly failed. Morford was hospitalized for observation. damage to her car described as total. no arrests reported.
District 30 Superintendent Marvin Forker says four Ot tawa PTA units have started the 1965 school census. Enumerators note age of children as of Jan 1, 1965 to meet state law and determine district funding. The census funds four PTA units, about 100 per unit, and may include births to age 21.
Senator William Bowers returns from his first week in Topeka to a crowded session. He is named chairman of two committees and will serve on six others including legislative and congressional apportionment and water resources. He will also chair ways and means and serve on committees for committees highways judiciary corporations and labor and industry.
The capital of Jordan Amman houses a well preserved Roman theater still used for entertainments. The site reflects the ancient city once known as Philadelphia a Greco Roman stronghold and a key historical relic.
A five event program led by a donkey basketball game between faculty and Ottawa businessmen, 7:30 p.m. in the junior high gym. Admission 50 cents students and $1 adults. Events include Hobby Donkey Derby, trick mule act, four 8 minute quarters with a 10 minute intermission, halftime donkey races. Eight faculty and ten businessmen signed up. Donkeys supplied by Crescent firm.
Dismissals include Mrs Harry Evans at 1030 North Mulberry Peter Flusser 1048 Cottonwood Gordon Sible 615 North Cherry Norman Raby 1009 South Locust Mrs Richard Timmons Princeton Billie Wright 328 North Cherry Mrs Ralph Allen 814 Ash Mrs Charles Bertram 1006 Cypress Mrs Ward Ralston 910 Ash Friday.
District Court revoked the probation of Ross Eugene Baker aged 19 from 931 S Locust on Wednesday. Baker, convicted of grand larceny in a 1963 drugstore robbery, was sentenced to the Kansas Industrial Reformatory at Hutchinson. Sixty days at Topeka Diagnostic Center will count toward the sentence. parole eligibility in about eight months.
Herbert G Lemon 74 of North Kansas City died Wednesday in Trinity Lutheran Hospital. Born in Princeton, he ran Snow and Lemon foundry in Clay County 25 years and leaves a wife, two sons Harold and Marvin, two daughters Thelma and Marie, a brother Fred and a sister Minnie, plus seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Services Saturday at Church-Archer Chapel Liberty Missouri, burial Barry Cemetery. Roy Major Fleming 75 retired Lyndon grocer died Thursday night in Osage City. Born July 30 1889 at Lyndon, he operated cream stations in Lyndon Olpe Ellinwood and Topeka, later in grocery business. Surviving are three sisters Mrs Frank Jessop Mary Fleming and Mrs Ethel Haskell and a brother Fred Fleming. Services Sunday 2 30 pm First United Presbyterian Church Lyndon, burial Lyndon Cemetery. Protective calling hours at Shaffer Mortuary Lyndon.
Floyd L. Jackson Jr. 21 of 615 Grant cited speeding 29 in a 20 mph zone in South Main blocks 300 and 400. Donald L. Standstead 32 of Osage City cited speeding 40 in a 30 mph zone on West Seventh 800 block, posted $10 bond. George Joseph Christman Jr. 21 of Kansas City Mo cited for reckless driving and DUI, posted $300 bond. Roger L. Roepke 25 of Waterville cited for following too closely in South Main 1300 block, posted $5 bond. Douglas A. Downey 17 of Wellsville cited for defective mufflers at Seventeenth and Main. Norman E. Scott 36 of Princeton RFC 1 cited Thursday for speeding 30 in a 20 mph zone in North Main 400 block.
Albert A. Smith age 20 of 615 North Hickory was cited one mile north of Ottawa on US 59 January 9 for disobeying a stop sign and pleaded guilty with a $5 fine plus costs. Alva Siders age 39 of 803 South Poplar pleaded guilty in county court Thursday to writing a no fund check and received five days in jail plus costs.
Mrs Nora B Jones 84 of Williamsburg died at Crest view Nursing Home at 6 10 am today after long illness. She lived at 709 N Mulberry 33 years and formerly came from Clinton Mo. Born March 22 1880 she moved to Ottawa then Williamsburg. Surviving are two daughters Ola Keith Moran and M A Anderson Long Beach Calif four grandchildren three sisters and one brother. One son Clifford died in 1940.
Ottawa High School Principal W P Shepard and Ottawa Deputy Royse will attend the National Association of Secondary School Principals meeting in Miami Beach Florida from January 16 to 21. They travel today with two Olathe principals and two Emporia principals. About 11 000 principals are expected at the 49th annual convention including 150 Kansas secondary school principals. The program includes the statewide Kansas breakfast and tours of secondary schools with teaching materials exhibits.
Allen L. Loyd Jr. was elected president of Carnegie Free Library at the annual board meeting. Officers include Mrs. B. F. Park as vice president, James Chandler as treasurer, and Louise Walker as secretary. Trustees are Mrs. Lyman Corlis Jr., Harold Crawford, and Mrs. John Kelsey. All employees were rehired, with new clerical assistant Mrs. Robert Markham replacing Jean Allen. Total circulation for the year reached 70,555, up from 68,855, with juvenile loans at 37,418 and adult loans at 33,137. Fine income totaled $1,095.20 at two cents per day for overdue material. There are 392 rural borrowers, 70 interlibrary loans, and 1,122 new books purchased at an average $4.45.
Mrs. Charles Steen opens 1965 with Wellsville School District Joint work. New Union district parts join Ottawa Pomona Wellsville upon disbandment. Rose Junior Garden Club outlines year activities including nature study, flowers, bulbs, Audubon biography, and a June cleanup at City Park. Diane Moore named publicity chairman and historian.
Ottawa Jaycees select Bob Roberts as Distinguished Service Award winner for 1964 at a banquet to be held January 19 at the North American Hotel. Judges included Robert Clogston and George Lister. Ray Sadecki of the St. Louis Cardinals will speak. tickets are $2 at First National Bank.
Community auctions held weekly at Printy’s Auction House 1136 N Main Ottawa with auctions Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Listings include contact numbers for Pomona Kaw and Council Grove livestock auctions and local auctioneers Brad Brady and Clifford Hobbs in Ottawa Kansas.
A keepsake wristwatch is missing in Tucson's Main Street area near 117 So Main CH 23486. Reward offered. Contact Karen Weems for piano and accordion lessons at CH 2 1582 if found.
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