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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1961
Page
4
Through error the Herald announced a May chest clinic date of 328. The clinic is May 25 at Ransom Hospital. X-rays will be May 2 and May 23 between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Appointments for X-rays should be made with Dr. F. A. Trump’s office.
The Fourth Quarterly Conference at Wellsville Methodist Church elected officers and committees with Rev. James Nabors as pastor. Mrs. Clarence Coffman was chosen chairman. Bill Kyle named lay leader. nominating committee includes Coffman, Gault, Harris, and Benham. A motion invited five Central Jurisdiction Negro churches to join the Kansas Conference. Kayettes plan a Signature Dance May 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the school multipurpose room and seniors will sign yearbooks there. Eighth graders from nearby country schools attend Orientation Day at Wellsville High Friday May 19. Various local guests and residents visited or moved recently, and Roy Chambers led school activities during the superintendent’s absence.
Mike Green, 32, son of Mr and Mrs Roy Green, was admitted to Olathe Community Hospital for a tonsillectomy on Monday and expected to be discharged Wednesday. In market notes, soybeans at 2.85, corn six varieties and eggs with graded prices listed for local buyers.
Mrs Marie Caruthers visited sister Mrs Clarendt Linhart in Burlington and mother Mrs Jesse Hess in Waverly. Mrs Sandra Early and her children returned to Lawton Oklahoma after a visit here with her mother Mrs Esther Moyer. Mrs Haze Swartz accompanied them to Oklahoma City to visit her daughter Mrs Kent Dixon.
Cattle and calves market data incomplete for prices. Hogs 3,000 head with barrows and gilts around 16.75 per 100 pounds for 1-2 weights. Sows steady. new weed list includes joint and quack grasses and several weeds, though county officials say Franklin County has limited growth of most. Noxious weed budget rises to 16,640 for 1962 to fund extermination and add a bindweed supervisor, Floyd Higdon.
Police using radar cited six motorists yesterday for speeding in 30 mile zones. Gary Hall 18 of RFD 1 Princeton drove 45, Janet K Frost 20 of Martin Hall Ottawa University 43, Lewis K Bailey 19 Garnett 42, George Dahna 33 Kinsley 40, Rex W Grothusen 18 Scott City 39, and Alfred K Hopkins 31 220 Maple 37. Dahna posted a $10 bond as did Hopkins and Grothusen. Bailey posted a $12 bond. All are to appear in Police Court Tuesday.
Funeral for Mrs. Charles Rouse who died May 15 was held at Sacred Heart Church May 19 with Rev. Henry Beier officiating. Pallbearers: A Anrig E E Dorkins A M Harvey Bernard Didde Harvey A Martin Lawrence Wightman. Burial in Mt Calvary Cemetery.
Mr and Mrs James Grogan travel to Topeka for the three day Jaycees convention where Grogan serves as District 7 vice president. Others from Ottawa include Jim Hastings Larry Walburn Jim Richardson Rick Beatty Vernon Chism Bil Seymour Charles Mavity Jr and Floyd Moore. Events cover a parade luncheon banquet and officer elections with Beatty presiding.
Admissions list includes Jeanette Kaub and several residents from Williams burg Pomona and Heights. Birth notices report three newborns including Gibson Anderssen and Wolken with weights. Dismissals note Rickey Limes Sterling Adams Rhodes and baby son from 74 S Poplar.
A 16 year old drugstore delivery boy, Thomas Grupe, was shot and died in the basement during a North St. Louis holdup at Speckart Drug Store. Store employee Paul Speckart and another worker were assaulted. robbers fled after taking cash. Both victims are white.
Kansas City AP Lt Col William M Canaday in charge of police operations for 18 months says courts and public fail to back law enforcement. He asks for a transfer away from direct policing as morale sinks. He commands 900 officers and cites slow trials and harsher rural penalties versus Jackson County juries. Police Chief Hockaday will comment after board review next Thursday.
