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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1957
Page
1
Crews are finishing the new Co-Op elevator and it will be ready to receive the 1957 wheat crop in a few weeks. Painting will be delayed until several dry days allow surface preparation. Edna Greenawalt advertises piano lessons, and local court actions include speeding and drinking cases with fines set by Judge Milo Harris.
Kansas forecast 1957 wheat crop reaches 83.9 million bushels, up 4.05 million from a month ago, aided by April rains and moisture. Output would be Kansas’s smallest since 1940, vs 143.3 million in 1956 and a 10 year average near 194.9 million. Over 1.5 million acres of 6.553 million seeded were abandoned where spring rains were late. expected yield 16.5 bushels per acre, higher than last month’s 12.0.
Carolyn Craft of Junction City a senior at the University of Kansas has received a U S Educational Exchange Award for study abroad under the Fulbright Act Miss Craft a mezzo soprano will study German songs literature stagecraft and operas at the Academy of Music in Dulonge Germany
Admissions include Mrs. Kenneth Huston Over breck Sharon Miller Pomona John Steinman RFD 4 and Mr. and Mrs. DeWayne Paugh Lawrence who welcomed a son Friday weighing 7 pounds 14 ounces Births also noted for Mr. and Mrs Ralph Haney Princeton a son Friday weighing 6 pounds 13 ounces Dismissals include ert Dyer RFD 2 Baldwin Mrs Betty Salmon 424 Willow Rob Dale Schamle and baby daughter Monroe Courts and Jere Gibson Pomona Today
Funeral services were held May 9 at First Methodist Church Garnett for Bradford Chandler who died May 6. Rev. Cecil M. Orr and Rev. Paul Pentz officiated with accompaniment by Hazel Pullman and Nadjy Meisenheimer. Pallbearers listed were Bill Zentner Ralph Beasley John Rooney Vernon Bowman John Gates and Frank Yeager. Burial followed in Garnett Cemetery.
Funeral services for Fred T. Birch, who died yesterday, are set for Sunday at 2 30 p.m. at Towner's Chapel and for Monday at 2 p.m. in a church in Slater Missouri.
Berlin reports indicate hundreds of students at Humboldt University veterinary school joined a strike against the Communist regime. Allied officials in West Berlin call it the largest anti-Communist display since 1953. Secret police screened demonstrators and 122 students were expelled for refusal to attend classes. The protest centered on the dismissal of Dean Prof. Gunter Schuetzler over alleged anti-Communist agitation during the Hungarian uprising.
The May 1 1957 U S Department of Agriculture report shows grazing conditions and range feed at 77 percent, cattle and calves 81 percent, and sheep and lambs 83 percent amid improved soil moisture in western Kansas eastern Colorado and Nebraska after March April rains ending drought in Texas Oklahoma and parts of Kansas. Livestock wintering conditions are fair to good with rapid gains where grazing has improved.
In El Monte California Mrs Mabel Werrett reports she has raised her son Melvin Hewitt from infancy twice after a brain injury. Now mentally reduced to age 10 he lives at a Veterans Administration hospital and enjoys playing ball with youths and singing. He has a daughter married and a Navy past she recalls.
President Eisenhower and Allied World War II figure Monty arrive at the Gettysburg farm for a long weekend. They plan to discuss the Battle of Gettysburg strategy as rain falls during their landing at Gettysburg airport and ride to the president’s estate.
Park College in Parkville investigates possible links between six campus fires this week and arsenic poisoning of two students and a nurse after a meal. Officials report the meals caused illness. one male student was admitted for neurological observation after earlier injuries. The president and investigators withheld the student’s name.
London reports a Suez Canal Users Association meeting showing 14 of 15 member nations ready to resume canal use. France remains opposed citing present circumstances, while other members push to restore Egyptian waterway traffic for their shippers.
Dr. C. S. Sutherland of Neodesha is named president of the Kansas Chiropractors Assn. Also elected were Dr. John Able of Leavenworth as vice president and Dr. Harold Coe of McPherson as secretary treasurer.
In Kas County, a 14-year-old student admitted killing 86-year-old Mrs. Anna Shields after an attempted rape in Harper. Alfred Lee King, pulled from his eighth grade class, confessed after evidence was shown. King's items and handwriting supported the confession. Prosecutors will try him as a delinquent under 16, with a May 24 hearing tentatively set on first-degree murder, attempted rape, and juvenile delinquency charges.
Grace Guild of Grace Episcopal Church meets Tuesday at 7 30 at 933 S Main home of Mrs Bert Anderson. Dr C W Hasselblad to speak to Century Fellowship at Federated Church Sunday at 6 30. Trinity Methodist men plan a May 18 dinner at 7. Ottawa Barber Shop chorus with Al Williams to sing at First Baptist Sunday evening May 12. Faith Lutheran youths attend Walther League rally in Topeka at 2 30 Sunday. Nazarene Church revival continues through next Sunday.
Directory lists many local churches with pastors, service times, and activities. Jehovahs Witnesses, Bethany Chapel Baptist, Nazarene, Christ, Wesleyan Methodist, Church of Christ, Sacred Heart, Christian Science, Free Methodist, Faith Lutheran, Garnett Lutheran, Trinity Methodist, First Christian, First Baptist, Grace Episcopal, Calvary Baptist, First Methodist, Federated, North Baptist.
Franklin County De Molay chapter held an initiation last evening with Herbert Arthur Harrah Jr. initiated by Don Sexton and his degree team. Jere Berglund delivered the flower lecture as Dale Watts presided as master councilor. The De Molay Mothers Circle supplied refreshments served by the Mines. Forty nine members attended with council members Julius Raffelock Dr W C Harding and L A Wilson noted.
The Water Resources Division has taken under advisement a petition to form the Almenda Irrigation District covering about 5,500 acres in Norton and Phillips counties. The district would use water from a proposed Bureau of Reclamation reservoir on Prairie Dog Creek. A few protests were filed but no opponents appeared at the hearing.
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