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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1958
Page
3
TOPEKA (RP) A four cent a gallon cut in fuel costs for trucks and buses using the Kansas Turnpike has been approved. The Kansas Turnpike Authority will negotiate a new contract with any turnpike service station leasee willing to reduce fuel prices for commercial vehicles. KTA currently earns six to eight cents per gallon of fuel sold at turnpike stations.
Anna Louise Gottschamer 86 of RFD 1 Pomona died yesterday at Osawatomie after a two month illness. She lived at Cedar House nursing home for two years and with her son Harold Gottschamer for 16 years before that. Born January 3 1872 in St Louis widow of George Gottschamer who died in 1941. Survived by one son five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral Thursday at 2 p m in Towner's Chapel Rev Ralph Hunt officiating. Burial in Dean Cemetery near Pomona.
Mrs Lillie Mae Thompson age 89 of 10315 Johnson Drive Shawnee formerly of near Ottawa died today at 11 a.m. at her home. She was widow of Samuel H Thompson. A daughter Mrs Mabel Black who ran the Black nursing home in Ottawa died in 1957. Survived by granddaughter Mrs Betty Black Bailey of Shawnee.
Funeral services for Elbert Phares who died yesterday will be held tomorrow at 2 30 p m at Coughlin Funeral Home Wellsville Rev Jim Nabors will officiate Burial will be in Wellsville Cemetery.
Admitted Arthur T Harkins 422 W 9th Mrs Josephine Church Cedar House Monday Harry Trabert Williamsburg John Allen Davis Princeton Births Mr and Mrs J E Burkdoll Rantoul son born Monday weight 5 lb 12 oz Mr and Mrs Alfred Smith 703 E 7th son born Monday weight 6 lb 4 oz Dismissed Ralph Cochrane Jr 611 N Poplar Mrs Bettes McKinley 624 S Locust Mrs Orlan Vaughn and infant son Osawatomie Mrs Donald Howell and baby daughter IRFD 3 today
Derald H. Smith of Topeka was convicted of drunkenness, fined up to 100 dollars and jailed 30 days. Ernest Hightower and Joe Means were found not guilty. Harrison P. Secrest, 42, Princeton, pleaded not guilty to following another vehicle too closely with an accident. trial set for July 6. Norman F. Luther forfeited a 10 dollar bond on distributing hand bills. Benjamin Printy pleaded guilty to closely following another vehicle and was fined 8 dollars. Charles Dyer, 72, Baldwin, pleaded guilty to reckless driving, fined 35 dollars with 15 dollars suspended for a year. Minnie Jansen pleaded guilty to running a stop sign and fined 10 dollars. Ruth Viola Ely pleaded guilty to failing to yield the right of way resulting in an accident. fined 35 dollars each. Maurice A. Wiederholt and J D Morton charged after a drag race. Wiederholt fined 3 dollars for driving and Morton 3 dollars for speeding. George Edgar Morford pleaded guilty to reckless driving, fined 35 dollars and 10 days in jail. Leroy J. Fitzgerald pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, fined 40 dollars.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla a Polaris experimental rocket roared skyward in a stringent test of its guidance and control system. The trim rocket twisted high then broke apart after fuel burnout 25 seconds after takeoff as it followed an abrupt flight path with sharp pitches.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP The Navy's Vanguard rocket America s No 1 satellite launching vehicle flanked another test tonight after hours of effort the crew gave up at 134 a m due to heavy rains causing moisture in wiring triggering an electrical short it was the second delay in four days and the craft was scrubbed last Thursday night after a long countdown.
L AQUIA Italy earthquake rattled towns and hamlets in the Abruzzi region causing panic with cracking buildings and falling roof tiles. No injuries were reported. The tremors arrived in two waves, the second lasting about sixteen seconds in some areas.
TOPEKA AP County welfare budgets submitted to the Kansas Board of Social Welfare for 1959 total 51,418,893.88, up 3.26 percent from this year. Approved budgets for 1958 totaled 49,795,851. Biggest increases are for general assistance and aid to dependent children with higher caseloads expected. The board will finalize figures next month after sending back about 20 budgets with changes. Seven or eight were disapproved and returned for required changes. Seventy-two counties increased budgets this year, 31 decreased, and two kept the same.
Paris Premier Charles de Gaulle conferred with Gen Lauris Norstad supreme allied commander in Europe on France’s role in Western defense. He also met NATO Secretary General Paul Henri Spaak, underscoring France’s ties with the alliance and the importance placed on allied security.
Market figures show wheat, barley, soybeans, rye, corn, oats and butterfat with varied quotes though legible values are interspersed with garbled text. Washington reports a government note on a strike schedule for Friday morning as Braniff International Airways has been postponed indefinitely.
General Home THOMPSON Lillie Mae, 89, widow of Samuel H. Thompson, passed away this morning at 11 at her Shawnee home. Funeral services will be held at Lamb Funeral Home with time to be announced tomorrow.
The State Corporation Commission in Topeka scheduled a hearing for Kansas City Power and Light Company on July 11, 1958 at 10:00 A M. in Topeka to consider Revised Sheet 4 of its General Rules and Regulations adjusting the fuel cost by 6.0 cents per million BTU for Montrose Station fuel. Interventions may be filed before or during the hearing.
Ottawa, Kansas approves Ordinances 2126 and 2127 to grade gutter curb and pave Hickory Street from Fifteenth to Stuckers Addition and Thirteenth Street from Willow to Maple, with steel reinforced Portland cement concrete pavements, specified widths, curbs and drainage, funded by local assessments and bonds with payment terms and tax levies as provided by Kansas law.
The ordinance authorizes curb and drainage work on a city street in Ottawa Kansas with assessments to property owners within thirty days. It provides for three independent appraisers to value land, sets bond terms up to ten years, interest not above five percent, and includes provision to issue improvement bonds if city funds are lacking. The measure, dated June 18, 1958, is signed by Mayor K F Andrews and City Clerk Donald R Capper.
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