Local News Briefs From Franklin County City
Dr W A Elliott shows marked improvement at Ransom Memorial Hospital as daughter Mrs Clarence Morlan and grandson Donald Worth visit. KU summer theater cast includes David Haverty in Once in a Lifetime with performances July 13 16 and 21. State welfare workshop July 8 9 10 at KU with Director Wanda Baird among 1690 200 attendees. Stock Car Races slated Saturday night at 7 30. Arlie Wood 18 Princeton fined for illegal mufflers. Curtis Heathman 53 Elm pleads innocent to DUI and reckless driving. hearing July 29. Franklin County Fair Board meets Thursday 8 p.m. at Pepsi Cola Building to plan Aug 25-28 fair. County budget work underway in clerk's office. Beautyland ads. Clinton Everson 19 cited for defective mufflers and no valid license. to appear July 14. Ottawa Rotarians hear New York convention report by Roscoe Redmond. Visitors at luncheon include Charles Stewart Garnett William Pfeiffers William Campbell Paola and Dick Raney Osbor ne. George Santarpia 513 S Cherry in good condition after major surgery at Ransom Memorial. Jaycee Jaynes host family picnic in Forest Park. 11 families attend. Mrs Alla Richardson of Richmond slightly improved but serious after cerebral hemorrhage. hospitalized at Ransom Memorial. Franklin County officials to Southeast Kansas County Officials Association meeting in Mound City include J J Scott Roselyn Whitley Ofelita Ivey Bruce Spears Earl Richardson. Quarterly meeting to discuss county admin issues.
Hospital Notes Read Admits and Dismissals
Admitted Ry Tuesday. Mrs Sherman Smith of RFD 4 today. Dismissed Owen F Gotschall of 214 W 2nd. Mrs Raymond Hodson of 634 S Elm and William Sutor of 503 E 4th today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Santarpia
S. Cherry
Sherman Smith
Owen F. Gotschall
Raymond Hodson
S. Elm
William Sutor
Cuban Air Force Chief Diaz Lanz Admitted as Resident Alien
Immigation Director Edward P. Ahrens announced Maj. Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz former Cuban Air Force commander and his wife arrived in Miami on July 1, 1959 aboard a private boat and were admitted as a resident alien and parolee respectively after examinations. Diaz Lanz is accused by successor Maj. Juan Almeida of desertion treason robbery and dealing with Balista’s regime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Edward P. Ahrens
Pedro Luis ‘Diaz Lanz
United States
Ahrens
Diaz Lanz
Cuba
Diaz
Maj
Juan Almeida
Fulgencio Balista
Workers Off Jobs At Standard Oil Plant
INDEPENDENCE MO AP Operating and maintenance employees at the Standard Oil refinery at Sugar Creek walked out after negotions broke down with the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers AFL CIO Pickets were posted at seven entrances but the company said about 200 supervisory clerical and other workers remained on duty W F Noell international rep of the union said the strike was over a fair and just working agreement He noted the union had offered to renew the former contract for a year to avert a strike but the company refused Some workers said seniority and arbitration rather than wages were the key issues in the dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence, Mo
Standard Oil
Sugar Creek
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers
Afl-Cio
W. F. Noell
OCAW
Progress Reported in Safeway Dispute
A federal mediator reported progress in negotiations between the Retail Clerks Union and Safeway stores in Topeka Kansas and Warrensburg Missouri. John Pennell recessed talks to review positions and no resumption time was set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Retail Clerks Union
Safeway
Topeka
Kan
Warrensburg
John Pennell
Kansas Wheat Harvest 90 Per Cent Completed
TOPEKA AP Kansas Wheat harvest nears completion as one of the fastest on record. State Crop Reporting Service says 90 percent done overall with over 93 percent in southern, west central and central districts, about 75 percent in other areas, and near halfway in the northeast. Last year at this time about 65 percent had been harvested. The average progress at this time is 72 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
State
Grain Market Report From Kansas City AP
Grain markets in Kansas City show wheat prices mixed with slight declines across several classes. No 2 hard and dark hard values drop while No 2 red and No 3 soybeans show modest losses. corn remains near unchanged with mixed No 2 white and yellow readings and futures close lower throughout the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
TATA
KC Livestock Prices Report From Kansas City
Kansas City livestock prices show cattle at 1200 head with calves 200, high choice 1330 lb steers at 28.64, hogs about 4500 head steady 2 and 3 240-271, sows 400-550 lb 9.75-12.50, sheep 2000 head steady to AO lower with spring lambs around 21.00 and ewes 4.50-6.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Deaths JAMES WILLIAM ALEXANDER 72
James William Alexander 72 farmer and stockman of RFD 3 died at home at 1 20 p m after four years of declining health He was born April 4 1887 in Rock Ridge County Virginia son of James I and Martha Patterson Alexander He married Su ssie Horn on September 2 1917 He was a Centropolis Baptist Church member Surviving are his widow two sons George Lane Joseph Lane a daughter Mrs Harold Guy Richmond four grandchildren and one sister Mrs Mary Brockus Rantoul One son James William Jr died at 26 Services will be Friday at 2 p m at Towner's Funeral Chapel Rev Willard Neumann Centropolis Baptist Church officiating Burial in Lane Cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James William Alexander
