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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1956
Page
1
Local brief notes announce a free Vacation Pack service for Herald subscribers. Call the circulation department, 47, to arrange delivery of all copies published during absences. Also listed are community items including church dinner, hospital news, car incidents, and personnel moves in Ottawa and Franklin County.
Admitted include DeLoss Christianson Kansas City Kas and Mrs Lucy Armstrong 616 Walnut plus several others with names and addresses. Birth noted for Mr and Mrs Larry D Wassmer 119 E 8th a son born yesterday weight 4 lb 13 oz. Dismissals list John Kahler 104 E 15th and multiple others with addresses, including Mrs Albert Kraft Oleta Stevens and families. Transfer noted for Mrs Marynell Kimball to K U Medical Center and Mrs Jerry Milcfield Richmond.
J B Hamilton 35 died in a Clovis hospital from injuries in a car crash Friday night. He was formerly of Kansas City and Ottawa and Kansas City, and is survived by wife Betty three children and his mother Mrs Frank Jones. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at Fulton Funeral Home in Kansas City Kansas.
In Muskogee Oklahoma nine state and federal officers hunted for Law rence Kavanaugh 20 of Seattle and two other soldiers charged with kidnapping E L Thomas the Missouri forest ranger. The trio allegedly abducted Thomas near Powell Missouri and forced him to drive to Muskogee before leaving him bound beside a country road. Findly Creel and Kavanaugh were arrested and arraigned with bonds set at 5000 each as federal kidnapping charges were filed. Preliminary hearing scheduled for Wednesday.
The Edgely Pennsylvania bridge project across the Delaware River required 20 204 tons of steel and 25 000 barrels of cement for construction.
Bob Friend and Billy Pierce were named the starting pitchers for the 23rd annual All Star Game at Griffith Stadium. Casey Stengel and Walter Alston announced lineups with Mantle set to lead off and bat cleanup behind Ted Williams.
Rocky Marciano, the retired heavyweight champion, remains in Brockton hospital with a back injury. Doctors are evaluating a possible slipped spinal disc and will discuss X-ray findings this afternoon. He expects to stay two or three more days and cited tests for movability after playing rough with his three year old daughter Mary Ann.
The National Mediation Board will convene a meeting of union and management reps soon to end the nine day old steelworkers strike involving about 650 000 workers. Clyde Mills said a decision on the mediation session location attendees would be announced late today or tomorrow after exploratory talks in Pittsburgh. Mediation was decided upon, with the government taking the initiative in scheduling further peace talks.
Negotiators pressed to end a nine day strike by Laclede Gas Co. workers as 16 000 customers faced gas outages. About 2 200 strikers ignore a state seizure order and punitive court action. The dispute centers on policy allowing contractors to make meter connections rather than Laclede employees. The firm serves residents of St. Louis city and county, with 28 additional areas reporting cuts.
Generalissimo Franco warned that Russia s new policy poses a greater long term danger. He argued Soviet attacks on Stalin show no shift in objectives, only a tactical variation to achieve them. Franco s views were in a letter to Harry F Byrd Jr editor of the Winchester Evening Star and Harrisonburg Daily News Record.
Washington faces a brewing civil rights clash in the House as Southern Democrats threaten tactics to stall the bill before a Senate vote. The plan includes a civil rights commission and a DOJ division, while other measures on foreign aid, military construction, and narcotics penalties await Senate action.
Earthquakes and tidal waves hit southern Greece with at least 40 dead. Thera and Ios report heavy casualties while Crete Samos and Kalymnos suffer huge waves. Syros says quakes and a Thera eruption followed by widespread home collapse around Athens. Thera population about 10,000.
In the first quarter of 1956 West Germany screened 48 U S motion pictures, 39 West German titles, and 14 from France. A single Russian produced film was also shown, highlighting the era's diverse cinema imports.
Farmers and other small holders own 57 percent of the forest land in the United States according to the latest land ownership survey. The finding highlights the significant share held by nonindustrial landowners ahead of policy debates on timber management and conservation.
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