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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1956
Page
1
Local briefs note a free Vacation Pack service for Herald subscribers away on trips. Other items include a moving of John Askins liquor store, Ayrshire district picnic, 4-H judging school, wildlife and crime notices, plus community updates on Crawford, Burris, Koons, and Roberts.
A compiled schedule lists forthcoming livestock auctions and sales across Kansas towns including Overbrook, Lawrence, Baldwin, Ottawa, and Pomona with dates in July and August. Several auctions are hosted weekly in Overbrook with various farmers and markets, plus annual fairs and breeder associations.
Parker and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Hood in Garden City while noting many tourists in Colorado. A new 12 inch water line on Fourth Street east from Main to Cedar is in use, improving supply to north south lines per O L E Haff. Frank Smith and Marvin Brenner hosted the third birthday celebration for Jimmy Smith in Princeton. A theft at Champlain Service Station on Wilson and Main saw a money bag containing 15 to 25 dollars vanish as Don Jansen closed the desk. Ottawa University officials attended a Christian higher education conference at Green Lake Wisconsin. Mrs. Etta Maloney, mother of Mrs. Max Bolton, flew from Bethesda Maryland to Dallas for surgeries and further operations.
Admitted Wayne Anderson route 2 Monday. Births to Mr and Mrs Herbert Branson route 2 a son born today weight 6 lb 5 oz. Dismissed Mrs Agnes C Christian 226 Walnut Monday. Robert Shadle 327 S Poplar Lamar Fowler 624 N Cedar today.
Topeka. Gov. Fred Hall's campaign manager Fred Meek said a debate between Hall and primary challenger Warren Shaw on the right to work issue will be arranged soon after both candidates agreed yesterday. Hall vetoed the 1955 legislature's right to work bill. Shaw supports it. Republican chairman Lloyd Ruppenthal declined to moderate, citing a desire to keep the party united.
Martin Heinrich Klaproth first identified uranium in 1789 while studying ores from the Jachymov silver mines in Bohemia.
Moscow The chief of staff of the Soviet air force says Russian pilots have orders not to shoot at foreign planes crossing the borders. Marshal S I Rudenko added that deliberate and persistent penetrations may be acted upon by superiors. He blamed American-made bombers from West Germany for flights over Soviet territory and defended signaling to land. US denial cited.
Deaths listed include Mrs. Sadie M. Mallory Brown 72 of near Quenemo died at Ransom Memorial Hospital after nine months illness. Funeral at McVey-Dengel Mortuary Thursday 2 p.m. burial Highland cemetery. Expressions to American Cancer Society. Also notices graveside service for Frank Detwiler at Hope cemetery Ottawa. Mrs Sophia Beckham of Iola 66 died at Ransom Memorial Hospital. Survivors named. body moved to Enid for funeral services.
Kansas workers were paid $26,645 in back pay and overtime in the first half of 1956. Walter W. King, regional director of the wage and hour division, said 66 Kansas firms failed to comply with the federal wage hour law. He noted broad acceptance of the new one dollar per hour minimum which began in March.
Washington reports consumer prices rose seven tenths of a percent in June, reaching 116.2 on the 1947-49 base. Food prices climbed about 2 percent due to seasonal factors. Take-home pay for factory workers with three dependents averaged 72.75 dollars, and 65.40 dollars for those with no dependents, up from May and June last year.
TOPEKA. An employee group living near El Dorado approved a union membership maintenance agreement in a mail vote. Seventy six favored the agreement, eleven opposed, and twelve did not vote. The pact, needing management approval before contract wording, requires members to retain union membership for the contract duration.
Seven new poliomyelitis cases were reported in Kansas last week, lifting the year’s total to 30. The state recorded 87 polio cases by the end of July last year.
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