Ottawa News Briefs Highlights Local Notices and Postwar Updates
Readable fragments show a montage of local items from Ottawa including service notices, a marriage confession, military movement, education milestones, church dedications, and community events. Names such as Delbert L. Hager, Clarence W. In, Moody, Marjorie Fennant, Leonard Martin, Carolee Harrell, and Joe Blake appear alongside places like Fort Ord, Bremerton, Parsons College, and Groom Texas. The brief covers hospital news, divorces, enlistments, graduations, and dedication services with a tone of small-town reportorial urgency.
Serenaders to Play at the Pla-Mart Paola
Patrons are promised entertainment by the Serenaders every Saturday night at the Pla-Mart in Paola. The venue offers a large floor, soft drinks, booths by phone, and a family friendly atmosphere for all ages. Thursdays feature old-time round and square dancing with western music.
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Pla-Mart
Elmer Hagemeyer
Ady
Would Make Criminals Of Unwed Mothers
In Denver a Mint employee is charged with stealing unstamped 25 cent coins and cashing them through vending machines. Rep Jack Ray plans to push a bill to make unwed mothers subject to criminal prosecution with up to 16 years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. Warren Neal, 20, of Simon Colorado, is released on bond. Ray says illegitimacy rises demand action to penalize the mother who brands a child with stigma.
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Denver
U. S. ‘Mint
Jack Ray
Kenneth Leroy Warren County
Neal
Simon
Colc
Ray
Hospital Notes and Local Notices Highlight Day
Hospital notes list admissions for Clair Gillow and others at 318 S Sycamore and 815 E Bth including births to Mr and Mrs Ryan Bishop route 1 Baldwin a baby girl. Discharges include Leon Spore Pomona and several others. will speak at Calvary Baptist church tonight. A warning against impostor fundraisers uses American Legion name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clair Gillow
Waverly
Caroline
Colleen Hendrickson
S. Sycamore
Dale Wilson
Quenemoy
John William Jones
Ryan Bishop
Baldwin
Leon Spore
Hamblin
Alice Reed
Pomona
Lillie McCullough
S. Poplar
Teresa McDaniel
Walnut
Marguerite Davenport
Myra McDaniel
Wilbur Watts
W. 6Th
Gerald Troup
Tam Lane
Arlo R. Peterson
Tremont
Repeal plan eyed for Kansas school activities group
TOPEKA The Kansas Association of School Boards recommended repeal of a major part of the Kansas state school activities law and support for larger school units. The group, at a two day meeting, backed a four point program including dissolving the KSHSAA by July 1 and creating a 30 member governing board. proposals include state aid incentives for merging districts into county or community units and tax reform to equalize assessments with aid distribution favoring needy districts maintaining efficient schools.
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Topeka
Kansas Assayf School Boards
Kansas State High School Activities Assn
Kshsaa
School Board Association
State Department of Public Instruction
Carl Althaus
Chinese Back Russian Action in Budapest Broadcast Commentary
Radio Budapest reported a joint declaration by Premier Kadar and Red China's Chou En-lai during Chou's visit. It endorsed Soviet armed action against the November uprising and urged crushing remaining rebels, framing the crackdown as necessary.
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Budapest
China
Janos Kajbeef Kash
Ajdar
Radio
Kadar
Red China
Chou En-lai
Chou
Tobacco-Chewers In Ranks Of Disappearing Americans
By Dick Walt and K A Journalism Student this piece notes chewing tobacco declines in 1957 America. It details store shortages slow sales, old habits among outdoorsmen, dwindling brands, and the shift to cigarettes. It names City Athletics Enos Slaughter Nelson Fox Mickey Mantle and bubble gum as cultural references.
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Ottawa
Store Em Playes
City Athletics
Nelson Fox
Enos Slaughter
Kansas
Chicago
Mickey Masile
New York Yankees
Mantle
Maestro Toscanini Body To Lie In State
The body of Arturo Toscanini will lie in state for public viewing today and tomorrow at his Riverdale home in the Bronx. He died in his sleep yesterday morning after a stroke and would have been 90 in March. The public mourning followed by many notable figures and music lovers who cherished his art.
