Side Swipes In The Day's News
Former Ottawa city clerk Larry Crater, now secretary of the State Tax Commission in Topeka, returns to work after a week sidelined by a fall that fractured a vertebra. brace required for six months. Also, Roger Keith, 13, of Ottawa, to undergo nerve and artery graft surgery at Kansas University Medical Center on his birthday. partial foot circulation restored. Tuffy the dog now in Milton Danielson’s home after Osawatomie rescue. Humane officer Leo Edington notes reader interest. Rev Roger Fredrikson tells Ottawa Senior High students about the new Youth Council, planning a drag racing strip under supervision for youths, with adults on the council.
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Larry Crater
Ottawa
State Tax Commission
Topeka
Crater
Roger Keith
Clarence Keith
Kansas University Medical Center
Roger
Herald
Leo Edington
Milton Danielson
Elm
Danielson
Roger Fredrikson
Ottawa Senior High
Missionaries Arrive in Ottawa To Share LDS Teachings
Two missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints arrive in Ottawa to door to door explain the faith. Elder Alan Peter Hughes of Salt Lake City and Elder Terrel B Williams of Malad City Utah will visit in Ottawa while staying at 126 S Locust. The Central States area including Kansas Oklahoma Missouri Arkansas has 60 united branches and 36 chapels with nine new chapels under construction and fifteen planned.
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Church’ of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Ottawa
Alan Peter Hughes
Salt Lake City
Terrel B. Williams
Malad City
Utah
S. Locust
Hughes
Emporia
Little Rock
Ark
Williams
Central States
Kansas
Oklahoma
Missori
Arkansas
Severance Tax Proposal Returns to Kansas Legislature
Topeka drillers would face a 24 percent levy on oil and gas market value with a 14 percent rate for stripper wells under Rep. Fred Meck's plan. The measure would add to ad valorem taxes and aim for about 9 million dollars annual revenue, facing doubt from Gov. Hall and opposition from oil and gas lobbyists. Support grew from Kansas Farm Bureau and school groups. exposure in budget talks continues as Ways and Means prepares first appropriations bills.
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Topeka
Kansas
Fred Meck
R-Idana
Meck
Fred Hall
State Board of Agriculture
Meek
Kansas Farmers Union
Kansas Farm Bureau
California
Robert Anderson
Ottawa
House
Ways and Means
Ottawa Residents Lead in Unpaid Franklin County Personal Property Taxes
Franklin county residents who have not paid 1955 personal property taxes include Ottawa city residents leading with $12,847 due. County treasurer Elizabeth Briggs announced about 750 delinquent notices were mailed, with payments due by February 15 before warrants are issued. Total county tax bill is $1,858,606 and November through December collections exceed $1.5 million.
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Ottawa City
Franklin County
Elizabeth Briggs
Skidding Plane in Narrow Escape at Huntington
A Eastern Airlines Silver Falcon with 32 passengers and three crew skidded on hard packed snow during landing at Huntington Airport last night. The twin engine plane from Louisville to Charlotte left the runway and plunged toward a 400 foot ravine but landed on a hedge in scrub growth about 60 feet below. Everyone aboard escaped injury and continued to their destinations on another flight.
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Huntington
W. Va
Eastern’ Airlines
Louisville
Charlotte
N. C
Traffic Deaths Topeka KS Report 1956 Update
Traffic fatalities in Topeka and the state are tallied by the State Accident Records Section. In the last 48 hours there were 2 deaths, for the year 1956 a total of 22, compared with 29 in the same period of 1955.
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Topeka
Kansas
Raging Torrent Threatens California Levee
A huge Feather River surge endangered a hastily built Shanghai Bend levee after recent Christmas floods left Yuba City still soaked and bearing 33 deaths. Army engineers warned the levee could fail as floods from Feather and Yuba rivers converge, prompting evacuations of Olivehurst Arboga Marysville and parts of Sutter County affecting about 1 500 people.
