Ot tawa students finish Kansas City honor trip
A group of 34 Ottawa High School students returned at 12 20 a m from a Chamber of Commerce promoted tour to Kansas City. Girls praised Hallmark Cards Inc while boys preferred Midwest Research Inc and the Cin erama finale. In Kansas City Charles W Fisher urged changing the A’s elephant emblem to a heart.
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Ottawa High School
Kansas City
Ron
Chamber of Commerce
John R. Going
Hallmark Cards Inc
Midwest Research Inc
Cinerama
Charles W. Fisher
Kansas City Athletics
Municipal Stadium Operations Committee
Joseph M. Nolan
Nolan
Fisher
A’s
NBC Strikers End Work Stoppage
About 1,400 NBC technicians and engineers voted to end a strike that began April 27. NBC dropped damage suits while the union relinquished jurisdiction over foreign broadcast tape. The dispute centered on tape shipped from Paris for Dave Garroway's Today program.
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NBC
New York
National Broadcasting Co
Union
United States
Dave Garroway
Paris
Hewitt Appointed to Kansas Turnpike Authority
Gov. George Decking announced new appointments to the Kansas Turnpike Authority, the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review and the Supreme Court nominating commission. Democrat Don Hewitt of Kansas City was named to the Turnpike Authority, effective July 1, succeeding Republican Tom Griffith. The move gives Democrats 4-3 control of the authority. L. M. Weltmer, a Mankato attorney and Republican, was selected from State Chamber of Commerce nominees for the new unemployment board created by the 1959 Legislature to handle appeals.
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Topeka
George Decking
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Unemployment Compensation Board of Review
Supreme Court Nominating Commission
Don Hewitt
Kansas City
Turnpike Authority
Tom Griffith
Manhattan
L. M. Weltmer
Mankato
State Chamber of Commerce
Weather forecast for county region
Mostly cloudy this afternoon with a high near 65. Occasional rain and scattered thundershowers tonight. Sunday remains mostly cloudy with occasional rain and showers, high around 70. Low tonight near 55.
Nature to Decide Fate Of Coed After Nitrate Toss
Denton Texas AP reports Sheila Nelms a 20 year old North Texas State College student was sprayed with silver nitrate causing severe burns to head neck and body. Tommy Ray Lester 19 admitted throwing the caustic liquid claiming it was a prank. Sheriff and county attorney consider charges and Nelms fate will influence possible maiming counts. Lester expelled and placed with parents.
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Denton
Tex
Sheila Rene Nelms
North Texas State College
North Texas
Lester
Wylie H. Barnes
Sue Thompson Awarded 400 Scholarship
Carolyn Sue Thompson of Ottawa is among a dozen Ottawa University Citizenship scholarship winners today. A Ottawa High senior and daughter of Beulah Thompson, she earned a 400 dollar award. Winners were chosen by competitive tests high school records and references for achievement leadership character and need.
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Carolyn Sue Thompson
Ottawa
Ottawa University
Beulah Thompson
Willow
Pau Harrington
Temperance
Mich
Billie Bain
Kansas City
Barbara Power
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Deanna L. Dunham
Chanute
Lewis Bowling
Hot Springs
Jerry Tucker
Pueblo
Col
Richard Hill
Mayfield
Carold MacDonald
Denver
William Logan
North Kansas City
Cynthia Strom
Knoxville
Four Children Die In Farm Fire At Neelyville
A blazing two story farm home near Neelyville Missouri burned killing four children Michael nine Charles seven Margie eleven and Joyce four. Parents Charles L Wray and wife escaped with younger Toni two as they rescued her from the flames.
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Neelyville, Mo
Neelyville
Charles L. Wray
Tucson
Ariz
Wray
Michael
Charles
Margie
Joyce
Wildlife Commissioner to Speak at Ottawa Lions Club
Wildlife Commissioner Ray Amer from Pleasanton, head of the district including 21 northeast Kansas counties, will address the Ottawa Lions Club Monday and the Williamsburg Wildlife Association that evening. He'll tour local sportsmen to inspect potential lake sites, but there is no current state funding for a Franklin County lake. Future prospects depend on suitable sites and appropriations.
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Ray Amer
Pleasanton
Kansas
Ottawa Lions Club
Williamsburg Wildlife Association
Franklin County
Judge Stice Disbarred Over Burglary Ring Ties
TOPEKA AP Judge John N Stice of the Wichita Common Pleas Court was disbarred by the Kansas Supreme Court for gross misconduct amid allegations he aided a burglary gang. Atty Gen John Anderson said he would seek removal from the bench. Trial linked Stice and Roy Trail to a burglary ring with claims of concealing crimes and profiting from stolen goods.
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Topeka
John N. Stice
Wichita Common Pleas Court
Kansas Supreme Court
John Anderson
Kansas Board of Law Examiners
Stice
Ln Sedgwick County
Lester Goodell
Supreme Court
Goodell
Anderson
Wichita
Roy 5. Trail
Trail
Dulles Worsens as Family Gathers in Washington
John Foster Dulles is in worse condition with cancer spreading and a mild pneumonia. His wife and brother Allen Dulles head the CIA among three children and three sisters visiting in Washington. State Department said his pneumonia has not fully resolved and his general condition has declined. Dulles, 71, has been at Walter Reed since February after cancer was found during a hernia operation.
