Special Pool Election OK'd in Ottawa Face Location Debate
Ottawa city commission approved a special election to fund and build a new pool after citizens gathered 1,531 signatures. Location debate centered on Forest Park with planners to review site options before a vote, with a September election targeted.
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Otetawa
Commission
Richeson
Earl Guist
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
Charles Williamson
Forest Park
Laurence Wightman
Wightman
Lyman Corlis
Corlis
Don Capper
Marais Des Cygnes
Ottawa City Commission Advances Bonds and Condemns Six Structures
The Ottawa city commission approved bond sales to Beecroft Cole and Co for street work totaling 118,481.72 with four bids and 68,607.89 for Orchard Heights at 4.43088 percent. It condemned six properties including 720 S. Poplar and 933 N. Cedar, and proposed parking meters on parts of East Second and East Fifth. A premiere of Ottawa stirred crowds, traffic deaths for 1966 down from 111 in 1965, and city water use hit a record 2,239,000 gallons daily. A street improvement on Eleventh Street was proposed at 41,450, and a contractor licensing ordinance was enacted.
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Beecroft Cole and Co
Topeka
Ottawa
Orchard Heights
Highland Heights
North Sycamore
N. Hickory
Wadkins
East Second Street
East Fifth Street
Linda Loyd
Tom Speer
Hurst Coffeman
Williamson
Don Hamilton
City Commission
Eleventh Street
Cedar
Mulberry
County Forecast With Thunder Showers Possible
Chance for a few thunderstorms tonight and through Friday, with mostly partly cloudy skies. High Friday mid 90s, low tonight mid to upper 70s. Wednesday high around 88, today’s low about 72. A year ago today high 83, low 69. record high 107 in 1910, record low 56 in 1920. Precipitation for the 24 hour period ending at 8 a.m. 0.2 inch.
Local Mobile Home Firm Gets Washburn Classroom Contract
The Star Mobile Homes plant in Topeka, a Divco-Wayne division, wins a GSA contract to build 16 classrooms for Washburn University damaged by the Topeka tornado. The plant will deliver 42 mobile units, 10 by 40 feet, to be installed on campus by Sept. 5, with costs described as several hundred thousand dollars.
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Star Mobile Homes
Divco-Wayne
Washburn University
Rene Clos
Washburn
Topeka
General Services Administration
Clos
Law
Air Force
GSA
Detrieter Mobile Homes
Hutchinson
Mississippi Opens Way for Whisky in Biloxi
Police escorted a large truck to the Broadwater Beach Hotel in Biloxi as 77 cases of whiskey were revealed. The moment marked the first legal drink poured in Mississippi after 58 years of prohibition, a milestone amid long-standing resistance to the ban.
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Biloxi
Miss
Broadwater Beach
Dorsett
Mississippi
Booze Returns as Coast Opens for Legal Liquor
A Mississippi Gulf Coast hotel marks the repeal of Prohibition with a ribbon cutting and tastings. Mayor May Guice and Laz Quave join Louis Cobb in introducing legal whisky to the lounge as crowds cheer. The state’s liquor sales begin after July 1, with seven counties already approving measures and more votes due.
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Louis Cobb
T. M. Dorsett
Dorsett
Dan Guice
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Laz Quave
Guice
Mississippi
Swim Carnival at Forest Park pool by Ottawa Recreation
The Ottawa Recreation Commission hosts a Friday night Swim Carnival at Forest Park pool featuring kindergartners to juniors. Loren Matthews and the Ottawa City Band perform as activities from the summer program unfold starting at 7 35 p m. Saturday ends summer recreation with Youth Center dance at 8 30 p m at Forest Park two pools remain open.
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Ottawa Recreation Commission
Forest Park
Lfe
Commission
Loren Matthews
Ottawa City Band
Senate Labor Panel Rejects Wirtz Strike Bargaining Plan
The Senate Labor Committee voted 10 to 5 to reject returning airline strike negotiations to the bargaining table, aligning with administration aims but prompting Morse to push his six month back to work proposal. Talks between airline and Machinists union resumed at the Labor Department after a 48 hour recess.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
W. Willard Wirtz
Claiborne Pell
D-R.i
Lister Hill
D-Ala
Hill
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Morse
Senate
Congress
Labor
W. Williard Wirtz
Joseph W. Ramsey
William J. Curtin
Strike Hurting Small Businesses and Tourism
New York reports a 21 day old airline strike sapping millions daily from tourism and small vendors. Hotels, food and fuel suppliers suffer. New York City CVB cites $750,000 daily tourism loss while Miami warns catastrophic toll. Eastern, Trans World, United, Northwest and National lines lose about $7 million daily. total strike cost at $30 million. Unemployed workers receive $25 weekly benefits. some are furloughed.
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New York
Associated Press
New York City
Convention and Visitors Bureau
Miami
Chamber of Commerce
Eastern
Trans World
United
Northwest
National
Une Fon
Transfer Hearing Set For Aug 15 In Unification Case
The state department of public instruction will hold a second hearing on petitions to transfer about 26 sections from Central Heights to Garnett district on Aug 15 at 9 a.m. in the Franklin County Court House. The land was part of an earlier petition denied by the state superintendent. The 26 sections were included in the initial 43 sections and now under review. Promoters say the transfer will not reduce school population, land area, or valuation below unification law minimums.
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State Department of Public Instruction
Central Heights
Garnett
Franklin County Court House
Unified School District
Press Glitch Delays Heralds Printing Across Town
At 7 p.m. the Ottawa Herald press ran late due to a broken main drive belt and a frozen shaft in the sixth unit. A ping pong ball sized bearing failure halted operations, delaying The Herald and papers for Spring Hill Gardner Overbrook and Bonner Springs until a replacement gear box arrived from Joplin.
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Herald
Spring Hill
Gardner
Overbrook
Bonner Springs
Joplin
12 Year Old Prodigy Pursues Physical Science Degree
Lansing boy Mike Grost, 12, already a sophomore at Michigan State Honors College, studies calculus physics religion French and computer science while earning A grades. He won NSF funding of 30 dollars a week for mathematical research and may finish bachelor's degree by 14, with parents preferring steady progress and exploration of fields.
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Lansing
Mich
Mike Grost
National Science Foundation
Mike
Michigan State University
Honors College
East Lansing
United States
William Grost
Audrey
Garnett Soldier Returns Early From Vietnam Service
Spec 4 Mike Payne, a Garnett native and Army Corps of Engineers member, served a year in Phan Rang, South Vietnam. He built an air field for Phantom Jets and F10 Thunder Chiefs, declined a three city rest leave to rotate home sooner, and reflects on war, education, and cultural barriers. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Payne and a 1963 Garnett High School graduate.
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Garnett
Viet Nam
Orient
Mike Payne
Army Corps of Engineers
Phan Rang
South Viet Nam
Bangkok
Thailand
Tokyo
Taipei
Free China
Nha Trang
Payne
Vietnam
Mark Payne
Parkview Addition
Garnett High School
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Mickey
E. V. Skidmore
Gulf Coast
Broadwater
Fourth and
Hickory
Hickory Street
Fourth Street
Wirtz
Whatsit
The
Ottawa Herald
Night Express
the Chieftain
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