Army Specialist Hay aids Rhine crossing feat in Germany
Army Specialist Abraham E. Hay, 24, son of Mr and Mrs Charlie E Hay of Lane, served with the 168th Engineer Battalion in a river bridging exercise in Germany. Battalion members spanned the Rhine with a floating bridge in record time. Also in Ottawa items note the Pomona IOOF picnic draws crowds, Cadet Fred Kaiser from West Point visits family, and local notices include a well child clinic, Grange activities, HDU Playday at Ottawa University, and local family news. Cadet Kaiser visits with parents, stock car races planned, and beauty and travel notes are listed alongside births, visits, and incidents around Ottawa.
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Abraham E.hay
Charlie E. Hay
Lane
168Th Engineer Battalion
Germany
Rhine
Navy reports first Corvus air to surface missile launch
Air-to-surface Corvus missile powered by liquid fuel rocket engine was successfully launched Saturday from an A4D Skyhawk at Point Mugu California. Officers at the Pacific Missile Range headquarters disclosed the test, noting it was the Corvus’s first launch and the target remained undisclosed in the ocean range.
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Point Mugu
Calif
Navy
Pacific Missile Range
Ocean Range
Fai 24 Davenport Faces Pad Versus Otibwa
Richard A. Fai, 24, of Davenport, is scheduled to headline a local boxing card facing Pad in a bout against Otibwa. The event aims to showcase regional fighters with potential title implications and local betting interest centered around the Davenport venue.
Family of Eight Rescued From Desert Ordeal near Moab
Eight family members including Diane nine and Laura thirty five were stranded for two days in the Country of Standing Rocks near Dead Horse Point in Utah. They drank radiator water by spoonfuls and survived after search planes located their car and pilots delivered water. Virl Scott, 37, and children ages 4 to 12 endured extreme heat by burying in sand and rationing limited supplies.
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Moab
Utah
Diane Scott
Laura Scott
Diane
Colorado River
Shafer
Scott
Local Markets Report Grain and Poultry Prices
Market notes show barley soybeans and corn prices with figures around 1.69 for beans 1.08 for white and yellow corn 1.85 for Milo and 0.53 for butterfat. Heavy hens light hens shelled eggs and oats are listed with various grade prices and totals.
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Cseecseseeseees
Phaeda
Kansas City Market Report Cattle Hogs and Sheep Prices
Cattle 10,000 head with calves 700, steady to 50 lower. Good and choice fed steers 25.50 to 27.50. Cows 17.25 to 18.00. Hogs 6,000 head steady with 60 day price mentions. 190 to 240 lb barrows 25.85 to 26.85. 270 to 330 lb hogs 11.50 to 12.00. Sows 330 to 400 lb 10.00 to 11.50. Sheep 2,500 head steady to 25 higher. spring lambs 21.00 to 22.00, 90 to 100 lb lambs 22.25. slaughter weights 4,606.00 dollars.
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Kansas City
Kansas City wheat and grain prices steady with futures rise
AP report from Kansas City shows No 2 hard wheat at 1.89 to 2.07, No 2 red 1.88 to 1.91, corn at 1.23 to 1.28 for No 2 white, oats at 68.72 for No 2 white, Milo and Kafir priced around 2.17 to 2.23, soybeans at 2.07 to 2.12, and barley 92 to 98. Wheat futures closed up about one half to one percent with July to May contracts listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Oren
LSOT
Ground Broken On Neosho Reservoir Dam Named For Editor
Ground was broken Saturday for a dam on the Neosho River as part of four flood control reservoirs in the Neosho Cottonwood basin. The project honors late Burlington Daily Republican editor John Redmond, who died in 1953, and will take six years to complete.
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Burlington, Kas
Neosho River
Neosho - Cottonwood
John Redmond
Burlington Daily Republican
Redmond
Indicted beer distributor gunned down in Chicago area
Joseph Bronge a 50 year old Melrose Park resident and indicted operator of West Town Distributors lay near death after a Sunday shooting in an apparent mob style hit. Police chief Marvin Giles called it a professional job. Bronge had been indicted May 25 on perjury counts in a federal grand jury probe into ties between organized crime and beer distribution.
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Chicago
Joseph Bronge
Melrose Park
Marvin Giles
Giles
Bronge
West Town Distributors
Fox Head Brewing Co
Coach Is Killed On Summer Job
Meriden Kas AP: Joseph Doherty 35, a Baileyville high school teacher and basketball coach, died when a 30 pound metal fragment fell on him at a grain elevator project. He worked for Robert Construction Co of Saltbetha. Survived by his widow and four children.
