Spring Warming Edition Highlights Local Farming Life
Ottawa area farmers and merchants receive tribute in the Herald Spring Warming issue. Ottawa University hosts Charter Days as 100 plus seniors attend. The town anticipates several weekends events including Legion district convention and Job’s Daughters gathering. Dairy Day offers waitresses a silver dollar tip for promoting dairy products. Unseasonal snowstorms mix with Arbor Day planting plans as residents ponder July weather.
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the Herald
Franklin County
Ottawa
The
American Legion and Auxiliary
Job
Snowstorm Cancels Ottawa Legion Parade and Convention
A late winter snowstorm forces cancellation of the American Legion Second District parade planned with the Second Dis lon convention. About 500 people were expected to attend as 36 posts from Franklin Miami Johnson Wyandotte Anderson Douglas Bourbon Linn and Allen counties prepare to meet. Activities include a memorial service banquet and a dance at the Armory with meetings and officer elections slated for Sunday.
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American Legion
Pewe
Legion
Lawrence Day
Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee
Joe Towner
Harold Bundy
Bruce Allison
A. C. Dot
Franklin
Miami
Johnson
Wyandotte
Anderson
Douglas
Bourbon
Linn
Allen
North American Hotel
Art Memorial Auditorium
Armory
Memorial Auditorium
Plumbing Contract And Weather Forecast Report
The forecast warns of a cold wave in the southeast and statewide cooling this afternoon and tonight with near zero readings in the north and west. Winds will be strong from the north with diminishing snow, followed by clearing skies. Saturday looks fairer in the east and partly cloudy in the west with scattered light snow extreme west and high temperatures around 15 to 20. Ottawa contractors Carey Plumbing and Heat Co. and B A Green Construction Co. were bid winners for a major project at Snow Rice Memorial Auditorium. several indictments for tax evasion and related charges were returned by a federal grand jury, naming 58 others. Notable bids include $206,117 for a project by Dr. Ralph T. McCreight.
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Carey Plumbing and Heat
Topeka i
Kansansing Co
Ottawa
Fed
Baker University
Baldwin -Yes
Carey
B. A. Green Construction Sons
Lawrence
Ralph T. McCreight
Ness
City
Roy
Terrill
Welening
Lairence Merchant
James F. Barbundie
Harald
Fatart
McClaren
Wichita
Much Colder Weather Here Tonight
A frigid snap hit Ottawa and much of Kansas with heavy snow and slick highways. Snow depths ranged with several towns reporting several inches while temperatures near zero in the north and west and several degrees above zero in the southeast. Drivers faced hazardous visibility and officials urged snow tires or chains as many schools closed and buses ran late.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Art Jensen
Jensen
Franklin County
Appanoose
Lune
Richmond
Wellsville
Rantoul
Pomona
Princeton
Tapley
Centropolis
Oakland
Chapel Hill
Brown
Pleasant Ridge
Quenemo
Frank Betz
Rantonl
Lee Bonar
Homer Reeves
Weather Bureau
Morrow
Colby
Florence
Sharon Springs
McPherson
Saslina
Russell
Goodland
Emi Poria
Lyndon
Atchison
Concordia
Osage City
Halfway Mark For Baptists Pledges Reach 76000
Pledges totaling 76000 have been received by the First Baptist church building fund committee. The amount is slightly more than half of the 150000 to be raised during the next three years, announced by campaign chairman George Lister at a Memorial auditorium meeting. The total seeks retirement of debt on the parsonage, a new church school building, and remodeling of the church edifice. Committees will pursue the remaining 74000 among members, aiming to complete the Palm Sunday drive on April 3.
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First Baptist Church
George Lister
Memorial Auditorium
Harold Lundgren
Birst Baptist Church
Lawrence
W. H. Berger
Ner
Federated Church
Ini
College of Emporia
Roy
Berger
Lincoln
Nebr
Feighner Heads De Molay Chapter Installation Scheduled
J P Feighner is elected master councilor of Franklin County Chapter De Molay with new officers Don Sexton senior councilor Don Cain junior councilor to be installed April 28 at Masonic Temple Gary Hornbuckle named scribe by advisory council Others present included Dr W C Harding Julius Raffelock Glen Co Green and C E Kaec kel l.
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J.P. Feighner
Franklin County
Order of ‘de Molay
Masonic Temple
Don Sexton
Don Cain
Gary Hornbuckle
Oan
Advisory Council
W.C. Harding
Tulius ‘Raffelock
Glen Co, Green
C. E.kaeckelf
Ottawa University convocation honors many students
The Ottawa University convocation honored students from across the nation and abroad for scholarship and activity. Sigma Alpha honors went to ten students including Mary Wismer, John Ross, Exelee McMahan, and others. The dean's list covered freshmen to post graduates with numerous names from Ottawa, Paola, and surrounding towns. Pi Kappa Delta and Pi Kappa Delta Phi Kappa forensics groups announced new members and awards, plus several dramatic society recognitions and special honors for faculty and students.
