WMS Installs New Officers in Wellsville Baptist Church
The Woman's Missionary Society of Wellsville Baptist Church installed officers at Wednesday afternoon services. President Mrs. Hugh Cramer opened, with devotions by Mrs. Olin Leach. installing officer was Mrs. James Bosworth. Newly installed: president Mrs. Hugh Cramer, vice president Mrs. Eldon Whiteaker, secretary Mrs. Elmer DeWeese, treasurer Mrs. Linnie Tyler, spiritual life chair Mrs. Norman Shannon, literature chair Mrs. E. E. Turner, white cross chair Mrs. Walter Revey, assisted by Mrs. Lutie Birckhead, Leona Millbern, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Missionary Sciety
Wellsville Baptist Church
Hugh Cramer
Olin Leach
James Bosworth
Eldon Whiteaker
Elmer DeWeese
Linnie Tyler
Norman Shannon
Spirlitual Life
Keith Chanay
Merle 'Todd
E.E. Turner
White Cross
Walter Revey
Lutie Birckhead
Leona Millbern
Youth Admits Drag Racing Across City Bridge
A 19 year old, Ronald Lee Detwiler of RFD 3, admitted taking part in a drag race across the Main Street bridge and a high speed chase. He faces charges of reckless driving and resisting arrest and is to appear in Police Court Tuesday. Detwiler said he did not know the other driver’s name and that he saw officers but feared stopping. The abandoned car was found later at Lesh Oil Co. property with keys missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Flaherty
Ronald Lee Detwiler
RFD 3
Main Street
Flaherty
Fred Vogler Jr
Oldsmobile
Detwiler
Ibridge
Dowin
Vogler
Tecumseh
Logan
Max Gilmore
Lesh Oil Co
J. W. Detwiler
Richard Lee Melchert
RFD
Lane
Melchert
John L. Robinson
Williamsburg
North Main
Local News Briefs From Plains To Ottawa
Dr and Mrs A B Martin will visit Plains and Dr Martin will speak in Baptist churches in Plains Mead and Ulysses Sunday Monday and Tuesday A barbershop group will provide music at Eugene Field PTA meeting and a nursery will be available for children 2 to 8 Ella's ad promotes a Mother's Day Cold Wave offer Zigzaggers Club meeting postponed A fireman returned home after a false alarm at 616 Beech No major damage reported Two youths faces charges including speeding and following too closely Gene Hoard bound over on a forged check charge at Pence Food Center
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Martin
Plains
Dr. Martin
Plains, Mead and
Ulysses
Gene Hoard
Lola
Pence Food Center
Space Man In High Spirits After Flight
Spaceman Alan Shepard remains in excellent health and high spirits at Grand Bahama Island hospital home. He undergoes medical checks and interviews with engineers, psychologists, and psychiatrists while tapes of his Mercury flight are reviewed for engineering insights. Other astronauts arrived, with Shepard planning to meet President Kennedy in Washington after a Sunday stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alton L. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Grand Bahama Island
Alan Shepard
George Ruff
University of Pennsylvania
Robert Voas
Project Mercury
Shepard
Charles Jackson
Phillip Cox
Mercury
John Powers
Grand Bahama
Virgil I. Grissom
Grissom
Donald Slayton
Scott Carpenter
Walter Schirra
Leroy Cooper
John Glenn
William K. Douglas
Douglas
Yuri Gagarin
Space
Washington
Kennedy
Hospital Notes Admissions and Dismissals
Admissions Mrs Charles D Carey Jr 945 South Mulberry today. Dismissals Lisa Ann Rader 734 North Mulberry Mrs James Allen RFD 4 Mrs Dayton Maule and baby son RFD 2 Wellsville today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles D. Carey Jr
S. Mulberry
Lisa Ann Rader
N. Mulberry
James Allen
Dayton Maule
Wellsville
Teamsters Sign Lettuce Growers in Salinas Contract
The Teamsters Union signed Bud Antle Inc in Salinas to a contract setting minimum hourly wages from 1.12 to 1.25 and incentives up to 1.50 per hour. Local 890 expands to include field hands for the first time as plans to sign 110 more ranchers unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salinas
Calif
Teamsters Union
California
Teamsters
Afl-Cio Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
