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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1971
Page
3
Community notices report the installation of officers for Wa. Memorial VEW 5901 Post Retiney at the Post Home Sunday at 2 p.m. plus items on NFO marketing actions for hogs and corn, a May 19 NFO collection point opening in Osage City, and upcoming hospital and school events involving local residents.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced the resumption of underground nuclear tests with new safety rules. A June detonation at the Nevada Test Site 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas will be the first since the Baneberry accident, which caused a 300 foot surface crack and radioactive fallout over 13 states.
Washington AP reports opponents of the Postal Service first rate increase seek a Supreme Court stay. The request follows a DC Circuit ruling denying a temporary injunction. If denied, new rates take effect at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, boosting first class letters to eight cents and airmail to 11 cents.
Washington AP A White House Construction Industry Stabilization Committee approves a 12 percent wage hike for union painters in Little Rock Arkansas, doubling the 6 percent guideline. Chairman John T. Dunlop says no fixed target and cites possible larger settlements for lagging craftsmen while denying a single inflation label for contracts.
William E White assistant superintendent of Unified School District 290 will receive a doctorate in education from the University of Kansas Sunday night. He has been in the district for two years and previously served as assistant superintendent at Bonner Springs. White earned a BA from Washburn University and an MA in guidance from KU in 1965, with a concentration in curriculum and administration, and resides at 515 E 14th.
The Daily Report item lists admissions and dismissals with names and addresses including John Baldwin Naomi Hamm Mrs Cecil Poe Clara Shively and others. It notes a birth to Mr and Mrs Tommy Williams and two emergency injuries, plus a death notice for Bertha M Howell with service details and survivors. Cattle prices and market notes follow from Kansas City AP, and a final line mentions Corn Off the Cob owned by Theodore Gary.
Allan Douglas Buck 22 of Ottawa and Barbara Jean Johnson 19 of Topeka obtained marriage licenses. Frederick Delse 29 of Lexington Kentucky and Anne Geiss 23 of Ottawa also wed. Two cars were damaged in a Mulberry and Massassou collision. Drivers listed as Glen Daniel 15 of 932 North Mulberry and Dan A. Woodward 23 of 903 East Wilson.
Multiple probate notices issued in Franklin County Kansas in May 1971 appointing Howard J Doyen as administrator of Allan J Rubick estate and Winton A Winter as executor of Nell Harris Saunders and James W Luther as executor of Chloe C Luther with creditors urged to file claims within nine months and hearings set for June 2 1971 in Ottawa Kansas with attorneys Gleason Pinet Jordan Winter Green and others listed.
Franklin County Kansas creditors heirs and others warned that Mabel M Moherman executrix of the estate of J E Moherman deceased must have demands exhibited within nine months from first publication dated April 27 1971 Ottawa Franklin County Kansas notice also lists James W Luther as executor attorney firms and related probate dates and final settlement proceedings for Ethel J Johnson co executors Hazel F Nitcher and Ralph Johnson and the required defenses due by June 7 1971 in Ottawa Kansas.
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