Ottawa Community Band Third Concert Schedule
The Ottawa Community Band announces its third concert at 8 p.m. Thursday in City Park bandstand led by director William Barker. The program includes The Liberty Bell Sousa The Great Gate of Kiev Moussorgsky Cielito Lind o arranged by Ostling Chopin Silhouette arranged by Yoder Entry of the Gladiators Fucik Humoresque Dvorak Love Divine Worship the King Minute Waltz March Chopin Walters Prairie Lament Walters La Comparsita Tango Rodrique and America the Beautiful.
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Ottawa
City Park
William Barker
Sousa
Kiev
Moussorgsky
Cielito Lindo
Ostling
Yoder
Gladiators
Governor Roberts jokes about questions from 1,200 women
In Providence Rhode Island Gov Dennis J Roberts spoke before about 1 200 women and, after a pause, quipped that being a bachelor meant no girl ever asks him a question.
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Providence
R. I
Dennis J. Roberts
Roberts
The Weather Bureau Picnic Day Rain Here
The weather bureau cites inevitability for today’s rain during the annual weather bureau picnic in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Weather Bureau
Wheat harvest in Ottawa area depends on sunshine
Wheat harvest begins in the Ottawa area as sun is needed for several days. Ot tawa Co-Op manager Lyle Geier reports first truckload tested 59 pounds at 16.4% moisture. Most area yields are expected 20 to 30 bushels per acre with patches higher, while wet fall slowed planting. Chinch bugs affect milo, web worms target soybeans, cut worms in western farmers, and storage may be tight with last year’s wheat. The Ottawa Co-Op has 50,000 bushels of storage space reserved in Kattsas City.
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Ottawa
Lyle Geier
Ottawa Co-Op
R. L. Hinderliter
Grier
Hinderliter
Wichita
Kansas
Kattsas
Weather County Forecast Sees Showers Clearing This Afternoon
Scattered showers end this afternoon with partly cloudy skies tonight and Thursday. Highs 80 to 85, lows 60 to 65. Yesterday’s high 85, low 58. Record highs and lows for the date noted. Hourly temps listed with 24 hour wrap. River stage and other figures show minor changes.
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Rattan
Wheat Harvesting Slowed By Rains In Kansas
Kansas wheat ripened rapidly last week but harvesting in southern areas was delayed by rains. Wind hail and hot winds caused damage across the state as about four percent of wheat had been harvested by June 14. One fifth ripe, three-fourths turning. northwestern areas just starting to turn. Barley combining underway in central Kansas and oats heading. Thrift Shop open 9 to 1 for summer.
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Topeka
Kansas
Federal
City files for more land along Marais des Cygnes
Ottawa moves forward with condemnation for the Marais des Cygnes flood control project. The city filed in district court to condemn property from the alley west of Main Street along the south river bank to provide levee right of way for the water and light plant. Appraisers L. C. Geiger James G. Alexander and E. J. Barnes will assess value for the tracts involved.
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Marais Des Cygnes
City of
Ottawa
South River Bank
District Court Clerk’s Office
Douglas Glea‘son
Main
Main Street
L. C. Geiger
James G. Alexander
E. J. Barnes
Williamsburg Woman’s Mother and Stepparents Die in Utah Crash
Mr and Mrs W I Hink of Williamsburg travel to Pueblo Colorado after learning of the death of Mrs Hink’s mother Minnie Hewitt Larkin and her husband Joseph Larkin in a car transport collision in Utah. The couple were killed Monday after a Sunday wedding in Pueblo. Mrs Larkin, formerly Minnie Hewitt, had visited Williamsburg often.
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W. I. Hink
Willimsburg
Pueblo
Colo
Changes His Mind In River Jump Near Kansas City
A 50-year-old man leaped into the Missouri River from a downtown bridge, swam back to shore, and told police he changed his mind because the water was cold. Pablo Castro provided the remark.
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Kansas City
Pablo Castro
KABIE Tour To Stop Here
Thirty-eight school teachers from across Kansas visit Ottawa as part of a 2000 mile bus tour covering 30 cities. The Kansas Agriculture Business Industry and Education tour is sponsored by the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce with Emporia Hays and Pittsburg State Colleges. Leon Decker leads the group along with Ottawa luncheon host. The group will tour Bennett Creamery and Mode O Day plant and attend a noon luncheon at the North American Hotel.
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Kansas
Ottawa
Kansas Agriculture, Business, Industry and
Kansas State Chamber of Commerce
State College
Emporia
Hays
Pittsburg
Leon Decker
State Chamber
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
Peg Carr
Ottawa Chamber
Chamber
Bennett Creamery
Defense Secretary Widens Critique of House Bill
Secretary of Defense McElroy urged backing President Hisenhower's defense reorganization plan and criticized a House bill provision. He warned that allowing appeals to Congress over abolishing or consolidating armed forces functions would create an effective military veto over civilian authority and delay modernization of missiles and weapons.
