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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1971
Page
5
Public notices announce a Township zoning meeting on June 4 at the Brown School. Various ads mention dance classes, scholarships, club events, bus hours, and local activities including a Pomona school district meeting reschedule to June 21 and band program enrollment.
Two area women were crowned Royal Princesses at the Avon District 237 meeting in Garnett. Mrs. Margaret Hadsall of Richmond and Mrs. Marceline Modlin of Garnett were chosen from several candidates for the Best Customer Service award. The meeting began at 1:30 p.m. Other candidates included Mrs. Nadine Peters and Mrs. Elsie Harvey.
Four townships Hayes Ottawa Lincoln and Harrison will zone individually and draft a comprehensive plan within 60 days. County commissioners noted most township boards favor township zoning over county wide or peripheral zoning. Ottawa plans peripheral zoning up to three miles outside city limits within two months. Letters are sent to prospective planning board members in Lincoln and Harrison Townships.
Miltion D Durbin 21 of 707 E Wilson faces trial June 17 after pleading innocent for reckless driving. Billie Bowers 26 of Grand Island Neb fined 100 dollars and 30 days in jail for driving while license suspended. Rosemary Parsons 53 of 934 N Locust forfeits 125 dollar bond for no valid license and illegal registration. Carl Harvey 60 of 934 N King fined 150 dollars and paroled 30 days for DUI. Kenny Montgomery 23 of 903 N Cedar forfeits 25 dollar bond for excessive exhaust noise. Terence Cline 16 of 135 Oak fined 25 dollars for illegal registration. John Roberts 16 of 123 S Cedar fined 75 dollars for no valid license. Lewis Baker 45 of Wellsville fined 150 dollars for DUI. Michal O Malley 19 of Garnett illegal registration. dismissed. Zola Mae Dief Fenbacher 29 of Kansas City Mo fined 25 for no license. Billy Richardson 22 of 215 E 3rd drunk in public and resisting arrest. forfeits 150 dollars. Vernell Horn 19 of 436 S Poplar fined 10 for stop sign violation. trial set June 17 on second charge after innocent plea. John McIntosh 58 of 1035 N Oak fined 10 for driving left of center after nolo contendere. Local markets.
Hospital admissions list multiple residents with names and addresses for Wednesday and Thursday, plus discharges and births. Obituaries and service notices follow for Grace Cromwell, Glenn Earl Jones Sr., Jack Fanning, with survivors and funeral details. County court items include citations, divorces, custody petitions, and a money suit, plus spring honor rolls and regional livestock market results.
Funeral services for Tim H Peters, 73, of Lyndon, were held today at 2 p.m. at Feltner Funeral Home. Peters died Monday at his home.
Franklin County received 2.512 million dollars from Stern Bros for 2.5 million in hospital bonds sold May 5. After expenses of about 8,500, the hospital board reinvested the funds, placing 2 million in five percent U.S. Treasury notes and the remainder in Treasury bills at about 4.90 percent. The notes mature in August 1972 and the bills in May 1972, with about 350 dollars per day in interest from the invested amount. Checks were delivered to Kansas City for the purchases.
Franklin County commissioners said Wednesday afternoon the Franklin County Community Development Program grant is extended through year end. Part of the funds will support courthouse plan studies and pay Wichita architect $1500 for schematic work including a new jail. J. R. Cheney of 745 S Hickory was reappointed chairman of the Franklin County Committee for Planning, Project No. P-104.
Bruce Rogers announces Mac Williams of Spur Texas as the new romantic lead replacing A C Griffing who leaves to pursue a European scholarship this fall. David Polson also joins the cast to work backstage and later appear in an apprentice production. Williams, a San Angelo University graduate, has been at Dallas Theatre Center and earns an MA in drama from Trinity University this fall. The musical I Do I Do by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt is now showing, starring Bruce and Beda Rogers through June 20.
A 1957 Ottawa University graduate Dr. David L. Hiebert has joined Ransom Memorial Hospital as radiologist replacing Dr. Kenneth C. Hollweg who resigned effective June 1. He will interpret hospital X rays and work Wednesday and Friday afternoons. Dr. Hiebert earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas in 1961 and trained at St. Francis Wichita after service as a battalion surgeon. He has practiced radiology in Lawrence at Watkins Memorial and Lawrence Memorial since 1967 and was board certified in 1968.
Ray Brown Ford Inc. has purchased the lease on the former Ned Hiatt Inc. used car lot at the southeast corner of K-68 and Main Street. The site will display over 115 new Ford cars and trucks, open six days a week plus select weekday evenings until 9 p.m. Hiatt recently relocated to Olathe and Brown also runs a used car lot on the opposite corner.
Colorado's Las Animas River earned the title The River of Lost Souls from early Spaniards due to numerous drownings at its treacherous fords while attempting crossings.
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