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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1965
Page
3
The Youth for Christ Bible Club will show The Tony Fontane Story at 7 p m Monday in the high school auditorium. Parents teachers and junior and senior high students are invited. Ogegs Market will be closed all day Monday May 10 Ady.
County commissioners attended a state-wide session at Topeka to discuss their duties as the welfare board. The meeting was organized by the County Commissioners Association and sponsored by the League of Municipalities.
V F W Club hosts a dance on Saturday May 8 from 9 to 12 at the Buccaneers venue. Members and guests are invited. admission advertised.
Four members of the county welfare office attended the county officials days at Osawatomie Friday. Attending were representatives of the 21 county district serviced by Osawatomie State Hospital. Ottawans attending were Mrs Bonita Welborn, Mrs Betty Barrett, Mrs Dixie Soper, and Miss Mary Jackson. Dance Saturday night May 8 featured The Noblemen at 1.00 per person with 912 advancing.
Four registered Guernsey cows in the W G Rane herd at Williamsburg have completed top official DHIR production records. All cows were milked twice daily and the testing was supervised by Kansas State University.
Oges Market announces a total closing for Monday May 10. Trade resumes next day with regular hours. No other services affected.
Social Security field rep to visit Social Welfare Office on May 12 from 10 to noon. Special rims and clamps priced. 18 round set $3.95. 20x18 $3.45. 24x21 $8.75. 32x21 $4.10. Durbin Plbg advertises 1120 N. Main. Boyd Michael, Gra ham School for Cattlemen staff, wins Hoard's Dairyman Cow Judging Contest placing fourth in fifth annual event. Michael, 24, youngest American Jersey Cattle Club judge, has placed three times in four Hoard's contests. Coin-Op dry cleaning 8 lbs $1.50. Durbin Coin-Op mothproofing offer.
Admissions list includes Mrs Marion Snodgrass Toe peka James L Fredricks Williams burg RFD 2 Ernest Gilliland Pomona Friday Patricia Duncan Ottawa University Allan Maule Wellsville RFD 2 Saturday Dismissals include Mrs Alvin West 12t W 9th Friday James Burruss Ottawa RFD 2 Mrs Harvey Reeder 418 Willow Saturday
Manuel E. Smith known as Smitty, 94, of Nelson Hotel died at Cedar House Nursing Home at noon Friday after a three month illness. Born September 23, 1870 in Clarence Iowa, he lived in Ottawa since 1884 and worked with Standard Oil Co. Burial Monday at Dengel and Son Mortuary with Dr Raymond Jeneings officiating. Survived by daughter Mrs A C Voth of Clarinda Iowa, sons Russell B Smith of Vernon Texas and Robert Smith of Tulsa Oklahoma, four grandchildren, five great grandchildren and brother Sherman H Smith of Ottawa. He was a member of First Methodist Church Elks and IOOF Lodges. His wife Anna M Brinkerhoff died September 23, 1931.
Calvin H Shores 73 of Kansas City died at 7 45 am Friday after five months illness in General Hospital Kansas City He lived in Ottawa 1941 1955 and worked as a steelworker He married Mattie Hurd in 1919 in Salina She died 16 years ago Surviving are his second wife Helen Shores two sons Chester Riverside California Jeffery at home three daughters Opal Adams Williamsburg Frieda Gisler and Evelyn Howell Westminster Colorado and 10 grandchildren Funeral services set for 9 30 am Sunday at Blackman Funeral Home Kansas City with graveside rites later at Lake Creek Cemetery Bartell Kan.
Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers says Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., 21, of Fairfield, the Ku Klux Klan suspect in the killing of a white woman civil rights demonstrator, will be tried again after a deadlocked state court jury failed to reach a verdict. Wilkins was free on $360,000 bond after the trial ended without a verdict Friday.
Conrad Pickert, 98, near Garnett Kansas, remained hopeful for life’s goal of seeing his grandson ordained a priest. He received the last rites after years of farming and family devotion, with descendants spanning 28 grandchildren and 50 great grandchildren. Born in Westphalia Germany, he arrived in the area at 18, spoke German, and later settled in Scipio with Catherine Strobel.
KC Markets Kansas City AP cattle prices rise across steer heifer and feeder categories with primes noted. lambs also up, hogs show gains on barrows and gilts while sows lift. Read by dealers and livestock traders assessing week to week movements and price ranges.
Cal Ewing manager of Ottawa office of Kansas Employment Service was named acting farm placement supervisor to work from the state office effective May 1. He leads the farm program during Ed Scheppner's three month assignment with Farm Placement Service in Washington DC. Glenn G. Geiss becomes acting manager of the Ottawa office on a temporary basis.
Library notices promote boating literature for sailors amid renewed interest in small boat sailing. Reads include He rvey Garrett Smith Small Boat Sailor s Bible and other manuals, with magazines Motorboating and titles by Calahan Lane and Aymar. Legal notices follow about estate matters in Franklin County Kansas.
Three people sustained minor injuries in a two vehicle crash Friday at about 7 10 p m five miles north of Richmond. Lee C Pyle 24 Princeton RFD 1 drove a 1955 Plymouth north on South Eisenhower Road while Earl V Gorton 64 Princeton RFD 1 drove a 1962 Ford pickup east on West Stubbs. Both drivers said they saw the other but could not avoid the collision. The car rotated to face south and the pickup veered into a field. Betty Pyle 21 a passenger and the two drivers received minor bruises and abrasions and were not treated in a hospital. Front end damage to the car was listed as total and pickup damage at 1000 to the right side. No valuation was given for fence damage owned by Earl Huddleston Princeton RFD 1.
Seven people were cited Friday on defective mufflers and for operating a motor vehicle without a Kansas license. Those named include Duane F. Pedrow Jr., 18, Richmond. Ken N. Vandeventer, 24, Ottawa. Rex H. Murphy, 26, Wellsville. Donald L. Stone, 20, 807 N. Pope. Willard D. Mitchell, 28, Ottawa. Harry R. Davis, 20, 603 S. Cedar. Cecil R. Heathman, 18, 1040 N. Cherry. David M. Triplett, 18, Wellsville. One group of two boys jailed for vagrancy. Harold C. Montgomery, 16, released on bond. Keith J. Higginbotham, 20, released on bond after additional DUI charge.
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