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San Francisco
Feather River
California
Shanghai Bend
Yuba City
Feather
Yuba
Olivehurst
Arboga
Marysville
Sutter County
Ottawa University Orchestra Delights Audience In Concert
The Ottawa University Civic orchestra under Prof. Harold Hansen gave an enjoyable concert yesterday afternoon in the university auditorium. Rossini’s Barber of Seville and Rimsky Korsakov’s Dance Duet ons drew praise. James Springfield’s trumpet solo in In Jamalus and Shirley Siges with Carol Brown on violin in Adoration also received acclaim.
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Ottawa University Civic Orchestra
Harold Hansen
Bestuniversity
Rossini
Rotary Polio Drive Boosts Funds With Crutch Sale
Rotary clubs organized a blue plastic crutch sale that raised 423.33 for the county polio fund. Paul Archer led the tag day effort as Ottawa and Franklin county fund drives continue, with more than 20 filling stations set to collect 3 cents per gallon in the coming Saturday drive. County totals reach 1,286.88 including many local club and organization gifts, plus 140 small canisters and a Townsend store donation box.
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Paul Archer
Rotary Club
Ottawa
Franklin County
March of Dimes
County March of Dimes Organization
MacDuffie
First Methodist
Jaycee Jones
Blue Ribbon
Bethel
Baxter
Rainbow
Stitch & Chatter Club
Pomona
Women's Work
Church For Brethren
Credit Women’s Breakfast Club
Rock Creek
Better Homes
American Legion Auxiliary
Army Mothers
Ranaul H.D
Peoria
Order of
Ohis Lawrence
GC Birthday Club
Pleasant Valley Community Club
Townsend Store
Six Die in Milwaukee Apartment Fire
Milwaukee fire in a three story building near City Hall killed six people including four children. Firefighters used aerial ladders and nets to rescue 22 of 53 tenants as residents leaped from windows. A 3 year old girl was caught by a bystander after being dropped from a second floor window. Remaining victims were David Root 12 Ellen Root 14 Karen Root 16 Gerald Oscomicz 12 Martin Jaraczewski 75 and Dorothy Kinney 26.
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Milwaukee
City Hall
David Root
Enen Root
Karen Root
Helen Roscovius
Gerald Oscomicz
Martin Jaraczewski
Dorothy Kinney
Eisenhower Budget Proposes Flood Control Planning Funds
President Eisenhower's budget recommends planning funds totaling 140000 for flood control and water conservation projects including 80000 for Ottawa channel improvements and 60000 for Pomona reservoir planning. The plan forms part of a multi million planning sum, with nationwide flood control reductions versus last year due to nearing completion of main stem Missouri river projects. Hearings are slated in Washington in early summer with Ottawan delegates expected.
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Marais Des Cygies
Eisenhower
Ottawa Channel
Pomona Reservoir
Bureau of the Budget
Ottawa J Channel
Pomona
Melgern
The
Herald
Arrett P. Scrigner
Washington
Col. E. C. Adams
Kansas City
Ottawa
Army Engineers
Congress
Missouri River
Ottawa University Debaters Sweep Biz Zard Tournament
Ottawa University debaters swept the annual Biz zard Tournament at William Jewell College Liberty Missouri. Three of five Ottawa teams finished undefeated, with senior John Ross Jack Bremer Wilma Rugh Ver fon Barnes and juniors Don Stenger James Springfield each winning four debates. Other Ottawa teams won two of four. Judges cited undefeated trio as strongest group among 19 colleges and universities.
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William Jewell College
Liberty
Ottawa University
Kansas Prairies
O. U
Ottawa
John Ross
Jack Bremer
Wilma Rugh - Verfon Barnes
University of Kansas
Kansas State College
Pittsburg State Teachers College
Richard Chartier
State Aid Fund To High Schools in Franklin County
Kansas pays out 56084.36 to nine Franklin County high schools as first installment of the high school finance fund. Ottawa High leads with 28774.641, others include Appanoose Lane Pomona Princeton Rantoul Richmond Wellsville Williamsburg. Second payment due in April. funds drawn from state sales tax to cover operating expenses.
