Ottawa High School couples to appear on TV Teen Town
Thirty pairs from Ottawa High, selected this morning, will appear Saturday afternoon May 28 on WDAF TV Teen Town with Jay Barrington as host. The program will feature interviews, dancing, and a possible dance contest with prizes. transport by bus is provided.
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Ottawa High School
Wdaf-Tv
Jay Barrington
Leo Wohletz
Sylvia Salb
Doug Archer
Maureen Taylor
Marvin Wilson
Karen Wilson
Bob Luce
Kay Crites
Fred Harder
Marie Keelin
Fred Kaiser
Judy Max
Jim Green
Shirley Horn
Gary Hornbuckle
Linda Schwarz
Donnie Morris
Marilyn Irwin
Gary Shafner
Carolyn Senter
Morgan Williams
Lynda Igel
Rodney Shade
Elmore Going
Jarrett Clinton
Jane Casida
Ernie Shaffer
Nancy Morrisey
George Kramer
Betty Salmon
Meredith Williams
Alice Wilson
Jimmy Shelden
Jolene Brink
Sherm Price
Marcia Boucek
Sally Reeder
Raydell Hodson
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
Bexer Berndt
Ottawa University
Ottawa
Barrington
Berndt
Chamber of Commerce
Ottawa to discuss Main Street resurfacing and parking plan
Ottawa city commissioners talked about resurfacing Main Street and alleys east and west of it. They will consult state highway officials on cost sharing and may extend parking meters to Walnut and Hickory streets with some 15 minute meters planned on Main. Rev William Berger resigned from the library board and Harold Crawford was appointed to fill the term ending May 1 1957.
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Ottawa
Main
Main Street
Walnut
Hickory
William Berger
Ottawa Library Board
Harold Crawford
Brucellosis Tests Begin In This Area
A mobile laboratory arrived at the Bennett Creamery to begin a week and a half of brucellosis testing in cattle. The state federal effort uses ring tests on milk or cream, with blood tests for suspicious herds. Plans A B C cover herd and calf vaccination, and the unit stays in Ottawa then moves to nearby towns.
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Bennett Creamery
Kansas
Topeka
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Agricultural Research Service
Ottawa
Sharp Increase In New Cases Of Polio
Washington reports a sharp rise in polio cases for the week ending May 14 with 206 new cases, up 30 percent from the prior week, and 177 vaccinated individuals among inoculated persons remaining cases. The Public Health Service notes vaccine delays, 23 cases among contacts of Cutter Laboratories vaccines, and seven-plus suspect cases under study across several states.
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Washington
U.S. Public Health Service
The
Health Service
Cutter Laboratories
California
Leonard A. Scheeler
Nebraska
Idaho
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Illinois
Torrential Rains Drench Heart Of Dust Bowl Area
Western Kansas endured heavy rains described as the strongest since 1951 with totals up to nearly 3 inches in some spots and five inches in others. Flooding blocked highways near Mead Fowler Sublette and Plains. rail traffic also disrupted near Meade. Forecasters warned of more rain and cloudiness with clearing by Friday. Subsoil moisture gains should help pastures wheat and late crops, with highs in the 70s and lows around 50-60.
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Topeka
Kansas
Cawker City
Alton
Mead
Fowler
Sublette
Plains
Meade
Weather Bureau
J. &. Pallesen
Goodland
Emporia
Ashland
Beaver
Syracuse
Garden City
Big Bow
Ellinwood
Scott City
Liberal
Smith Center
Sun City
Ellsworth
Jetmore
Norton
Luray and
Healy
Russell
Wilson
Dodge City
Herman Wessmeyer
Ford County
U. S
Ulysses
Rock Island
Santa Fe
Trinidad
Colo
Ottawa University seeks bids for new library art center
Ottawa University advertising for bids on the new library art center building. Bids due noon June 7 to Business Manager Robert Bundy. Location on campus northwest of the Administration building. Design features include a single-floor reading rooms and offices with book stacks on two floors and an art gallery connection. Building funded by a $200,000 gift from anonymous donors.
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Ottawa University
Art Center
Robert Bundy
Wilson Field House
County approves low bid for county truck
The Price Motor Company was the successful bidder on a new pickup truck for the county highway department with a bid of 1295 dollars. Other bids received were Minnick Motor Company 1295 dollars Hewlett Chevrolet Company 1314.26 dollars and Sheldon Truck and Tractor Company 1365 dollars.
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Price Motor Company
Minnick Motor Company
Hewlett Chevrolet Company
Sheldon Truck & Tractor Company
New Grocery Group Formed in Ottawa
A group of seven independent Ottawa grocers form a cooperative to pool buying power and improve retailing. The Deerwood stores will include Kelsey Supermarket, West Side Grocery, Harrison Grocery, Zero Food Mart, Ogg Supermarket, Tucker Grocery, and East Side Grocery with plans to expand. Calls for in person Herald office pickup offer opportunity to profit year round.
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Ottawa
Deerwood Stores
Kelsey
S. Main
West Side Grocery
Maple
Harrison
S. Cherry
Zero Food Mart
Saturday To Be Buddy Poppy Day Ottawa
Saturday marks Buddy Poppy Day in Ottawa with the Veterans of Foreign Wars sale. Poppies are produced by disabled veterans and Boy Scouts will staff the business district to sell them. Two thirds of proceeds stay locally for veteran welfare, with the rest supporting national funds for orphans widows and totally disabled veterans. Mrs Viola Robinson chairs the Ottawa poppy drive.
