Pleasant View Grange holds Tuesday business session
Pleasant View Grange will meet at Mrs Jen nie Ottaway's home Tuesday at 7:30 pm for a business session. Eugene Field P T A sets a 7:30 pm meeting tomorrow with program. Williamsburg music program slated for Tuesday evening in the school auditorium. Mr and Mrs Sheldon G Meats plan May 12 trip to San Antonio to visit their son A2c Sldon L Meats at Kelly AFB. Franklin County track meet rescheduled to Thursday at 9 am. Charles Eugene Henry cited for failure to yield after a collision at 9th and Main Saturday. Gary L Prayer cited for driving 44 in a 30 zone.
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Pleasant View Grange
Jennie Ottaway
Eugene Field P.T.A
Williamsburg
Sheldon G. Meats
Mulberry
San Antonio
Texas
Sildon L. Meats
Kelly Air Force Base
Franklin County
Cook Field
Charles Eugene Henry
N. Cedar
Main
Harry Joseph Hair
Kansas City
Henry
Gary
Wellsville WSCS Annual Meeting Honors Guests
The Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Wellsville Methodist Church will host Edgerton Society members as guests for the annual meeting in Fellowship Hall on May 12. Officers to be installed include president Mrs. Clarence Coffman and vice president Mrs. Marion Bosworth, with district president Mrs. J. N. Carter and Mrs. Alex Telfer among special guests. Other items note a Golden Hours class gathering and a farewell coffee for Mrs. V. R. Coy as the Coy family moves to Denver.
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Woman's Society of Christian Service
Wellsville
Edgerton Society
Fellowship Hall
Gilbert McConnell
Raph Lidikay
Lowel Collins
Marion Bosworth
J. N. Carter
Alex Telfer
Ottawa
Carter
Clarence Coffman
Rowena Pinkerton
Gerald McGaugh
Oren Carroll
Dot Harrison
W. D. Farney
Lowell Collins
Lee Chamberlain
Charles Pierce
Job
Wayne Todd
Masonic Templature
Nelfrom
Ofson O'Connor
Retary
Paul Warren
Carl Warnock
Rhee Renounces Politics In Retirement Statement
Former President Syngman Rhee announced he has renounced politics for life. He said his role in Korea will be judged by history and noted Eisenhower thanked him in a personal letter for quitting public life. Rhee resigned April 27 amid student uprisings and did not pursue new elections.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Korea
Eisenhower
Rhee
Emporia Firm Burns in Early Sunday Fire
Emporia Kansas AP reports Tums Motor Co. destroyed by an early Sunday fire. Loss estimated at 30,000 to 50,000 dollars. Several new cars were destroyed in the blaze.
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Emporia, Kas
Tums Motor Co
SBA designates Harvey County as disaster area
The Small Business Administration designated Harvey County Kansas as a disaster area due to recent floods. Home and business owners may apply for loans to repair flood damage.
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Washington
APY
The
Small Business Administration
Harvey County
kKus
Funeral services for Paul G. Gentry held at Lane Methodist
Paul G. Gentry died May 1. Services were at Lane Methodist Church on May 8 with Rev. J. C. Jones officiating. Pallbearers included Archie O. Kennedy, Ross Kimball, Ames Dalton, Ben Haney, Roy Ritehal, and Marry Theele. Katherine McKinnie sang hymns with Barbara Hiles accompanying. Burial followed in Lane Cemetery.
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Paul
Gentry
Paul G. Gentry
Lane Methodist Church
J. C. Jones
Archie O. Kennedy
Ross Kimball
Ames Dalton
Ben Haney
Roy Ritehal
Marry Theele
Katherine McKinnie
Barbara Hiles
Lane Cemetery
Kalamazoo College chooses first Negro May Queen
Grace Hayes 21 a Negro yard from Lite Rock Ark was crowned Kalamazoo College queen of the May elected by the student body. It marks the first time a Negro girl has won the annual queen election at the school where about five of the 700 students are Negroes.
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Kalama200
Mich
Iapi
Grace Hayes
Lite Rock
Ark
Kalamazooo College
Grace
Thieves Crack Safe During Night Rally Across Cities
AP reports thieves punched open a safe in Kansas City and robbed a store in Peiping during the night. Authorities say the intruders escaped with over one million in currency and an estimated 4,500 dollars in cash from a Tokyo venue, amid reports of a large anti imperialist rally. The event drew people from many walks of life and involved a caper tied to Chinese capital.
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Kansas City
Safe & A Drug
Tokyo
Peiping
Jeff
Hospital Notes Amissions and Births in Odd Fragments
Reading of hospital notes lists admissions at Overbrook and Le Hope areas with Mrs Earl Huston Mildred Cruces and Lucio Ramirez plus Johnnie Saueressig. Births include Mr and Mrs Jesse Maddox a son born Sunday. Dismissals mention multiple names including Kenneth Sexton and baby son.
