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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1957
Page
1
The City PTA Council will meet Tuesday at 4 15 p m in Room 212 Senior High School to plan next year's program All new presidents program chairmen and principals urged to attend. Multiple local items follow including golf observances at Swope Park and community notices about residents, former Ottawans returning home, and police court actions.
South Australian Premier Sir Thomas Playford announced a new uranium ore deposit at Crockers Hill near Radium Hill. The discovery marks a significant addition to the region's uranium resources and could influence mining plans and local economy.
Hospital notes list patients and relatives with given addresses including Mrs Oscar Corbin Pomona Mrs William Shaffer Pomona Mrs Della Hanna Princeton Mrs F Martin Princeton Mrs Lilie Hoover Pomona Mrs Stella Plake Pomona Mrs Louis Fundis Baldwin Steven Dillon Pomona Mrs Harold Bechtle 1010 Walnut Dismissed Mrs Nora Bunch 511 W 2nd Saturday Miss Mary Ferguson 608 N Sycamore John Steinman RFD 4 Joe Averill RFD 1 Sharon Miller Pomona Henry Hildebrandt RFD 3 Sunday Mrs John Braum and baby daughter RFD 1 Mrs A K Watts Over brook Mrs Lillie Hoover Pomona Mrs Raymond Feuerborn Garnett today
Fred T. Birch who died May 10 had funeral services May 12 at Towner's Funeral Chapel with Rev. William Weber presiding. Pallbearers included Lyle Hall Mann Smith Russell Hicks Karl Kennedy Calvin Shaffer and others. A second service was held at the Baptist Church in Slater Missouri with Rev. James Hackney officiating and burial in Slater Cemetery with graveside rites by the Slater Masonic Lodge.
Several vandalism acts and petty theft were reported. Ottawa High School front door got black paint and a red 59 on the garage behind the school. Postmaster Cummings' garage had radiol aerials bent and rear mirrors loosened. Sunday editions were stolen from drug stores early Sunday.
Ollie B Williams 21 was caught trying to break into Sheriff Dick Johnson s apartment to obtain jail keys to release two friends. Nick Bartholomew 36 and Jerald Smith 34 were reported to be locked in a cell while Williams, a trusty, tunneled through an 18 inch brick wall to escape.
Thomas Dillon of Lamar Missouri and Kathleen A Bondurant of Garden City Kansas obtain a marriage license along with 21 year old Dillon and 20 year old Bondurant, details show their ages and hometowns for the union.
In southeast Portland a light plywood plane disintegrated over a residential area. Willis Allen Wood, 21, of Salem was killed as debris slammed through Fred G. Thomson's living room roof. Thomson, 35, and his 9 year old daughter hid nearby. Cause of breakup undetermined. witnesses heard no explosion. Weather was clear and calm.
Paris report says Erich von Stroheim, renowned actor and director, died last night at his chateau near Paris after six months of illness. He was 70 and attributed to generalized cancer. An Austrian native and Royal Military Academy graduate, he served in films during World Wars I and II and earned the French Legion of Honor.
Fairfax Oklahoma W J Lockett longtime school superintendent resigned after a 4-1 board vote to reappoint him. He noted his 22 years of steady leadership and prior unanimous approvals, saying the lack of unanimity influenced his decision to step down.
Governor George Docking said he wants facts not excuses as the Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Commission moves to reopen condemnation of about 806 acres inside the Marais des Cygnes waterfowl refuge in Linn County. The plan follows court battles over forced land acquisition by Bio court and Ottawa Hunting Associations.
London says Britsh merchant ships may use the Suez Canal again as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons the government cannot advise shipowners to refrain. Payments will be in sterling. Only two or three British ships have transited since the invasion last fall, and they did so against government advice.
A U S Air Force Thunderjet fighter crashed into the sea off the English east coast. RAF and U S rescue craft searched the wreckage for the pilot, the sole occupant. Fifty miles north an RAF Vampire jet exploded in a thunderstorm, with debris showering an estate at Gainsborough and the pilot's body falling through a house roof but injuring no residents.
Walter A. Severns, 92, has been judged sane at the State Hospital at Larned, paving the way for a new murder trial for the death of his 8 year old niece Inez Burling on Feb 8 1943. The girl died after being held by the ankles and dashed against the floor as well as beatings with a belt and a shoe. Severns wife Frances Severns already pleaded guilty to second degree murder and serves a life term in Lansing. The Burling parents have moved from Kansas. Severns was previously convicted of first degree murder but adjudged insane and committed to Larned since 1944. The Kansas Supreme Court reversed the 1943 conviction and ordered a new trial. No date was set for his return.
A young mother Nadine Minson of Hoisington 33 was sentenced to six months in jail for writing checks under twenty dollars. Barton County Attorney Loyd Phillips said she has faced similar charges at least 50 times since 1951 but was released each time due to her pregnancy. The case was heard by Justice W. L. Durand with restitution arrangements discussed in past cases.
Ben Ward Hurt from Forbes Air Force Base Topeka lost control of his 1955 Ford at 8 30 p m Saturday on US50 in Homewood and crashed into the home of J M Crabb. Trooper Roland Johnson cited Hart for reckless driving. Damages: car 250 dollars, house 100 dollars. He is due in County Court next Saturday.
Evelyn Jenkins a 16 year old girl ended a 21 day fast for the glory of God in Fort Oglethorpe Ga She drank occasional fruit juice and water since April 22 and plans to resume eating soft foods in a few days She weighed 130 pounds at the start and believes her weight never dropped far below 120 pounds She lives with her aunt and uncle in Cartersville Ga and had left high school to observe the fast She spent much of her time reading the Bible and praying between 9 am and 3 pm near her home
Max W. Clingan about 36 of Prairie Village Kansas fell from a boat and drowned yesterday in the Lake of the Ozarks four miles north of the Grand Glaize bridge in Camden County. Friends attempted rescue but he sank in about 80 feet of water and the body was not immediately recovered.
Darlene Larkin and John Milton, Ottawa students at Kansas State College Manhattan, have been elected to campus offices. Miss Larkin, a junior in textiles and clothing, is chaplain of the Kappa Phi Methodist women's sorority. Milton, a junior in dairy manufacturing, is chairman of the Dairy Club.
One soldier was killed and two people were injured in a two car crash on U S 24 near Belvue Kansas Saturday night. Pvt Ronald R Bety 19 of Billings Montana died in the collision. The five soldiers were from Ft Riley Two injured were Mr and Mrs William Agnew of San Mateo California.
A gang of masked men with blackened faces blew up lock gates connecting Newry's inland port to the Irish Sea. The attackers were believed to be members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army.
State Accident Records Section reports 11 fatalities in the last 48 hours, bringing the year total to 185. For the same period in 1956, fatalities stood at 214.
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