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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1957
Page
6
A small act of honesty by a regular customer fixes a ten dollar shortage at a eatery dealing in meals and meal tickets. He used a dated prior check to cover the missing amount, saving the day for the restaurant.
Sheriff reports Crabb's grocery store in Homewood broken into last night for the third time. Entry via rock thrown at the front door and lock break noted. Small amount of hamburger missing. no other items taken.
A work party will be held tonight by the table decorating committee for the junior senior banquet. It will be supervised by Mrs. Lyman Corlis and Brooke Montgomery. The room decoration and scene committees have worked at the armory to finish in time for the Saturday night banquet.
Fair in the east with strong 30 to 35 mph winds and blowing dust west this afternoon. Tonight partly cloudy west, fair east. Wednesday partly cloudy with scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers in the west and central areas. Warmer today and tonight in the east and south central. Lows 50 to 60, highs 70 to 80.
Rev William Ward pastor of Federated Church is named president of the Ottawa Ministerial Alliance at a First Methodist Church meeting. Retiring president Rev Charles Knight is of First Methodist, with Rev William Luce of North Baptist as vice president and Rev Wayne Caldwell of Wesleyan Methodist as secretary-treasurer. Union services are planned for Reforma tion Day the last Sunday in October and a union Thanksgiving service. Holy Week services will not be held while Good Friday services will involve cooperation among churches. A rural life service on the first Sunday in June at 7:30 p.m. will unite First Baptist and First Methodist, with 4 11 clubs invited.
President Eisenhower plans to go directly to the people to rally support for his stalled legislative program. The White House has not decided on the form or timing, and a nationwide address is not expected this week. Hagerty said a final format remains undecided and may come after talks with congressional leaders on foreign aid. AFL-CIO ethics hearings opened on Bakery Workers Union corruption charges with no indictment, recesses set to May 25 for Bakery hearings and May 24 for Teamsters. Union President James Cross and VP George Stuart face accusation of misusing union funds. detailed charges read but not public. Lamb insured payment plan.
The Princeton board of education awarded contracts this morning for a four room addition to the high school. General work goes to Markowitz Bros., Emporia. Mechanical work to Cary Plumbing and Heating, Ottawa. Electrical work to Jims Electric, Paola. Architects are Williamson and Loebsack, Topeka.
Traffic toll reported by the State Accident Records Section shows 3 deaths in the last 24 hours, 176 to date in 1957, and 205 for the same period in 1955.
The House prepares to consider a large housing measure backed by Democrats and opposed by Rep. Talle and veterans groups. The bill expands mortgage credit and adds veteran home buying preferences under FHA, with administration backing and a possible substitute omitting veteran provisions. Both parties say the package exceeds administration recommendations.
The Ottawa school board denied church use of six classrooms Sundays during repairs to avoid custodian and heating costs. It also refused Promenaders Square Dance Club gym rental twice monthly and rejected admitting a fifth grader from New Hope after its closure. The board set bids on plumbing at Hawthorne and high school and on parking lot repairs, discussed a revised Easter vacation calendar, and approved textbook rentals. Two new teachers were hired Colleen Recab and Richard Kingston. A clerk for each school and a summer use meeting with recreation officials were discussed. The board planned a breakfast meeting at North American Hotel to review the new high school program.
Will Channon of Ottawa receives the Eagle Scout award at a Court of Honor Sunday at 11 a.m. in First Methodist Church. Channon, 422 Ash, has 29 merit badges, attended three national Scout camps, and has held every Troop 74 office except bugler and scoutmaster. He is active in Civil Defense and serves as assistant Scoutmaster under his father Carl Channon. six active Ottawa Eagle Scouts will include Channon.
A two car collision occurred in the 400 block on South Main at 6:35 p.m. yesterday. Trene Lucille Arnold, 32, Kansas City, Kas., was driving her 1949 Oldsmobile north on Main and turned into a service station. Chester M. Woodrum, 37, 619 N. Hickory, was backing a 1955 Plymouth from the curb on Main when the crash happened. Damages were about 50 dollars to the Arnold car and 25 dollars to the Woodrum car.
The family of Dale Buchanan of Topeka has been named the All American family for Kansas. Buchanan and his wife are active in Topeka civic affairs.
OLATHE Kansas Edward C McGee a 36 year old Merriam supermarket chain executive is charged with parking his car on Frisco railroad tracks to collect 3200 in insurance. He was arraigned on obtaining money under false pretenses and admitted leaving the car on the tracks earlier this year. Train crews saw a man flee before impact. McGee had reported the car stolen.
In Bogota a constituent assembly selected by President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla voted to remove constitutional barriers, enabling a second consecutive term for Rojas. The move strengthens his grip on power as Colombia navigates political change.
Washington approves the Harris O'Hara natural gas bill with changes to give the Federal Power Commission stronger price review powers and to restore consideration of production costs. Kendall of ODM testified as the administration’s position in House hearings. The bill aims to replace direct federal price control with market based prices and consumer protections, while bypassing prior executive veto concerns.
The Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee will meet in Ottawa on November 20 with governors from North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas and Missouri possible attendees. City officials and the Chamber of Commerce seek full cooperation and open access for residents to hear discussions on land and water resource development with federal agency participation.
A woman Edna Sexton about 34 and her five year old son Charles Bittinger were killed when a dynamite blast ripped through their Paragould Arkansas apartment early today. Police seek estranged husband Charles Sexton 50 for questioning. Nancy Bittinger 13 survived with minor injuries. The blast felled a corner of the two story building and a two foot deep crater formed under the bed. Norma Jean Sexton eight, custody case subject, was with the State Child Welfare Department. Marcus Fritz said the couple had lived in Paragould about six months and Edna had been escorted home from a drive in restaurant by police prior to the incident.
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