RFD
Franklin County
Rock Ridge County
James I
Martha (Patterson) Alexander
Sussie Horn
Lane
Centropolis Baptist Church
George
Drinking Bout Leads To Brawl
In Wichita AP report 23 year old Tommy R Tucker was subdued by four policemen after a day of heavy drinking led to a violent incident. Tucker allegedly shot his stepfather Joe Doty wounding him in the chest and back. Doty husband wife and others involved included Mrs Doty and Tucker and Dotty Yeager. Tucker is jailed on aggravated assault charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy R. Tucker
Joe Doty
Tucker
Fifth Death In Headon Crash
A rural road headon collision in Cape Girardeau Missouri Sunday claimed its fifth victim Walter Hand 17 among those killed in the crash also leaving Kathleen Moore 17 in critical condition. The wreck involved Paul Hahn 29 and Leo William Steger 18 both Cape Girardeau residents with Hahn killed along with June Moore 26 and passengers Patricia Ann Stafford 18 Milo Goodpasture 18. A coroner jury found Hahn caused the deaths through careless imprudent and felonious action with an automobile and returned a verdict of involuntary manslaughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Girardeau
Milo Goodpasture
Hahn
Girl Scouts Senior Roundup Prompts Career Dreams
COLORADO SPRINGS Colo AP Delegates to the Girl Scout Senior Roundup were asked what kind of a career they wanted. Eileen Lucier 16 of Stoughton Massachusetts answered A successful one in the questionnaire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Springs
Colo
Girl Scouts
Eileen Lucier
Stoughton
Mass
Khrushchev links US Soviet friendship to world peace
Premier Nikita Khrushchev told seven American governors in the Kremlin friendship between the United States and the Soviet Union is the key to world peace. He warned that if the two powers ever fought, no force could halt them, and he reiterated Soviet demands for recognition of both German states and a free West Berlin under UN guarantees. He said East Germans won’t accept ending their constitution, and West Germans outnumber East Germans two to one.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
United States of America
Kremlin
U.S
Germany
Berlin
West
East Germany
West Berlin
United Nations
Stephen Mc‘Nichols
Colorado
Johnson-Rayburn
Butler
Congress
Battle lines form over 1960 Democratic convention
Washington AP reports a power struggle reshaping the 1960 Democratic convention with Northern and Western liberals led by Paul M. Butler opposing conservative and moderate forces backing Lyndon B. Johnson Sam Rayburn and John W. McCormack. The dispute centers on leadership roles, policy influence, and potential presidential nominees such as Stevenson Humphrey or Kennedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geofrey Gould Washington
Paul M. Butler
Congress
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnein
D-Tex
House
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
Johnson
Butler
Adlai E. Stevenson
Eisenhower
Hubert Humphrey
Minnesota
Sen
John Kennedy
GOP Expands Wichita Rally in Kansas GOP event
The Kansas GOP expands a state committee meeting into a rally in Wichita with National Chairman Thruston B. Morton as chief guest. Rep. Richard M. Simpson and Ned Cushing will attend, with Sedgwick County Republicans hosting and more than 1,000 workers expected. Senators Schoeppel and Carlson and Reps. Rees and Avery may join.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Republican State Committee
Kansas
Andrew Schoeppel
Frank Carlson
Ed Rees
William Avery
Sam Mellinger
Oldest Resident of Bourbon County Dies
Fort Scott Kansas AP reports Charles Wesley Byers 101, a former farmer, died Tuesday at his Uniontown home. He likely was Bourbon County’s oldest resident, moved from Pennsylvania in 1870, recently fished at Grand Lake Oklahoma. He is survived by seven children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Scott
Kan
Charles Wesley Byers
Uniontown
Bourbon County
Byers
Pennsylvania
Grand Lake
Oklahoma
Obituary: Joseph H. Clark 57 of Kansas City
Joseph H. Clark aged 57 formerly of Ottawa died yesterday afternoon at St Marys Hospital Kansas City from a heart attack. He worked for the Kansas City Southern Railroad and earlier with Kanena City Over end Lignt Co. Surviving relatives include a widow and several children and grandchildren. Services will be Thursday at 1 30 p m at Iron Slackinga Patera Home Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph H. Clark
S. Kensington
Kansas City
Ottawa
St Mary's Hospital
Kansas City Southern Railroad
Kanena City
End Lignt Co
Forster Rachel Weaver
Forts
Osawa
Twyans
Dasegh H
Wo Thomas
Lansax City
Tuo Prandchidren
Thurstey
Iron Slackinga Patera
Quenemo School Job Awarded to Garnett Firm
Garnett and Associates commissioned for the Quenemo new school building with a bid of 196301 dollars. Farrel Electric of Topeka will handle electrical work and Norris Plumbing of Lawrence the plumbing. The town approved a 247000 dollar bond issue for the project.