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Franklin County
Elizabeth Briggs
Ottawa High School
Appanoose
Lane
Pomona
Princeton
Rantoul
Richmond
Wellsville
Williamsburg
New Teachers Employed by Ottawa Schools
Henry A. Parker, superintendent, announced several new hires at Ottawa public schools. Kendall Hay of Newton, a Kansas university graduate, will teach 5th grade at Lincoln, replacing resigned Mrs. Vic Harrod and starting next Monday. Jo Tetwiler to teach 8th grade English at Junior High, replacing Mrs. John Gaddis who resigned. Tetwiler has been teaching 5th grade half days at Eugene Field. Marie Dyer, Ottawa University graduate, will take the half-time position. A new mixed class room for 4th and 5th grades at Hawthorne will be taught by Margaret Merritt, Ottawa.
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Henry A. Parker
Ottawa Public Schools
Kendall Hay
Newton
University of Kansas
Lincoln School
Vic Harrod
Jo Tetwiler
John Gaddis
Gaddis
Tetwiler
Eugene Field School
Marie Dyer
Ottawa University
Hawthorne School
Margaret Merritt
Ottawa
Robbers Raid Two Lyons Stores
Robbers stole clothing valued at about 5000 dollars from Lantz Clothing Store and narcotics worth 300 dollars from nearby Bunting Drug Store in Lyons Kas. The break in occurred late Sunday night or early today.
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LYONS
Kas
Lantz
Bunting
Weather Forecast Mixed Clouds and Snow Likely
Mostly cloudy today with snow possible in extreme west and south areas. Tonight and Tuesday colder with lows near 5 to 15 and highs around 20 to upper 20s. Yesterday's high 28, low -1. record highs and lows noted.
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Boa Ti
de Midnalyght
Lpm
Lamya
N. W
Coldest mark of the season in Ottawa and scattered snow
Ottawa recorded the coldest mark of the season at 3 degrees above zero with light snow flurries. Brisk winds swept western Kansas as a dry air mass moved in from the Pacific, but no substantial snowfall was indicated for Kansas.
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Ottawa
Sera
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Kansans
Pacific
Pleads Guilty In Brinks Theft Boston Case
Joseph J. O'Keefe 47 pleaded guilty to armed robbery in the $1,219,000 Brink's holdup, the largest cash haul in U.S. history. Held without bail, sentence deferred. He is expected to be the state's star witness in trials of nine others among 11 indicted. One of the 41 named defendants died last year.
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Boston
Joseph J
Spats) O'Keefe
O'Keefe
Atate
$100000 Missing From Church Account
Quincy Illinois reports a church treasurer’s shortage exceeding $100000. The loss was found after Andrew C Sehnack died November 28. An audit will determine the exact amount, likely in six figures, as Mercantile Bank of Quincy disclosed the issue. The Central Illinois District Lutheran Church Missouri Synod held Sehnack as treasurer and bank president.
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Quincy
Ill
Mercantile Bank of
Andrew C. Sehnack
Ilinois
Lutheran, Church, Missouri Synod
Quincy Herald-Whit
Feud Spurs Open Clergy Competition at Brooklyn Church
A long standing dispute at the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn led to a public clash as two ministers, Rev. William Howard Melish and Rev. Robert Thomas, spoke from the altar and a congregation vote ousted Melish as rector. The fight traces to 1949 over alleged left wing ties and Melish’s Sunday services, while Thomas serves temporarily until a new rector is chosen. About 50 parishioners left in protest and the vestry had voted to remove Melish following rector removal efforts by church leadership.
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New York
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Thomas
Trinity
Brooklyn
William Howard Melish
Melish
John Howard Melish
Holy Trinity
National Council’ of
Eisenhower proposes balanced budget with record spend
President Eisenhower sent Congress a balanced budget for the new fiscal year proposing 144 billion dollars in government spending and an expected revenue rise to offset the higher outlays. He warned the debt could be reduced gradually while resisting immediate tax cuts as prosperity allows.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Seader Martin
Mass
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
Johnson
Texas
Hisenhower
Uncle Sam
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al Sheffield
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E. W. “Red” Flaherty
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Art Barnett
Charles Colaw
J. B. Muecke
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Calif
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New
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U. Debaters
Lamb Ambulance
Robert Thomas
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