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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1957
Page
1
Charles J. Hawley recently finished at Harvard Law School and left Saturday for Newport News to join Naval Officers' Training School, pursuing a commission.
Carl H Sherman Sr of Paola died at his home at 12 50 pm aged 69. He was Paola’s oldest native born resident, born June 7 1968. Former Kansas City Journal Post distributor and long time construction worker. Survived by four daughters and five sons. Funeral Friday 2:30 pm at Wilson and Son Chapel with Paola First Methodist minister officiating. Burial Paola.
Suit filed in District Court by Mr and Mrs La mar Fowler to quiet title in Ottawa property. A divorce granted Joan Marie Lewis from Norman Jeanh Lewis on extreme cruelty grounds. Jerry Lee Weigand pre enrolled at Kansas State College Manhattan for fall. plans civil engineering. Three Ottawa enlistees sworn into US Navy in Kansas City. transferred to San Diego for recruit training. Robert Leland Kile awarded $100 General Electric engineering scholarship at Kansas State College Manhattan. Rotary reports plan for coming year to Prof George Watkins Paola. visitor Tom Evans Baldwin Roijarian.
A Navy Skyhawk crashed on a vacant lot in a densely populated Glendale area after reporting engine trouble on a test flight from Douglas Aircraft Co. Cmdr P C Durup, 36, of Northridge, bailed out in a parachute and was hospitalized. The incident occurred above a heavily built suburb of Los Angeles, narrowly avoiding homes as the single-engine bomber plunged to earth.
Miss Amey E Waring died July 6. Funeral service held July 9 at Lamb Funeral Home with Rev William G Ward officiating. Pallbearers: C A Tucker Howard J Doyen Dr R S Roberts Milo L Harris Ed Hosler Guy E Briscoe Dean Berlin Tom F Porter. Organ selections by Mrs J R Henning. Burial in Hope Cemetery.
TOPEKA The just ended month was the fourth wettest June on Kansas weather records with 6.80 inches average. Only 1951 1928 and 1908 had more rain. Wellington reported 15.8 inches the highest ever in any month. Measurable rain fell on 10 to 15 days in most sections of the state.
Ottawa summer band will, under Walter Butler, present a tribute concert July 18 at 8 p.m. in City Park honoring Mrs. J. L. Shelden, longtime Ottawa teacher. Past and present students will perform solos and numbers from Sousa to Holy Holy Holy. If rain, the show moves to Friday.
London dispatch reports Moscow insisting on an unconditional two year suspension of nuclear test explosions as a first step toward a disarmament agreement. Valerian Zorin backed by Moscow radio argues a control system hinges on a halt to tests, while rejecting Western plans for a scientists conference to draft enforcement.
Oklahoma City woman Gladys Alberta Slemp, 37, died in a car pickup collision near here. Treeper Cy Killian said he found a dead snake in Slemp’s car and that she apparently lost control after discovering it.
Topeka KU officials expect contracts for a new six story dormitory for 400 men after bids opened totaling 1 259 328 dollars. Joseph R Pearson Men s Residence Hall to be built on the western edge of the campus just north of the existing dormitory. Apparent low bidders include B A Green Construction Co Lawrence 884 470 and A Tucker Electric Co Topeka 115 497 Brune Plumbing Heating and Electric Co Lawrence 259 361.
New York audience heard Billy Graham say a Buffalo, North Carolina crusade next November could be possible if an auditorium opens. He outlined monthlong plans for San Francisco in April 1958 and Charlotte in October 1958. He spoke to 19,000 in Madison Square Garden and reported 568 conversions, lifting the NY crusade total to 29,329 decisions and overall attendance to 930,000.
TOPEKA reports show state speeding arrests fell in June under the new statewide limit law. June arrests totaled 622, down from 694 in May, the first full month of enforcement. Warnings were 187 in June versus 261 in May.
A retired New York engineer sails in a specially equipped boat named Tuskegee. He aims to row 2,400 miles along Lake Superior’s shore to raise funds and aid to Negro communities, promising support from Booker T. Washington Insurance Co. and other black insurers amid boycott pressure over voter suppression in Macon County.
Michael G. Corson vows to walk a long row to prove a 1-year-old man with a good mind and strong body should not be tossed on the scrap heap. His craft holds a geiger counter barometer microscopes and other scientific gear to search the lake shore for valuable minerals.
Fordham University seismograph logged two shocks at 4 10 55 and 4 16 20 a m EST indicating a severe quake far south of Cleveland. John Carroll University detected a moderate quake at 4 10 53 a m. The event was estimated about 2 250 miles south of Cleveland, off Nicaragua's Pacific coast.
Gov. Docking will depart late today for Casper Wyoming and then spend three weeks on the West Coast. He will review Kansas Air National Guard activities in Casper during the trip.
State Accident Records Section reports 1957 255 fatalities in the Topeka-Kansas area during the past 24 hours or to date, compared with 322 in the same period of 1956.
Sen. Symington says flood damage in seven Missouri counties may exceed 6 million dollars with credit needs around 43 million. He notes the Agriculture Department cannot extend the soil bank deadline though it promises sympathy in credit supplies.
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