Library helps with any question at Community Information Center
The Franklin County library now offers help beyond books with a Community Information Center at 5th and Main. Services include transportation info for seniors, meals from Ottawa Nutrition Center with travel stops, the wading pool hours in City Park, and guidance on topics from travel to poetry and science. Call 242-3080 or 242-7440 for details.
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5Th and Main
Willis Jordan
Franklin County Council On Aging
Ottawa Nutrition Center
City Park
Jean
Judy Rouse
Ottawa Recreation Commission
George Howe
Free Adult Swimming at Forest Park Pool
The Forest Park Swimming Pool offers adult only swims every other Tuesday starting June 13. Adults 18 and older pay a discounted 50 cent fee during 6 to 9 p.m. on designated nights. No under-18 admission during these hours and no enrollment is required.
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Forest Park
Ford Pinto Recall Sparks Major Auto Safety Action
Washington AP reports Ford Motor Co. agreed to recall about 1.5 million Pintos and 30,000 Mercury Bobcats from 1971–76 model years due to an unsafe fuel system. The recall affects all but station wagons and follows government findings and consumer pressure.
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Washington
Interstate 15
San Bernardino
Calif
Lily Gray
Richard Grimshaw
Ford Motor Co
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Ad Briefs and Local Nightclub Events Summaries
Ads note Shiela Miller for Hair at 1302 S Main in Richmond. Lockers closed June 5 to 20. VFW guests: Marvin Ross and the New Country Gentlemen perform Saturday at 9 p.m. Milk at Select Dairy 1.50 for a gallon or two half gallons. Elks Lodge steak night Saturday 6 to 8 with Country Strings and Brass from 9 to 1. Get Away Club in Pomona hosts June 10 with live music and no cover. rib barbecue available.
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N. Main
Elks Lodge
Pomona
Services for Lawrence C. Dutch Jacob Held at Lamb Roberts
Obituary notes the June 6 death of Lawrence C. Dutch Jacob with services at Lamb Roberts Funeral Home and burial in Highland Cemetery. Rev. William R. Weber officiated, with Mrs. Leonard Humphrey organist and Teddy Rood vocalist. Pallbearers listed include Bill Close, Leonard Humphrey, Henry Jackman, Ted Nelson, Joe Ream, Leon Rumford, Raymond Rumford and Merle Taylor. Admissions and dismissals followed by local police and accident reports accompany the notice.
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Lawrence C
Jacob
Lamb Roberts
Highland Cemetery
William R. Weber
Leonard Humphrey
Teddy Rood
Bill Close
Henry Jackman
Ted Nelson
Joe Ream
Leon Rumford
Raymond Rumford
Merle Taylor
Accidental pistol shot in Pomona injures visitor
Gregory Stuckey, 21 of Overland Park, visited Frank Rose's home in Pomona when a .38 revolver discharged after he unloaded and reloaded it. Stuckey sustained severe injuries to his left hand while Rose sought hospital care for his guest. Rose was moved to another facility. Nearby Cleveland Street will be paved under a community program with street barricades limiting traffic Monday to Wednesday.
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Homewood
Mark Hull
Hull
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Department of Public Safety
Raymond E. Giles
Linn
Gary Orton
Ottawa Rfd
Danny Bender
Olathe
Bud McArdle
Hallmark Inn
Pomona
Franklin County
Cecil Leonard
Leonard
Gregory Stuckey
Overland Park
Frank Rose
Rose
Stuckey
Cleveland Street
Forest Park
Addiston
Dave Watkins
Dwight Haworth Construction Co
Statewide candidate filings accumulate ahead of deadline
With six and a half business days left before the June 20 filing cutoff in Kansas, state officials expect about 400 candidates to file for the August 1 primary after 172 had done so by Friday. Incumbents Patrick Hurley Arnold Anderson Theo Cribbs Ben Foster and Paul L. Thomas filed, Hurley signaling a bid for House speakership in a reshaped chamber.
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Department of Public Safety
Anchor Savings and Loan Association
Anchor Savings
Kansas State
Helen Heathman
Cleveland
DPS
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Secretary of State
Patrick J. Hurley
D-Leavenworth
House
John Carlin
Hurley
Arnold Anderson
D-Wakeeney
Theo Cribbs
Wichita
Ben Foster
Foster
Robert F. Bennett
Paul L. Thomas
Lath
OSHA Fines Jacobsen Manufacturing 2500 for Safety Violations
In OLATHE KAN OSHA fines Jacobsen Manufacturing 2500 after three serious and three non serious violations tied to missing safety guards on machines. The company must correct by July 6 and has 15 working days to appeal. the inspection followed a worker injury when a punch press malfunctioned.
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Olathe, Kan
Jacobsen Manufacturing Co
U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Olathe
OSHA
Bruce Beelman
Wichita
Beelman
New Doubt In Hughes' Legacy
Las Vegas AP report details ongoing Hughes estate tangles with 35 to 40 purported wills, fraud findings, and claims by Terry Moore and two ex-executives. Attorney James Dilworth warns the fortune may stay in limbo years as possible later wills and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute dispute emerge. A separate note covers a circus doubleheader in Iowa, church gospel sing, and local obituaries and recoveries.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Howard Hughes
Hughes
James Dilworth
Dilworth
Texas
Terry Moore
Melvin Dummar
Utah
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Frank
Bill” Gay
Chester Davis
Medical Institute
Miami
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Chase
Ministerial Association
YMCA
Spokane
William Cowper
Alexander Selkirk
Ad Briefs
Shiela Miller
S. Main
Richmond
VFW
Marvin Ross
The
New Country Gentlemen
the Daily Report
Ernest Johnson
N. Oak
Donald Hough
Pomona Rfd
Ronald Smith
Sheriff’s News
Public Safety News
Kansas City
Pamida Discount Center
Towner
North Main
Ottawa
Anna Elizabeth Button
Rabson-Towner Funeral Home
Larry Spain
Central Cemetery
Rabson-Towner Funeral
Derry
Romon
David Bunch
Joe Ferns
Carl Koehler
Violet Robson Reno Towner
Dorothy Reams
Ottawa Chamber Players
Ottawa University
Wes Wilson
Carol Wilson
Alice Joy Lewis
Phil Scheldt
Fourie
Albrechtsberger
Palm Springs
Noah Dietrich
Circus
Big John International Circus
Baby Neena
Appanoose School
Free Methodist Church of Williamsburg
New Life Singers
Trinette
Hermanus) Deleuse
Montignies-le-Tilleul
Belgium
Maurice Deleuse
S. Maple
Archie L. Wheeler
Kansas City, Mo
St. Luke's Hospital
Lyndon
PLM
D.A. Sander
C.P. Sander
Bud Sauls
Truman
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