ALBANY, N.Y. AP Hiland G. Batcheller 75 long‑time Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp chairman died at home He directed War Production Board steel division in World War II and served as vice chairman in charge of operations He received the President's Medal of Merit from FDR Batcheller joined Carnegie Steel 1909 rose to president Ludlum 1930 and led merger with Allegheny Steel A Brooklyn native.
In Birmingham Alabama seven Negro college students held in protective custody were moved to Ardmore Tennessee line and released. A white man and Negro remained jailed in Birmingham on minor charges tied to a Greyhound station integration attempt. The ten, linked to CORE freedom rides, were part of a mixed Tennessee College group aiming to travel by bus despite earlier violence. Some reports say hunger strikes occurred while officials offered to release in small batches if they left the city.
In Baxter Springs a cafe operator alerted Sheriff Carroll Lawson after two youths and a 17 year old girl left a $5 tip. Larry Herrington 17 confessed to stealing 600 dollars and 90 cartons of cigarettes from a vending machine service man in Coffeyville. He implicated his brother Marion 20. The trio, parolees from Hutchinson reformatory, were handed to Coffeyville police. Bernice Smith accompanied them and said she planned to marry in Miami Oklahoma but spent instead while waiting for a blood test.
Federal agents raided three Concordia clubs and seized 14 slot machines and a pinball machine. No arrests were reported. The Moose and Elks clubs and the Oasis club run by the American Legion were targeted, under Internal Revenue Code penalties. Lynwood Judson, Wichita intelligence chief, directed the operation.
Dear Ann Landers: My husband loves to dance and an old flame pursues him at every dance. I pulled him off the floor and his glasses fell. Now he accuses me of not being a lady. Dear Ann Landers: I am 33 dating a 44 year old man who keeps getting into bad business deals and won’t marry until he is financially stable. I wonder how much longer I should wait. Dear Big: Probably forever. Fear of marriage hides deep, unconscious doubts and wrecks plans.
Cuban exiles in Miami favored Castro’s offer to free invasion captives for 500 American bulldozers while split on who should deliver them. An anti-C Castro schoolteachers group pledged funds and planned a prisoners exchange committee meeting. A Cuban exile editor urged U S acceptance, and Jose Miro Cardona asked Red Cross to review the proposal.
A Laos neutralist reported today that two American fliers and an American television cameraman, missing since their helicopter went down in rebel territory, are alive. They are presumed prisoners of the Pathet Lao, though the Pathet Lao said they had not heard of the incident and would check.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP a Minuteman missile veered off course and was destroyed by the range safety officer about 90 seconds after liftoff on its second test flight with officials reporting no damage on the ground.
Mildred Stewart. owner of land in Franklin County Kansas the north half of section 19 township 16 south range 21 east 278 acres more or less declares lease dated January 19 1954 to Gerald Ball and Fred Hensieck forfeited for owner breach and demands surrender within twenty days and filing affidavit of forfeiture with the county register of deeds.
Published May 19 20 26 27 notice that Roderick B. Cupp and Edwina W. Cupp of Ottawa Broadcasting Company tendered for filing with the FCC a construction permit for KOFO FM 95.7 with ERP 6.49 KW and antenna height 153 feet, transmitter and studio at KOFO AM site.
Community classified items include painting and wallpaper services by local firms Gil bert Smith and Conrad's Spray Painters and Decorators, with contact numbers CH 2-5561 CH 2-2533 and CH 2-3268. Also offered are rock for driveways by Killough Construction Co CH 32-2274 CH 2-5199, dead animal removal, advertising space in Ottawa Herald, hydraulic jack and mower engine repair by Henry Alban 715 Willow, and farm equipment for sale including 1954 AC tractor with two row cultivator and a 1955 VAC Case tractor with implements, plus a Farmall B and other gear by George Dodder and L. M. Williams Baldwin and Bal win area listings.
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