Kansas City Clinics Await Polio Vaccine Arrival
Kansas City clinics set up by the Jackson County chapter of the National Foundation await Salk polio vaccine from a Philadelphia firm. Administrator Mrs. Gene McGrail says no response to the vaccine order. clinics staffed by volunteers will open if vaccine arrives today. The 26th polio victim in Kansas City this year, 6 year old Darryl McKinney, died at Mercy Hospital Tuesday night. it is unclear if he was inoculated.
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Kansas City
Jackson County
National Foundation
Philadelphia
Gene McGrail
Darryl McKinney
Mercy Hospital
Darryl
Estate probate notices from Franklin County Kansas
First published legal notices in Ottawa Kansas 1959 announce John B. Pierson as administrator of the E G Mayfield estate with nine month creditors claim period and a J Earl Bruner estate hearing sought by Ruth Bruner administratrix. The notices name parties, dates, and required defenses by July 17 1959.
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State of Kansas
Franklin County
E. G. Mayfield
Nalicn
H. G. Mayfield
John B. Pierson
BE. GQ
Franklin Courty
Kansas
J. Earl Bruner
Ottawa
Frankin County
Rush
Marriage Licenses Reported for Glenn MeKander and Others
Marriage licenses issued include Glenn KR MeKander and other applicants. Details appear in the county records with names, dates, and locations listed for the licenses granted in the current reporting period.
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W. A. Elliott
Ransom Memorial Hosital
Clarence Morlan
Donald
Worth
Tex
David Haverty i
Kaufman and Hart
University of Kansas Summer Theater
Wanda Baird
Kansas University
Lawrence
Arlie B. Wood
Princeton
Curtis Heathman
Elm
Franklin County Fair Board
Pepsi Cola
Don Brown
Allen French
Beautyland
Mozelle Gagne
Riley-Bula Cummings
Clinton G. Everson
New York
Roscoe Redmond
Charles Stewart
Garnett
William Pfeiffers
William Campbell
Paola
Dick Raney
Osborne
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Jaycee Jaynes
Forest Park
Floyd Moore
Alla Richardson
Richmond
Southeast Kansas County Officials Association
Mound City
J.J. Scott
Roselyn Whitley
Ofelita Ivey
Register of Deeds
Bruce Spears
Earl Richardson
William M.reland
William M. Ireland
Lamb Funeral
B. Smith Haworth
Ottawa University
Highland Cemetery
First Baptist Church
Harry C. Horstick
Richmond Methodist Community Church
Wilbur Purvis
B. M. Dobbin
Cecil Vining
Leon Freese
Albert Dunbar
Vernon Burger
Lea Weiderholt
M. W. Fishburn
Eugene O'Mara
Dorothy Milcfelt
Lee Perkins
Richmond Cemetery
Harry Hough
Lee Shobe
John Macdonald
Renee
KC Livestock
Headon
By Morris W. Rosenberg
GOP
Lamb Guneral Home
Ireland
H. Ireland
Lamb Funeral Home
Lune
Kanna
Quenemo
Legals
Downery
Ottawa,kansas
Cha
Ottawa, Kansas
Arport
S. Main
Bob McCrea
Mer
Glenn KR MeKander
Noin
Oligwa
Keen Company
Ada
P. m
Arthur Hopkins
Johnny Redick
N. Poplar
Exiline Engine Works
Salina
Avon Cosmetics
Peoria
Mitchell
General Services
Henry Alban
Baves Guiter
Ira Mende
Conrad
Standard Rendering Co
Hensiek Grocery
McCracken
Wightman
Best Buys
Oliver
John Deeree
Ferguson
Massey-Harris
Balers HC
IHC
New Holland
John Deere
Massey - Ferguson
Ottawa Farm Imp. Co., Inc
Massey Ferguson Oliver New Holland
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