Busy Holiday Weekend Draws Crowds Across Ottawa Area
A warm but not extreme Sunday drew thousands to highways, golf courses, parks, and recreation spots while a double header between the New York Yankees and Kansas City Athletics lured many toward Kansas City. Ottawa residents enjoyed Forest Park facilities and Starlight theater as crowds filled stadiums, restaurants, and paddled pools. A local warning about evergreen bag worm infestation proved valid after Mrs. Lillian Murphy found 428 pests on a four by three foot tree. arsenate of lead was recommended with package directions.
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Ottawa
New York Yankees
Kansas City Athletics
Kansas City
Ball Park
Starlight Theater
Forest Park Pool
Kansas
John Pinney
Willis Nursery
Lillian. Murphy
E. Fifth
Pinney
Frankin County Crop Outlook Bright as Rain Prospects Improve
County Agent Don Brown notes fall crops in Franklin County look favorable but await timely rains to boost yields. Small grain harvest finished with high yields, oats at 110 bushels per acre. Farmers target late crops to extend a strong year while insects and weeds are controlled. Soybeans look decent with good stands, sorghums progressing well. Spraying for pests continues using Dieldrin on chinch bugs and Toxaphane for grasshoppers blister beetles in some soy fields.
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Franklin County
Don Brown
James Peckham
Rantoul
Brown
Mrs Milton Tabor Dies in Topeka Hospital at 67
Mrs Milton Tabor aged 67, wife of the managing editor of the Topeka Daily Capital, died last night in a Topeka hospital after a week’s confinement with a heart ailment. Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.
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Topeka
Milton Tabor
Daily Capital
House Burns East of Ottawa Near Hartley Farm
A frame house on J. Hartley’s farm ten miles east of Ottawa burned Saturday near noon. Neighbors saved some clothing and furniture as flames enveloped the interior after two gas bottles exploded. Edgerton Fire Department arrived too late to save the structure.
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Hartley
Ottawa
New Hope Church
Edgerton
Seven week Herald survey winners named
Bettie L. Pirates of Wells ville won first place and $25, Katherine Strafuss of route 3 Ottawa took second with $10, and Alva Miller of Dwyerbrook earned third with $5. All praised newspaper advertising for saving shopping time and guiding purchases with clear product descriptions prices and pictures. The survey runs five more weeks and invites reader input on ad preferences for merchants.
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The
Herald
Bettie L. Pirates
Wellsville
Katherine Strafuss
Route 3
Ottawa
Alva Miller
Dwyerbrook
Picnic for Ottawa business people to honor local leaders
Franklin County 4-H Junior Leaders will entertain Ottawa businessmen at Forest Park on Wednesday night. County 4-H agent Dick Jameson says the annual picnic thanks local businessmen for aiding 440 members. About 100 people are expected to attend the chicken supper served by the Leaders, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
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Franklin County
Ottawa
Forest Park
County
Dick Jameson
Charges Dropped In Car Purchase Fraud Case In Missouri
James H. Phillips and son Ed, operators of a Chevrolet agency in Missouri, are cleared of charges related to the purchase of motor cars with bogus checks. Attorneys say all charges are dropped after a statement was issued. The event includes demonstrations and a public recreation carnival in Ottawa and various summer activities for 1,300 children at Ottawa High School directed by Orlis Cox.
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Ottawa
Forest Park
Orlis Cox
Ottawa High School
Louisburg
Kas
James H. Phillips
Chevrolet
Var
Shawver
Hetme
Awith
Phillips
Fleaman
MGW
ALGO
Ewes
Pau Eus
Missouri
Community Survey prompts reader ballot for ads
Readers are urged to vote in the Community Survey by selecting one ad per group from today's Herald. Each week runs Monday through Saturday with chances to win weekly cash awards of 25, 10, and 5 dollars. Readers encouraged to spend a few minutes and participate.
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the Herald
Herald
Weather forecast projects mostly fair conditions into Tuesday
The forecast calls for mostly fair weather this afternoon through Tuesday with isolated thundershowers possible in the far northwest and warmer temperatures across the state. Tonight’s low mostly in the 60s west to 70s east, with highs Tuesday in the upper 90s. Yesterday’s high reached 90 and the low was 71 early this morning. River level listed at 50 feet with light northeast winds yesterday. record highs and lows noted for this date from 1911 and 1934.
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Oye Etl Galm
Topeka Man Among Plane Victims Identified
Heidelberg Germany U S Seventh Army lists four victims of collision near Lorsch last Wednesday They are Captain Walter J McHenry Chicago pilot Specialist Franklin L Watson Topeka Kansas Pfc Robert S Brethauer Greeley Colorado and Pfc Travis J Eckert Mason Texas.
