Brief ambulances listed with contact numbers
News briefs note Herald delivery failure between 5:00 and 6:34 pm including Saturday. Mentions McVey Ambulance with phone 100 and Toy Towner's Ambulance with phone 780.
10 May 1955
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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1955
Page
1
News briefs note Herald delivery failure between 5:00 and 6:34 pm including Saturday. Mentions McVey Ambulance with phone 100 and Toy Towner's Ambulance with phone 780.
Hospital notes list admissions and dismissals including Mrs. Mattie Edmundson at 627 N Sycamore and Mrs. Rosetta Schwalm in Baldwin with others named. Births recorded for Mr. and Mrs Homer Perry in See- Wellsville. Coyotes reported: ten pairs brought to county clerk’s office by Merle Fleming Homewood and W J Collins Williamsburg.
Funeral services for Charles Watts Jr who died May were held May 8 at Wycoff community. The case against Ralph J Studebaker involves neglect and cruelty. A separate maintenance suit and a divorce case involving Dorothy N Wineinger and W E Wineinger were filed. A youth was cited for reckless driving after a rear end collision on South Main. Rev William L Luce and Mrs Luce to attend commencement and reunion in Kansas City. Nina Fisher funeral services held May 6 at McVey-Dengel Mortuary.
The House Armed Services Committee voted 24 to 0 to extend the draft exemption for doctors and dentists for two years. The move keeps medical professionals out of compulsory service while maintaining the broader selective service framework. The decision comes amid debate over draft efficiency and medical staffing.
Police warned residents in Kansas City not to eat 275 packages stolen from a cartage firm after a drum leaked weed killer contaminant. The tainted food from California included pie filler milk powder and baby cereal now feared sold to grocers or individuals.
ELIZABETH N J Two Elizabeth officials testified before a Union County grand jury probing alleged laxity in gambling. Police Capt. August F Winkelmann 65 died by self inflicted gunshot wound while on terminal leave and due to retire next month Fire Commissioner Francis De Stephan 39 drowned in Raritan Bay fully clothed. Both deaths were listed as personal crisis reports after police said neither left notes.
Harold E. Staadt Jr a Dowell Inc development engineer in Oklahoma City helped develop a new stratoblast fracture method for oil wells involving a granular solid explosive injected into formations. Patents pending this treatment has been tested on wells across eastern Oklahoma Kansas and north Texas with Dowell field engineers Soon to be released for US and Canada use Staadt holds memberships in Sigma Tau Phi Lambda Upsilon and AIChE. He has specialized in fracturing fluids and head selection and authored Sand Important Factor in Successful Fracturing in The Petroleum Engineer.
Marie Pewano 65 a Kickapoo Indian perished in a fire that destroyed her three room farm home on the Kickapoo reservation southwest of Powhattan Kansas authorities said. The blaze occurred early today and investigators were sought to determine a cause. Deputy sheriffs and county officials assisted at the scene.
The United States will launch the second underwater atomic blast in the eastern Pacific within days to study defense against submarine attacks. A small yield device will be used, far from land, fishing grounds, and shipping routes, by Task Force 7 led by Rear Admiral C. B. Momsen.
Eleven Kansas districts share 1,197,000 for building construction due to federal installations boosting enrollments. State Superintendent Throckmorton also notes 2,950,000 in federal funds will be distributed to 1% districts for operating expenses caused by federal students. Districts include Avondale Shawnee County 73,1000 and Overland Park 190,270 among others.
In Cleveland Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard seeks a fresh trial citing newly discovered evidence after Judge Edward Blythin rejected his motion for a new trial. He was convicted last December for the death of his wife Marilyn in their Bay Village home and remains jailed awaiting an appeals court hearing set for May 23.
Kansas figures Sen William Weigand announced district chairmen for a drive to raise funds for a "cowboy capital of the world" museum at Dodge City. New board members Hugo Wedell former Kansas Supreme Court justice and Henry Blake Topeka publisher join the directors.
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