Side Swipes and Ham Radio Triumphs Highlight Local News
Side Swipes notes Annie the Herald’s dog still seeks a home as Humane Officer reports only one adoption at the county Animal Shelter. Osage City hosts a ham radio contest where Charles Henning wins first by locating a hidden transmitter using a directional antenna mapped by 360 degree readings. An abandoned pickup after a Saturday crash near Princeton prompts a hold order until owner is found.
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Annie
Herald
E. &. Hill
John E. Faulkherd
Wellsville
Charles Henning
F. I. Henning
Osage City
Henning
W. D. Bemmels
Ottawa University
Bemmels
Charles
Princeton
US 59
Inbri- In
Baby Born In Patrol Car At Ottawa Hospital
A Baldwin Junction couple faced a dramatic weekend birth as the wife Merlin Waldron Farley delivered a girl in a Highway Patrol car en route to Ottawa hospital. Trooper DeGraffenreid, Art Jensen, and Bob Conaty assisted, with the infant weighing 6 pounds 13 ounces. Officers suggested naming the baby after Eric, Arthur, or Robert.
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Douglas County
Baldwin Junction
Eric DeGraffenreid
Baldwin
Ottawa
DeGraffenreid
Ottawa Police Department
Art Jensen
Bob Conaty
Waldron Farley
Rt. 3
Deivery Room
Farleys
Eric
Arthur
Robert
Convictions Thrown Out By Supreme Court
Washington reports the Supreme Court voided contempt of Congress convictions of two United Electrical Workers officials and the Daily Worker general manager. The Court ruled the convictions fail because witnesses invoked the Fifth Amendment protections. Dissenting opinions noted broader implications for free speech claims and congressional investigations.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Reft
United Electrical Workers
The
Daily Worker
High Tribunal
High
Julius Emspark
Union
Warren
Black
Frank Wichita
Andrew ¥.Furler
Douglas
Burton
Clark
Schoeppel
Kas
FredjJustices
Harlan
Reed
Hall
Kansas
Vetizon
Elans
Wichita
Thomas Quinn
War- Schoeppel
An Jren
Nual
Gov. Hall
Ses
Sion
VFW
Auxiliary
Minton
Philip Bart
Jack Miller
Kinsley
Lela Todd
Wellington
Enispak
Wayne E
Richards, Arkansas City
Immer
Diate
House
CIO
Negro Masons Plan Convention Ottawa Kansas
The 80th annual communication of Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Kansas Masons will be held in Ottawa on June 8 9 and 10 at Memorial auditorium. The event is expected to be the state’s largest Negro gathering with guest speaker Thurgood Marshall chief counsel for Prince Hall Masons Legal Research Department N A A CP. A parade and a Celester White Orchestra dance are planned.
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Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Kansas Masons
Ottawa
Thurgood Marshall
Prince Hall Masons Legal Research Department
Memorial Auditorium
Celester White
Power Line Charge Fatal Near Ottawa
John Eugene Busson 26 died when a guy wire touched a 6900 volt Kansas City Power and Light line while setting up a drilling rig to water a well for Bob Granger on Duchesne hill east of his cafe. He was born Nov 29 1928 in Franklin County and leaves a wife and children. Funeral at Lamb Funeral Home Tuesday at 2 pm with burial at Evergreen Mound Cemetery.
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Ottawa
John Eugene Busson
Rt. 1
Baldwin
Busson
Bob Granger
Duchesne Hill
Granger
Kansas City Power & Light Company
KCPL
Bulson
Harry Gilliland
Gilliland
Franklin County
John J
Minnie Crowell Bulson
Peggy
Sue Bulson
Gloria Stokke
Connie Sue
Barbara Jeean Bulson
Maripee Aoeet Ned Taeiaeh
Four Hurt In Crash Near Wellsville On K-33
Four persons were injured in a two vehicle crash half a mile north of Wellsville on K-33 Saturday afternoon. Elwood Leach 14 of Wellsville drove a 1948 Dodge eastbound colliding with Ray Evans 25 of Quenemo in a 1954 Chevrolet pickup. Injured were Leach Seyler Shaber and Evans.