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Meriden
Kas
Joseph Doherty
Baileyville
Doherty
Robert Construction Co
Salbetha
Deaths Mrs Gladys Regina Bitts 61
Mrs Gladys Regina Bitts died at her daughter’s home in Kansas City area after nine months of declining health She was born in 1897 and lived in the area 50 years Surviving include husband Raymond M Bitts a son Warren James and three grandsons Funeral services will be at Lamb Funeral Home Wednesday at 2 p m with burial in Mt Hope Cemetery Williamsburg
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Gladys Regina Bitts
Raymond M., Bitts
Richter
Fred Heathman Jr
N. Cherry
William H
Sallie
Eberline) Carroll
Bitts
Olathe
Warren James
Kansas City
Kas
B. C. Kirkham
Santa Barbara
Calif
W. E. Bitts
Pomona
John Carroll
Fred
Daniel
Albert Carroll
Oren Carroll
Wellsville
The
Lamb Funeral Home
Charles P. Knight
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Williamsburg
Crowd Hinders Lifeguard After Boy Dies at Shadow Lake
An excited crowd at Shadow Lake near Stouffville Ontario hampered lifeguard efforts to revive 8 year old David Laur of Toronto who drowned after being pulled from the water. Frank Lamon Jr. recalled attempting mouth to mouth resuscitation while onlookers pushed him away, shouting and crowding the scene.
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Stouffville
Ont
David Laur
Toronto
Shadow Lake
Frank Lamon Jr
David
Ann Landers column letters twist truth about Ursula affair
A batch of reader letters to Ann Landers recounts a faux romance sparked by a letter from Ursula. Respondents expose the ruse, reveal real names and towns, and question the letter’s origins while noting personal disruptions at home and work.
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Ann Landers
Ursula
George L
Margaret
Charleston
West Virginia
Funerals for Cecil Fishburn Delayed to Wednesday
Services for Cecil Fishburn who died Friday in Erie Colorado have been postponed to Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Appanoose Brethren Church. Burial will be in Appanoose Cemetery.
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Cecil, Fishburn
Cecil Fishburn
Erie
Colo
Appanoose
19-Year-Old Charged With Murder in Missouri
A 19-year-old, John Crump of Huzzah, is charged with first degree murder for the shotgun slaying of former Washington County judge Leonard Lynn Barr in his Quaker store. Crump allegedly killed Barr, then beat and killed a 17-year-old girl and wounded Barr's wife and 16-year-old daughter during a car-theft spree. A companion, 14-year-old John Edward Davis, faces delinquency charges.
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Quaker
John Crump
Huzzah
Potosi
Washington
Crump
Leonard
Lynn) Barr
Barr
St. Louis
Atty
Robert Carr
Circuit
John Ed
Ward Davis
Ella Jo
Bobbie Lou Shipp
Belgrade
Bobbie Lou
Four Accidents Reported In Franklin County Tonight
Sheriff Max Gilmore reported four accidents in Franklin County with one injury and one citation. Dora Miler, 72, Topeka, admitted to Ransom Memorial Hospital after her car skidded on gravel and hit a ditch west of Ottawa. Clayton Ross cited for no safety chain after a trailer detached and struck a car, then pole. Car collision north of Ottawa on US 59 caused major damage to two vehicles with no citations. Merle Todd Jr., Wellsville, uninjured after a gravel skid overturned near Wellsville.
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Franklin County
Max Gilmore
Dora Miler
Topeka
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Ottawa
Sand Creek
Gilmore
Clayton Ross
Osawato
Mie
R. J. Conaty
Ross
Marjorie DeLozier
Jerry Smithey
Willow
Arlie Wood
Princeton
Smithey
Merle Todd Jr
Wellsville
Todd
Four Killed In One Crash Near Hiawatha Kansas
Four people die in a two car crash on U S 36 west of Hiawatha early Sunday. Charles M. Coughlin 44 his wife Hazel 40 and son William 19 were from Highland Kansas. Laurel D Grover 20 of Hiawatha also died. An 18 month old boy Gregory Allen Pike was killed in Shawnee Kansas when a parked car was started by Evelyn Morris 20. Missouri highway deaths totaled nine with eight in a single head on crash near St Louis.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Hiawatha
Charles M. Coughlin
Hazel
William C. Coughlin
Laurel D. Grover
U. S
Evelyn Morris
Missouri
St. Louis
Union Official Undergoes Surgery After Appendectomy
AFL-CIO Vice President James B. Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers, is resting comfortably after an emergency appendectomy. He developed acute appendicitis while weekending in Harrisburg Pennsylvania with his wife and was operated on Sunday at General Hospital in Harrisburg.
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Washington
Afl-Cio
James B. Carey
Carey
International Union of Electrical Workers
Harrisburg
General Hospital
Hospital and Birth Notices for Sunday
Admitted Higinio Escobar 825 King Harrold Dean Bryan Quenemo Mrs Burl Miler Quenemo. Births Mr and Mrs Ronald D Atchison Princeton daughter born Saturday weight 8 lb 2 oz. Mr and Mrs Dale Wood 1126 N Poplar daughter born Saturday weight 7 lb 5 oz. Mr and Mrs William Adcock Jr Monroe Court daughter born today weight 6 lb 1 oz. Dismissed George Santarpia 513 S Cherry Richard Dunn RFD Bald win Mrs Clara Hopkins 713 King Saturday. Harold Dean Bryan Quenemo Wilbur Ross 522 S Mulberry Mrs Burl Miler Quenemo Robert Jones Lilly nursing home today.
