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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1955
Page
5
Norman Korbe and Paul Shelinbarger, both near Melvern, are charged with stealing six head of cattle from two Melvern farmers. Sheriff Forrest Gragg states a preliminary hearing is set for July 25 in Osage county court. Each suspect is free on $1,000 bond.
A 1954 survey shows roughly 60 percent of all raw furs produced in the United States came from mink. Other fur types trailed behind with smaller shares, highlighting mink's dominance in the industry during that year.
Topeka accountant Carl Bjorkman was fined one dollar in police court for disturbing the peace over a 640 pound bell in his yard that rings twice hourly. He collects bells as a hobby and wired the bell to an electric clock after a neighbor complained of sleep disturbance. Bjorkman plans to appeal in district court to keep the bell ringing.
London officials announced that four prominent American Baptist ministers will visit the Soviet Union next month to preach nationwide. The delegation includes Dr. Arnold T. Ohrn, W Carney Hargroves, Theodore F. Adams, and Joseph H. Jackson. They will depart August 4 for a two week religious mission with freedom to preach and travel, with politics excluded.
Coral Gables reports Martha Blumenbach began a hunger strike Friday after learning her draft eligible son Thomas Blumenbach, 26, a dentist, joined the U S Public Health Service in Savannah Georgia. She says she will fast until she dies. she has had only water and spends most time in bed. No doctor has examined her. The son supports her protest.
U Miss Mary Louise Fontenroy aged 24 from Parsons Kansas died in a three vehicle crash on the intercity viaduct in Kansas City yesterday. Police said the accident involved a car truck and another vehicle with Fontenroy pronounced dead at the scene.
The Ottawa League of Women Voters completed a two section trade survey on Ottawa area world trade stakes and attitudes toward general trade policy. Farm groups urged maintaining grain, animal and dairy exports, with foreign commissions in many countries. Kansas and Franklin county wheat and wool figures for 1953 support exporting importance. opinions split on competing or eliminating imports. Industry responses show 330 of 553 workers in 12 Ottawa firms with varied import impact, general support for liberal trade program and gradual tariff reductions. Contact Mrs. Floyd Indall for more information.
World Wide News Briefs report Eisenhower appears in Chinese Communist newspapers in Hong Kong for the first time since his election. Berlin: 24 miners killed and 96 injured in uranium pit fire near Aue, East Germany. Vienna: Austrian talks on Jewish claims reach conclusion. settlements could total about 144 million dollars. Taipei: tornado damages over 200 houses in Hsinchu, three injured. a farmer killed by lightning during storm.
Bill King resigns as Ellis County sheriff effective August 1 to become a state game protector for the forestry fish and game commission. His successor will be named by Governor Fred Hall.
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