Community Briefs and Local Notices from Ottawa Area
Local brief notes cover family travels to Green Lake Wisconsin for an evangelism conference and a Bible event. Hog marketing on WIBW Farm Hour with Don Brown. Anniversary party at Stafford's with schedule details and store hours. Ill father of Alfred L Graham hospitalized in Ottawa with relatives visiting. Local moves include Fockele family relocating to Topeka and Bundy family called to Colorado for illness. Farm auctions announced by Ralph Hohner and Bill Buchtel near Waverly and Quenemo. Santa Fe carloadings for week ending July 26 1957 report figures. Police report a red white bicycle found with flat tires. hubcaps stolen. parking citation issued by Ottawa Police. Betty Pearson seeks divorce from Leo Pearson on grounds of neglect and cruelty.
Lot of luck found by Ontario pupil in yard
During school recess 11 year old Paul Mooradian of St Catharines Ontario found a remarkable cluster in the yard. He gathered one six leaf clover six five leaf clovers and nine four leaf clovers in a single search signifying unusual luck for a young student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Catharines, Ont
Paul Mooradian
Deaths of Fred Martin Riddle and Ornan Read in Franklin County
Fred Martin Riddle 78 of one mile east of Richmond died yesterday at Cedar House Nursing Home Richmond. He was a retired farmer and real estate salesman born April 9 1879 in Wayne County Iowa and came to Franklin County in 1919 from Missouri. Surviving is an adopted daughter Mrs Don Oxford Tulsa. Funeral Thursday 10 a m in Richmond Methodist Community Church with Rev Cecil Orr and burial in Richmond Cemetery beside his wife. Ornan Read 91 of 222 S Cedar died today 8 25 a m after four week illness. A life long Franklin County resident he was a farmer until 1945 moving to Ottawa from Homewood area born July 1 1866 in Mt Vernon Alabama his wife Minnie Lamber died in 1950. Survivors include two sons Paul E Waterloo and Ralph L Toledo two daughters Edna May San Diego Carrie Brédengerd and Elma Read Kansas City four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral Friday 10 30 a m at McVey-Dengel Mortuary and burial in Highland Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Martin Riddle
Richmond
Cedar House
Third and
Cedar Sts
Wayne County
Iowa
Franklin County
Missouri
James, Bradford
Telitha Mitchell
Riddle
Ora D. Bishop
Don Oxford
Tulsa
Richmond Methodist Community Church
Cecil Orr
Richmond Cemetery
Ornan
S. Cedar
Ottawa
Homewood
Mt. Vernon
Minnie Lamber
Homewood Christian Church
Paul E
Waterloo
Ralph L
Toledo
Ohio
Edna May
San Diego
Calif
Carrie Brédengerd
Elma Read
Kansas City
McVey-Dengel
Highland Cemetery
Rev Orvel Nitcher 71 Baptist minister dies at Quenemo
The Rev. Orvel L. Nitcher 71 retired minister died at his Quenemo home at 12 30 a m after 16 years of ill health He was born January 8 1886 in Republic County and lived most of his life in Pomona and Quenemo He married Ida May Smith in 1907 and after her 1953 death wed Ethel Sweetwood in 1955 Survivors include his widow two sons a daughter six grandchildren one sister and five brothers The funeral will be held Thursday at 2 p m at the Quenemo Baptist Church with Rev Homer Lenhart officiating Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery Pomona
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orvel L. Nitcher
Quenemo
Republic County
Pomona
Ida May Smith
Ethel Sweetwood
Lyndon
Herbert
Cherryvale
Walter
Kansas City
Gladys Fuqua
Michigan Valley
Ethel Lindsay
Albert
Ottawa
Simon
Richmond
Ben
Ray
Iola
Quenemo Baptist Church
Homer Lenhart
Woodlawn Cemetery
Funeral rites for Otto Lowman of Richmond
