Ottawa News Briefs Highlights Local Events
Ottawa residents read of district church delegates at the Kansas Conference meeting, improved patient Leila Stiles at Ransom Memorial Hospital, and upcoming travel by Lyle Grier to Washington. Other items include a Princeton area farm sale, Airborne veteran Crawford in Germany, Wentworth Academy visit to Ottawa University, a Christ life art exhibit, De Molay degrees, a library custodian resignation, blizzard-stranded travelers, and various local appointments and services.
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Washington
Lyle Grier
Washington, D. C
Grier
National Federation of Grain Cooperatives
Kansas City
Farmers Union Jobbing Association of
O. U
Lester B. Wikeff
Wentworth Military Academy
Lexington
Ottawa
Ottawa University
Kiwanis Club
Edward L. Yakuma
Arthur Kriehn
Wentworth Academy
Wikoff
Harley P. Gover, Jr
Maj
Sid Hutchings
Salvation Army
Lawrence
Two Boys Sentenced to State Reformatory
Hutchinson sheriff Jay Brown took Nathan Everett Morgan and Howard Lee Allen to Hutchinson today to begin their sentences at the state reformatory. They were sentenced last Monday after pleading guilty to grand larceny. The pair admitted stealing a car from Minnick Motor Company's used car lot.
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Hutchinson
Jay Brown
Nathan Everett Morgan
Howard Lee Allen
State Reformatory
Reformatory
Minnick Motor Company
Funeral services for Mrs Angus Wheeler
Funeral services for Mrs Angus Wheeler who died March 25 were held March 28 at McVey Dengel Mortuary with Rev Monroe Miles of Topeka officiating. Pallbearers were Norman Bowling Clare Creviston W T Casida C L Hough Lee Shelden and Lee Casida. Albert J Williams sang hymns with Mrs R L Stevens at burial in Hope Cemetery. Ottawa police force and city officials attended the service in a group.
Hospital Notes Admits Several Local Residents
Admitted today are Sidney Blankenship of Rantoul Chester Grimm of 843 Ash Harold Fine of 119 W Seventh Mrs Gotthard Beer 1204 N Cherry Joyce Barker 430 W Ninth Pat and Michael Killion 704 N Oak Barbara Grimm 843 Ash Lupe Mora 621 King. Dismissals include Fred P Hicks Jr Richmond Mrs James Allen route 4 John Hall 513 W Seventh Mrs Lloyd Haas and baby son route 4 Lawrence Miss Leila Stiles 801 S Cedar Mrs Ray V Smith and baby son route 3 Terry Rinehart 635 N Poplar C W Hedrick 627 King today.
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Sidney Blankenship
Rantoul
Chester Grimm
Ash
Harold Fine
W. Seventh
Fred P. Hicks, Jr
Richmond
James Allen
John Hall
Lloyd Haas
Lawrence
Leila Stiles
S. Cedar
Ray V. Smith
Terry Rinehart
N. .Poplar
C. W. Hedrick
King
Franklin County School Board Convention Draws 103 Members
The Franklin County School Board Members Convention met last night in the courthouse with 103 board members from 43 districts attending. W. W. Wright, finance director, state department of education, was principal speaker outlining themes on school legislation and budgeting procedures. He urged written policy statements, kept minutes, proper conduct of business, collective board action, and a revolving fund around half the next year’s budget to cover July through January expenditures.
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Franklin County
Court House
W. W. Wright
State Department of Education
Wright
Deaths of Clark Infant Elm Clinton Elder
The Clark infant Leslie Ann died a day after birth in Seattle. Charley Elm aged 64 died at Kansas City veterans' hospital after a two year illness. Clinton Elder, 63, was found dead at his lodgings, death likely from a heart condition. Elm was a World War I veteran and Baldwin resident with family survivors listed. Elder worked at Ottawa foundry and Pratt and Whitney in Kansas City, with a long local tenancy and church affiliation.
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Clark
Leslie Ann
T. C. Clark
Seattle
Wash
Charley Elm
Baldwin
Kansas City Veterans’ Hospital
Willow Springs
Douglas County
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Gladys M. Flora
C. E. Buckner
Ottawa
Lawrence
Baldwin American Legion Post
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Worden
Orville Pohl
Thhree
John Elm
Andrew Elm
Smolan
Kas
Orville Elm
Burns
Ira Reynolds
Nettie Henen
Emma Pippert
E.A.B
Robert Conn
Dale Crothers
Clinton Elder
David B. Howard
R. S. Roberts
Elder
Thomas Giles
Sara Ransom Elder
Pratt and Whitney Plant
Kansas City
Emma Jane Goleret
Lyndon
Ottawa U Choir Begins Annual Spring Tour Sunday
Ottawa University concert choir of 38 singers departs Sunday on a ten day spring tour through Kansas and Colorado with tours to Wichita Arkansas City Garden City Rocky Ford Pueblo Colorado Springs Longmont Denver Hays and Topeka. They perform in churches and high schools en route and return April 9. The program is presented at First Baptist church in Ottawa on April 14. Prof Kerr leads the traveling choir chosen from about 135 members.
