Theft report at Main Street business prompts police inquiry
A local business reported a morning theft with cash missing from a register. Ottawa Senior High art class showcased a marionette version of Cinderella for Speech Department students, with teacher Gene Walker supervising puppets and narrator Jim Gould leading the show. Earlier, Patrolman Art Jensen undersheriff Dean Driscoll and Lyle Fouts chased two escaped horses from Raymond Loux’s pasture for about 90 minutes before coralling them.
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Ottawa
Art Jensen
Dean Driscoll
Lyle Fouts
Raymond Loux
Open House At Armory In Ottawa Saturday
Armed Forces Day events include an open house at Ottawa National Guard armory on West 17th Street from 1 30 to 4 p m. Capt Don Capper says visitors can learn about the Guard role in national defense and local emergencies. Sgt John Hamerickhouse leads the display with free coffee and doughnuts for attendees.
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Armed Forces
Ottawa
National Guard
West 17Th Street
Don Capper
National Defense
John Hamerickhouse
Kansas Wheat Share Is High In 1956 Allotment
Kansas leads with 10,587,206 acres in the 1956 wheat planting allotment of 55,000,000 issued by the Agriculture Department. North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Texas trail with 7,321,263 4,860,057 and 4,227,196 respectively. Growers vote on quotas June 25 with approval by two thirds required. The national allotment remains the same with minor state share adjustments.
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Washington
Kansas
Agriculture Department
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas Food Costs April Up 2.5 Percent Over March
The State Labor Department reports Kansas food costs in April averaged 2.5 per cent higher than March and 2 per cent above April 1954. Ottawa Riding and Roping Club announces a Round and Square Dance on May 21 at 9 p.m. Armory. 139-¢-21.
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Topeka
State Labor Department
Kansas
Ottawa
Armory
Commencement Set For High School Ottawa U
Ottawa University will award bachelor degrees to 77 seniors at Wilson Field House on June 5 at 2 30 p m The 90th anniversary commencement features speaker John Naveen of Chicago investment firm Nuveen and board chair The baccalaureate service Sunday morning in First Baptist Church lists graduates from Ottawa and many other towns including Elizabeth Hazen Isabelle Jacobson Richard Martin Rubye Williams and Barbara Albrecht among others
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Ottawa University
Wilson Field House
John Naveen
Chicago
John S. Nuveen Company
Andrew B. Martin
First Baptist Church
Elizabeth Hazen
Isabelle Jacobson
Howard Machlan
Richard Martin
Rubye Williams
Barbara Albrecht
Rocky Ford
Colorado
Arlene Altenread
Hutchinson
Shirley Anderson
Stromsburg
Nebraska
Vernon Barker
McPherson
Donald Barton
Ogdensburg
New York
Massachusetts
William Howard
Denver
Billy Kahler
Fort Scott
Jacquelyn Kahler
Indianapolis
Indiana
Gene Landry
Wakefield
Missouri
Doris Laubert
Mayview
Jean Lewis
Wichita
William Lewis
Parker
James Liggett
el Dorado
Shirley Long
Roberta McBride
Hampton
Willard McCormick
Yates Center
John McCracken
Shenandoah
Iowa
Gail McKeag
David l Ryan
Battle Creek
Michigan
Marilyn Schoonover
Chanute
Margaret Schultz
Cicero
Illinois
John Spangler
Great Bend
Arkansas City
Robert Wheaton
Lewis
Grace Williams
New Berlin
Donna Wood
Aberdeen
Washington
John Woodin
Grand Island
For Sale Old Newspapers 10c Per Bundle
Classified item offers old newspapers for sale at ten cents per bundle from the Herald office. Local buyers may inquire at the Herald office for pickup or delivery options and available bundle counts.
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Herald Office
Memorial Day Services Set for Local Cemeteries
Memorial Day services will be held May 30 at Highland Hope and Calvary cemeteries with American Legion VFW and National Guard participation. Legion chaplain Father Mathew Guilfoyle will lead all three Legion services at 10 10 and 11 a m. A Guard flower flight and firing squad will honor the dead. VFW service at Highland starts 8 a m lasting about 45 minutes led by Frank Bogard. May 29 Legion volunteers decorate Ottawa area graves. workers include Harvey Stephens Dr Paul Hughes Joe Towner Grover Knight and Hubbard Brill. Plans also call for Grandview Mo air base planes to fly over. VFW flags will be placed May 29. cemeteries include Waverly and Overbrook.
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American Legion
VFW
National Guard
Legion and
Highland
Hope
Calvary
Highland Cemetery
Legion Guard
Mathew Guilfoyle
Legion
Grandview
Air Force Base
Frank Bogard
Lambert
Waverly
Overbrook
Nannie Doss Pleads Guilty
Nannie Doss admitted guilty of poisoning her husband and four other spouses in Tulsa District Court after a visit from her daughter reversing an earlier innocence plea. A sanity hearing this month cleared her of insanity in a 15 minute jury review.
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Tulsa
Okla
Nannie Doss
Ottawa High to Hold Baccalaureate and Commencement
Ottawa public schools finalize plans for seniors with baccalaureate on May 22 and commencement on May 27 at Memorial Auditorium. Kansas State College President Dr. James A. McCain will speak at graduation, with Rev. William Berger delivering the baccalaureate sermon.
