Franklin County 4-H Plans Picnic and Talent Show
The Franklin County 4-H Council and junior leaders schedule the annual business men's picnic at Forest Park in the band stand area on Tuesday evening August 5. A talent show will select two performers to represent the county at Hutchinson State Fair. Each junior leader will invite an Ottawa businessman as a guest. Ottawa also features its Stars of Jazz program this week with a final summer concert at 8 p.m. Thursday in City Park band shell. The jazz group includes Howard Larson Jack McGee P K Worley Buzz Sehnoke Jay Ellis Gary Northway Trexel Warren Judy Jamison Mike Letimer Paul Stone John Going Warren Brunner Gary Burke Walter Butler Don Wilson and Gene Farr. Concert staples include Sunny Side of the Street Leap Frog Las Cucarecha Stardust and other favorites. Two Ottawa baseball fans, Blanche White and Gwendola Pederson, had a scare on a Kansas City trip when they boarded the wrong bus at Union Station and nearly headed to Nevada Missouri before correcting course.
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Franklin County 4-H Council
Forest Park
Hutchinson State Fair
Ottawa
William Barker
Shell
City Park
Howard Larson
Jack McGee
P K. Worley
Buzz Sehnoke
Jay Ellis
Gary Northway
Trexel Warren
Judy Jamison
Mike Letime
Kansas City
Athletics
New York Yankees
Blanche White
Gwendola Pederson
Baseball Park
Union Station
Nevada
City County Tax Ratio Gap Widens In 1957 Kansas
TOPEKA AP The rural taxpayer faces a widening gap to city taxpayers in 1957 as Kansas Property Valuation Department figures show rural real estate taxes based on 26 percent of sale value versus 19 percent for city property. Since 1933 the overall ratio declined from 86 percent to 22 percent last year, with ongoing disputes over data validity by the League of Kansas Municipalities and use in state aid laws.
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Topeka
Kansas Property Valuation Department
Rother
League of Kansas Municipalities
League of Municipalities
Leegue
Iit
Property Valuation Department
Kanab diver injured after somersault fall at new pool
Kanab resident Bill Hart, born in Texas, attempted a back somersault from the diving board at the new Kanab swimming pool. He landed on concrete, breaking a wrist and spraining an ankle as onlookers carried him away. Hart quipped that pools aren’t built like in Texas.
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Kanab
Utah
Bill Hart
Texas
Weather County Forecast Shows Scattered Storms and Warm Humidity
Scattered showers or thunderstorms are expected late this afternoon into tonight and Thursday. Warm and humid conditions with highs 85 to 95, cooler tonight and Thursday in the 80s. Overnight low around 70, with river stage at 1.25 feet this morning. Past temperatures: high 92 yesterday, low 75 today, record highs and lows noted for the date.
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Veeree
Navy Blimp Launches Historic North Pole Flight
A 348 foot Navy blimp lifted off from Lakehurst New Jersey at 6 20 am bound for Churchill Manitoba after following the Hudson River Valley It carries 14 crew members and IGY scientists to ice island T 3 in the Arctic Ocean to test nonrigid airship use for Arctic research and feasibility.
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N.J
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Hudson River Valley
Churchill
Man
International Geophysical Year
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T-3
Arctic Ocean
A's Rally Draw Ottawa Fans To Kansas City
About 500 Ottawa baseball fans rode a special train to see the A's defeat the Yankees 7-3 in Kansas City. Hector Lopez delivered a bases loaded double as excitement included a rhubarb and ejections of Kansas City's Harry Craft and Harry Chiti. The Ottawa Jaycees hosted the trip sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce with rail transport, buses, concessions, and a best dressed fan contest won by four locals.
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Ottawa
Kansas City
A’s
New York
Hector Lopez
Harry Craft
Harry Chiti
Franklin County 4 H fashion winners to state fair
About 140 Franklin County 4 H members met at Eugene Field School for a fashion review, best groomed boy contest, and demonstrations. Winners Mary Kay Coughlin and Katie Chism will represent the county at the State Fair in Hutchinson. others take part in foods, clothing, pelting poultry demos. Ottawa seeks slower South Main speed limit. city officials and OCR discuss lowering 35 mph limit on Main between 15th and 17th for safety and traffic ease amid rising volumes and district improvements.
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Franklin County
4-H
Eugene Field School
Mary Kay Coughlin
Berea Boosters
Richmond
Katie Chism
Silver Leaf Club
Ottawa
Leon Werbritton
Eula May Cartmill
Jayhawk Club
Geri Sue Figgins
James Dunn
Kansas Highway Commission
15Th Street
Kenneth Andrews
Howard Duncen
James Grogan
Eugene Flaherty
Don Capper
State Agency
Main Street
15Th
17Th
Hanson Seeks Band Shell Rally Permit in Twin Falls
Max Hanson, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, asked Twin Falls City Council to use the local band shell for a rally. Commissioners debated rental fees but council voted to make the shell available free for political rallies, with Hanson’s rally set as the first event.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
Max Hanson
Hanson
Reduce Work Force At Ottawa Steel
Ottawa Steel will lay off about 30 employees as of Thursday night. General manager Ed Johnson cited three aims: annual inventory, inventory adjustment, and re tooling for contemplated new products. He noted the exact nature of the new products would be announced later and hopes the layoff will be short. The cuts amount to about a quarter of the plant’s total workforce.