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Wellsville
Art Jensen
Bob Conaty
Elwood Leach
Ray Evans
Quenemo
Leach
David Seyler
Robert Shaber
Seyler
Shaber
Evans
Ransom Memorial Hospital
St. Lukes Hospital
Kansas City
Crash Total Rises To 91 in Ottawa This Year
Two accidents in Ottawa this morning raised the year’s wreck toll to 91. The first at Third and Main involved a 1955 Ford driven by E E McDaniel. The second at Powhattan and Martin killed seven and injured 20, including a 14 year old girl, as a 1955 Lincoln and a 1949 Mercury plunged into a ravine after a truck swerved.
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Ottawa
Third
Main
E. E. McDaniel
Cagliari
Sardinia
Plymouth
Powhattan
Matin
Lincoln
J. Birl
C. Clark, Jr
Los Angeles
Mercury
T. J. Wray
Pomona
Fires Rage In Canadian Woods Across Provinces
Unchecked forest fires burned across Nova Scotia and Ontario today, destroying over 100 buildings and scorching 15 000 acres of timber. Three thousand volunteers aided efforts along the ports of Liverpool and Bridgewater as winds fanned flames. In northern Ontario 67 fires burned with two small communities threatened.
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Halifax
N.S
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Nova Scotian
Liverpool
Bridgewater
Crop Requirement Is Repealed
President Eisenhower signed a law repealing the 1954 rule requiring full compliance with acreage controls on six major crops to qualify for Agricultural Conservation payments. The change eliminates the mandate tied to corn, wheat, cotton, tobacco, rice, and peanuts.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Boy Hurt In School Play Bat Incident
In a Maysville Kentucky school play scene Larry Jones aged 13 swung a baseball bat at Will Perry delivering a soft blow over the head. The bat struck Perry between the eyes sending him to the hospital with a four stitch cut. The play ended abruptly.
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Maysville
Larry Jones
Will Perry
Larry
Will
London Dockers Strike Disrupts Major British Ports
More than a third of dockers at four major British ports stopped work in an interunion dispute that could harm the export trade as the nation faces the May 26 general election.
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London
Kansas Savings and Loan League Elects Leaders
TOPEKA John R. Cauthorn Wichita is the new president of the Kansas Savings and Loan League. Other officers named include Dud Stavely Lyndon first vice president, L E Eby treasurer, and Paul B. Morris Topeka reelected executive vice president. Judge James P. Coleman of Junction City presides as Geary County judge in a disqualification case involving Charles W. Webster versus William L. Hall.
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Topeka
John R. Cauthorn
Wichita
Kansas Savings and Loan League
Dist
A. K
Nual
Stavely
Lyndon
Apsley Henderson
Lola
Kansas Supreme
Law
Rence
Paul B. Morris
Geary County
Son
Charles W. Webstive
Ber
William L. Hall
James P. Coleman
Junction City
Duck eye membrane acts like goggles on water
Ducks possess a transparent membrane that can be lowered over the eyes similar to goggles. Termites have a notably long lifespan of up to 30 years.
Governor names new Kansas traffic services director
Gov. Fred Hall announces Claud R. McCamment of Washington, D. C., as state highway traffic services director to reappraise the safety program and convene a safety conference. McCamment, former highway safety engineer and ex AAA staffer, will oversee the Highway Safety Division and succeed R. R. Ireland in the department.
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Topeka
Fred Halliday
Claud R. McCamment
Washlington
D. C
Hall
McCamment
Highway Department
American Automobile Assn
Washington
R. R. Ireland
Kansas
McCamiment
Pleads Guilty To Charge of Evasion in Camden
Albert Anastasia, reputed head of the Brooklyn mob Murder Inc., pled guilty in Camden to income tax evasion. He admitted withholding 11743 dollars from the government during 1947-48. Judge Thomas Madden set bail at 10000 dollars pending sentencing on June 3. For sale old newspapers 10 cents per bundle Herald office.