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Ter Dulles
Allen
Central Intelligence Agency
State Department
Lincoln White
Dulles
Walter Reed ,Army Hospital
Army
Boy seeks outdoor life away from city jail
Arkansas City police chief received a letter from a Chicago mother describing a 16-year-old boy who longs for rural life and an outdoor job. The youth, raised in Wisconsin, was taken off a freight train in Arkansas City and is being sought a farm or ranch position to escape city life. The mother asks for foster care or clergy custody, saying Chicago life feels like a jail and pledges two weeks or more for funds to return the boy home. The chief notes the boy is polite and intelligent and merely seeks outdoor work.
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Arkansas City
Kan
Arkansas Citiansi
Chicago
Wisconsin
Joe Nance
Nance
Bond's Royal Cleaners Fur Storage Ad
Refrigerated storage for your furs advertised by Bond's Royal Cleaners located at 125 Main Street offering cold storage solutions for valuable garments and seasonal wear with professional cleaning services.
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Bond's Royal Cleaners
Capture Of 2 Boys, 15, Ends Their BIS Flight
Two 15 year old boys fled from the Topeka Industrial School escaping Wednesday night. They stole two cars, burned one near Garnett, and were tracked by Franklin County officials and lawmen to a barn between Garnett and Lone Elm. They will be returned to Topeka. no charges filed locally.
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Industrial School
Garnett
Topeka
Max Gilmore
Joe Ferns
Tom Elder Jr
Santa Fe
Centropolis
Bryan Stewart
Franklin County
Highway Patrol
Iola
Don Hermrick
Anderson County
Wilson Farm
Lone Elm
Robert Pinet
Regents Approve Salary Increases In Kansas Schools
The Kansas Board of Regents approved salary boosts for heads of state supported schools and operating budgets for 1959 60. Chancellor Franklin Murphy and Kansas State University President James McCain rise from 20 000 to 22 000 annually, aligning with Big Eight peers. Presidents of Pittsburg Emporia and Fort Hays state colleges increased from 13 500 to 15 000. Total operating budgets for 1959 60 total 39 537 551, up 2 207 247 from the current year.
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Topeka
Kansas Board of Regents
Franklin Murphy
University of Kansas
James McCain
Kansas State University
Pittsburg
Emporia
Fort Hays
Plastics Firm To Locate In Ottawa
A Chattanooga couple prays for two stricken sons with granulomatosis as a plastics firm, National Plastics Films Inc, is incorporated in Ottawa. Bailey Jr., 4, and John B. Pierson, 22, are said to be critically ill. Ottawa Industrial Development Inc officials report the factory will have $50,000 capital and refrigerated storage.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
Bailey E. Payne
Ottawa
Topeka
National Plastics
Bailey Jr
Films Inc
John B. Pierson
Christopher
Dent
Ottawa Indus
Fri- Trial Development Inc
Bond
Royal Cleaners
S. Main
Godfrey Bids Goodbye To Public For 60 Days
New York AP Arthur Godfrey steps back from public life for 60 days to follow doctors notes after lung cancer surgery. He left Columbia Presbyterian Hospital on Friday a weak but grateful survivor and thanked well wishers as aides tried to rush him home to his New York apartment.
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New York
Arthur Godfrey
Au Revoir
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
Four fall from heights in Bay Area incidents
AP reports four people jumped or fell from high places Friday in San Francisco with a fifth pulled from a Oakland building ledge nearby. Three fatalities and one critical injury recorded amid a string of alarming falls across the bay area.
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San Francisco
Bay
Oakland
Western powers seek Berlin break in stalemate talks
Geneva reports Western powers plan to pursue separate discussions on Berlin while insisting on a peace treaty for Germany. Gromyko signals a point by point reply to the Western package as Gro myko and Lloyd stay in Geneva. Herter heads to Rome and Couve de Murville to Paris for consultations amid the four power stand off.
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Geneva
Berlin
Germany
West Berlin
Gromyko
Kremlin
East Berlin
Khrushchev Rejects Western Plans at Geneva Lenin Prize Speech
Premier Khrushchev lashed out at Geneva proposals deeming them a bid to blame the USSR and said the real authors sit in the shadow of Adenauer. He spoke in Moscow’s Parliament Hall near the Kremlin while accepting the Lenin Peace Prize. In Rome U S Secretary Herter arrived for talks with Pope John XXIII and Italian leaders on global issues. Paris reports Foreign Minister Couve de Murville traveled to Geneva to brief De Gaulle during a foreign ministers conference break.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Geneva
Konrad Adenauer
Rome
U.S
Christian A. Herter
John XXIII
Herter
Ciampino
Vatican
Secretariat of State
Antonio Segni
Giuseppe Pella
Paris
Maurice Couve de Murville
de Gaulle
Barn for Sale by Ottawa Board of Education
The Ottawa Board of Education invites sealed bids for a metal roof Horse Barn at 35th and Ash Streets. Bids must be filed with the Board of Education Office by May 29, 1959. The board reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids.
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Ottawa Board of Education
35Th
Ash Streets
Board of Education
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