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Newspaper

Ottawa Herald

Location

Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Jun 24, 1955

Page

6

Harvest Rush as Wheat Yields Top Sixty Bushels

Franklin county reports strong wheat yields over sixty bushels per acre. The crop tests well and moves to rural elevators as harvest peaks, with thousands of farmers bringing in grain on the first big harvest day yesterday.

Franklin County iWileat Ottawa Richmond Feuerbrow Feuerborn John O’neill Williamsburg Richmond Grainman Topeka Kansas Bonnie Can Steamboat Springs News Jones Associated Press Ctill Lee Bonar Centropolis Bonar Alfred Schmitt

Death Claims Harley Ivey Rural Mail Carrier

Harley Ivey 56 a well known Ottawa rural mail carrier died yesterday at 5 p.m. at Ransom Memorial hospital from heart disease. He was born January 6, 1899, and married to Ofelita Sornberger May 1, 1920. Survived by six children and his mother Frances E. Ivey. Funeral Saturday at Lamb Funeral Home with Rev. W. A. Elliott. interment Highland Cemetery.

Charles Warley Ivey Ottawa Ransom Memorial Hospital East Fifth Williamsburg Ora Frances E. (Place) Ivey Ofelita Sornberger Charles H

Ottawa Steel rumor debunked by company manager

Ed Johnson, general manager, says rumors of Ottawa Steel Inc being sold to a Detroit firm are false and business continues as usual. The item also notes local honors, including a scholarship in Robert R. Young's name for WMU ROTC students, and various letters and awards in Franklin County and Ottawa.

Ottawa Steel, Inc Detroit Ed Johnson Johnson

Flood Protection To Transform River In Ottawa

Kansas Baptist women held a large house party with 437 registrants and a major event the previous day as part of a statewide gathering. The Army Engineers outlined channel and levee improvements for the Marais des Cygnes River in Ottawa to protect the city’s water facilities and rear districts, aiming for a streamlined concrete channel and levee system in the business district.

Army Engineer Marais Des Cygnes Ottawa Army Engineers Kansas G. L&. Haggarth Concordia Henry Smallwood Forts Scott William Keucher Kansas Baptist Convention Topeka Univer Boy Scouts Troop 76 Women of North Ottawa Locust Street Santa Fe Railroad Walnut Street Main Street Forest Park Pomona Melovern Army

No Trace of Missing Youth In Colorado Search

Steamboat Springs Colorado authorities continue the search for Leon Jones an 18 year old Kansas youth reported missing after his companion William H. Helen 20 was found shot to death near Pleasanton Kansas The youths father Leonard Jones said his son called from Steamboat Springs saying he was all right and unaware of the slaying Undersheriff Harold Bersche said he could not locate Jones in the Steamboat Springs area and checked with the Denver Rio Grande Western Railroad and local hotels without success The telephone company would not confirm if a call from Pleasanton originated in Steamboat Springs

Steamboat Springs Colo Colorado Leon Jones Kansas Ellis Kas Jones Leonard Pleasanton William H. Helen Harold Bersche Routt County Denver Rio Grande Western Railroad Bersche Leonard Jones

Topeka KBI shifts focus in Denver case to Steamboat Springs

In Topeka the KBI said agents who had been in Denver investigating the case are now moving on to Steamboat Springs. A source described the suspect as disturbed but declined to reveal intentions.

Bad Topeka KBI Denver Steamboat Springs

Mother of Four Killed In Crash

SABETHA KAN. A mother of four died yesterday in a two car collision two miles east of here. The children of Mrs. Paul Due ssing, about 50, Hamlin, were in the car but suffered only cuts and bruises. She is survived by her husband, a farmer.

Sabetha Kas Here Paul Duessing Hamlin

Two Topeka youths to take lie detector tests

Two 16 year old Topeka youths questioned in the fatal shooting near Lawrence were taken to Olathe for lie detector tests after the Kansas Bureau of Investigation reported nitrate traces on their hands from paraffin tests.

Lawrence Topeka Olathe Kansas Bureau of Investigation Russell Wiers Jim Johnson

Dulles Warns Russia To End Force Subversion

Secretary of State John Vester Dulles urged Russia to end force and subversion at the UN anniversary meeting. He defended NATO and Western blocs, critiqued Molotov’s seven point program, and said peace rests on collective security and UN-backed action.

San Francisco John Vester Dulles Russia Dulles U.N V. M. Molotov Fisenhower Dalles Molotov United Nations Indochina Geneva United States Yugoslavia West Germany Japan

Weather forecast for today and weekend

Partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Saturday with scattered showers or thunderstorms west and extreme north this afternoon and thunderstorms over most of state tonight and Saturday. Highs 80 to 90, lows 55 to 66. Yesterday high 87, record 104 in 1924. Low 65, record 52 in 1920, 1926, 1940. River 79 feet. Lawn care ad and watch repair notice follow.

Sturday N.E

Eisenhower Teases Second Term Talk In New Hampshire

President Eisenhower teased the idea of a second term during a speech in Concord New Hampshire to about 15000 assembled in State House Plaza. He suggested no firm plan while noting he would pursue what he sees as serious reasons for any future decision. A separate item notes a 7 44 percent pay raise for over a million federal workers awaiting his approval to take effect March 1.

Eisenhower New Adams Granite State Lincoln Franconia Notch New Hampshire White House Concord N.H State Mouse Plaza Washington

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