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Alfred E. Ponticus
Calvary Baptist Church
Bhi Weber
Faith Baptist Church
Kansas City
Kas
Ottawa University
Edgar D. Kerr
Kansas
Colorado
Wichita
West Side Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Arkansas City
Garden City
Rocky Ford
Colo
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Longmont
O. U
Kerr
Elder Funeral Services for Virgil M ElderFamily Remains
The obituary notes survivors including daughter Mrs Cecil Hood of 1105 North Main and son Virgil M Elder of St Peters burg Fla. True M Elder of Long Beach Calif and sisters Mrs J L Clark Kansas City Mo and Mrs William Albert Gridley. Lamb Funeral Home will conduct services Monday at 2 pm with burial in Peoria cemetery.
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The
Congregational Church
Cecil Hood
Main
Virgil M. Elder
St. Petersburg
Fla
True M. Elder
Long Beach
Calif
J.L. Clark
Kansas City
William Albert
Gridley
Lamb Funeral Home
Peoria Cemetery
Thomas E Flowers Leads Ottawa U Exhibit at Mammel Gallery
Ottawa University division of fine arts presents an April 1 to 15 show of Thom as E Flowers head of the art department. The exhibit features fifteen oil paintings six drawings and two sculptures open daily 8 to 9 30 except Sundays. Flowers a first year head holds an MFA from the State University of Iowa and a BA from Furman University. He hails from Washington DC. Students contributed artwork in Mammel Art Center for ten days under Flowers department direction.
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Division of Fine Arts
Ottawa University
Thomas E. Flowers
Mammel Art Gallery
Ottawa
Flowers
State University of Iowa
Furman University
Greenville
S. C
Washington, D.C
Mammel Art Center
Mr. Flowers
Center facilities advance at university with donated building
This year marked progress as new center facilities rose at the university, with the building contributed by C. Q. Mammel of Hutchinson. The gift highlights alumni generosity and institutional expansion.
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C. Q. Mammel
Hutchinson
Ask Tax Relief On Cattle Losses
TOPEKA Kansas Rep Lawrence Blythe urged the House assessment and Taxation Committee to pass a bill granting property tax relief for livestock lost in the western Kansas blizzard. He offered no estimate of the losses. The item closes with unrelated historical notes on the Ohio Capitol Rome Brazil and Arizona statehood facts.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas House
Lawrence Blythe
White City
House Assessment and Taxation Committee
Blythe
Ohio
Columbus
Rome
B.C
Brazil
Arizona
Hoffa and Fischbach enter innocent pleas in rackets probe case
James R. Jimmy Hoffa and Hyman I. Fischbach pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring and bribing to obtain Senate rackets probe secrets. Their trial was set for May 27 before U.S. District Judge Richmond B. Keech.
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Washington
James R.jimmy) Hoffa
Midwest
Teamsters Union
Hyman I. Fischbach
Senate
U.S
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Fredanne Beauty Shop
MayeBelle Snyder
Zenith
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S. Main
Acme Hearing Center
Phil McCracken
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Henry Alban
Trinity Methodist Church
Tola
Women's Society For Christian Service
J. N. Carter
J. J. Clinton
Mary Ferguson
Mmes
A. M. Telfer
E. G. Stith
J. E. Harderode
M. W. Cecil
R. K Walters
L E. Stout
M. M
Bennett and Minerva Coffman
Ransom Memorial Hospital
George Dragieff
Princeton
Airborne
PFC
Larry V. Crawford
G. L. Crawford
Wellsville
11Th Airborne Division
Germany
Crawford
Europe
Ruby
Christ
Christian Church Annex
Columbian Shakespeare Club
de Molay
Gary Lee Boaz
Gerald Bernard Bolton
Dale Watts
Franklin County Shrine Club
Dad Julius Raffelock
W. C. Harding
L. A. Wilson
Emporia
I. R. Keagy
W. 5Th
Carnegie Free Library
Denver
Henry S. van Loenen
S. Lycamore
Wilbur Huyett
Ottawans
Kanas Truck Lines
Kansas City, MO
Willard Hegberg
C.W. Hegberg
McCord Air Force Base
Tacoma
Montgomery
Ala
L. W. Magers, Jr
S. Locust
Limon
McVe’ Dengel
Louis H. Dengel
Smith
Kaw-Valley Cowboys
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Kans
Gursisa
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Ottawa Herald
the Herald
Herald Office
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Blue Moon
Everyone
Price Dave Young
Ottawa U. Choir
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RoReces
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Bill
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Nhoomer Bros Productio
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Pe Insurance Exchange
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Mesa Elas
Arnold the
Tennessee Plowboy
Colma Picture
Carey
Robert A. Haynes
Sinatra
Accu Spp
Xcenan Wan Wlan Conrad Pals Kirk
Hillcrest
Hiway
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