Otto Lowman, born February 16 1865 to Robert and Sarah Hess Lowman, died July 25 in Ransom Memorial Hospital. Funeral Saturday at Farris Funeral Home Garnett with Rev. Cecil M Orr. six grandsons as pallbearers. Burial Lone Elm Cemetery. Survived by daughters Ida Hultz Bush City and Roy Woodruff Durant Oklahoma. son Ralph Kansas City Kansas. 11 grandchildren 13 great grandchildren one great great grandchild and two sisters A C Crozier and Blanche Ewing Richmond. Formerly near Olathe Lone Elm Bush City area and Richmond resident. First wife Daisy Smith died 1894. second wife Grayce Drury. Two children deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Lowman
Richmond
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Farris
Garnett
Cecil M. Orr
Lone Elm Cemetery
Mr. Lowman
Robert
Sarah Hess Lowman
Michigan
Kansas
Olathe
Lone Elm
Bush City
Ned
Daisy Smith
Grayce Drury
Ida Hultz
Roy Woodruff
Durant
Okla
Ralph
Kansas City
Kas
A. C. Crozier
Blanche Ewing
Atomic Ship Start Soon
Washington announces plans to award the first atomic powered merchant ship contract this fall with keel laying in spring 1958 and sea trial by 1960. AEC Chairman Strauss says the passenger cargo ship will promote peaceful atomic energy worldwide. Douglas MacMillan of George G Sharp described hull design and a 350000 mile range with refueling every about three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington W
Atomic Energy Commission
Maritime Administration
Commerce Department
Maritime Industry
Clarence G. Morse
Maritime
Lewis L. Strauss
AEC
Eisenhower
Douglas C. MacMillan
George G. Sharp, Inc
Faith In Nuclear Age Conference Opens In New Haven
World Council of Churches Central Committee opens a nine day meeting in New Haven with leaders from Protestant Orthodox and Anglican churches and delegates from 50 nations. The gathering, including Iron Curtain participants, weighs how faith guides policy amid atomic and hydrogen bomb concerns. The council representing 165 denominations is expected to back calls to outlaw bomb tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Iron Curtain
World Council of Churches
Global Christian Organization
World Council
Evanston
Ill
Hospital Notes from Overbrook Area
Admitted Earl Huston Overbrook on Monday. Births to Mr and Mrs Robert Sowers Overbrook a son born Monday weight 8 lb 5 oz. Mr and Mrs Jimmy Rake 308 S Mulberry a son born today weight 7 lb 7% oz. Dismissed Alfred Schmitt RFD 1 Pomona Monday. Mrs Arthur Hopkins Pomona Mrs Carl Yohe 116 N Cedar today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Sowers
Overbrook
Jimmy Rake
S. Mulberry
Alfred Schmitt
RFD
Pomona
Arthur Hopkins
Carl Yohe
Cedar
Funeral services for John Frederick Berlin held in Tucson
Funeral services for John Frederick Berlin who died early Sunday in Tucson Arizona will be at McVey Dengel Mortuary Thursday at 11 a m Rev W B DeVilbiss will officiate Burial will be in Highland Cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Frederick Berlin
Tucson
Ariz
McVey-Dengel
W. B. DeVilbiss
Highland Cemetery
Berlin
W. B. de Vilbiss
Traffic Toll In 24 Hours Reported By State Records
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the State Accident Records Section show 1X in the past 24 hours. To date in 1957 the total is 285 with the same period in 1956 at 357. An earlier fatality not previously reported is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Twenty Youths Bring Labor To Sterling College
Sterling report says twenty youths from six states contributed about 1900 worth of labor to Sterling College and paid their own way to help with painting and refinishing buildings. The high school work camp drew students from Michigan Ohio Iowa California Colorado and Pennsylvania under United Presbyterian Church sponsorship. More than twenty work camps have been held nationwide since 1856.