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Ottawa
Veterans of Foreign Wars
National Fund For
Viola Robinson
Oklahoma Floods Sweep Across State From Texas to Kansas
Heavy downpours flood western and central Oklahoma swamping rivers and streams from the Texas border to Kansas. Three Duncan men were rescued from Highway 7 floodwaters near Lawton while a Harrah motorist escaped as Deep Fork Creek rose. Waurika floodwaters forced hundred families from lowlands. roads closed across southwestern Oklahoma. Farmers welcomed the moisture amid a drought, predicting boosts to wheat, cotton and other crops as reservoirs fill and pastures revive.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texas
Panhandle
Lawton
Deep Fork Creek
Frederick
Waurika
Cow Creek
Duncan
Comanche
The
Highway Patrol
Weather Bureau
Weather forecast and daily climate figures
Considerable clouds this afternoon and tonight with showers especially southwest where locally heavy. Friday clearing and warmer west, partly cloudy east with scattered showers southeast. Tonight low around 50 northwest to near 60 southeast, Friday high in the 70s. Yesterday’s high 80, low 56. Hourly readings for 24 hours ending 8 a.m. show temperatures from 56 to 79, with cloud cover and light northeast wind. River level 98 feet.
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Ottawa
Pac m. Wee
Drowned in Farm Pond Fatalities Reported Near Vassar
Ronnie Glenn Neill eleven year old son of Glen and Mrs Neill of 114 miles north of Vassar drowned in a farm pond yesterday around four pm. He fell from a pony and could not swim. Neighbors and county coroner Dr Niles Stout attended the scene. body recovered after some time. Surviving are sister Sharon fourteen and grandparents George Neill and F L Barkdoll. Funeral set for tomorrow at 2:30 pm Evangelical church Vassar with burial in Vassar cemetery.
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Ronnie Glenn Neill
Glen Neill
Vassar
Niles Stout
Sharon
George Neill
F. L. Barkdoll
Evangelical Church
Vassar Cemetery
Store Theft Is Unsolved
Local police sought a woman about 35 after a theft at Budge's Hardware 117 S Main yesterday between 11 a.m. and 12:20 p.m. Cash amounting to 474 dollars was taken from a plastic money bag in the cashier's desk drawer. another bag with money was untouched.
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Budge’s Hardware
S&s. Main
Wrist Broken In Accident On Pomona Youth
A Pomona youth on leave from the army, Pvt. Keith Barnhart, 20, suffered a broken wrist when his motorcycle went out of control and struck a box car on a neighbor's farm six miles north and a half mile east of Pomona. He was treated by an Ottawa physician and later taken to the army hospital at Ft. Leavenworth. he is stationed at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas.
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Pomona
Keith Barnhart
Dewey Barnhart
Barnharts
Pvt
Barnhart
Ottawa
Army
Ft. Leavenworth
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Topeka Man Hurt By Power Lines
A Topeka electrician, Dick Beard, 41, was badly burned when his body touched live power lines while wiring in a high line project in Lawrence. Beard, employed by O. K. Johnson Electric of Topeka, was rushed to a local hospital after a 4,200 volt current struck his left side and ran down his body.
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Lawrence, Kus
Topeka
Dick Beard
Beard
O. K. Johnson Electric Company
Lawrence
Eisenhower vetoes postal pay raise bill in Senate clash
President Eisenhower vetoed a measure granting a pay raise to 500000 postal workers, calling the 86 percent average increase too large. Senate Democrats planned an override vote next Tuesday while Knowland and Johnson anticipated likely success and a possible 7.6 percent compromise after the veto.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Knowland
Calif
Sen. Carlson
Kas
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Carlson
Rain A Strange Sight To Woman
Denver resident vents frustration as two years of water restrictions clash with heavy rainfall. A housewife phones the water board during yesterday's downpour to protest being unable to water her lawn.
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Denver
Water Board
Four Killed by Lightning in Texas Storms
A lightning bolt struck a Gillette Junior High School playground in Kingsville Texas killing four boys and injuring others as torrential rains and floods spread across Texas Oklahoma New Mexico and Colorado. Rivers rose nationwide with evacuations near Trinidad Colorado and Eastland Texas while schools closed and authorities urged caution amid widespread weather chaos.
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Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Kingsville
Gillette Junior High School
David Rojas
John C. White
Nepesta
Colo
Trinidad
Purgatoire
Santa Fe
National Guardsmen
Trinidad Junior College
Hoehne
Ballinger
Brady
Eastsland
Tex
Eastland
Temple
Waurika
Lawton
Frederick
Comanche
Walters
Colorado
Brady Creek
Okla
Texas Line
Pueblo
Arkansas River
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Crawford
Ottawa Garden
Kansas City
W. C. Harding
Wellesley Club
Swope Park
Phil Fanning
George Shuler
Herald
Bob Leonard
Nan Neville
K. U
Heart of Dust Bowl
West
I? P. Mo Armory
New Grocery Group
Buddy Poppy
Herald Office
Pers
Skelgas
4Th Main
Lamb Ambulance
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