Ottawa district valuation rises while tax bases shrink citywide
Ottawa School District 30 shows a $2.8 million valuation increase to $15,897,620 largely from annexed territory, aiding a planned fall bond election for a new high school. Franklin County valuation drops by $236,316 while Ottawa Lane Wellsville localities report declines. several towns and townships post decreases or gains with Pomona Princeton Rantoul Richmond and Williamsburg among those rising.
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Ottawa
Bruce Spears
Board of Education
Spears
Lane
Wellsville
Ottawa City
Pomona
Princeton
Rantoul
Richmond
Williamsburg
Appanose
Centropolis
Harrison
Franklin
New Owner At Ottawa Hobby Shop
Harold A. Bud Pratt Jr. has purchased the hobby shop at 427 S Main Ottawa from Kenneth Farnsworth. Pratt retired from the U S Army as a master sergeant in May 1961 and was credit manager for Jay Todd Mobile Homes and Insurance before buying the shop. He plans to expand the shop to cover all hobbies. Pratt, his wife Alice and two sons live on RFD 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold A
Bud) Pratt Jr
S. Main
Kenneth Farnsworth
Pratt
U. S S. Army
Jay Todd Mobile Homes
Alice
Saffels To Visit Ottawa
Dale E. Saffels of Garden City, Kansas, a Democrat candidate for governor, will visit Ottawa on Tuesday July 17. He will speak at Colbern's restaurant at noon, then tour Lyndon and Osage County, arriving in Ottawa in the morning to meet Ottawans and talk in the business district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale E. Saffels
Garden City
Kansas
Ottawa
Colbern’s
Lyndon
Osage County
County Forecast Briefly Cloudy With Showers Tonight
Partly cloudy weather dominates the county with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Saturday locally heavy storms possible. Tonight’s low near 70 with a high around 90 on Saturday.
Cabinet Change Reshapes Macmillan Team in London
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced a sweeping cabinet reconstruction Friday night. Chancellor Selwyn Lloyd quit amid sharp fiscal criticisms, with Reginald Maudling taking over the treasury. Defense Minister Harold Watkinson also exited, replaced by Aviation Minister Peter Thorneycroft.
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London
Harold Macmillan
Selwyn Lloyd
Lloyd
Reginald Maulding
Macmillan
Defense
Harold Watkinson
Peter Thorneycroft
Man Injured In Truck Crash Near Princeton
A truck crash southeast of Princeton injured driver Lloyd Abney of Paola. The northbound rig, carrying propane, ran off a curve on US 59, overturned near a stone house, and left the tractor and trailer on their sides. Abney suffered leg and hip injuries and head lacerations. he was taken to Ransom Memorial Hospital. Witness Bob Bodenheimer of Garnett described the crash and its frightening sequence. The curve has a history of recent truck accidents.
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Coats Cover
Princeton
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Lloyd Abney
Paola
US 59
Bob Bodenheimer
Garnett
Bodenheimer
Coats Corner
Herald
Factory Employment At New High
Washington AP reports factory employment reached a record 16.8 million in June. Despite high weekly earnings and top overtime, the economy showed a lack of vigor with conflicting trends in steel and autos. Seymour Wolfbein cautioned the figures do not portend a recession, noting steel weakness reduced hours while autos rose on strong sales.
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Washington
Labor Department
Seymour Wolfbein
Department
Man Slain Anticipated Kidnap Stuns Spokane
In Spokane a public relations man W Gordon Fowle was shot to death in front of the radio station where his daughter Nancy Fowle worked. Two hours later Max Earle Markham, 20, was arrested with the girl nearby on the Spokane River bank. Markham carried a submachine gun and other weapons. Nancy was unharmed but upset. The motive is unknown.
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Spokane, Wash
Spokane
Max Earle Markham
Spokane River
Here
Washington-Idaho
Nancy Fowle
Clifford Payne
Payne
Markham
W. Gordon Fowle
Savings and Loan Association
Nancy
Guilty pleas in Estes fraud case include four executives
Four defendants pleaded guilty to five counts of a 29 count federal indictment in El Paso, Texas. Coleman McSpadden Harold Orr and Ruel Alexander all officers of Superior Manufacturing Co of Amarillo. Estes remained innocent on the earlier 8 count indictment. A creditors committee pressed involuntary bankruptcy while Estes fought it. Judge Thomason set a bankruptcy decision for today.
