Ottawa Briefs Highlight Local Newses and Events
News briefs from Ottawa report elderly Mr. and Mrs. Elder returning from Kansas City hospital stay, a car wreck with no injuries, a funeral notice for Elias H. Patterson in Ohio, a local student earning honors at KU, a teaching appointment in Liberal, a divorce petition filed in district court, a stop-sign violation fine, a ship replica display for June, and a hospital surgery for Mrs. Alvin Rainwater with her father sheriff mentioned.
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P. Elder
Elm
Kansas City
St. Luke’s Hospital
Alvin Rainwater
Research Hospital
Sheriff
Jay Brown
Ottawa
Attend School On Powder Keg
Washington pa police said four boys placed 36 sticks of dynamite and 143 blasting caps under Westland grade school, with 65 pupils in attendance. The cache was discovered during Memorial Day. explosives were stolen April 29 from a coal company powder magazine. The four youths were turned to juvenile authorities.
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Washington
Westland
Noisy Thieves Take Tiny Bank Haul in Mayfield
In Mayfield Eas a small band of burglars broke into the Mayfield State Bank early today and escaped with only a single ten dollar bill. Mrs John Duvall heard the intrusion at about 130 am and saw three men leaving the bank. Investigators reported the robbers opened the back door after pounding the vault wall but found concrete and steel blocked progress. Assistant cashier Ruth Alexander noted only a ten dollar bill missing from a desk, saying the vault contained no cash, only records. Mayfield a town of about 150 on US 160 in Sumner County lies nine miles west of Wellington.
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Mayfield
Eas
Mayfield State Bank
John Duvall
Ruth Alexander
U. S. 160
Sumner County
Wellington
Second Fatality In Car Accident
Wellington Kansas AP reported Dan Miller aged 64 died yesterday after his wife was killed in a crash last Tuesday. John David Cole, 23, who hit the Miller car from behind, pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and received 30 days in jail and a $100 fine.
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Wellington
Kan
Dan Miller
John David Cole
Millers
Marriage Licenses Issued in Ottawa
Jonathan Edward Todd and Freda Pauline Webb, both of Ottawa, obtained marriage licenses. Legal proceedings or formalities noted.
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Jonathan Edward Todd
Ottawa
Legal
Freda Pauline Webb
Military Bill Up For Debate
Washington AP reports House debate opened on the $38- billion Defense Appropriations Act for the next fiscal year starting July 1. Rep George Mahon noted the vast funding includes weapons and space projects such as a powerful rocket engine and moon and satellite programs.
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Washington
George Mahon
D-Tex
House
Congress
Mahon
Defense Appropriations
Correct Sales Tax Error Hits 1959 Kansas Budget
TOPEKA AP The 1959 Legislature may need to fix a million dollar bookkeeping error from a special session that raised the retail sales tax to 2 percent effective June 1. Proceeds were split 1:4 between the general fund and the sales tax fund, but most June collections come from May sales taxed at 2 percent, causing an expected $872,000 shortfall in the sales tax residue on June 2. Budget Director James Bibb said a transfer from the general fund may be required unless estimates improve.
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Topeka
James Bibb
Bibb
Traffic Toll Topeka Reported By State Records
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the State Accident Records Section. In the last 24 hours one death. To date in 1953 178. Same period in 1957 214.
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Topeka
Kansas
Cars Damaged In Wreck Near Overpass
Minor accident near the Santa Fe north overpass left Gene Melvin Shaw’s car a total loss and Herbert Reed Clark’s vehicle with major damage. Clark was cited for following too close.
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Santa Fe North
Gene Melvin Shaw
Herbert Reed Clark
Quenemo
Shaw
Clark
State Parks Promotion Group Forms in Kansas
STOCKTON AP An organization formed by 12 western Kansas civic and sportsmen club presidents plans to promote all state parks. They reviewed a Kansas Park Authority program and oppose the full 166000 dollar appropriation for Kanopolis Reservoir park facilities near Salina. The group urged consolidating the park authority with Forestry Fish and Game, removing politics, and equitable park facility distribution across the state.
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Stockton
Western Kansas
Kansas Park
Kansas Park Authority
Kansas
Park Authority
Kanopolis Reservoir
Salina
Townsley
Kanopolis
Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Two Killed In Sunflower Head-On Crash
In Sunflower Kansas two cars collided on K 10 at the east edge of Sunflower village killing Lewis H. Hefner about 60 of Bethany Missouri a former Tucson Arizona motel proprietor and Paul Donald Gardner 19 of De Soto a University of Kansas student Jerry Hughes 19 of De Soto injured slightly Hefner was crushed when an air conditioner in the trunk of his car crushed him against the instrument panel
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DE Soto
Kas
Lewis H. Hefner
Bethany
Tucson
Ariz
Paul Donald Gardner
University of
Sunflower Village
FBI Captures Wanted Man in Los Angeles
Quay Kilburn, 34, once on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list, was arrested by agents in his Los Angeles apartment after a tip from a man who saw his photo in a post office. He fled Utah State Prison using a forged press card as editor of the prison paper. Police found two loaded automatics, a fake mustache, and a self made ID card with toe prints.
