Side Swipes and Moon Views Drive Ottawa News
A local shop offers a 25 dollar reward for information leading to an arrest after damage to a truck hood, while Ottawa University drew over 200 visitors to view the moon and Saturn through a new telescope, with plans to reopen in August. Kansas City families tour in a home-on-wheels, Solitaire Scrabble scores draw praise, and turnpike work near Emporia highlights contractor activity. Weather hopes ride with Topeka meteorologist Richard Garrett as Kansas weather stays in public view.
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Mile Farms
N. Main
Ottawa
Ottawa University
W. D. Bemmels
Tickets Sold for Ottawa Trip to See KCA and White Sox
About 400 tickets have been sold for the Ottawa trip to see the Kansas City Cubs Association and Chicago White Sox on August 10. A bus and seat package is $4.35. seat only with own transport is $1.85. Tickets available at North American hotel and the Chamber of Commerce. baseball tickets at Peoples National Bank. Local firms including Anchor Savings & Loan Ottawa and Topeka Ottawa Insulation Co. have booked blocks. Names of groups will be announced during the game.
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Ottawa
KCA
Chicago White Sox
Chamber of Commerce
North American
C. of C
Peoples National Bank
Anchor Savings & Loan
Kansas City
Topeka-Ottawa Insulation Co
Paola
Ottawa Party
Three Refuse To Resign As Hall Demands
TOPEKA The three members of the State Civil Service Board say they will not resign despite Gov. Fred Hall demanding resignations. James Gilmore, Harold Trussler, and Emmett Graham defend their independence while Hall accuses the board of violating the law through partisan politics in the last Republican primary. The group announced they will wait for formal charges as Hall cites issues tied to Hiatt’s firing and alleged political activity.
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Topeka
State Civil Service Board
Fred Hall
James Gilmore
Independence
Harold Trussler
Emporia
Emmett Graham
Abilene
Hall
Eugene Hiatt
Hiatt
Edward F. Arn
Gilmore
State
Trussler
Emporia Gazette
George Templar
Graham
Power Outage Hits Ottawa and Vicinity Last Night
A brief power failure affected Ottawa and nearby areas late last night lasting six to twelve minutes. Investigators traced a fault on a Kansas City Power and Light line between Ottawa and Paola. Ottawa municipal and KCPL share service at the Ottawa plant under a mutual contract. All circuits were shut down and restoration times varied by location.
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Ottawa
Paola
Kansas City Power & Light Company
Ottawa Municipal
K. C. Power
441 Receives Second Shots at Memorial Auditorium
Second polio vaccine shots were given to 393 children at Memorial auditorium yesterday, Mrs. William Bowers said. Including 48 given at Wellsville earlier in the week, total 441. Make up day set for August 18 at Ransom Hospital from 7 to 17:30. Parents to phone Dr. George W. Davis with advance notice.
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Memorial Auditorium
William Bowers
Wellsville
Ransom ‘Hospital
George W. Davis
Ottawa
Community Survey Introduces Reader Feedback Program
A local newspaper invites readers to participate in The Community Survey to shape ads and services. Cash awards reward readers whose opinions align with the majority. The survey runs Monday to Saturday, with back issues available at The Herald office.
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Herald
102 Here Yesterday Hottest of Season
Ottawa noon reached 98 degrees today, not cooler than yesterday. Yesterday afternoon the top seasonal high hit 102 degrees. Weatherman Richard Garrett plans a Colorado trip for a family reunion, saying Kansans should not expect immediate relief from the heat. Wamega 105, Topeka 104, Saline 103, Chanute 101, Wichita 100.
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Ottawa
Richard Garrett
Topeka
Colorado
Ike's Plan For Housing Faces Fight
Eisenhower's push for federal public housing faces House opposition as Rep Wolcott forecasts acceptance of a substitute bill with no public housing. The plan seeks 35,000 units yearly for two years, plus four billion dollars for FHA mortgage insurance and extended programs, while slum clearance and elderly housing provisions are debated.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House
Rep
Wolcott
R-Mich
House Banking Committee
House Rules Committee
Federal Housing Administration
Banking Committee
FHA
Home Loan Bank Board
President Approves Plan For An Earth Satellite
Weather outlook shows generally fair conditions this afternoon and tonight with scattered thunderstorms in the extreme northwest. Hot and humid, low temperatures in the 70s to low 80s, highs Saturday near 100. Historical temperatures noted, river at 49 feet.
Ottawa Youths Big Test In National Road-Eo
Charles Senter, a Kansas teen from 816 S Mulberry, competes in Washington DC as part of 51 contestants in the National Teen-Age Road-Eo. Contestants vie for 3100 in college scholarships with a Willard Hotel banquet tonight naming the winner.
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Ottawa
Charles Senter
Washington, D. C
Carl Senter
S. Mulberry
Kansas
U. S
Quail Outlook Improves Across Kansas Says Official
Pratt report says the quail outlook is more encouraging as summer progresses with coveys of young quail observed statewide. Dave Leahy of the Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Commission cites better conditions than a year ago and reports strong quail populations from game protectors statewide. A separate note records a trash fire at 731 S Main at 12 25 pm with no damage. For sale old newspapers 10c per bundle at Herald office.
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Pratt
Dave Leahy
Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Commission
Leahy
Charles Phillips
S. Main
Atomic stock rally as White House plans satellite
New York stocks General Dynamics and United Aircraft rose in heavy trading before a White House satellite launch announcement. An Israeli Foreign Office spokesman said Bulgaria will pay compensation for the Israeli airliner shot down, with fifty eight dead including twelve Americans.
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New York 7
White House
General Dynamics
United Aircraft
Jerusalem Im
Bulgaria
Hoover declines New York police commission offer
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover refused the New York City police commissionership offered by Mayor Robert Wagner. Hoover, described as traveling and not directly reachable, has no plans to leave the FBI and declined the offer after decades of service.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
New York City
Robert Wagner
New York
Hoover
Wagner
City meets engineers on flood protection cost study
City commissioners conferred yesterday with Servis Van Doren Hazard of Topeka and today with Black Veatch of Kansas City to obtain cost estimates for storm sewer alterations and related street changes. Results will determine timing for a bond election to fund the city’s share of Army engineer flood protection work, targeted for early November.
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Army Engineers
Servis, van Doren & Hazard
Topeka
Black, & Veatch
Kansas City
Scientists Feel Can Be Launched In 1957 or 1958
President Eisenhower approved plans for a US artificial satellite for scientific study. Unmanned globes 200 to 300 miles up, traveling 18000 mph, could orbit every 90 minutes and disintegrate after days or weeks. Target launch by 1957 or 1958, cost about 10 million dollars, as part of the International Geophysical Year. Data would be shared globally with scientists, including Russia, and aim to study the Earth's upper atmosphere.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White Mouse
Russia
White House
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Old-Timers Packing for Camp Again in Ottawa
Lawrence Day, 54, the oldest man by service in the 35th division, prepares to join the National Guard summer encampment at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. Since 1922 he has served in 24 NG camps and fought in five World War II battles, earning two bronze stars and the soldier's medal. He plans to stay in the Guard as long as he can pass the physical. His son Larry, 16, intends to join the unit this fall. Saturday he serves as mess officer on the train to McCoy.
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National Guard
Lawrence Day
Camp McCoy
Wis
Day
161St Field Artillery
U.S
Camp Robinson
Ark
Alaska
Japan
Robinson
West Coast
35Th Division
Mt. Shasta
Calif
Camp Rucker
Ala
Camp Kil
France
Germany
Army
Ordinance Department
Guard
CWO
Larry
McCoy
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