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Sterling
Sterling College
Michigan
Ohio
Iowa
California
Colorado
Pennsylvania
United Presbyterian Church
Woman Earns Degree After 11 Years At State College
Laurie Lillian Nider of Waterville Marshall County rural schools earned a bachelor of science in elementary education after 11 years of study. She completed seven summer sessions, correspondence courses, and extension and residence classes meeting in the evenings and Saturdays while teaching and aiding her husband in his business. She plans to continue teaching and may pursue a master's later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Kas P
Kansas
State College
Hever
Laurie Lillian Nider
Marshall County
Waterville
Nider
Moscow Skeptical Of U S Offer
London reported Moscow radio saying Russia is somewhat skeptical about American calls to exchange radio and television broadcasts between the United States and the Soviet Union. The commentary echoed longstanding Soviet charges that the United States bears blame for strained cultural relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Moscow Radio Today
Russia
United States
Admiral Halsey Suffers Stroke Noted admiral in hospital for checkup
World War II hero Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey was reported feeling well at Doctors Hospital after a stroke. A hospital spokesman said his condition had been exaggerated and that he is walking, eating normally, and not confined to bed. He had been vacationing at Fishers Island and entered the hospital Sunday while awaiting a Washington appearance to help save the carrier Enterprise from scrap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fleet
William F
Bull) Halsey
Doctors Hospital
Halsey
Fishers Island
N. Y
Navy
Pacific
Washington
Enterprise
Speed check yields five citations on US 50 south of Ottawa
Highway Patrol issued five speeding tickets after a radar check on US 50 four miles south of Ottawa. Cited were Vera Reynolds 42 of Kansas City speeding 66 in a truck at night. Henley Belt 27 Osawatomie 74. Gary Beauchamp 20 Garnett 68. David Kelly 18 Ottawa 74. Richard Groh 19 Wellington 72. Also cited were Robert Turner 32 Ottawa for failure to stop at a stop sign and Francis Supernaw 23 Williamsburg for illegal mufflers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway Patrol
US 50
Ottawa
Vera Leroy Reynolds
Kansas City
Kas
Henley C. Belt
Osawatomie
Gary Nicholas Beauchamp
Garnett
David Charles Kelly
Richard W. Groh
Wellington
Robert Melvin Turner
Francis E. Supernaw
Williamsburg
Mexico City Earthquake Death Toll Rises in Five Story Building
A Mexican rescue effort of 500 workers pulled 32 bodies from a collapsed five story apartment block in Mexico City as the death toll climbed to 52 in the capital and 66 nationwide. One woman survived after 28 hours trapped beneath wreckage, with more bodies feared amid ongoing demolitions and rescue operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Sa King
Senator Remains Under Oxygen, Doctor Reports
The senator was in steady condition after receiving continuous oxygen. Dr J Willis Hurst of Emory University stayed at the bedside through the night, reporting on the senator's status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Willis Hurst
Department of Medicine
Atlanta
Emory University
Senator George Improves After Critical Illness
Vienna Ga Former Senator Walter F George 79 was critically ill from a coronary occlusion but showed improvement after midnight with no sedation needed and fluids taken today His condition had been grave yesterday while serving as Eisenhower's NATO ambassador and he faced breathing difficulties
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Walter F. George
J. L. Malloy
George
Eisenhower
NATO
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J. Wesley Trott
Dale Willhite
Stephen
Green Lake, Wis
Jay Ellis
Don Brown
WIBW
Stafford
Felix McWhirter
Indianapolis
Ind
Torrance L. Graham
Madison
Wis
Alfred L. Graham
McWhirter
Graham
A. L. Graham
S. Locust
Newfields
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Dean Fockele and
Tucson, Ariz
F. F. Fockele
Robert N. Bundy
Drake’s Bakery
Ralph Hohner
Waverly
Bill Buchtel
Vel Reno Beauty Shop
C-T.f
Santa Fe
Forest Park
Jerry Thompson
S. Elm
Milford Ball
Ash
Main
Wright Studio
Betty Pearson
Leo Pearson
Lamb
Gamneral Home
Fred Martin
Rev
Earl Huston
Moscow
U. S
Read
Ornan Read
Dengel
Louis H. Dengel
Styles of Tomorrow
Admiral Halsey
The
Ottawa Herald
Sen. George
Ihr
Richardson’s
Openeb. Nite
First National Bank
State Bank Bldg
S.W. Cor. 3Rd & Main
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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