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Earl Huston
Overbrook
Mildred Cruces
King
Lucio Ramirez
N. Mulberry
Johnnie Saueressig
Leho
Hugh Wiley
Quenemo
Dan Wolken
N. Main
Jesse Maddox
N. Poplar
Breakfast with Eisenhower Skips Spy Plane Topic
Four Republican House members met with President Eisenhower for breakfast and agreed not to raise the U.S. spy plane shootdown. Rep. Robert Wilson said Eisenhower did not bring up the incident, and reporters noted no discussion occurred unless he initiated it.
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Washington
Fourtteen
Republican House
Eisenhower
Robert Wilson
California
GOP
Congress
U.S
Soviet Union
Wilson
Ten Franklin County Students to Get Degrees
Ten Franklin County students, seven from Ottawa, are among 967 candidates for degrees from Kansas State University Manhattan, at commencement exercises. Ottawa natives listed include Leslie Lawrence Ogg Loren Dean Pearson Phillip Whitaker for BBA. Sandra Ann White BA. Arthur Duane Shaw PE. Dolores Roeckers Home Economics. Charles William Demoret Arts and Sciences BS. Other Franklin County candidates include Ralph Jerry McGinty Princeton MS Nicholas Volney Hadelson Pomona BS Agriculture and Dale Keith Shipps Rantoul BA in Arts and Sciences.
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Franklin County
Ottawa
Kantsas State Univer ‘Sity
Manhattan
Ellsworth M. Gerritz
Carnival Worker Indicted For Murder In Washington
Bobbie Richard Van Over a 21 year old itinerant carnival worker was indicted for first degree murder in the slaying of David B. Owen 51 former Bradley University president. Owen a Santa Cruz California Chamber of Commerce manager came to Washington on congressional business. Owen resigned as Bradley president in 1952 after basketball game fixing scandals.
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Washington (Ap
Bobbie Richard van Over
David B. Owen
Bradley University
Gwen
Owen
Santa Cruz
Calif
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Peoria, Jr
Stay Execution Pending Appeal
AP reports Peiping radio says the Supreme Court stayed Earl Wilson's execution while his appeal proceeds. Wilson, a Kansas City, Kansas, resident, was convicted of raping a white girl and sentenced to hang on May 25. If the appeal is denied, a new execution date will be set.
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Tokyo
Peiping
Supreme Court
Earl Wilson
Kansas City
Kas
Wilson
Busy Beach Day Sees Lifeguards Save 70 Swimmers
Los Angeles officials report lifeguards rescued over 70 swimmers as huge crowds flocked to beaches from Los Angeles to San Diego despite water and air temperatures near 40 degrees.
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Los Angeles
San Diego
Eisenhower May Address Nation Before Paris Summit
The White House suggested Ike might deliver a television radio address to the nation before leaving for the Paris conference this weekend. Press Secretary Hagerty would not confirm. The president has a habit of making a nationwide broadcast on the eve of trips abroad.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Paris
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Awards Given At Ottawa High School Assembly
Six groups at Ottawa High School were honored in the senior high auditorium. Recipients included Thespians, Quill and Scroll, Yearbook, Future Farmers of America, Girls Athletics Association, the varsity basketball team and the yearbook staff, with numerous students named in each group.
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Ottawa High School
Thespians
Quill and Scroll
Future Farmers of America
Girls’ Athletics Assn
Cites Need For World Peace at Jehovah’s Witnesses Session
Ru thherford G. Lakatos of New York urged peace as crucial in a closing session of Jehovah’s Witnesses assembly in the Memorial Auditorium. He cited Philippians 4:8-9. Nearly 800 attendees, led by Kenneth Huckaby, welcomed 25 new ministers including seven Ottawans, with visitors from Kansas Oklahoma and Nebraska.
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Ruthherford G. Lakatos
New York
Jehoivah
Veitie
Phillipians
Memorial Auditorium
Kenneth Huckaby
Lawa
Birth Control Pill Approved in Landmark FDA Verdict
The FDA approves a birth control pill for contraceptive use for the first time, with safety as the basis of decision. Hagerty notes questions of morality and planned news conference by Eisenhower. the pill Envoid, from Mindmaediare Searle, is prescription only and priced at about 10.80 per month.
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Envoid
G. D. .Mindmaediare Searle and Co
Chicago
FDA
Fisenhower
Hagerty
John Troan
Scripps-Howard
Iday
Soviet Mystery Flights Hint Through Vapor Trails
OTTAWA AP reports vapor trails from high flying planes spurring belief that the Soviets conduct reconnaissance over northern Canada and Alaska. British papers say sightings include the United States Britain and Canada with no positive identifications of Soviet aircraft in north Canada. The Canadian Press notes most sightings are condensation trails from aircraft too high to be seen, suggesting shots of air fields tied to a Distant Early Warning radar line.