Teamsters Local 890
Bud Antle, Inc
Local 890
Arizona
Deaths: Maude May Arb and Carl Drake obituary notices
Mrs Maude May Arb 78 died at home in Quenemo after years of illness born December 5 1882 daughter of Joe and Elizabeth Parrish married February 10 1952 to Clarence Arb of Lyndon survived by husband a brother Walter Parrish of Quenemo funeral Monday May 8 at 2 30 p m Oak Hill Cemetery Quenemo remains at Shaffer Mortuary Lyndon until noon Monday Also obituary for Mrs Carl Drake 70 of Santa Rosa Florida former Ottawa resident died Friday in Lawrence survived by husband son and four daughters and many grandchildren funeral Monday at Rumsey Funeral Home Lawrence with Rev Robert Edgar presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude May Arb
Quenemo
Michigan Valley
jJoe
Elizabeth (Crooks) Parrish
Clarence Arb
Lyndon
Walter Parrish
Royal Neighbors
Rebekah
Carl Drake
Santa Rosa
Fla
Ottawa
Mevin Martin
Lawrence
Bessie Tedrow
Florida
Joe Drake
Martin
Violet Brown
Boulder
Colo
Nancy Edgar
New York
N.Y
Mae Ted-row
Claude Tedrow
Iola
Hester Wager
Tampa
Minnie Thayer
Pacific Grove
Calif
Frank Tedrow
Ruby Hoover
Gladys Law
Thelma Brown
Hazel Emmons
Atchison
Rumsey Funeral Home
Robert Edgar
Nixon Attack On Kennedy Is Sharp
In Chicago AP report Nixon breaks silence after the election hammering Kennedy on the Cuban situation. He says the first 100 days set a record for words and few deeds while urging resolve to finish what is started. A balcony heckler shouts Give ’em hell Dick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Richard M. Nixon
Prsident Kennedy
Nixon
Former Police Board Objects To Grand Jury Report
Kansas City AP Former members of the police commissioners board challenge a Jackson County grand jury verdict calling Kansas City a criminal playground They claim corruption in the police department and widespread crime were not proven Four ex-directors Lyman Field Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg Dwight Brantley and Dutton Brookfield state the city is a tight and clean town and defend Chief Bernard C Brannon Indicted officials include Bernard C Brannon Lt Col Don Bishop and Major John J Harvey on various charges including perjury and willful misconduct in office
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Board of Police Commissioners
Jackson County Grand Jury
Lyman Field
Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg
Dwight Brantley
Dutton Brookfield
Bernard C. Brannon
New Police Board
Don Bishop
John J.harvey
Brannon
Grand Jury
Bishop
Central Records Bureau
Harvey
Car Damaged When Driver Loses Control
A 1955 car driven by Leon Casteel, 19, of 807 N Mulberry, received major damages when it went off the road into a field Thursday evening. Trooper Harold Bennett said the eastbound car on R68 just west of Ottawa lost control, traveling 150 feet along the roadside before stopping in a field headed north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Casteel
N. Mulberry
Harold Bennett
Ottawa
Wind Damage Hits Private Plane and Hangar in Kansas
A single engine plane and its hangar at a private airport in northern Leavenworth County were damaged by a strong wind gust Friday. Airport owner Fred Northern said a small twister likely caused the destruction. the hangar roof blew off and the plane inside was flipped end over end about 100 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth County
Fred Northern
Basehor
Kan
Resignation prompts move at E U B Church in Greeley
Rev. Charles Hadley, pastor for three years, resigns and will leave May 22 with his family for a church near Wichita. Marilyn Sommer, 16, injured in a local auto crash, transferred to St. Margaret's Hospital in Kansas City from Garnett. Sommer family selling town property and moving to a farm near Sarcoxie Missouri after school. Mayor Clyde Rocker hires Joe Ohmes to maintain parks, cemetery and streets for the year. Jerry Fagg assumes luncheonette management formerly run by Earl Porter. Hospital patients Ned Duensing Leo Setter Anna Nisely. Mrs Anna K Peine Ike Newcomb and Mrs Cora Brown moved to nursing homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hadley