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EL Paso, Tex
West Texas
Billie Sol Estes
Estes
Coleman McSpadden
Lubbock
Harold FE. Orr
Amarillo
Ruel W. Alexander
Superior Manufacturing Co. of
FBI
Thomason
J. F. Hulse
Wheat sedimentation test could lift Kansas farmer incomes
Clifford Hope, president of Great Plains Wheat Inc., predicted the sedimentation test for wheat will raise Kansas farmers' incomes by 20 to 25 million dollars. The test ties quality premiums to sedimentation results, rewarding gluten strength upgrades. Reports of high sedimentation indicate improved crop quality, enabling higher loan rates for wheat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City
Kan
Clifford Hope
Great Plains Wheat Inc
Kansas
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Hope
Senate blocks GOP Social Security health care plan
Washington AP reporting the Senate defeated by 75 to 5 a Republican measure to use Social Security funds to pay private health insurance premiums for the elderly. It was the third GOP substitute for President Kennedy's Social Security health care plan to be rejected.
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Washington
Senate
Prescott Bush
R-Conn
GOP
Kennedy
Tonly's Toot The Scotch and the stingy golfer
An American has shown the world to be tight with strokes on the links, countering the famed Scottish aid in golf and penury.
Palmer Wins British Open
Arnold Palmer captured his second straight British Open at Troon Scotland with rounds of 67 and 69 to finish 276 the lowest 72 hole total in the 102 year history of the event. He beat Kel Nagle by six strokes as Nagle posted 282 with two final rounds of 70.
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Trcon
Scotland
Arnold Palmer
Latrobe
Kel Nagle
Australia
Peter Thomson
Royal Lytham
St. Anne’s
Nagle
Palmer
St. Andrews
Walter Hagen
Hagen
Bobby Locke
South Africa
Johnny Farrell
Muirfield
Phil Rodgers
la Jolla
Calif
Sam Snead
Gaffer
White Sulphur Springs
W.va
Jack Nicklaus
Columbus
Ohio
Bob Charles
New Zealand
David Thomas
England
Traffic Toll Topeka Traffic Death Log
Kansas traffic death log reports 24 hours to 9 am Friday 7 July 14 1962 with figures 272 for 1962 and 288 for 1961. Prescriptions listed Raney Ct 2 3082 Adv.
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Topeka
Kansas
Raney
High School Site Talks Continue For Joint District
Board members will meet Monday to pursue a building site for Joint High School District No. 10 formed from Princeton Richmond Lane and Rantoul districts. Superintendent Charles McAnarney said the architect is coordinating with the state health and water resources teams to choose a site and ensure adequate water supply.
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Princeton
Richmond
Lane
Rantoul
Charles McAnarney
State Board of Health and Water Resources Division
Birthday coincidence for Nashville boy on Friday the 13th
Jay Smith, a Nashville boy, turns 13 this Friday the 13th and plans a Halloween style party. He owns a rabbit’s foot and a horseshoe but says he is not really superstitious, enjoying the fun of black cats and walking under ladders anyway.
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Nashville, Tenn
Jay Smith
300 To Attend School Of Missions At Baldwin
About 300 Methodist women from two conferences will gather at Baldwin to begin the United School of Missions in the United States. The five day program covers the Far East church mission and education for children, with instructors from both white and Negro conferences. The event runs through Friday noon, followed by the annual Wesleyan Service Guild weekend on the Baker University campus.
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Baldwin
United School of Missions
United States
Far East
Woman's Society of Christian Service of the
Kansas Conference
Kansas Conference Boards of Education and Missions
Methodist Organization For
Baker University
United School
Paul W. Burres
Holton
Kansas Conference Woman's Society
Woman's Division of Christian Service
Methodist Church
Warren Stover Jr
Kansas
Commission On Missions
Irma Highbaugh
Coffeyville
China
Thelma McCallum
Columbus
Ohio
Department of Work In
Woman's Division
Dorothy Barnette
New York
Woman’s Division
G. W. Cameron
Pineville
Commission On Christian Vocations
Ralph L. Ruhlen
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Franklin County
Harold Pratt
Saffels
Aevean Maca
Atone
Eves
New High
Mandy
Arthur Rochhold
Hulse
John Cofer
Kall Health Insurance Plan
Tonly
Champ
School of Missions
Wesleyan Service Guild
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