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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1958
Page
3
A news brief notes a Well Child Clinic in the Co-Op building on Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. for children aged one to six, sponsored by Batter Homes as this week’s HDU. other items include traffic fines, hospital stays, church events, and local notices.
Richard U L Hoglund 21 of Lacrosse Wisconsin and Mary Ponton 21 of Ottawa. William D Gossett 17 and Nancy Lee Meiers 17 both of Ottawa. Carl F Bayuk 43 and Hazel M Nodwell 45 both of Kansas City.
A tornado cloud moved over metropolitan Kansas City yesterday drawing awe from thousands. It touched down near Union Station and the baseball park, then crossed Independence near the Truman library before disappearing. In Kansas City, Kansas a garage was torn from its foundation a trailer overturned and windows smashed. Police blocked stadium gates as about 15 000 fans watched the Athletics Red Sox game unaware of the danger overhead.
Manhattan Kansas AP report says the E. E. Griffith Coal and Lumber Co fire caused about 125000 in damage, destroying the lumber yard office warehouse four trucks and power equipment. Police noted the blaze flared up 10 minutes after checks, fire chief Bostick called it the worst in 11 years.
A light plane ran out of gas near midnight Saturday and crashed in suburban Claycomp, injuring seven aboard. Pilot Maurice LaTier, 32, Independence, Mo., attempted a landing on U S 69, hit a telephone cable, snapped a pole, and rested with its nose down and tail aloft. Passengers were Mr and Mrs Clarence Lister of Griggsville, Ill, and their four children.
Graveside services for Thomas Craven of southeast of Princeton were held June 19 at 2 p.m. in West Baldwin Cemetery Baldwin with Rev. E R Neuenswander of Colony Community Church officiating. Pallbearers included Floyd Ashby Frank Hetzel Merle Brockus Dale Hird John Baldwin Clarence Hetzel John Faden and M W Fishburn.
About 200 workers at a Benton harbor aluminum furniture plant received their first payroll in hard cash. The employer celebrated its opening by distributing 8800 dollars in silver dollars, with employees given cloth sacks to carry their pay.
Obituaries note the deaths of 82 year old Lillian E Floyd of Ottawa after a long illness and services set for tomorrow at 2 pm. Also listed are 82 year old Elbert Phares of Wellsville and 90 year old James Alma Gorton of Ottawa with funeral details and surviving family.
At Maltrata Point near Orizaba an electric train crashed into a crowded railroad station killing at least 19 and injuring 20. Searchers sought around 25 missing as brakes failed after a power shortage halted the train which then sped three miles out of control. Passengers leaped to safety, crew attempted sand on tracks to stop the train.
Entries show admissions including Glen Underwood 1214 S Hickory Jimmie Stark 531 N Mulberry Earl V Gibson 1140 S Main Mrs R E Alcorn 203 S Cedar J B Rice RFD 1 Earl Ralph Cran e Jr 611 N Poplar and today births to Donald Howell RFD 3 and Robert D Stansbury 608 S Poplar with weights 7 lb 4 oz and 8 lb 4 oz. Discharged Sherman Spears RFD 2 then transfers to Kansas City George W Gallagher Sr 421 N Sycamore Mrs Rollo J Hashman 916 Maple Mrs Lillie Zimmerman RFD 1 Pomona Jimmie Stark 531 N Mulberry and others with addresses listed.
NEW YORK AP Philippine President Carlos P Garcia urged a breakfast gathering of 101 American financial leaders to fund private development of natural resources and accelerate industrialization. Harold H Helm of Chemical Bank Exchange predicted an unusual period of business growth in the Philippines and noted solid progress in many sectors with vast opportunities to develop raw material resources.
Franklin County Deputy Sheriff Josephine Evans said thieves stole 286 gallons of gasoline from Willis Nursery Co. about a mile south of Ottawa on U S Highway 59 last week. The culprits emptied tanks Thursday or Friday night and rain washed away footprints. A broken lock was found nearby as the sheriff's office investigates.
AP reports Japanese fishing fleets were ordered to search the East China Sea for the 95 ton two masted yacht Thespian owned and skippered by John Calvert with seven aboard. The vessel left Keelung Formosa in bad weather last Monday and Calvert hoped to reach Japan by Friday. A sighting of a similar white yacht was made by a Japanese trawler 80 miles southeast of Shanghai, drifting toward the Thespian's intended southern Japan destination.
LINDSBORG Kansas AP Farmers in McPherson and Saline counties battle cutworms and chinch bugs amid a grasshopper threat. Cutworms damage mile crops in Marquette and nearby areas. McPherson County agent Elgin Button notes milo now attacked after barley harvest and urges farmers to spray to prevent further crop damage.
Don Henderson 37 of Cherokee Kansas drowned last night while seiving for bait in a strip pit, 12 miles west of Pittsburg. He worked for Spencer Chemical Co and is survived by his wife and two children.
In Franklin County Kansas probate court a petition to probate the will of L A Robinson deceased dated November 14 1956 and for appointment of Vida Adams as executor is filed. The hearing is set for July 21 Motions defenses must be filed by then. Attorney for Petitioner Donald L White represents Vida Adams.
Ottawa Kansas city ordinance 2128 provides Maple Street improvements from Thirteenth Street to Fifteenth Street including intersections by grading guttering and curbing with full street width. It authorizes a special tax under Kansas law and notes no remonstrance filed.
Ottawa Kansas ordinance approves paving North Thirteenth to North Fifteenth Street with 31 foot wide steel reinforced Portland cement concrete 6 inch thick including curbs and drainage facilities. It authorizes assessments on properties up to block centers, three appraisers, bonds up to ten years, six percent interest, and city wide tax for non tract portions.
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