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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1957
Page
1
Rehearsal by the Ottawa summer band for the Mrs. Shelden Night will be held Tuesday 7 30 to 9 30 p m at Ottawa Junior High School. The City Park concert starts at 8 p m on the bandstand and past students are asked to attend the practice and sign a memory book at the park.
Mr and Mrs Ben Fox and Rex of Moline Illinois visit relatives in town. Sommers buy Livingston house and plan to move in this week. Mers man family to move into Setter house. Marie Kalzer released from Garnett hospital after treatment. EUB Church to host ice cream supper in the park on Saturday July 20 starting at 5. Bonnie Gayle Gerhold to return from Spokane. Mary Dean Landwehr and Darrell Rickabaugh a miscellaneous shower at VFW hall ahead of July 16 wedding at St Johns. Wilbur Webb family rent upstairs in telephone building. will split time between Cherryvale and town weekends. First Baptist Garnett Women’s Missionary Society met with Mrs Roy Garner on July 12. hostesses listed. Roberta Cable led lesson. La Doy Gerholds attended trap shoot and gish fry in Weston Missouri.
Mrs Lucy Anthony of 840 Cy press Ottawa died yesterday at 1 p m in Ransom Memorial Hospital after a short illness. She was the widow of Scott Anthony who died in 1946. Born in Birmingham Ala she lived in Ottawa 30 years and belonged to Bethany Chapel Church. Survived by a brother Frank Hinton of Tulsa. Funeral services tomorrow at 10 am McVey-Dengel Mortuary Rev W M Bailey officiating. Burial in Hope Cemetery.
Mrs. Alex Fisher nee Sarah E Decker 79 died today at Ransmo Memorial Hospital at 2 35 a m She was born in Carbondale July 29 1877 and lived in Williamsburg and Homewood most of her life She married Alex Fisher January 2 1894 Funeral in McVey Dengel Mortuary Wednesday at 10 a m Burial Mt Hope Cemetery Williamsburg Survivors include husband four daughters three sons 26 grandchildren 24 great grandchildren and two sisters The family attends Baptist and Williamsburg Free Methodist churches
Miss Florence Allen aged 70 died last night at Ransom Memorial Hospital after years of poor health and a stroke. Born February 10, 1887 in Lockport Illinois she lived in Ottawa since 1911, survived by three sisters Lillian Lawrence and Bess Curtis and Elsie Alleen, plus a brother Leonard Allen. Funeral plans call for a Wednesday trip by car to Tecumseh for graveside services in the afternoon with Dr. W A Elliott officiating.
Alonzo Russell aged 75 of 1007 N Ter Race Drive Wichita formerly of Ottawa died today at 1 p.m. in a Wichita hospital. His daughter Mrs. Ervin Happy left Ottawa for Wichita at 11 a.m. He is survived by his wife a daughter and Mrs Violet Peterson of Wichita. He was employed by Boeing Aircraft Co.
Funeral services for George K Stewart who died July 12 in Oklahoma City were held July 13 at Lamb Funeral Home with Dr Charles A Hawley officiating. Burial in Highland Cemetery. Pallbearers named. Ottawa Lodge No 18 AF and AM served. Also, funeral services for Mrs E E Piersol who died July 12 were held July 15 at Lamb Funeral Home Roger Cantrell of Mt Olivet Baptist Church officiated. Pallbearers listed. Burial in Hope Cemetery.
The State Department plans to end the travel ban on U S newsmen to Red China. Secretary Dulles is expected to announce a new decision next weekend after meetings with leaders in news gathering and publishing to seek support for a compromise plan for China coverage.
The nuclear test named Diablo, part of the summer series at the Atomic Test Site in Nevada, produced a purple bloom above the desert at 4:30 a.m. The mushroom cloud rose to about 25,000 feet and drifted west. The stem appeared bulged at the base, and the color faded after about a minute.
Hospital notes show admissions for Mrs. Anna Boyke and several others from Mulberry and nearby streets plus Sunday births to Walter Potter and Larry Wassmer families and Kenneth Burgoon. Dismissals include Mrs. Larry Hollingworth, Richard Fisher, Mrs. Claude Sink, and multiple others with addresses across Richland, Quenemo, RFD 1 2 and 3.
Donald Charles Young fourteen drowned while swimming in Longs Lake three miles north of La Cygne Kansas. His parents are Mr and Mrs Mike Young of Kansas City Missouri.
KINGMAN Kansas Mrs Es telle A Palmer known as Mother Essie to Legionnaires and auxiliary members died Saturday at 87. A Kansan pioneer of Kingman County she had been bedfast since April 1956 after breaking her hip at an auxiliary district meeting in Garden City. She helped organize the auxiliary in Kansas, served as state president in 1928 and was its historian for years, and also long served as treasurer of the Kansas Press Women's Club.
Merle E. Gruber, 30, of Coffeyville, was found dead by a quarry two and a half miles north of Coffeyville. Coroner ruled self-inflicted death. Clifford Twichell reported a .22 rifle across his legs after finding him under a tree. no motive apparent. Gruber was shot in the head and heart.
Washington officials said a six percent drop in crop production this year does not alter plans for next year to impose overall acreage allotments for corn cotton wheat rice and tobacco under the soil bank program. The aim is to curb land shifting from surplus crops to others and prevent renewed surpluses.
In New York John V. Hurley Jr. a three year old boy climbed to a dresser and pulled a .38 revolver from a strongbox kept by his policeman father. He began playing with it while his parents slept and the gun went off striking his mother in the right hand. The bullet traveled through the headboard radio and into a wall.
Lou Costello announced the Abbott and Costello team is dissolving. He said Bud Abbott, 61, has retired from the act to live on a ranch near Santa Barbara and raise thoroughbred horses, with no conflict involved.
Pravda reported that the Greek Communist party passed a resolution endorsing the demotion of members of the Malcukou group in the Soviet Union. The Greek Reds condemned the antiparty factional activity as deserving the most severe condemnation.
Bolton Cooperative Water Corp. in Boston Township taps an Arkansas River well and lays 18 miles of pipelines after a decade of planning. The non profit group pumped to life a system now supplying rural homes and Grade A dairies that faced long water shortages. A 1954 FAA loan covered 90 percent of costs, with 51 percent of consumers qualifying under the program.
The article reports on a water utility project with 10 percent funded by 100 stockholders at 175 each and others buying equal amounts, totaling about 149 customers from a 400 customer area. Minimum monthly charge is 6 for 1,500 gallons, 1.50 per 1,000 for next 3,000 and 1.25 for the next 10,000, enough to retire a 30 year loan without property taxes. Directors listed include John Blatchford Earl Brown Weston Agers Melvin White George Bacastow Bernard Clark Maurice Potter and A K Pappaa.
No Lie GEORGE Washington region celebrates its name with hundreds of cherry trees planted to honor the town site. A Quincy businessman bought the site to ensure a town of George, Washington, would be established as nearby Columbia River dam projects spur growth.
Detroit tested penny gum machines on 15 city buses for five weeks. Machines dispensed 9 830 sticks at a penny each, yielding only 14.73 dollars in city revenue and leaving the transit finances unchanged.
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