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Los Angeles
FBI
Quay Cleon Kilburn
Kilburn
Utah State
D. K. Brown
Brown
Kailburn
British Financier Charged In Fraud
Arthur J. White, a leading British financier, was charged at Bow Street Court with conspiring to cheat investors. Five co defendants sat in the dock as they faced accusations tied to a stock boosting circular. Prosecutor Mervyn Griffith Jones alleged they bought stock to push demand and then sold at higher prices. All defendants pleaded innocent.
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London
Arthur J. Whitehead
Britain
Bow Street Court
Mervyn Griffith- Jones
Safety Awards To Six Kansas Cities
Safety awards from the National Safety Council go to six Kansas cities and four Missouri cities for traffic safety efforts. Kansas winners include Hutchinson, Lawrence, Emporia, Garden City, Great Bend, and Newton, with the last four reporting no traffic deaths in the previous year. Missouri winners are Kansas City, St. Joseph, Springfield, and Sedalia, the latter noting zero traffic deaths in 1957.
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Chicago
Missouri
Kansas Cities
National Safety Council For
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Springfield
Sedalia
Kansas
Hutchinson
Lawrence
Emporia
Garden City
Great Bend
Newton
Eight Fined In Police Court Summary
Eight traffic violators were fined in Police Court today. Jerry Patterson was found guilty of driving a motorcycle with defective mufflers and disturbing the peace, fined 35 dollars. Doris McDaniels’s trial for drunken driving reckless driving and no license was postponed to June 17 for counsel. Others pleaded guilty and were fined or bonds forfeited. some trials set for later dates.
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Jerry Patterson
Doris McDaniels
Elmora M. Secrest
RFD 1
Princeton
Derald G. Smith
Melvern
Robert J. Fickel
Cedar
Explorer Ill Ailing as Orbit Deteriorates
Cambridge, Mass. AP The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory estimates Explorer III, the second U.S. Army satellite, will plunge to its death late this month after launching March 26. It is losing about 15 miles of altitude daily, with the high point dropping from 1700 miles to about 850. Sputnik III, launched May 15, may plunge to its end early next year and will reappear in morning twilight about 10 days hence.
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Cambridge
Mass
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Observatory
Smithsonian
Jack Slowey
Soviet Union
Hospital Notes and Births in Local Records
Admits list includes John Beller Henry A Boehle Lawrence Lyle Mack Jess Gregg Herbert Clark RFC Quenemo Kenneth Edgecomb Williamsburg Frank Doncaster Rantoul plus births of Charles Norton daughter 6 9 Osawatomie transfers George Jennings and Herbert Clark to Leavenworth era details show multiple names and addresses with dated notes.
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John Beller
N. Locust
Henry A. Boehle
Lawrence
Lyle Mack
West 7Th
Jess Gregg
Maple
Herbert R. Clark
RFC
Quenemo
Kenneth Dale Edgecomb
Williamsburg
Frank Doncaster
Rantoul
Gay Poley
S. Oak
Henley Belt
Failures Of Businesses Off New York Week Ended
Dun & Bradstreet reports 278 business failures for the week ended Thursday, the second lowest weekly total this year. The figure marks a drop of 59 from the prior week and below 300 for just the second time since January. Casualties stay above last year and 1956 levels across all regions.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc
Dun & Bradstreet
Prohibition Party Plans State Ticket Filing
The Kansas Prohibition Party intends to file an almost complete state ticket for the November general election. A state convention will precede the June 20 filing deadline to select nominees, with conventions required for minor parties polling under 5 percent in the prior secretary of state race.
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Topeka
Kansas
Prohibition Party
Harry Lytle
Junction City
Prohibitionist
Supreme Court
Ed Rees
Emporia
Socialists
Emporia Woman Heads State Superintendents
Mrs. Frances J. Jones of Lyons County schools led the Kansas County Superintendents Association as president at the two day convention in Topeka. Workshops and a legislative committee report were to close the event today.
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Topeka
Frances J. Jones
Emporia
Lyons County
Kansas County Superintendents Assn
Association
Railroads suspend nitro paraffin tank car shipments
The Association of American Railroads said member lines will halt handling of tank car shipments of nitro paraffin, the lacquer solvent involved in two recent explosions. The move follows a ICC request after a Mount Pulaski Illinois blast killed two railroaders and left over 20 injured and about 1000 residents homeless. A prior nitro paraffin explosion occurred in Niagara Falls in January. The association noted no trouble with nitro paraffin in drum form.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
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