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Mary Drake
Mary Lawrence Drake
Groom
Tex
C. E. Dawkins
Cedar House
Ottawa
Drake
Arcadia
Sanwel C. Drake
Amarillo
Baptist Church
Groom Saturday
Walter J. Davis
Groom Cemetery
Lamb Funeral Home
New York
Arturo Toscanini
Abandons Executive Mansion in Missouri Patterned by Discomfort
Jefferson City reports say Governor James T. Blair Jr. moved his family from the 1871 built executive mansion due to wear, hard beds, and rat-infested rooms. Senator John W. Noble vows to push legislation for a new state mansion as Blair calls the home uncomfortable and old.
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Jefferson City
James T. Blair Jr
Missouri
Blair
John W. Noble
Missouri River
Sen. Noble
Kremlin Fears Ike's Middle East Strategy
Foreign diplomats in Moscow report the Kremlin fears President Eisenhowers Middle East program. They say Moscow is seeking an effective counterattack after talks with Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov and other leaders, summing up Soviet reaction to date.
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Moscow
Kremlin
Eisenhower
Middle East
Dmitri Shepilov
U.S
Soviet Union
U. S
Egypt
Refugees Enter Austria Amid Cold Weather Toll
Vienna reports only 270 Hungarian refugees crossed into Austria in 24 hours as cold and snow hinder passage. A frozen refugee woman died and a 1.5 year old girl suffered frostbite while lost in a blizzard during the journey.
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Vienna
Austria
U N General Assembly debates Israel withdrawal from Gaza and Sinai
Delegates from the United Nations and African Asian groups considered a resolution urging Israel to end the occupation and withdraw forces from Sinai and the Gaza Strip within five days. Dag Hammarskjold reported Israel silent on Gaza withdrawal as Abba Eban signaled readiness to discuss arrangements.
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Batley
United Nations
N.Y. U
U.N
Israel
Egypt
Gaza Strip
Assembly
Dag Hammarskjold
Abba Eban
Hammarskjold
Sinai Desert
Sharm el Sheikh
Pe Poste
Eban
Overbrook Livestock Sale Dates Announced in Kansas
Local listings show livestock sale dates across Kansas towns including Overbrook, Ottawa, Lawrence and Enatdith St. Lawrence. Buyers will see events from January 25 through February 3 featuring merchants like A Myers & Sons Phorie Centropolis and Roberts Market Sale along East 11th Bt in Lawrence.
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CG. A. Myers & Sons Phorie Centropolis
Ottawa
Overbrook
Kansas
Jesse Fell
Roberts Market
Enatdith St. Lawrence
East 11Th Bt
Lawrence
Lyle Glath
Miles
Hudora
Kenneth Hamiston
Jack Nelson
Pomona
Kas
Anderson County
Inn
C. F. Schultz & Son
Michigan Valley
Neill George
Waverly
Verly
Albert Stewart & Son Arm Rt
Albert
Harold
Fr. Co
Wilson& Locust Streets
H. B. LaRue
Princeton
Raymond Louz
Main
Franklin County
Wilson& Locuat Sts
Printy & Son
Ben Printy
Credt
Vic N. Mabe
Gardner C. ‘Finch
Peoria
Gordon James
Knowland May Not Seek Presidency
Washington reports that several Knowland colleagues assess less than a fifty percent chance he will seek the 1960 Republican presidential nomination. They based this after his January 1959 Senate term end and his earlier surprise plan to leave the Senate.
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Washington
Sen
Knowland
Cal
Senate
California
Human Side Of Drought Not Revealed In Quick the Tour
President Eisenhower viewed Texas drought damage on a ground level tour this week. He could not grasp the human toll including farmers lacking tractor fuel loans, families needing food relief, and rural workers leaving farms for city jobs. State Agriculture Commissioner John White cites 760 million in losses, plus uncounted rangeland deterioration and premature cattle sales.
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Dallas
Eisenhower
Texas
John White
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Linton J. Usher
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Rexall Drug Store
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Ruysest
Youngstown Cémantete
Youngstown
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Samuel C
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Robert B. Bingaman
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