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Ottawa Steel
Ed Johnson
Johnson
Heat and power outages hit Ottawa as mercury rises
Ottawa reports repeated heat stress with temperatures near 92 and occasional readings above as outages plagued parts of town. City linemen traced failures to overloaded circuits from numerous air conditioners, threatening higher heat events. A No. 1 circuit cut service 25 minutes this morning, with brief showers later and a statewide forecast of scattered showers tonight and Thursday.
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South Main
Ottawa
Postmasters Named in Kansas Nominations Approved
The Senate approved President Eisenhower's nomination of two Kansas postmasters. Dale Leroy Duncan of Manhattan and Ernest C Balay of Wichita were confirmed, expanding federal postal leadership in the state.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Kansas
Dale Leroy Duncan
Manhattan
Ernest C. Balay
Wichita
Ike Stands His Ground On Summit Conference
Kansas wheat tests show quality good with 60.7 pounds per bushel in 8,155 carloads and 11.8 percent protein. By week's end 69 percent of corn tasseling and 54 percent beginning to ears. crop mostly in excellent condition. Eisenhower plans a U N Security Council summit on the Middle East, eyeing Aug 10 to 15, with possible Geneva venue. Khrushchev criticism prompts a U S response and foreign consultations with Britain and France.
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Kansas
Washington
Eisenhower
U. N. Security Council
Khrushchev
Britain
France
Moscow
Ottawa as Possible Site for Hall of Fame
The executive committee named a midwestern site for the Agricultural Hall of Fame with a Nov. 24 board vote. Potential locations include the O. H. Kelly farm near Minneapolis and several Missouri Kansas area sites. Also listed were Ottawa and other Kansas towns plus Nebraska and Wisconsin locations.
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Agricultural Hall of Fame
Board of Governors
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Missouri
Minnesota
O. H. Kelly
Minneapolis
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Roanridge Farm
Platte County
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Manhattan
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Sabetha
Pratt, Hutchinson
Lawrence
Kan
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Nebraska
Omaha
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Lincoln
Wisconsin
Ft. Atkinson
Iowa
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Mount Pleasant
Muscatine
Michigan
Hancock
Know Your Candidates Assessing C. L. Rathjen for Clerk
C L Rathjen a Democratic candidate for Franklin County clerk outlines 12 years as deputy assessor. He explains personal property valuations and limited real estate work. Born on his father’s farm near Ottawa he moved to the city in 1928 and has two sons William and Max.
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C. L. Rathjen
Franklin County
Ottawa
Rathjen
N. Rathjen
House panel approves debt ceiling rise to 288 billion
Washington AP. The House Ways and Means Committee approved raising the government debt limit to 285 billion dollars with a temporary spread to 288 billion after Treasury Secretary Anderson warned of a 12 billion dollar deficit for the current fiscal year. Only Rep. Noah Mason opposed. The bill likely faces House action Monday.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Delay Action On Goldfine Delayed By Closed Hearing
Washington AP reports the House Commerce Committee postponed a ruling on citing Bernard Goldfine for contempt of Congress. The committee met behind closed doors as Rep. John Bell Williams said hearing records and documents were not ready. A vote was possible late today but likely pushed to tomorrow.
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Washington
House Commerce Committee
Bernard Goldfine
Congress
John Bell Williams
D-Miss
Williams
Drunkenness charge plea and fine in Ardmore
In Ardmore Oklahoma defendant told Justice G W Puny he would plead guilty and waive a hearing after being warned about a drunkenness charge. The judge accepted and fined him twenty dollars.
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Ardmore
Okla
Peace
G. W. Puny
Puny
Rebels Attack Car Carrying Two Newsmen
Rebels attacked a Beirut to Damascus car carrying AP reporters Relman Morin and Tom Ochiltree along the Syrian Lebanese border. The crew escaped as gunfire erupted in a steep valley and at the border UN post, with the Lebanese driver delaying and a Syrian driver later completing the trip. Morin, a two time Pulitzer winner, recalled the ordeal as a dangerous rollercoaster ride.
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Damascus
Reb‘els
Associated Press Core
Relman Morin
Tom Ochiltree
Beirut
Morin
United Nations
Ochiltree
Elephants Escape From Truck Cause Citywide Panic
In Mexico City five elephants en route from a Miami zoo to a local menagerie escaped a truck. One man died after attempting to grab an elephant by the tail and was trampled. The elephant received 26 head shots later. The train arrival from Laredo, Texas followed a five day Miami journey. Night hold at the railway station aimed to keep them calm until a whistle frightened them into breaking from their van and roaming barrow streets.
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Miami Zoo
Laredo
Tex
Miami
Railway
Barrow Streets
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