City Commission Considers Pool Referendum At Election Time
The city commission signaled it might place a new pool question on the November ballot or a special election. Officials urged civic clubs and residents to gather support via petitions and expressions of interest. Forest Park pool, 42 years old, was closed Tuesday due to equipment failure. if repaired it could reopen Friday morning. Four visitors attended the meeting.
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Forest Park
City Commission
Ottawa
John Bacon
Mulberry
Charles Williamson
Lyman Corlis
Corlis
Laurence Wightman
Park Board
Ottawa Recereation Commission
Steve James
James
Robert Ledeom
S. Willow
Land Transfer Meeting in Ottawa Unifies District Vote
State consultant Harry Dean led a public hearing on whether six land sections should join Ottawa Unified School District or Wellsville. About 40 residents attended, with Ottawa supporters outnumbering Wellsville by two to one. Officials noted petitions and district boundaries, while pool funding and a November ballot for a new pool dominated discussion. The commission also addressed bonds for paving, a steam turbine project, and traffic-safety recommendations.
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Harry Dean
Ottawa Unified
Wellsville
Unification Planning Board
Ottawa
Homer Perry
Wellseville
Dewayne Harris
Ladom
Lesdom
Pondsmen
Don Capper
City Hall
Vern Wadkins
Eugene Flaherty
James
Fourth
Hickory
John Butler
Lawrence
Return Of The Monster At Forest Park Pool
The Forest Park swimming pool was to reopen this afternoon with lessons resuming Friday morning. Recreation director Orlis Cox said the ancient pump is working but a 128000 gallon daily leak remains. The pool closed Tuesday after the pump quit. officials hope the patched system lasts the season.
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Forest Park
Orlis Cox
Ottawa Recreation Comemission
Sinatra Farrow engagement set for late year wedding
New York AP reports Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow are engaged and will wed between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The announcement came from Farrow’s mother actress Maureen O Sullivan who praised the match and expressed confidence they will be happy together.
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New York
Officeral
Frank Sinatra
Mia Farrow
Maureen O'Sullivan
Frank
Sinatra
Harry James
Tommy Dorsey
Miss Farrow
O’sullivan
Kansan District 3 Candidates Meet in Ottawa Forum
A Farm Bureau sponsored gathering in Memorial Auditorium Ottawa featured seven Republicans and two Democrats vying for the vacant Kansas 3rd Congressional District seat once held by Robert Ellsworth. Candidates spoke in three minute backgrounds answered questions on issues from 14B repeal to farm youth drafts and market price controls with most opposing 14B repeal.
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Kansas 3Rd Congressional District
Robert Ellsworth
Senate
James Pearson
Otetawa
Farm Bureau
Mesmorial Auditorium
Wayne Angell
Ottawa
Larry Winn
Reynolds Shultz
Howard Neighbor
George Haley
Richard Rimer
Marvin E. Rainey
Joe J. Potzener
O. F. Nesmith
Poizner
Josef
Jesus
Commodity Credit Corporation
Angell
Shultz
Wyandotte
Johnson
Franklin
Miami
Douglas
Anderson Counties
Clarence Rupp
State Farm Bureau Organization
Five Killed As Missouri Powder Plant Explodes
Five persons died and scores were injured when explosions rocked the Hercules Powder Co plant three miles southwest of Carthage Missouri. Fire spread through the facility as workers trapped in the magazine area were reported. Over 200 employees were in the plant at the first blast. many escaped during lunch. Three major blasts and several smaller ones shattered windows at a nearby company housing structure and sent a smoke cloud high into the sky. Debris was hurled over a mile, with car damage from nearby highways. Firefighters feared a large storage area could be endangered if wind shifted. Reports of blast waves reaching Tulsa 200 miles away. Red Cross units and blood supplies were dispatched to hospitals in Joplin and Carthage.
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Carthage
Hercules Powder Co
Here
Jasper County
Magazine
Highe
Missouri Highway Patrol
Tulsa
American Red Cross
Springfield
Joplin
Garnett Power Outage Blamed on Overloaded Circuits
City crews installing cables capable of handling larger electrical loads after a Parkview Addition outage last night. Officials blamed the failure on increased use of air conditioners and fans. An overloaded line burned a cable in two, dousing lights and power.
