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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1955
Page
1
Notices include Herald subscription details and delivery options, visiting relatives from Paola, population figures for Coffey County, bids for Osawatomie State Hospital project, Osawatomie baseball win, a reckless driving fine, a divorce filing, a stroke treatment update, a back injury recovery, a Church social event, a clothing drive for Save The Children, and Rotary district visit by Governor Les Hoover offering local context for Ottawa.
Western diplomats see Soviet moves at the Geneva summit as aimed at freezing East West relations in a peaceful stalemate. Bulganin hints at no German reunification while NATO remains intact, and proposes a staged disarmament and bloc-wide non aggression pact. Eisenhower Eden and Faure resist, suggesting a long lasting status quo. Germany remains the focal point of the power struggle.
Three Rotarians from other clubs attended the meeting: Ralph Graber of Lawrence John Harvey of Topeka and Otto Selzer of Baldwin. Governor Hoover led an assembly of officers directors and committee chairmen of the local club at a dinner session to discuss plans for the year.
The Kansas Rural Letter Carriers Association elected Ralph Argo of Wellington as president and Ernest Clark of Barnes as vice president. Rowland Fenske of Lincolnville became secretary treasurer, Marvin Walker of Mankato joined the executive board for three years. Glenn Lane of Phillipsburg was retiring president. Ladies Auxiliary also elected officers, with Mrs Gerry Briggs of Delphos as president and Mrs Ernest Clark of Barnes as vice president. The 53rd annual convention closed, with next year planned for southeast Kansas. Madrid subway riders average 241 trips annually compared to New York 199 and Paris 223.
Funeral services were held June 20 in Vallejo for Mrs. George Remmey who died June 16 after a long illness. She was born Jeanette Manrose in Illinois and moved to Ottawa as a child. She lived in Vallejo most of her life and worked ten years in Mare Island’s supply dept. She is survived by her husband two daughters a brother and two sisters. Father Thomas Martin will conduct another funeral for John H. Slater at Sacred Heart church with a rosary at Towner’s and burial in St. John’s Cemetery.
Mark L. Putnam now industrial relations and personnel manager for Deere and Co. in Moline Ill, was a featured speaker at a Burlington Iowa Business Clergy day. A son of the late Charles F. Putnam, he noted the theme that business has a place in religion and religion has a place in business with the dinner address on Christian Responsibilities of Business.
WASHINGTON The White House announced the resignation of Roger Lewis from the post of assistant secretary of the Air Force and named Dudley C. Sharp of Houston Texas as his successor.
New York reports a sluggish trading day with prices mixed and scattered improvement in selected issues. Fractional gains and losses appeared across manufacturing, aircraft, tobacco and chemical stocks. Volume ran around two million shares versus 2,300,000 yesterday.
Hospital notes list admissions Frank Snodgrass Williamsburg John Beekman 609 E 4th Mrs Ernest Burns Pomona Mrs Thelma Nicholson 720 S Poplar Mrs Julia Mulvaney route 2 births Mr and Mrs Donald E Jones East 1st son born Tuesday weight 7 lb 5 oz dismissals Mrs Richard Cannady and baby son 1105 N Main Tuesday Mrs Arthur Schmidt and baby daughter 506 E 4th Fletcher Hunt Baldwin Mrs Orville Bay Singer and baby son 615 S Sycamore Mrs George Buckner and baby daughter 933 E 8th Mrs Maurice Fishburn Overbrook Mrs Robert Phillips and baby son route 3 S U Peace 604 Beech today.
Markets show mixed stocks amid quiet trade while bonds remain steady. Cotton softens on liquidation. Chicago wheat firm on commercial buying. corn and oats hit new lows with good crop prospects. Soybeans mostly steady except July up sharply. Hogs rise up to 25 cents, cattle steer prices steady to 75 cents down with top at 25.00.
Chicago corn and oats futures fell to seasonal lows as excellent crop weather and hedging pressure pushed feed grains down. Wheat and bread futures eked out small fractional gains while soybeans climbed about 8 cents in the July contract before end of trading.
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