Side Swipes and Odd Local Notes From Ottawa and Nearby
Side Swipes reports Ottawa sidewalk inspectors get optional interior work with Saunders Music owner Walter Butler renovating the shop and planning to reopen by midweek. Other items cover a Dallas zoo romance between a boy and a girl in the gorilla cage, a redbud tree’s watery droplets, a stifling Christmas in five Michigan churches, and the Haydn Shaw family moving into a tornado-damaged home in Ottawa’s Duschene Hill area.
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Ottawa
Walter Butler
Saunders Music Store
Butler
Mr. Peepers
Mrs. Peepers
Little Peepers
Haydn Shaw
Shaw
Linda
Sandra Mathias
Duschene Hill
Docking Recovering From Surgery In L A
Gov George Docking was reported making a good recovery after a hernia operation in Los Angeles on Saturday. Executive secretary Gene Sullivan said Docking spoke by phone, and the governor planned a week in hospital followed by a week of rest before returning to Kansas. The Dockings are in Los Angeles on vacation. He first complained of hernia trouble earlier this month and was confined to bed for one day.
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Topeka
George Docking
Los Angeles
Gene Sullivan
Docking
Kansas
Weather County Forecast cloudy with thundershower threatens
Mostly cloudy weather outlook with occasional thunder showers and little temperature change. Today high in the lower 80s, tonight low around 65 to 70, Tuesday also in the 80s.
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Neoneens
M. Guscees
M. Saveeene
M. Eeeares
Pleasure Ride Fatal to Eight Somerset Youths
In Somerset Kentucky a rattletrap 1941 car carrying eight youths was hit by Southern Railway freight at a crossing. Charles Allen 13 Frances 14 Josephine 15 Betty Bray 15 James Richards 16 James Calhoun 12 Charles Simmons 16 Ronald Davis 17 died. Witnesses said the car approached the crossing at high speed with a flat tire and broken tie rod. Five youths were trapped. three were thrown clear. Coroner reports the train was about 50 mph. An inquiry into possible negligence will be held Friday.
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Somerset
Southern Railway
Charles Allen
Frances
Josephine
Betty Bray
James Richards
James Calhoun
Charles Simmons
Ronald Davis
Gilmore Phelps
Donald Hawk
Phelps
Kenneth Gibbs
Governor won't test Sam Sheppard until confession doubts clear
Ohio Governor C William O Neill said Sheppard will not face a lie detector test until the Florida prisoner's confession to a murder is proved true. The Court of Last Resort led by Erle Stanley Gardnercast doubt on Donald Wedler s confession in Marilyn Sheppard s Cleveland area slaying.
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Columbus
Ohio
William O'Neill
Sam Sheppard
Florida
Court of Last Resort
Erle Stanley Gardner
Donald Wedler
Wedler
Sam
Marilyn
Cleveland
Sheppard
O’neill
Marilyn Sheppard
Ground Observer Corps ends 600 mile canoe trip down Arkansas
Lt. Allen P. Hayes and Sgt. Alvin J. Alves concluded a 600 mile voyage on the Arkansas River to mark the Ground Observer Corps fifth anniversary. They paddled ashore at Tulsa greeted by Air Force and city officials, with Sel. Michael Rogers and others presenting greetings from Kansas mayors. Rogers started July 14 from Great Bend but left at Oxford due to illness. Hayes replaced him.
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Ground Observer Corps
Allen P. Hayes
Alvin J. Alves
Air Force
Hutchinson
Kas
Tulsa
Sel
Michael Rogers
Alves
Great Bend
Rogers
Oxford
Hayes
Kansas Cities
Wheat harvest in county shows losses but other crops bright
Rain and mud crippled the wheat harvest across much of the county with yields scattered from 8 to 40 bushels per acre and combines bogged down. Yet corn and soybeans look strong, pastures are excellent, and the dairy belt remains productive as weather holds.