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Ottawa
Ottawa High
Memorial Auditorium
William Berger
Federated Church
Robert Craig
Trinity Methodist
Gerald Mease
Church of the Brethren
G. Russell Fosmire
First Methodist
James A. McCain
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Henry A. Parker
Leroy Hood
William Luce
North Baptist Church
M.todd Macdonald
United Presbyterian
Robert McCrea
Ottawa Board of Education
Swope Park
Kansas City
Joel Nordeen
C. K. Smith
Effie Lou Nickel
Roger Fredrikson
First Baptist Church
Weather forecast shows showers and cooler trend inland
The forecast calls for showers and cooler extremes in the west with cloudiness east and central this afternoon, scattered storms southeast and central, cloudy tonight and Thursday with showers or thunderstorms. Highs 60 to 70, lows 50 to 65, and yesterday’s high 80. River at 1.04 feet.
Rain Sweeps Western Kansas With Heavy Local Totals
General rain blanketed much of western Kansas with heavy totals last night. Central and eastern sections were expected to receive substantial moisture tonight and Thursday. Minneola reported 3.41 inches. Ulysses 3.25. Healy 3.19. notes of hail at Dodge City and other towns. possible tornado tunnel near La Crosse unconfirmed. Roads were flooded, with several highways blocked. Forecaster Tom Arnold predicted scattered storms in southeast and central areas later today and tonight. Ottawa reported partly cloudy skies. yesterday’s high 80 and low 57. Marais des Cygnes river remains high at Ottawa. city water in good supply.
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Kansas
Weather Bureau
Minneola
Ulysses
Healy
Dodge City
Smith Center
Syracuse
Tribune
la Crosse
Montezuma
U. S
Sublette
Garden City
Liberal
U. S. 54
Meade
Plains
U. S. 160
Ottawa
Style show and exhibit at Ottawa High School Friday
Ottawa High School presents its annual industrial arts exhibit with a live model style show by the sewing department at 7 30 p m in the senior high auditorium. The woodworking metal work and other departments will be displayed in the junior high gym for inspection after the fashion program.
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Ottawa High School
Time To Spray For Grasshoppers In Kansas
County Agent Brown warns Eastern Kansas grasshoppers are hatch ing in threatening numbers and will be more severe than the past decade. Small hoppers appear in pastures and ditch areas. locals plan sprays, though many underestimate the threat. A coordinated county wide spray program could save crops this summer.
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Franklin County
Kansas
Dutch McKinzie
Lane
Dutch
Lawin's
Princeton
Las Vegas Gang Rounded Up As Mail Robbery Averted
Police and postal inspectors rounded up a gang near the Las Vegas post office on a tip of an imminent mail robbery. A consignment of casino money about a half million dollars was to be mailed to San Francisco but the transfer was halted. Las Vegas policeman George Anderson and his wife Joyce were arrested in front of the post office with Robert Schomer and others later detained on conspiracy to rob the U S mail charges. Additional suspects were questioned and a sixth person sought.
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Las Vegas
Nev
San Francisco
Mayj
Richter W
A. H. Kennedy
George Anderson
Joyce
Robert Schomer
U. S
Senate panel defeats push for high farm price supports
Washington by a one vote margin the Senate Agriculture Committee beat back a move to fast track early Senate action on a House passed bill to restore rigid high level price supports for basic farm crops. The panel said it will hold public hearings that could extend beyond the current session to study the House bill and the price support program generally.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
Saddle Club Plans Shodeo in Ottawa June 5
Ottawa Saddle Club plans a Shodeo on June 5 at the Ottawa Roping Club grounds on Wilson street road. The stock horse class tops the show with Bennett's Creamery sponsoring a trophy. Floyd Parsons of Wichita will judge, with entries from Wichita, Salina, Quinter and other Kansas towns. Twelve events total. rosettes awarded to top five placements and displayed in sponsor windows.
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Ottawa Saddle Club
Ottawa Roping Club
Fast Wilson Street Road
Bennett’ Creamery
Floyd Parsons
Wichita
Kansas Western Horsemen's Association
Ottawa Club
Salina
Quinter
Kansas
Drunk Drivers Special Target of Proposal
Hutchinson attorney general Harold R Fatzer outlined a three point program to crack down on traffic law violators with emphasis on drunken drivers At the Kansas Bar Association convention he urged diligent use of chemical tests from 1955 law close scrutiny of beer taverns and mandatory detachment of driver license tabs in traffic convictions He warned against pleas to lesser offenses and called for informing county judges to remove highway hazard from habitual violators He also noted a revival of bingo punch boards and slot machines in certain counties warning lotteries are felonies despite public support
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Hutchinson
Fatzer
Highway Patrol
Falzer
Eisenhower Praises Mrs Hobby On Vaccine Work
President Eisenhower defended Secretary Hobby at a news conference, praising her efficient handling of the Salk polio vaccine program and her cabinet service, while dismissing Sen Morse's call for her removal as unfounded. He noted Hobby’s wartime WAC leadership and said resignation rumors reflect personal considerations.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Hobby
Sen
Morse
D-Ore
Skelgas
4Th Main
Washington says U S still holds air supremacy
President Eisenhower rejected claims that the United States has lost control of the air to Russia. He stated today that such assertions are not true and reaffirmed American air dominance.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Russia
Cyanide Death Claimed Indian Student at Kansas State College
Coroner Dr. W. H. Clarkson announced after an inquest that cyanide poisoning caused the death of an Indian student at Kansas State College in Manhattan. The inquiry determined lethal poisoning was the cause of death.
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Manhattan
Kas
Kansas State College
W. H. Clarkson
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