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Ottawa
Canada
Alaska
Daily Mail
Daily Herald
United States
Britain
Queen Elizabeth Islands
North Archipelago
U.S
Mearly
Truman Would Like To Roll Back Years
Independence Missouri report on Harry S. Truman turning 76 speakers in a television broadcast. He wished the clock could run backward to shed years but noted it cannot. He said he devotes his life to informing young people about the great government and its forebears sacrifices.
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Independence
Harry S. Truman
Britannia sails toward Caribbean for royal honeymoon
The royal yacht Britannia with Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones was estimated to be 40 miles west of Cape Finisterre in northwest Spain during the journey to the Caribbean for their honeymoon.
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London
Britannia
Princess Margaret
Antony Armstrong-Jones
Caribbean
Cape Finisterre
Spain
Ottawa Lions Club Elects New President Bischoff
T A Bischoff elected president of the Ottawa Lions Club at the weekly meeting. Other officers named include Al Yost vice president, AL Tiarvey, Frank Schull, J R Raffe lock, Rexel Warren as secretary and treasurer, Wayne Angell and Bill Nuss as tail twisters, Cil Reynolds as lion tamer, Arnod Hinder on the board. A coin toss will settle the tie for a board position between Glen Uns1 herwood and Norris Burke. Bischoff, a Safeway employee for nine years, is married with five children and will attend the state Lions convention in Kansas City in June and the international convention in Chicago in July.
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T. A. Bischoff
Ottawa Lions Club
al Yost
AL Tiarvey
Frank Schull
J. R. Raffelock
Rexel Warren
Wayne Angell
Bill Nuss
Cil Reynolds
Arnod Hinder
Glen
Ike Has Welt From Mosquito Bite
President Eisenhower shows a small welt on the head after a fishing trip as reporters note a mosquito bite in the scar region above the left ear. He recalls a West Point football incident and dismisses a health concern, while breakfasting with Republican congressmen at the White House.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Robert Wilson
California
West Point
Gettysburg
Former Republican Leader Joseph Knier Dies at 85
Joseph Benjamin Knier, 85, a former Republican Party leader in Kansas' 1st district, died Sunday in Los Angeles. Born in Valley Falls, he served as Valley Falls mayor and held multiple GOP posts including precinct committeeman, Jefferson County Republican Central Committee chairman, 1st District GOP secretary, and Kansas Day Club chairman.
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Leavenworth, Kas
Joseph Benjamin Knier
Kansas
Los Angeles
Valley Falls
Joseph Knier
Jefferson County
Republican Central Committee
GOP
Kansas Day Club
Legislator Fined On Driving Charge
Marion Kansas AP reports state Rep. Dick Wellman a Rice County legislator pleaded guilty to reckless driving and was fined 100 dollars. A charge of driving while intoxicated was dismissed. He was arrested March 23 1989 by highway patrol for traveling 120 miles an hour.
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Marion
Kan
Dick Wellman
Aldent
Rice County
Highway Patrol
Birthplace of Famed Composer Set Afire
A fire bug set Ludwig van Beethoven's birthplace in Bonn ablaze causing damage. A man in his 40s was seized by the caretaker's son and detained by police. The home, birthplace of the 1770 composer, is a major Bonn tourist site. manuscripts were saved. The motive remains undisclosed.
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Bonn
Germany
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wilhheld
Local Markets Report Mixed Livestock and Crop Prices
Kansas City market notes show cattle and calves steady to strong with some higher bids. hogs and sheep mixed as feeders and slaughter categories vary. Grain prices list soybeans, corn, and oats with several misread entries. butterfat and eggs cited with varied grades and runs.
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Kansas City
API
Tawreance
Lommercial
Lawrence & Echolee
Siesta
Elaughter
Mike Eneier
Osperdi
Franklin County legal notices from Ottawa to Franks County
A garbled legal notice row details a sheriff sale in Franklin County Kansas, a partition suit involving Aura G Rivgon and Myra Tussing, with dates in May 1960, plus a road vacation petition in Pojoa Township Franklin County. It lists court actions, property descriptions in Ottawa and surrounding areas, and notices of hearings, appearances, and required responses.
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Forel
Tate
Kansas
Frankyn
Quid
Derouwen
Auite
Brankin County
Ottawa
Franks County
Kansan
AL Len M'Elock A. An
Bard Day
Stuecourt
Orawa
Franklin County
Myra Tussing
Owers & Bowers
EAN
Poe Jmota
Board of County
Frankiin
Kasaan
Gard Township
Fowit
Sid
Hai Sion Rand
Purmons
Board of County Caromissionera
Ish Alm
Section A1
H Rutton
Board of County Commissioners
Eas
Bpeare
Bealp
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Crestview Nursing Home
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Tom Morrisey
Fred Gollier
Jack Smith
Gene Shof‘ner
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Bob Lewis
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Watkins Products, Inc
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Bud Duvall
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Stetion Sidi
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John Deere
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Atlas-Chalmers
Mefionnell Mac and Adchinery Co
Peoples Nationat
Don Collins
J. D
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Ottawa Tractor
By & P.m
Ombiom
Photius E. Gleason
William 8. Bowers
Republ
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