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Washington
McElroy
Hisenhower
House
Pentagon
Senate Armed Services Committee
Eisenhower
Army
Navy
Air Force
Congress
White House
Navy Air Force
Wheat Referendum Friday On Wheat Marketing Quotas
Farmers vote Friday June 20 on wheat marketing quotas for the 1959 crop. Eligible voters are farmers with over 15 acres of wheat for harvest and not in the 1958 feed wheat program. Feed participants may grow up to 30 acres for on farm use only. A two thirds yes vote keeps quotas with a $1.81 or 75 percent parity support price. Voting sites listed across Franklin Appanoose Pomona Green wood IOOF Pomona Centropolis Oakland Cutler City Hall Rantoul Franklin Fire Station Wells ville Harrison Lincoln Ottawa ASC Office Ottawa Hayes Brown School Ohio City Hall Princeton Peoria Briles School Pottawatomie IOOF Hall Lane Richmond City Hall Williamsburg Homewood City Hall.
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Franklin Coun
Appanoose
Pomona
Greenwood
IOOF
Centropolis
Oakland
Cutler
Rantoul
Franklin
Wellsville
Harrison, Lincoln and
Ottawa
ASC
Hayes — Brown
Ohio
Princeton
Peoria
Briles
Pottawatomie
Lane
Richmond
Williamsburg
Homewood City Hall
Escaper From Springfield Is Captured Here
An escaped murderer from Springfield Missouri was captured in Ottawa with FBI and Kansas authorities. Eugene A Middlestead 24 admitted to the arrest at a downtown cafe at 6 pm after escaping May 18 from U S Medical Center Springfield Mo He carried a 5 inch hacksaw blade. Middlestead formerly used the names Norton and Gene De Dianna and worked on a bridge gang near Ottawa after a carnival. He was convicted of second degree murder in Alaska in 1956 for a stabbing. He was in the Air Force at the time. He is held in the county jail awaiting transfer.
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Eugene A. Middlestead
Eugene Flaherty
Middlestead
U. S. Medical Center
Springfield
Flaherty
FBI
Federal District Court of
Alaska
Air Force
Topeka
Ottawa
Norton
Gene de Dianna
North Cherry
Washington
John J. McDaniel
Meaniel
Abilene
Tex
Merrill
Wisc
Olathe
U.S
Eisenhower says Adams imprudent but indispensable aide
President Eisenhower stated Sherman Adams was imprudent in his dealings with Bernard Goldfine but affirmed he has no intention to fire Adams. He praised Adams’ integrity and usefulness, saying he needs him to continue as top presidential aide. The press conference covered Adams-Goldfine matter and related questions.
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Ike
Adams
Washington
Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
Bernard Goldifine
Adam
House
Gov. Adams
White House
Lebanon
United States
Goldfine
Boston
Rep
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Federal Trade Commission
Truman
James C. Hagerty
Hisenhower
Wilt joins Globetrotters to tour with Harlem group
Wilt Chamberlain, 7-foot-2, left Kansas after his junior year to sign a one year deal with the Harlem Globetrotters. Owner Abe Saperstein announced a 65 thousand dollar contract, with Chamberlain to debut at Madison Square Garden on October 18. He remains owned by the Philadelphia Warriors but cannot play for them until his college class graduates.
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NEW York
Wilt
Chamberlain
Philadelphia Warriors
National Basketball Assn
Warriors
Correction In Mack Elec Portable Steam and Dry Iron Prices
A correction notes that the Portable steam and dry iron should be priced at 9.95 and the Steam and Dry Iron at 16.95 under the Act of June 17. The advertisement now reflects these corrected prices.
Rainstorm Drenches Ottawa Area Prompting Tornado Warnings
A surprise rainstorm dumped 1.19 inches on Ottawa this morning with 1.05 inches at Quenemo and 1.06 inches at Lyndon. The Marais des Cygnes river rose about five percent feet by 1:30 p.m., as Eight Mile Creek and Wilson Creek swelled. The Weather Bureau issued tornado warnings for two zones, one spanning southeast Kansas, northeast Oklahoma, southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas, the other from Denver to near Dodge City, with Ottawa region about 60 miles from the danger line.
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Ottawa
Quenemo
Lyndon
Osage County
Marais Des Cygnes
Eight-Mile Creek
Wilson Creek
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Arkansas
Colorado
Emporia
Fayetteville
Ark
Denver
Colo
Dodge City
Two More Enter Governor Race Adds to Field
Two more Republicans join the governor race in Topeka. Wichita city commissioner John Stevens, 45, and Harvey F. Crouch, 54, a Minneola farmer and school teacher, filed today. Stevens faces a state suit over $26,000 in alleged sales taxes on vending machine sales 1953 to 1957, with Stevens Enterprises Inc. now in receivership. Other declared candidates include Walter Cherry, Fred Hall, and Clyde Reed Jr.
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Topeka
John
Stevens
Wichita City
Harvey F. Crouch
Minneola
Crouch
Lake Linden
Mich
Kansas
Stevens Enterprises Inc
Sedgwick County
Walter Cherry
Gaelena
Fred Hall
Dodge City
Clyde Reed Jr
Parsons
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Clausie Smith
GAN Francisco
Esther Silvanes
Deborah Lynn
Lawrence Andrew
Karen Joyce
Mary’s Help Hospital
Joe
Mynah
City Park Zoo
Merle Huttenhow
Huttenhow
North Bank
Kabie Tour
Sec
Defense
Bill
J. A. Hoss
Lee Shobe
Eugene Field
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Roy Church
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Congressional Committee
Hungary
Imre Nagy
Pal Maleter
Free World
Soviet Union
Globetrotters
Lamb
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