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Higinio Escobar
King
Harold Dean Bryan
Quenemo
Burl Miler
Ronald D. Atchison
Princeton
Dale Wood
N. Poplar
William Adcock Jr
Monroe Court
George Santarpia
S. Cherry
Richard Dunn
RFD
Baldwin
Clara Hopkins
Wilbur Ross
S. Mulberry
Robert Jones
Lilly Nursing Home
Forest Fire Loss Is High Across Oregon and West
Fire swept over more than 30 000 acres in rural Oregon with winds up to 15 mph threatening Fremont National Forest. Firefighters battled 1 000 acres in central Oregon and 2 500 acres on the Warm Springs Reservation, with causes blamed on lightning and a cigarette. No homes or injuries reported as yet.
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Associated Press
Oregon
John C. Hunt
Federal Bureau of Land Management
Fremont National Forest
Warm Springs Indian Reservation
Warm Springs
California
Stanislaus National Forest
Mesa Verde National Forest
Colorado
Lightning Kills Man Near Ogallah
A construction worker Howard Lee Ruckman 41 of Ellis Kansas was killed by lightning while leaning against a road grader beside Interstate 70 near Ogallah Kansas on Saturday. The incident occurred during a storm and authorities reported the fatal strike in the Ogallah area.
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Ogallah
Kan
Howard Lee Ruckman
Ellis
Ruckman
Interstate 70
Lamb Funeral Services for Gladys R. Bitts
Gladys R. Bitts wife of Raymond M. Bitts well known local resident for 50 years died early today. Funeral services set for Wednesday at 2 p m from Lamb Funeral Home with Rev Charles P Knight officiating. Interment at Mt Hope Cemetery Williamsburg.
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Bitts
Gladys R
Raymond M
The
Lamb Funeral Home
Charles P. Knight
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Williamsburg
Two Drivers Cited and Weekend Police Reports
City police reported two accidents and two citations over the weekend. Charles E. Burlingham, 50, 907 Willow, was cited for failing to yield the right of way after a collision in the East 4th block with Elinor M. Dyer, 71, Baldwin, with minor damage. Chester E. Gilliand, 59, suffered minor damage when Ernest R. Reed, 47, backing from a driveway on S. Cedar, struck his car. Reed, 47, of 1104 N. Cedar, also cited for other backing incident. Benjamin J. Kiefer, 19, RFD 3, was cited for speeding 60 in a 30 mph zone and must appear in Police Court tomorrow.
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Charles E. Burlingham
Willow
Loo
East 4Th
Burlingham
Elinor M. Dyer
Baldwin
Chester E. Gilliand
Gilliand
Ernest R. Reed
N. Cedar
Reed
S. Cedar
Benjamin J. Kiefer
Ottawa
Five New Members For Pomona Grange
Pomona Grange obligated five new members at a Saturday evening meeting in the basement of North Baptist Church. Master William H Rice led with notes on State Grange events in Ottawa October 26 to 28 and seven county Granges participating. Committees were named for decorations, transportation, registration, and room registration. Mrs Wherry provided song accompaniment and patriotic exercises. Mrs J G Lytle spoke on last year’s work and future plans, while Mrs Kissinger outlined the program and announced a talent contest for members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawans
Chanute
W. H. Rice
Comand
Gary
Sharon
Pomona Grange
Carl Frischenmeyer
Vada Niehaus
Henry Wherry
North Baptist Church
William H.rice
Ottawa
Fred Kissinger
F. G. Lohrman
Loren Gensman
Fred Shoemaker
Wherry
J. G. Lytle
Ottawa Savings & Loan 1959 Financial Statement
Ottawa Savings & Loan Association presents resources and liabilities as of June 30 1959 in Ottawa Franklin Kansas. Includes first mortgage loans investments bonds reserves profits and various asset and liability totals with detailed figures for loans securities and accounts.
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Financial Statement
Ottawa Savings & Loan Association
Ottawa
Franklin
Kansas
Resources First Mortgage
Federal Insurance Reserve
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West Point
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Doris
Jiurray Moffett
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Mike O'Neal
Atlanta, Ga
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Robert Miller
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Joe
John Rodgers
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Miller's Dam
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Gordon Bond
Truman Day
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Thomas Morse
H. C. Stevens
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J. J. Scott
R. S. Hanes
Duluth
Minn
Ellen Hanes
Denver
Richter Ch
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Pendelton
Ore
A.L. Lingle
Hermiston
Miss Lingle
American Library Assn
Gene Welton
Washington, D. C
County Librar
C. D. Hood
Philmont
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Rocky Mountains
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Byron
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Leland
KC Livestock
Neosho Reservoir
Raymond M. Bitts
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Countant
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Annie
Honey
Mick
Chuck
Davis
Ernest. Dennis
Missouri Highway Patrol
Carr
Lamb Guneral Home
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Dean Berlin
Naomi L. Cole
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Ray Harper
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