Ottawa High Bond Issue Could Fund New Building and Remodel
Ottawa School District 30 plans a bond election in October to finance a new high school plus extensive remodeling of the present junior-senior building. Stanford consultants and Shaver and Shaver will guide site plans, with construction possibly starting mid 1963 for occupancy by fall 1964.
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Ottawa
Ottawa School Board
Stanford University
Henry A. Parker
Stanford
Salina
John Shaver
Parker
Board of Education
Shaver
Recreation Commission
State Department of Public Instruction
Ottawa High
Fouts Area Annexation Frays Ottawa and Princeton Districts
Ottawa school board moved to annex nearly all of District 102 known as Fouts, accepting petitions from residents and resolutions to add the area. The long dispute shifted votes and land ownership between Ottawa Princeton and Richmond Lane Ranfo ul districts, reducing pupil numbers from 16 to about a dozen, with Ottawa gaining eight or nine pupils last night and a potential remonstrance triggering another vote.
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Fouts
Ottawa
State Supreme Court
Princeton - Richmond - Lane-Ran
Surpreme
Princeton
Weather County Forecast Partly Cloudy and Warm
Partly cloudy warm and humid through Wednesday with widely scattered nighttime thunder storms and locally heavy rains likely. Highs in the 90s and lows around 70 tonight.
Suspect Arson In Burning Of Green Valley Church
Green Valley Baptist Church in Miami County near Franklin County burned last night. Fire discovered at 10:30 by Roy Beets and Frank Whetstone. firefighters failed to save it due to lack of water. State fire marshal and Miami County sheriff investigat e arson with possible vandalism history. Church had about 50 members and had just added two rooms. parishioners to meet at nearby school to decide next steps.
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Green Valley Baptist Church
Miami County
Franklin County
Roy Beets
Frank Whetstone
Qsanatomie Fire Department
W. H. Dickinson
Dickinson
Planting dates and late varieties for Franklin County crops
Farmers face late plantings due to recent cutworm damage. Kansas State agronomy experts advise on corn soybeans grain sorghum and sudangrass planting windows, with late season options such as Clark soybeans Shelby hybrids and short season sorghums. Fall seeding favored for alfalfa stands. Lamb husbandry tips given for mid July.
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Franklin County
Ray Olson
Agronomy
Kansas State
Brown County
Bom
Kansas State University
Ashland Agronomy
Clark
Shelby
Sudan
Ailalla
Sukova Stuns Hard to Put U S in Wimbledon Semis
In Wimbledon play Vera Sukova, an unranked Czech, upset No 2 Darlene Hard 6 4 6 3 to leave the U S with a single semifinalist Karen Hantze Susman 19 from Chula Vista Calif who defeated South Africa’s Renee Schuurman 6 4 6 4 Billie Jean Moffitt limped through her match and fell 6 3 6 1 to Ann Hayden of Britain Hayden reached the semifinal as the American hopes diminished amid the injuries and surprises of the day.
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Wimbledon
England
Vera Sukova
Darlene Hard
Long Beach
Calif
United States
Karen Hantze Susman
Chula Vista
Susman
Renee Schuurman
South Africa
U.S
Billie Jean Moffitt
Miss Moffitt
Margaret Smith
Australia
Ann Hayden
Britain
Miss Hard
Darlene
Billie Jean
Traffic Toll Topeka Kansas Traffic Death Log
A Topeka AP report records Kansas traffic fatalities over the 24 hours to 9 am Tuesday with figures for July 1962 and comparison to July 1961. The fatality was credited to the previous month.
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Topeka
Kansas
Declaration of Independence Pledge of Independence
The text states that Representatives of the United States in General Congress assembled declare the United Colonies free and independent states absolved from binding to the British Crown. They assert full power to wage war, make peace, form alliances, establish commerce, and perform all acts of an independent nation pledged with divine providence to mutual lives fortunes and sacred honor.
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United States of America
Congress
Great Britain
Rabbit Croquet Game Delights Overbrook Children
Overbrook children of Mr and Mrs Roland Turner devise a summer game using pet rabbits instead of croquet balls. Eddie Linda Rita May Roline and Jerry Turner guide their rabbits through wickets, aiming to herd them in the proper order to win.
