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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1978
Page
7
TOPEKA Kansas documents filed with the Kansas Supreme Court urge against releasing Milda Sandstrom pending her appeal from a first degree murder conviction. The move argues releasing her would lessen the offense's seriousness while she remains in Lansing state women's prison.
JOY (DAVIDSON) CRANE of 827 N Poplar is a patient at Olathe Community Hospital room 123. The Ottawa Recreation Commission Infant Swim program will open July 5 instead of July 3 4 due to the July 4 holiday. The Truth in Action Ensemble from Bob Jones University performs music drama and speech at Calvary Baptist Church Friday at 7 30 p m. There is no Thursday Prayer Meeting this week due to a meeting. Billy J Kahler a former Ottawa man has been promoted to colonel in the Marines after attending the Naval War College at Newport He graduated on June 7 a 1955 Ottawa University graduate.
Harold Edwin Yost died June 25. Funeral services were Wednesday at Robson-Towner Funeral Home with burial in Highland Cemetery. Rev. Donald Powell officiated. Music by Mrs. Melvin Clevenger and Teddy Rood. Pallbearers named. Admissions and dismissals list local residents. Public Safety reports incidents at Crestview Nursing Home and thefts involving juveniles and buses at Calvary Baptist Church. Market roundups from Kansas City noted.
Ottawa youth Phillip Nordeen 17 a member of an 89 piece marching and concert band won first prize in the non professional division at an international Lions competition in Tokyo The International Lions Convention sponsored the event The Kansas group stayed in Tokyo a week arriving June 18 and performing after three days of practice and sightseeing before marching through downtown Tokyo with four other bands
Ottawa USD 290 earns 7851 dollars as part of 347,644 dollar district aid across 15 Kansas districts. The program bases funding on federal property and local students with parents at federal installations. Nordeen, a 1978 Ottawa High School trombonist, graduates, plans Baker University.
July 1 crafts festival at Courthouse Japan and VFW night with Leonard and The Strangers from Ottawa Town USA. Eagles Lodge steak night 6:30 to 8, dance at 9 with The Country Vibrations. Wayne Angell Senate bid ads aired on Channel 27 and Channel 13. Big Country shindig and National Fiddlers convention at Ottawa Skateland noon July 2. Fireworks at Pomona highway stand. Summer sales: Young Place Kids Clothes, Montgomery Ward hours, Village Shoppe specials. Milk and ice cream specials from Select Dairy. Square Dance Ottawa High July 1 6 to 11. Call 242-4700 for papers.
JBH Surveyed B and G Engineering of Manhattan started surveying the final nine and a half miles of the John Brown Highway improvement project Wednesday. Craig Santarpia, county engineer, said that after surveying completes, the county will have to go through the process of purchasing more right of way. Then the grading and resurfacing can start.
Edgerton hosts Frontier Days with a 7 am City Hall breakfast, parade of 80 entries at 11 am, Jaycees barbecue at noon, model airplane and boat show at Edgerton Lake, and a Country Comfort dance. Nearby towns plan Fourth of July celebrations including Overbrook fireworks and Gardner square dancing. Floyd C. Butel in Overbrook receives 50 years as a cooperative weather observer from the National Weather Service.
In Beirut leaders of Lebanon's Christian factions accuse Syria of backing a massacre that killed 36 Catholics in Eastern Lebanon. Chamoun and Phalangist leaders denounce a plot to exterminate Christians, while President Sarkis seeks cabinet talks with Syria's Hafez Assad amid the crisis.
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