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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1958
Page
4
Jay Scott Franklin County school superintendent will leave Tuesday morning for a three day workshop for county school superintendents at Kansas State Teachers College Emporia The session runs Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday Also notes on local bids military service and residents travel notables
Dean R. McCurdy, fireman apprentice in the U S Navy, visits Victoria British Columbia with a Navy task group honoring Canada's Centenary Celebration. He is the son of Mrs Jenny McCurdy of 1016 S Locust Ottawa.
Don Brown and Les Sallee are at a summer agents conference in Topeka through Wednesday. Applications for out-of-state ballots for the August 5 primary are at the county clerk's office. Eligible voters out of state may pick up ballots early and return them to the clerk before the Monday prior to election. Mrs. Boucek reports from Germany that Capt. Henry suffered pelvic skull and leg fractures in a car accident five weeks ago. surgery for bone grafting was performed and he is in satisfactory condition but cannot return to the United States. His address is Capt. William G. Henry 0-721074, 2nd General Hospital, APO 180, New York, NY.
Mrs. Vena Louise Blackstone, 55, eight miles southeast of Ottawa, died Saturday night at Ransom Memorial Hospital after two months of failing health. Surviving include husband Harley Blackstone, son Leo T., daughter Gerald Ball, seven grandchildren, and siblings. Funeral Wednesday at Ruhamah Church with burial in Ruhamah Cemetery. Mrs. Mary Ellen Lupton, 87, of Independence, Missouri, died yesterday in a rest home. She was widow of Frank D. Lupton and mother to Thelma Beebe, Frank D. Lupton, Farrell S., with three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services are set for Independence and graveside in Ottawa’s Highland Cemetery.
Rep. Wilbur Mills said he has no current plan to open a tax inquiry into Bernard Goldfine. Oren Harris noted the issue concerns how regulators enforce the law, while Goldfine faces a disputed deduction of hotel bills as business expenses tied to Sherman Adams. Goldfine returns to testify as the committee weighs potential contempt over unanswered questions. Harris may seek a full Commerce Committee vote if the subcommittee oversteps.
Ottawa police investigated two weekend break-ins. At E and H Cafe 4111.4 S Main a screen door was entered and a cash box taken from the juke box with an estimated loss of 20 dollars. At Lee's Cafe 1532 S Main thieves forced a rear door opened two cigarette machines and a pinball machine and attempted the juke box and a window with estimated loss of 10 dollars in nickels.
Franklin County Court Saturday fined two men for traffic charges. Austin P. Muzingo, 63, Palmdale, California, paid 10 dollars plus costs for speeding cited June 30 by State Trooper Robert J. Conaty. John W. Graham, 23, Belleville, paid 8 dollars plus costs for failing to slow to avoid an accident cited July 3 by Conaty.
The body of 16 year old William Downing Jr. was recovered from the Missouri River near Atchison. He disappeared while swimming with other youths at St Joseph Missouri on Thursday. Two Atchison policemen recovered the body.
A two story Logan department store in El Dorado Kansas was damaged by a fire late Saturday with adjoining buildings suffering smoke damage. The cause and total damage were not yet known.
John Glenn Somers 69 of Newton, former district judge and Kansas Bar Assn president, died Saturday at Halstead hospital after poor health. He served as judge of the 9th Judicial District 1928-41, was assistant attorney general in 1942, state Supreme Court commissioner in 1949, and Newtons special water counsel since 1950. Survivors include his wife, daughter Mrs. George Robb, a brother, and a grandson. Funeral Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the Kansas Methodist Children's home chapel.
Blackstone-Vena Louise died Saturday evening. Funeral at Ruhamah Baptist Church Wednesday at 2 pm with interment at Ruhamah Cemetery. Crocker John T. to be honored Tuesday at 2:30 pm at Pomona Methodist Church with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. officiants Rev. Charles P. Knight and Rev. Robert P. Starbuck.
Admitted Wayne James 230 S Cedar Fred Noel 613 S Elm Saturday William F Roots Sr Wichita Mary Alice Ferguson Wellsville James Waring 1425 S Hickory Richard G Binns Rantoul Mrs James Huderson Pomona Mrs Sarah Riebe Lane Elsa Towe 724 S Sycamore Sunday Gary L Lindsey RFD 2 today Births Mr and Mrs Richard Powers 735 N Mulberry son born Sunday weight 8 lb 8 oz Dismissed Ellis Gorton 741 S Oak A T Muzingo Palmdale Calif Rodger Brownrigg 1522 S Oak Saturday Ivan Kirkwood Wichita Harry Trabert Williamsburg Mrs Don Gorton and baby son 720 S Locust Mrs Clarence Nauman 927 S Mulberry Leo Thomas 737 S Main Nancy Bethel Quenmo Sunday Fred Noel 613 S Elm transferred to K U Medical Center Howard Curtis 745 Tremont Ralph O Ferguson 524 Birch Mrs Jimmie Eichinger and baby son Topeka Mrs Walter Williams and baby son Rantoul today
Former President Truman sides with Sherman Adams keeping his White House post saying the President could not run the government without him. He criticizes Bernard Goldfine’s gifts, notes Adams and associates got favors, and contends gifts to public officials are improper.
Milton Eisenhower began a Panama Canal visit with Panama seeking economic aid and sovereignty recognition. The tour, third day of a US fact finding mission, heads next to Honduras and proceeds through Costa Rica Nicaragua Puerto Rico El Salvador and Guatemala. Security kept him largely unseen in Panama City.
Funeral services for Harry M. Van Landingham who died July 9 were held June 11 at the Lamb Funeral Home with Rev. Charles P. Knight and Dr. Gordon B. Thompson officiating. Pallbearers were C. A. Day W. W. Whitacre EV Lash Sheldon Tallman Dean Berlin and Wayne Dickerson. Mrs. J. R. Henning played organ selections. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery Baldwin.
Secretary of Agriculture Benson postponed his planned summer trip to the Soviet Union and Europe, citing legislative and administrative pressures. The visit was tied to a six‑mission Soviet agricultural exchange. the first American mission departed recently and others will follow as Soviet groups are set to arrive in the United States.
City officials will open bids Tuesday evening at city hall for flood protection work on the Marais des Cygnes within Ottawa. First contracts to be let include river crossings for the sewer main and water main, a sewer pump station, electric line crossings, and alteration work on the sewage disposal plant.
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