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Overbrook
Roland Turner
Eddie
Linda
Rita May
Rolene
Jerry Turner
Frank Mayes
RFC 3
Ottawa
Miami mayor says parking meters are crooked
Miami mayor Robert King High affirmed that some meters are faulty after a taxpayer complained a meter shorted him. The parking department reported 8 of 122 meters checked were defective, with more inspections underway.
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Miami, Fla
Robert King High
Miami
High
Employment Upswing Hoped as July Weather Improves
Ewing of the Kansas State Employment Service reports June in Franklin, Miami, and Anderson Counties was weaker than expected but anticipates improvement in July. Twenty five new applicants filed job requests with 129 placed, 46 in farm work. Weather and student applicants affected June. construction and farm labor see potential gains with better conditions. Three local industries Parmelee, Bruce, and Mode O Day have openings.
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Ewing
Parmelee
Bruce
Man solves Ottawa unemployment problem race
A 57 year old man named Jake F Blum of Salt Lake City Utah turned himself in to Franklin County sheriff s officers as a parole violator. He said he had been paroled from the federal penitentiary at McNeil Island Washington to Las Vegas Nevada and surrendered after failing to find work.
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Ottawa
Jake F. Blum
Salt Lake City
Utah
Franklin County
Blum
Federal Penitentiary
McNeil Island
Wash
Las Vegas
Nev
Fourth Of July For Algerians Declares Independence
Algerian independence was proclaimed by Charles de Gaulle with a French cabinet statement. Ben Yousseff Ben Khedda and ministers arrived in Algiers asserting control as civil war threats loom from 4,500 mutinous Muslim guerrillas. Ben Bella opposes Khedda’s pro France policy. The Evian framework transfers sovereignty to a provisional Algerian government to rule until a Constituent Assembly is elected.
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Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Ben Yousseff Ben Khedda
Dere Haun Sae Ye Ae
Ahmed Ben Bella
Ben Bella
Ben Khedda
France
Tunis
Ottawa
de Gaulle
Algeria
Christian Fouchet
Abderrahmane Fares
Provisional Executive
Unemployment Weeks Paid and Claims Rise in 1961 May June
Ewing reported 176 placements for May and explained the monthly assignment process. June saw 401 weeks of unemployment compensation insurance paid, up from 1,048 weeks last year due to rain and recession. This May, 536 weeks were paid. New unemployment compensation claims totaled 159 in June, 85 in May, and 35 in June 1961.
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Ewing
Busy Fourth For Police In Ottawa Crowd Expected At Forest Park
Off duty officers and six auxiliary policemen will patrol Ottawa tomorrow as a large crowd is anticipated at Forest Park. No parking signs will guide traffic along North Locust from Avon to East Forest Park gate with officers directing exits Tecumseh Main and Wilson Main. Activities begin at 1 30 p m including Erie Ramblers vs Owl Drugs Topeka girls softball and Ottawa Elks vs Garnett American Legion baseball plus carnival twist contest and fireworks display.
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Ottawa
Forest Park
Eugene Flaherty
Fisherty
North Locust
Avon
Tecumseh and Main
Wilson
Main
Erie Ramblers
Owl Drugs of
Topeka
American Legion
Ottawa Elks and Garnett
Kansan Nominated as Army Chief of Chaplains
Topeka AP reports Chaplain Col. Charles E Brown Jr a native of Coldwater Kansas has been nominated by President Kennedy to serve as chief of Army chaplains. The nomination elevates a long serving Army chaplain noted for his religious leadership and service to soldiers nationwide.
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Topeka
Charles E. Brown Jr
Kennedy
Army Chaplains
Coldwater
Kan
Tony's Toot Independence Sparks Car Incident Debate
A fragment cites a remark about independence not granting freedom to slam cars into another man's property. The line hints at a dispute over conduct and rights but offers limited context for full actionable details.
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Shafer and Kline
Overland Park
Kansas City
MAN OF God
Aelre Knittles
OFM
St. Therese Roman Catholic Church
Richmond
Father Knittles
Penablanca
N. M
Herald
Witney
Green Valley
Ivan Yingling
Uled
Humane Society
By Don Brown
Raney
Hayden
Ann
Evian
French
Kansan Chief of Chaplains
Tony
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