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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1960
Page
4
In the week ending April 30 1960 Santa Fe carloadings totaled 24353 down from 25186 a year earlier and total cars moved were 35866 short of last year’s 38203. The item also lists local ads and notices including farm meeting plans and school publications.
Local market notes list barley soybeans wheat oats butterfat graded eggs and poultry prices with figures for shelled oats and heavy and light hens. Reads as a compact commodity table reflecting farm prices and market terms of the era.
Cattle with 5,500 head noted, calves and slaughter stock steady to up slightly, steer bulls strong to 1.00 higher, vealers steady. Feeder cattle slow, averages near 12. The report cites feeder steers up to 28.09 per hundredweight, hogs weaker with barrows and gilts 15.75-16.00 and sows 13.25-14.00. Sheep 3,500 head, spring lambs steady to higher, old crop lambs weak, slaughter ewes and feeder lambs unsettled with lamb prices around 28.00 for spring slaughter lambs.
Claude Desmoret 78 of Mountain View Mo formerly of Homewood area died Sunday afternoon Funeral plans set for tomorrow in Mountain View Survivors include his widow and a daughter Mrs Hugh Campbell of 12 S Cedar
Final arrangements are completed for a three day convention of Jehovah's Witnesses at the Memorial Auditorium in Ottawa beginning Friday. Rutherford G. Lakatos, traveling representative of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Brooklyn, N.Y., is in Ottawa to assist. The event aims to draw about 650 attendees from Kansas and Nebraska. The theme is Seek Peace and Pursue It. All sessions are open to the public. Lakatos speaks Friday at 7:30 p.m. and will deliver the main convention address. Group baptisms are planned for Saturday and the final address Sunday at 3 p.m. His final topic will be Finding Peace in a Troubled World.
The Associated Press summarizes voting in Indiana Ohio the District of Columbia Alabama and Florida primaries. Nixon and Kennedy aim for delegate clout in Indiana and Ohio while DC shows support for Stevenson in a partial ballot. Alabama focuses on electors and party splits amid civil rights tensions.
Harold H. Ingraham, Santa Fe agent-telegrapher at Wellsville, retired May 1 after 46 years with the railroad. His career began in 1914 in Harveyville, with later service at Pauline and Topeka, plus Navy service during WWI. The notice also highlights garden club events, a new Wellsville parking lot, family births, and local community notices.
Cheryl Crane, 16, Lana Turner’s daughter, and two other girls escaped from El Retiro Home in Sylmar after a three day run. Cheryl called her father Steve Crane to arrange return and was handed to juvenile authorities for decision on custody.
New York AP reports Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent along with Fiorello and Los Angeles Times work receive top Pulitzers. A M Rosenthal of the New York Times also honored for reporting leading to Poland expulsion. times and editors cited for journalism, letters, and reporting.
A series of meetings planned for March 16 will feature BIS officials including Jack Pulliam and Dr. Frank Chapman speaking to Franklin County residents about Boys Industrial School Topeka. Sessions at Rotary Club lunch and Eugene Field School at 2 p.m. will involve welfare board members juvenile authorities and parents with panel discussions and Q and A periods.
Admissions list includes Mrs. Ruth Kretzer and Willard T. Bennett and Keith Barton and Mrs. Roy A. Bates. Births report a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond R. Carey weighing 7 lb 5 oz. Discharges include Mrs. Arlo Norton and baby girl, Williamsburg, and Mrs. Hardin Wadkins in Richmond.
Six defendants pleaded guilty in Police Court to moving traffic violations and were fined a total of 122 dollars. Individuals named include Robert Eugene Black Richard Warren Bethell Olive Gertrude Cole Fred O Dryden Terry James Bivins and Oliver R Taylor. Taylor had an open bottle violation plus a 50 dollar bond posted for May 17. Ruthrauff was charged with reckless driving after a collision and posted 50 dollar bond.
Two Future Farmers of America from the Ottawa area, Robert Schneider and Larry Reh, were awarded the state Farmer degree at the 32nd Kansas FFA convention at Kansas State University in Manhattan. Schneider runs a Hereford beef cattle program and crops beans, wheat, corn, and clover on 10, 12, 33, and 12 acres respectively, while Reh managed a 100 sheep flock and farms 42 acres of wheat, corn, milo, and soybeans with a net gain of over 1200 dollars. Gene Raymond of Garnett won the State FFA foundation award in beef production, receiving 100 dollars. his herd grew to 65 animals valued at 18,190 dollars, and he has held Grand Champion beef female and reserve champion steer honors at the Anderson county fair, plus the fitting and showing title last year.
Washington AP: Budget Director Maurice H. Stans warned that automatic increases will push fiscal 1962 outlays to about 82 billion, one billion above the F.D. budget. He argued few built-in cuts exist as programs, once begun, are hard to end, warning the budget could reach 160 billion by 1970.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt urged about 2,000 people in Conway Springs Kansas to back the United Nations and work for peace. She warned Americans must plan for surplus wheat and engage in global foresight, noting agricultural policy and world welfare.
NEW YORK AP Mrs Emer ald Arbogast of Los Angeles 72 year old mother of six including a retarded child today was named American Mother of 1960 The American Mothers Committee Inc announced her selection from among representatives chosen by the various state committees A native of Chehalis Wash Mrs Arbogast had an eighth grade education.
President Leonard H. Goldenson of ABC denied any double standard in ethics after Dick Clark testified about payola. He said Clark was not treated more leniently than others and noted Clark had admitted to accepting paid plugs, including a $7000 American Airlines promotion on Bandstand. Harris urged cooperation to curb industry irregularities as subcommittee probes undercover payments.
Thousands of students defied martial law in four cities demanding immediate National Assembly elections. About 20,000 marched in Pusan, 700 in Taegu, 1,500 in Kimhae, with 150 squatting near the National Assembly in Seoul. They accused the 1958 election of fraud that re elected ex President Syngman Rhee.
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