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Camden
Albert Anastasia
Brooklyn
Light showers drift across Ottawa and Alabama in cool pattern
Sprinkles fell in Ottawa and a light rain event persisted across the eastern half of the country today. A cool front moving from Kansas triggered storms at several points. The Weather Bureau forecast cooler temperatures after the front’s passage across the state, with Geneva, Alabama reporting a downpour last night.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Geneva
Ala
Ottawa High School Baccalaureate Draws Large Crowd
A large crowd gathered at Memorial auditorium for Ottawa High School baccalaureate last night. The event featured remarks by Rev. William Berger, with a plan for finals and the upcoming graduation events. Seniors prepare for exams, annual picnic in Swope Park, and commencement at Memorial auditorium with Dr. James McCain as speaker. TV Teen Town program will feature 40 Ottawa couples on Saturday. Leroy Hood guided ceremonies as Ottawa High’s principal.
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Ottawa High School
Tee
Rey
Berger
Federated World
Swope Park
Kansas City
Memorial Auditorium
James McCain
Kansas State College
Manhattan
National Guard Armory
Ottawa Steel Products, Inc
Wdafe-Tv
Channel 4
Jay Barrington
Leroy Hood
Ottawa High
Consolidation Talk For Rural High Schools At Pomona
Public meeting set for 8 p m in Pomona High School gym to discuss merging four area rural high schools Pomona Michigan Wal ley Quenemo and Appanoose in light of flood damage and concerns raised by state schools superintendent Adel Throckmorton.
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Geneva
Ottawa
Pomona
Michigan
Walmorning
Ley
Quenemo
Appanoose
Adel Throckmorton
Pomona High School
Weather outlook with showers and clearing conditions today
Considerable cloudiness this afternoon clearing northwest to night and northeast Tuesday. Scattered showers and thunder storms southeast and extreme east this afternoon and tonight. Cooler west and north this afternoon and tonight, warmer extreme northwest Tuesday. Highs in the 70s, lows around 40s to 60s. Yesterday’s high 85, low 69. River at 0.91 feet.
Hall Denies Purge Charge In Kansas
TOPEKA Gov Fred Hall rejects Arthur Stanley Jr s claim that he aims to purge his administration as utter nonsense He says Stanley should resign from the State Board of Review after Stanley demanded Hall accept the resignation of Blake Williamson as attorney for the Board of Medical Registration and Examination and make the board act on it
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Topeka
Fred Hall
Arthur Stanley Jr
Kansas City
Hall
State Board of Review
Kansas Movie Censor Agency
Stanley
Board of Review
Mall
Blake Williamson
State Board of Medical Registration and Examination
Study on Salk vaccine marks polio program resumption
Washington experts gathered to review plant inspections at Cutter Berkeley Parke Davis Lilly Wyeth Marietta and Pitman Moore as they weigh standards testing and vaccine supply for the rest of summer. NIH and Scheele promise advisory decisions with potential delays if additional tests are needed. Senate committee plans closed session on federal controls, while Eisenhower opposes, Democrats push standby measures.
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Washington
U.S. Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health
Govlea
Leonard A. Scheele
NIH
Cutler Laboratories
Berkeley
Calif
Parke, Davis & Co
Detroit
Eli Lilly’ & Co
Indianapolis
Wyeth, Inc
Marietta
Pitman
Moore Co
Eisenhower
Indian Women Arrive for Six Month Farm Study Tour
Nine young Indian women social workers and teachers arrived aboard the liner Independence for a six month study tour of farm homes in seven states. Sponsored by the National Four-H Club Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the visit marks the first Indian distaff study of U S farm life by these groups. They will live with private farm families in Kansas Ohio Arkansas Minnesota Missouri Illinois and Kentucky and participate in programs across the Midwest and South.
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New York
United States
Kansas
Dhe
Ile H
Peek Ae
National Four-H Club Foundation
Ford Foundation
U. S
Ohio
Arkansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Illinois
Kentucky
Dance Recital at High School Auditorium May 124
Tuesday evening performance at 8:00 p.m. features Lowena Minckley Dancing School students in a recital held in the High School Auditorium. The event showcases local dancers and likely includes student routines and demonstrations.
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Lowena Minckley Dancing School
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