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Heidelberg
Germany
U. S. 7Th Army
Lorsch
Walter J. McHenry
Chicago
Franklin L. Watson
van Buren St
Topeka
Kan
Robert F&. Brethauer
Greeley
Colo
Travis J. Eckert
Mason
Tex
Two Couples Rescued After Night in Delaware Bay
Two couples were rescued from a waterlogged boat after a terror filled night in Delaware Bay near Lewes. James W. Bennett 58 and Marion Keene 45 of New Castle. Chance T. Keene 48 and Lillian Keene 45 of Kirkwood faced exposure with Keen collapsing. all were hospitalized at Kent General in Dover.
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Delaware Bay
Lewes
Del
Kent General Hospital
Dover
Second Phase In Effort For World Peace Begins
President Eisenhower told congressional leaders no secret agreements or private papers were made at the Geneva talks with the Big Four. Hagerty said the meeting showed a sincere Soviet desire to discuss world problems peacefully, but no relaxation of security measures. Dulles briefed Congress on Geneva days and the upcoming October meeting of the Big Four ministers. Eisenhower to address the nation tonight at 8:30 p.m. CST. networks will carry the speech.
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Eisenhower
Congress
White House
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Hagerty
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China
Hagerly
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Red China
Jin Geneva
George D-Ga
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U. S
Dulles
Geneva
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House
Rayburr
D-Tex
Senate
Knowland
Calif
Rayburn
Geneva conference hailed as start toward easing world tension
MUERREN Switzerland West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said the Geneva conference was a successful start toward easing world tension. He urged more such talks to pave the way for international peace and called Eisenhower's armament control proposal decisive. Adenauer stressed German reunification among the four powers as key to European stabilization and broader world peace.
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Europe
Accidents In Franklin County Early Sunday
Two separate early Sunday crashes in Franklin County were investigated by Highway Patrol. In Ottawa five miles southwest on US 59 a 1950 Nash driven by J Osburn and a westbound auto transport truck driven by Raymond DeBoever collided with no injuries and about $100 damage to the Nash. Near Princeton a 1951 Nash driven by Raymond Feuerborn went off the road, hit a culvert, and struck a light pole causing a head cut. Feuerborn was drunk driving and later fined 100 dollars plus costs and 10 days in jail.
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Franklin County
Art Jengen
Bob Canaly
Ottawa
Nash
Osburn
Kansas City
Raymond F. DeBoever
Independence
US 59
Princeton
Raymond E. Feuerborn
Feuerborn
Milo Harris
Experts Back in Home Nations Begin Second Stage Talks
The Big Four nations move from Geneva to follow up on disarmament and European security plans. Experts in each capital will craft detailed proposals ahead of five weekly subcommittee meetings and October foreign minister talks. Khrushchev skeptical of blueprints swap as Kremlin seeks nuclear weapons inclusion.
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Strely
Flveination
U.S. Subcommittee On
Geneva
Eisenhower
United States
Russia
Eden
Germany
Europe
Bulganin
Faure
Paris
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
theRussians
Kremlin
Three Arrested On Drunk Charges
Three men were arrested Saturday night by police on drunk charges. George L. Waugh 25 Eskridge cited for drunk driving and open bottle. trial set August 20 after bond posted. Olie Kent Inte 60 Lawrence pleaded guilty to drunk driving fined 100 and seven days in jail. E W Deay 55 rt 3 passenger charged with being drunk. Deay forfeited 25 bond.
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George L. Waugh
Eskridge
Waugh
Olie Kent Inte
Lawrence
E. W. Deay
Déay
301 Have Died Talities Listed by the State Records Section
In the last 48 hours, 301 deaths are reported. To date in 1955, 301 deaths in the same period. One death from a likely earlier case. previous totals show two. This terse update records state tolls and notice of fatalities.
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Trumpr Watch Repair
Newfield’s
Otawa
Richter Church
Lamb Ambulance
Hare
Fort Scott
Caroyle Richardson
Cheryl Phillips
Pat Hickman
N. Cherry
Carolyn Kelley
Lamar Phillips
Batty L. “Phares
Ohawa
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Hawthorne
Lincoln
Eugene Field
Community Survey
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Goodyear
Montgomery Ward & Co
Peace Food Center
Quin Furniture
Quin Furniture Store
Minnick Dodge-Plymouth Price Motor Co
James W. Bennett
Marion
New Castle
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Lillian
Kirkwood
Mercury
Coast Guard
Shdore
Keen
Herald Office
NBC
ABC
CBS
Berlin
Pi — Nikita
Khrushchev
Harald E. Talbott
Air Force
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Talbott
Paul B. Mulligan & Co
New York
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