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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1960
Page
4
John Hurley of the Veterans Administration will be in Wellsville tomorrow to explain the new veteran pension law. A meeting launches at 7 45 p m at the American Legion hall. Veterans from Wellsville and nearby towns are expected to attend.
Mr and Mrs W L Pickering took Mr and Mrs Steve Needham of Rantoul to Joplin Missouri to visit True Gardner who is critically ill at St Johns Hospital. Gardner formerly supervised NLC C F Rebekah Home Manhattan and his wife was matron. Lincoln PTA hosts Fun Night at 730 pm in the school auditorium with teacher and mother skits a brief business session and refreshments. Homer Leslie Bachelor pleaded not guilty in Police Court to driving while intoxicated and open bottle charges. He was jailed briefly and posted 350 bond awaiting trial February 9.
The Briles community club will hold a program at 8 p m Friday at the school and patrons are asked to bring pies. Mrs Thelma Moore and Miss Norma Moldenhauer attended a full week of school in Kansas City last week to learn new spring and summer hair styling trends. Elmyra Mae Howell 33 of 622 S Cedar was cited for driving with no valid license after a collision in the 200 block of S Main. Ernest Reed 48 of 1104 N Cedar driven car sustained minor damages.
London AP reports Aneurin Bevan deputy leader of the Labour party has had a poor night and is not so well after abdominal surgery on December 29. The operation's nature was not disclosed but was performed by specialists. Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell said Bevan is not suffering from cancer.
Honolulu reports bulldozers raising lava dikes to steer lava back into its original channel. The lava lake behind the dikes overflowed on Saturday, destroying four buildings with red-hot cinders. Kapoho and Kone villages evacuated earlier have lost five homes a church and a community center. Unofficial damage estimated at four million dollars.
A proposed constitutional amendment to abolish the state printing plant is likely to be introduced in the 1960 budget session by a group of Republican senators. If passed and approved by voters, the measure would replace state printing with private bids. Mrs Lillie Washabaugh is the state printer. The budget session, though money focused, has authority to propose one constitutional amendment.
In Coalbrook South Africa a high speed drill advances toward 440 men trapped since Thursday as rockslides block the main shaft. An emergency shaft is ordered to deliver air and food, with crews rushing the drill from a northern Transvaal iron mine. The 15 inch bore reached 80 feet before striking rock. engineers estimate 40 hours to reach the men.
Admitted Charlesetta Clayborne and others from Quenemo and Waverly with multiple admissions noted. Births include a Tyson daughter and a Swallow son with weights listed. Dismissals include Doudna and several residents from Quenemo and nearby towns.
Pope John XXIII opened Rome's first Diocesan Synod at St. John Lateran. The week long gathering will debate 770 proposed articles on conduct for clergy and laymen, after a year of preparation. Banners fluttered over Vatican for the ceremony as the synod began in the Hall of Benedictions.
Pittsburgh Steel Co the last major U S W contract holdout agreed to operate under an extension of the old pact. The Taft Hartley injunction expires Tuesday ending the potential strike at six plants and follows a 116 day nationwide steel strike. Pittsburgh Steel employs about 8000 USW members seeking incentive pay reduction. other firms Maltrup Acme and Ryerson remain at odds with the union.
The Supreme Court declined to rule on a Missouri law allowing the governor to seize public utilities during threats or actual strikes. The 6-3 decision said the case no longer presented a live issue, so the court did not issue a ruling. Justice Stewart led the majority.
Mrs. Fred Thielen 65 of 629 Willow died yesterday at St. Marys Hospital Kansas City after surgery. Born Hattie Muecke February 1 1894 at Humboldt she married Frederick Thielen in 1929. Survived by two daughters and 11 grandchildren. son and brother predeceased. Service at Sacred Heart Church Wednesday 10 am with burial Mt Calvary Cemetery. Rosary at Lamb Funeral Home tonight.
Higinio Escobar age 72 of 825 King died yesterday at 10 a m in Ran som Memorial Hospital after six days as a patient. A former Missouri Pacific railroad laborer, he lived in Ottawa since 1937 and was born in Mexico January 11 1888. He came to the United States in 1909. He was married first to Julia Corona and then to Perfecta Baldomiro who died October 7 1956. Surviving are a son Adolph Herington two step sons Manuel Baldomino E J Baldomino and two step daughters Mrs Leonar Mora and Consuelo Baldomino all of Ottawa. The body was taken to Herington for funeral services and burial.
In Nevada Missouri the body of 7 year old JoLinda Rogers, missing since Sunday afternoon, was recovered from a creek at the south city edge. A thousand searchers followed tracks reported by Joe Adams of a local sales firm, locating the body in about six feet of water.
William Adriance reports nearly 5 000 attended the 71st Western Retail Implement and Hardware Association convention in Kansas City. Two Franklin County men were elected to the Board of Directors. M. L. Averill hosted a cattle feeders dinner. 27 attended. A pre recorded Marion Bacon interview aired on WDAF. Government soil bank program discussed.
AP reports Kansas City market figures with cattle listings including slaughter steers 23.00 to 24.50 and high choice yearlings 27.00. hogs 3,800 head with barrows and gilts steady to 25 lower. sows steady to 24 higher. sheep 2,800 head with slaughter lambs weak to 50 lower and native wooled lambs 18.50 to 19.00.
Dale Spiegel, docksing pardon attorney, announces bid for Democratic nomination for attorney general. Spiegel, 34, previously won the Democratic nod in 1958 but lost to John Anderson by about 4,000 votes. Anderson may run for governor as a Republican.
Hattie Agnes Thielen widow of Frederick B. Thielen of 629 Willow died yesterday. Requiem services at Sacred Heart Church Wednesday at 10 a.m. Interment Mt. Calvary Cemetery. Rosary at Lamb Funeral Home Tuesday at 8 p.m. Max B Forester of Stamford Connecticut died early today. Graveside services in Ottawa with time to be announced.
Clifford Sink of 630 N Oak was treated at Ransom Memorial Hospital after fainting from fumes during county bridge blasting at M Appanoose Creek. He went to Pomona for coffee, felt faint on leaving, an ambulance took him to hospital, and he was released shortly after noon.
Poll books for Ottawa Kansas voters are open during City Clerk hours. Anyone who did not vote in November 1958, not registered since, moved since last registration, or is not properly registered must register to vote. Register in person at City Hall. special arrangements for sick or disabled persons. DONALD R. CAPPER, City Clerk.
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