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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1961
Page
4
Local note: Jack Beekman family from Wanamassa N J reports Mr Beekman has taken a position as art teacher for Eatontown Grammar and Junior High School. Also items on Ottawa Lodge meeting, barbershop chili supper, hospital transfers, a KL medical center patient, a soil test clinic, a break in report, VFW auxiliary bowling, bridge club, petty larceny case dismissal, and local hospital visits.
Long Island machinists end two month walkout at Fairchild Camera and Instrument plants after union vote 373 to 204. 832 workers involved with 30 not recalled as Plainview work shifts to Joplin Missouri. A 30 month contract grants immediate five cent raise plus one cent for sickness coverage. two cent raise plus fringe benefits next November. and five cent rise in September 1962. Wage rates not disclosed.
Floyd J. Indall was re-elected senior warden of Grace Episcopal Church at the annual parish meeting led by Rev. Leopold H. Hoppe. Winton A. Winter chosen junior warden as vestry expands to 12. R. B. Cobb Ralph S. Hanes and R. B. Wellington elected as vestry. six holdovers on 3-year terms. Mrs. Bert Anderson and Miss Eunice Ott co chaired the pre‑dinner event.
The winter dairy school, sponsored by the extension service, meets at Memorial Auditorium at 1 30 p.m. Speakers include Dr. Earl Farmer of the Kansas Artificial Breeders Association and Dr. C L Norton of Kansas State University. A panel on green chopping features Jim Allen, Kurt Weigand, Jack Beauchamp, and Bernard Ferguson. The day runs in connection with the Artificial Breeders meeting starting at 11 a.m.
Wellsville Chamber of Commerce members discussed Farmers Night to be held in February with the exact date set after a speaker is secured. Committees were named for tickets, food, kitchen, invitations, decorating, and table arrangements.
Admissions include Mrs Elmer Perkins RFD 2 Lloyd A Shipps 836 N Oak Mrs Hubert Blecha 721 W 5th Sunday George E Walter Shawnee Mrs John W Keller 628 Maple Dismissals Vern Jones Melvern Saturday Lewis D Smith 903 E 9th Miss Mary Stiles 801 S Cedar John W Franklin RFD 2 Mrs Nora Bunch 627 S Cedar Mrs Chester Fredricks and baby daughter Williamsburg Sunday
The body of Mrs Irene Dunbar near 73 was found at her Richmond home from a heart attack per coroner Dr D G Laury. She was born 1868 in Anderson county and widow of Charles A Dunbar. Surviving: son Albert, daughter Mrs Don Cade, nine grandchildren, two sisters, one brother. Services for Mrs Mary G Atkinson 81 of Kansas City Kas will be held at Porter and Sons with a slaveside service at Highland Cemetery. She helped lead Baptist missions and received awards from Ottawa University and served in multiple Baptist groups.
Topeka AP Kansas tax payers will pay nearly 777 million as their share of the proposed national budget of 80.9 billion, the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce said. The figure is 0.96 percent of the President Eisenhower budget, a base for the new administration with likely increases in education, housing, public works and unemployment programs, the Chamber added.
Police cited seven individuals for moving traffic violations over the weekend. All are to appear in Police Court tomorrow. Charles Bryant and Terry J. Bivens were cited yesterday for speeding in 30 mile zones with defective mufflers. Others include Jim Walker, Kenneth E. Blevins, Daniel R. Ames, Nellie R. Jones, and William H. Bevan with charges ranging from speeding to running a stop sign and illegal registration. Bevan, Bivens, Blevins, and Jones posted bonds.
Washington AP The Senate Post Office Committee unanimously approved John F Kennedy's pick J Edward Day for postmaster general. The panel also backed H W Brawley as deputy postmaster general, both moving toward formal Senate submission after Kennedy's Friday swearing in. Day, a Los Angeles insurance executive and former Illinois insurance commissioner, is linked to Adlai Stevenson era politics. Brawley from Chester South Carolina is a longtime associate of Senator Olin D Johnston, committee chair.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 76, rejected a proposal to dedicate part of Washington's $75 million cultural center as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. She told a Washington Post reporter she has no interest in such a memorial, preferring preservation of Theodore Roosevelt Island as a wildlife sanctuary with only a modest tribute to her father.
In an Associated Press interview, Lt. Comdr. Kohei Hanami recounts the 1943 Amagiri collision with John F. Kennedy aboard a torpedo boat near Kolobangara. Hanami details the dramatic night, Kennedy's survival, and the subsequent friendship that followed between former adversaries.
Baluba warriors attacked a hospital at Luena wounding a Belgian doctor as UN forces reported. Congo- loyal forces seized six American missionaries and their families crossing toward Ruanda Urundi, with 29 people total. The group, Berean Mission, included 18 adults and 16 children. Swedish UN guards repelled Baluba attackers near Bukama in Katanga, causing several tribesmen deaths and three Swedish injuries.
Funeral services for Mrs. E R Lichtenberger who died January 11 were held January 14 at McVey Dengel Mortuary. Dr Raymond P Jennings officiated with pallbearers Chester Hughes Elmer Bell George Griffin Harvey Miller Ray Harper and Marion Ackley. C J Milton Jr sang hymns with Mrs R L Stevens. Burial followed at Highland Cemetery. Members of Warren Black Unit No 60 American Legion Auxiliary and U S Army Mothers Post No 4 attended in groups.
New York AP reports Mickey Mantle signed a 1961 contract with the New York Yankees for about 75000 dollars. The 31 year old slugger boosted pay for his role in the club’s push toward the American League pennant despite a 275 batting average last season. He led the league with 40 home runs.
Gov. John Anderson aims to hold most spending at current levels while boosting state college funding. The plan requests a 356 million dollar budget, about six million below current outlay, and uses the full 1.5 mill state property tax for college construction. It includes five percent raises for instructors, a retirement plan, and funds for highway construction, welfare, Parole Board salaries, recreation, and new buildings.
Gov. John Anderson presented a 500 prize check to Rodger Vaughan the composer of the winning Centennial symphony after its Wichita Symphony Orchestra concert Vaughan also received 200 to gift to helpers in his career Vaughan a Kansan born in Delphos educated at University of Wichita and USC Los Angeles former WU faculty member pursuing a doctorate in music.
Aron B. Stevenson, 45, of Kansas City Missouri, wed Georgia Leola Foulk, 40, of Qsa WAG, per the marriage license notice.
Readable market notes show prices for soybeans wheat corn shelled corn oats barley butterfat eggs and poultry. Notable figures include soybeans around 1.80 and corn about .06 to .68 for various items and eggs graded at .30 to .28.
Kansas City AP market roundup shows cattle at 13 300 head with calves 800. steer prices 24.75 to 26.50, heifers 24.50 to 26.0, cows 14.75 to 16.00, yearlings 25.00 to 26.75, vealers 23.00 to 28.00. Hogs 5 000 head fairly active. barrows and gilts 17.50 to 18.5, sows 14.25 to 15.25. Sheep 4 300 head lambs weak to 25-50 lower. ewes and feeders steady. lambs 16.5 to 76, ewes 4.00 to 5.50, feeder lambs 16.00.
Ground observers in northern California and southern Oregon and pilots from the San Francisco Bay area reported a bluish fireball seen Sunday night traveling westward. A Grants Pass policeman reported the object disintegrating after 10 p.m. FAA spokesmen theorized it was a falling meteor.
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