E.ub
Wichita
Marilyn Sommer
John Sommer
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Kansas City
Garnett Hospital
Marilyn
Louis Sommer
Clyde Katzer
Pomona Area Social Notes and Visits Recorded
Mrs Stella Franks completed a week long visit with her son George Franks and family and has returned to Lemon Colorado. George W Hay of Tucson Arizona visits his father J L Hay. The Rebekah Lodge met in regular session with 18 present and officers were elected. Mr and Mrs Wilbur Rhodes Crescent Oklahoma were guests at Robert Dickey home. Marion Loper Wichita was a guest at Mrs Cora Button and H Loper homes. Edith Moody and Charles and Vern Robinson Sheridan Wyoming were guests at Earl Hart home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stella Franks
George Franks
Limon
Colo
George W. Hay
Tucson
Ariz
J. L. Hay
Rebekah Lodge
Wilbur Rhodes
Crescent
Oklo
Robert Dickey
Marion Loper
Wichita
Cora Button
H. Loper
Edith Moody
Charles
Vern Robinson
Sheridan
Wyo
Earl Hart
Bank Statement for Ottawa Kansas Bank Dated April 12 1961
A bank statement from Ottawa Kansas shows assets totaling 8 202 415.24 with deposits listed as 4 762 084.28 and capital accounts 125 000.00 share capital and 143 597.93 undivided profits. The report, sworn by James J. Chandler as cashier, is attested by directors R M Clogston R S Hanes and W Hegberg. The memo notes pledged assets of 414 147.93 and total liabilities plus capital at 5 201 416.24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Chandler
R. M. Clogston
Hanes
W. Hegberg
POE
Report of Condition of Kansas State Bank Ottawa 1961
Report of Condition of the Kansas State Bank of Ottawa Kansas at close of business April 12 1961. Summarizes assets including cash items government and state obligations loans and discounts and bank premises. Shows total assets 2 334 462 28 and total deposits 2 138 368 98 with capital accounts 195 093 30 and officer Ed Hosler vice president and cashier affirming accuracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Kansas
GUO
Ed Hosler
United States
Federal Reserve Bank
Ba Bank
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WMS
Bernice Holden
Methodist ‘Church
Mary Ann
Leroy Price
Miami County Hospital
Paola
Joz
Price
Janice
Donna
William E. Price
Wilbur Rader
Spring Hill
Daisy Gall
Mother Land
Women’s Department
The
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Kenneth Cooper
Garnett
Clarence Marolf
James Nabors
Washington, D. C
Kiwanis
James Rea
Guerney, Ill
Rea
Huntsville
Ala
John Mi Urn Thees
Kansas Co
David L. McBride
Princeton
Eugene Field
PTA
al Jon Unruh
Dixie Atchison
Rosalie Os
Burn
Ella’s
Zigzaggers Club
Raymond Hosler
S. Hickory
Col
W. E. Dehner
Alabama
Germany
Holland
France
Italy
U.S
Bill West
Beech
West
Ellis
Snyder Pharmacy
the Power of
Faith Howard Brodie
America
Philadelphia
Anna Jarvis
Virginia
Congress
Bruce Allison
Vernon Chesbro
Kelly Lloyd
John Gere
Toue
Milo
Mrs. Maude May
Mrs. Carl. Drake
Greeley Area
Helen Salman
Pomona
Fannie Kraus
Tvereeriy Petiatsk
Bartegrenips
I. J. W. Dickerson
J. W. Dickerson
W. B. Devilbiss
Geo. E. Lister
P. Burrows
Directors
State of
Franklin County
Basil W. Kelsey
Elizabeth
Kelsey
Basil W. Kelley
Elizabett
Kelney
Executrix
Winton A. Winter
First National Bank
Kansas State Bank
Peeeen
S.cscssas
R. 8. Hill
C. L. Kapp
Glen A. Hayward
R. Bennett
the Peoples National Bank
Individ
Albert Stewart and Son
C. Beatty
Albert
Harold
Neosho Livestock Commission Co
Neosho
Missouri
Tursday Sight
Jack Nelson
Kas
Overbrook Livestock Sale
Overbrook
Gordon James
Home
Ottawa Market
Main
Wilson
Myers Bros
Centropolis
Claude
Howard
Locust & Wilson
Edith B. Steele
Wakarusa
Richland
BBC
Gerald Barnes
Ottawa Herald
Hillcrest Drive
Alcoholics Anonymous
Budges Hardware
Church Fruit Farm
McNess CO
E. Clark St
Freeport, Il
General Services
King
Gilbert Smith
Killough Construction Co
Francis Couch
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