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Don Brown
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Manhunt in Hawthorne for killer of two officers
In Hawthorne California two El Segundo police officers were found shot to death after stopping a car for a minor traffic violation. A manhunt expanded with more than twenty sheriff and city police units from Los Angeles El Segundo Hawthorne Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach. The killings followed a separate assault in a lovers lane where a man forced a teenage couple and another girl to disrobe and tied their hands before fleeing with the car. Names given include Richard Phillips 29 El Segundo and Milton Curtis 25 Hawthorne. Police described the sequence of events and reconstruction from clues at the scene.
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Hawthorne
Calif
el Segundo
Los Angeles
Manhattan Beach
Hermosa Beach
Richard Phillips
el Segunda
Milton Curtis
Phillips
Curtis
Canopy Flies Off National Guard Jet
A metal and plastic canopy from an Air National Guard F98 interceptor crashed into a Havertown suburb, narrowly missing homes and embedding in dirt near a new housing development. Pilot Lt. Mark Pfeiffer said the cover ripped loose during a long approach to International Airport. he landed safely.
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National Guard
Philadelphia 7
Air National Guard
Havertown
Mark Pfeiffer
Remonstrance Petitions On Health Clinic In County
Remonstrance petitions opposing the Franklin County mental health clinic were filed with the county commissioners office. About 450 signatures were collected, but 840 are needed for a public vote. If enough valid signatures are confirmed by 4 p.m. today, the issue will go to a November 1958 vote. otherwise the clinic proceeds without a referendum. The measure allows a quarter mill levy and was authorized by a Kansas act via county resolution.
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Frankin County
Kansas
Dulles Speaks Tonight on World Disarmament
Secretary of State Dulles will deliver a 30 minute address detailing U S position on world disarmament. The nationwide broadcast will air on ABC radio and television networks starting at 7 p m CST.
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Washington
State Dulles
Nation
U.S
ABC
Birth After Accidental Shooting By 3-Year-Old
In Chicago police report a 30-year-old wife, Patricia O Connor, was shot by her son in a family car when the revolver slipped from the father’s pocket. She gave birth eight hours later to an 8 pound 8 ounce boy, and surgeons removed the bullet two hours after delivery.
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Chicago
Patricia O'Connor
Brian
Joseph
Beth
Convict Airman In Haircut Fuss
A 20 year old American airman Donald Wheeler of Cortez Colorado was convicted of disobeying orders and sentenced to four months hard labor. He also loses 200 dollars in pay and is reduced to basic airman. The court martial ruled the dispute over a white sidewall haircut as a routine matter of military discipline.
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Fuchu
Japan
Donald Wheeler
Cortez
Colo
Wheeler
Air Force
County 4 H Team Wins SHAFF Square Dance Contest
The Wellsville SHAFF 4 H club square dance team won first prize at CK ranch Brookville Kansas receiving 40 dollars from sponsor Good Feed Co. The team wore self sewn black and white dresses for the girls and black trousers with white shirts for the boys. Members include Karen Averill Elizabeth Harris Norma Moldenhauer Elaine Lambert Eugene Wingert Charles Kolfman Merle Todd and Lloyd Bruers coached by Lester and Armina Whitely. Other Franklin County clubs with teams were Silver Leaf 1 and 2 Jayhawk and Clover Leaf.
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Wellsville
Eugene Wingert
Charles, Kolfman
Merle Todd
Lloyd Bruers
Lester
Armina Whitely
Franklin County
Silver Leaf
Jayhawk
Clover Leaf
GM Frauds U.S. Audit Blasts Air Force Contract Profits
Government auditors testified before a House subcommittee that General Motors overstated costs on a 375 million Air Force contract for 599 Fe4F fighter planes. They said profits exceeded expectations by 12.65 percent, totaling 42 million dollars, with 17.4 million in excess profit from inadequate Air Force pricing analysis.
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General Motors Corp
Air Force
Hebert
D-La
General Motors
Hardy
D-Va
United States
Kansas City
GAO
Joseph Campbell
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