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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1957
Page
1
A late 1960s style Ottawa page itemizes a hearing for James Anderson on DUI and license charges, open bottle case, and bond corrections. It also covers gymnastic invitational guests, regional basketball ticket details, fuel for blood donors, community visits, church events, fair dates, wiring fire, a divorce filing, a bank safe incident, and Rotary guest night with plans at the Country Club.
Mrs John W Hudelson 85 lifelong Pomona resident died today at 4 am in Ransom Memorial hospital. Born Minnie A Parkinson April 5 1871 she married John W Hudelson April 29 1891. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm Lamb Funeral Home with Rev Charles P Knight officiating. burial in Woodlawn cemetery Pomona.
Hospital notes list admissions for Mrs Flora Williams at 526 Walnut and Mrs Goldie Walden of Princeton plus Ross Duvall of Waverly and Cindy McMahon of Osawatomi. Births record Roy and Mrs Johnson at 133 S Cedar a daughter born Monday weighing 7 pounds 8 ounces. Terry Jayroe at 521 Sycamore a daughter 8 pounds 11 ounces. W C Eckhardt of Richmond a son weighing 8 pounds 14 1/4 ounces. Dismissals include John E Bickerstaff of Rantoul William J Rommellanger of Greeley G C Clark of Overbrook and Mrs Lloyd Hughes and baby daughter of 319 Ash.
New York comedian Jackie Gleason staged an off camera improvisation that Sherman Billingsley called too off color and obscene. Witnesses compared the act to his Loudmouth character. After a tussle Gleason was escorted out and Billingsley said the latch-string will not be out for him again.
A House bill introduced by seven Democrats led by Rep. Gilbert of Denver would raise personal and dependent exemptions on state income taxes from 600 to 750 dollars each. Mrs. Gilbert said the measure fulfills a campaign plank to raise exemptions and end the 20 percent tax reduction. Observers called it a rebuke to Gov. McNichols and former Gov. Johnson, urging the Legislature to keep current taxes unchanged.
Washington The Senate Reclamation subcommittee scheduled March 20 for a hearing on the bill authorizing the Fryingpan Arkansas water project in Colorado.
A University of Pennsylvania professor reported at a national conference that systematic cheating on exams is common rather than rare at many large colleges. The study notes students’ public morals differ from private behavior and finds cheating admitted by 40 percent or more at many schools with little remorse.
Washington ambassador-designate to West Germany David K. E. Bruce calls the surplus disposal program for selling U S farm surpluses to foreign countries potentially dangerous to normal trade and urges re-examination. A Senate Foreign Relations Committee report on South American aid cites its double-edged nature while criticism of Bruce’s selection grows. The program channels receipts as loans or grants for local projects. Bruce notes risks to debt and trade patterns. Easter Island lacks running streams and relies on water captured from crater basins.
Washington figures for 1956 farm income differ. The Agriculture Department cites 11.836 billion dollars, up 4 percent from 1955, while critics peg it at 11.586 billion, below 1955’s estimate. The department notes 250 million dollars in goods sold from prior-year accumulations, and asserts this is the first year since 1951 that farm family income did not decline.
U S Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II and family met with Empress Nagako in Tokyo while Russian envoy Tevosyan met alone. In Bangkok, Seri Managa Sila party leads with 88 of 160 seats. Kashmir sees pro Indian National Conference win 38 of 75 seats amid a boycott. Sir Anthony Eden fully recovers from abdominal inflammation in New Zealand after X rays confirm healing.
An 18 year old soldier from Disney Oklahoma was freed by the State Criminal Court of Appeals which ruled he should not have been held 16 months in a Mayes County jail without trial. Wil lie L Gregory faced robbery and burglary charges dismissed despite a claim the county lacked funds for a trial. He was arrested Nov 9 1955 in Bartlesville while en route to Ft Campbell Kentucky after allegedly beating and robbing a carnival worker who gave him a ride.
Melvin Clark, 30, was killed when a crop dusting plane wing struck him on a Contra Costa County road as he filmed the takeoff. Pilot Harold Smart, 41, Brentwood, said Clark drove 1000 feet down the road and parked behind the truck. Clark was taken to Pittsburg Community Hospital unconscious.
A state aerial fish planting program in 1958 distributed 6,941,879 trout among 746 lakes in California at a cost of 89 cents per thousand fish.
Independence Kansas high school students Donald L Fairchild Jr McPherson and Joyce K Gladfelder top the Kansas State Elks Assn Youth Leadership Contest for 1956 57 receiving 200 prizes plus 75 from Grand Lodge for education beyond 12th year. Second place went to Donald R Steinle and Jill Boxberger of Russell, each 150. First place qualifiers advance to national contest.
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