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Ottawa University
W. D. Bemmels
Sigma Alpha Honors Society
Mary Wismer
Ottawa
John Ross
Exelee McMahan
Paola
Jock Diei
Nigeria
Justo Diaz
Cuba
lAice Emhardt
Indianapolis
William Nielsen
Omaha
Shirley Schmidt
McPherson
Sandra Schoeninger
Milwaukee
Joanne Whiteman
Wichita
Mary Ponton
Darlene Larkin
Carol Tulloss
Barbara Barker
West Buxton
Richard Hoglund
LaCrosse
Wise
John Jenks
Fon du Lac
Ronald Jurenka
Madison
Nancy Lennox
Detroit
Catherine Redick
Kansas City
Schoeninger
Ruth Turnbull
Alton, Jr
Miss Whiteman
Margaret Zipse
Grand Junction
Colo
Donna Anderson
Stromsburg
Nebr
Gayle Conner
Lfreda
Gardner
Maxine Morrison
Diaz
George Diehm
Parker
Donald Hoyle
Providence
R. J
Neilsen
Miss, Schmidt
Dale Shepherd
Marysville
Marcheta Blakesley
Kenneth .Blazier
Denver
William Clark
Leho
Charles Dorsey
Des. Moines
Eugene Gardner
Ryly Elisabeth Hesket
Winfield
Doris Pienbert
Maytiew
Je Don Jwis
Shirley. Long
Gerald Martz
Miss Emthardt
Indiana
Pol
Miss Ponton
Miss Tulloss
David Brown
David Hale
Twila Clark
Lebo
Bonnie Collier
Glennwood Springs
Ellen Dingwall
Newton
Darrell Dutton
Belpre
Judy Edwinson
Atchison
Galine Kellogg
Agate
Jackie Rosenbaum
Richard Pratt
Iowa
Lawrence Syre
Pratt
Carol Wiles
Chanute
Charles Walter
Princeton
Hoglund
Miss Redick
Miss Turnbull
Florine Stewart
Rex Wilson
Ventura
Calif
Miss Cowles
Diei
Miss Holman
Hong
Roush
Springer
Harold Moore
Miss Emhardt
Miss McMahan
Mr. Schuppach
Wilma Rugh
John Dodgen
Pi Kappa Delta
Jack Bremer
Order of Instruction
Vernon Barnes
Kappa Chapter
Alpha Psi Omega
Dramatics
Fratternity
John MclCracken
Ellen. Dingwall
Darlene Joy
Ohn . Woodin
John D’aboy
Fred Danforth
Jonervey Vane Wenn
Stark
Lola
Sissy
Ness
Cale- Frank Thayer
Kansas
Harold
Barrells
Wimpole Street
Dee
Franklin County Sees Strong Crop Prospects For 1955
Franklin County farmers expect a good crop year in 1955 as March planting begins and April sees clover broadcast over oats. Surface moisture is good, subsoil moisture rebounded, and rains in June and July will largely determine yields for corn, milo, and beans. Soybeans lead production with about 35,000 acres planned. wheat and barley show mixed prospects, while soil depth and moisture retention remain critical for drought-resistant crops and corn yields.
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Franklin County
Kansas
Astern
Uea
Franklin
Wilbe
Franklin ‘County
Senate OKs High School Aid Bill in Topeka
The Kansas Senate approved Gov. Fred Hall's high school aid measure by 27 to 12, sending it back to the House to consider a change in funding the $6.5 million need for next year. The plan envisages temporarily financing via a sales tax transfer, with permanent funding to be decided at the January budget session after a revenue study.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
Senate
House
Fone
Iit
Martin Cox
R-Kingman
Bert Lohmuller
Centralia
Richard Becker
Coffeyvillé
Education Committee
Paul Wunsch
R- Kingman
Wunsch
Alfred Harkness
R-Hays
Fed
Harkness
Race Against Bill Deadling Race Topeka Budget Flow
Legislature rushes toward a March 31 deadline as both chambers advance measures. An amended consumer loans bill lowers the cap to 1500 and adds residence requirements for licenses. House panels back drinking driver measures for chemical tests and penalties. A 70 mph day speed limit and birthdate based licenses move forward. Education panel delays action on abolishing the Kansas High School Activities Association.
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Topeka
Kansas
House Judiciary Committee
Senate Highways Committee
Senate Education Committee
Kansas State High School Activities Assn
State Department of Education
Iola Man Offers Reward for Missing Daughter since January
Elmer Lee of Iola seeks information on his daughter Mrs Belly Stark 28 who vanished after January 5. He offers a $56 reward, says she left Ottawa with her husband Harold Stark and his father John Stark in a truck, and has had no contact since. Lee reports police involvement and notes Harold Stark stands about three feet six inches tall, with red tinged hair, blue eyes, glasses, and a heavy build. He runs a sheet metal business. the couple have been married five years with no children.
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Elmer Lee
Lola
Ottawa
Belly Stark
Lee
Harold Stark
John Stark
Jola
Harold “Stark
Iola
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