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Garnett
Parkview
Catholic Youths Spend Summers Helping Parishes
Twenty four young Catholics serving as parish workers in six Kansas towns met in Ottawa for weekly orientation. The volunteers from ten states will spend seven weeks aiding local churches in Tonganoxie Perry Wathena Overland Park Kane sas City. They aim to implant Christian principles and gain inspirational experience with some planning to join a July 31 dialogue between Ottawa and area Methodist and Catholic students.
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Ottawa
Kansas
By Monte
Wathena
Perry
Tonganoxia
Overland Park
Kanesas City
Kan
John Stitz
Tonganoxle
Kansas City
Robert Burger
Anchor Savings and Loan
Bureger
Underdog Jets Shoot Two Mig 21s Over Saigon Sky
AP reports US jets in Southeast Asia scored two MIG21s within three minutes over North Viet Nam, using heatseeking Sidewinders as F4 Phantoms harassed targets near Hanoi. Earlier, a MIG17 was downed. commanders credited pilots Captain William Snender and Lt. Duane Buttell with first kill, and Lieutenants Martin and Kriepa with the second.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S
17Th Parallel
Red River Valley
Hanoi
William J. Snender
Alamogordo
N.M
Duane A. Buttell
Chililicothe
Ill
Buttell
Ronald G. Maretin
Lake Villa
Richard N. Kriepa
Chesterton
Ind
Navy
Corral
William M. McGuigan
Spearfish
S.D
J.G. Robert M. Fowler
San Francisco
Czech Spy Bribes and Promises Fail to Pay Well
The American double agent Frank J. Mrkva, paid only 3440 over four years by Czech spies, helped foil a plan to bug State Department offices including the director of Eastern European affairs and talks with Under Secretary George Ball. Czech diplomat Jiri Opatrny is expelled, while Zdenek Pisk stays at the UN site. Mrkva, a Korean War veteran from Beaver Falls, now receives a salary boost to 10987 and an honorable award.
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Washington
State Department
Frank J. Mrkva
Meerk’ Va
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U.S
Mrkva
George W. Ball
Jiri Opatrny
Yi'ri Opot
Rini
Zdenek Pisk
United States
United Nations
New York
Pisk
U.N
Mikva
Beaver Falls
Eight Chicago Nurses Slain In Dormitory
Chicago police described the mass killing of eight student nurses at a South Side dormitory as the crime of the century. A survivor reported a lone, blond killer 6 feet 1 inch tall. the death toll involved strangling and multiple knife wounds, with one victim found upstairs and others in two bedrooms.
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Chicago
New Orleans
FBI
E. 100Th St
South Chicago Hospital
Carazo Amurao
Philippines
Amurao
Gloria Davy
Dyer
Ind
Edward Sheehy
Miss Amarao
Miss Davy
Davy
Merlita Gargullo
Valentina Pasion
Pamela Wilkening
Night of Terror Leaves Nurse Survivor in Chicago
Corazon Amurao, 23, the sole survivor of a mass murder on Chicago's South Side, described waking to a knife-wielding intruder who bound eight student nurses. She escaped after freeing herself, finding seven bodies and raising the alarm. Police classify the killings as strangulation and stab wounds, with possible progression from robbery to sexual crime and burglary.
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Chicago
Corazon Amurao
South Chicago
Amurao
Philippines
Francis Flannaegan
Marianne Jordan
Cmdr
Flannagan
Miss Amarao
County Forecast: Hot and clear to partly cloudy through Friday
Weather summary shows highs near 100 through Friday with clear to partly cloudy skies and a low tonight in the upper 70s. Precipitation chance 10 percent tonight and Friday. Wednesday high 97, today’s low 72. year ago today high 83, low 70. records 118 high in 1954 and 50 low in 1950.
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Commission
Dean
Mia
Zeke Wigglesworth
Missouri
Passport Office
Czechoslovakia
Iron Curtain
Director of
East European Affairs
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