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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1960
Page
4
HAL BOYLE collects humorous imagined letters people long to receive but never get. A carnival of ironic requests and sly jabs at American life through mock pleas about wives for a living museum, denture endorsements, long lost prom hopes, penny stocks, and gifts from parents and authorities.
Discharged soldier Howard Gretencord returns to Fort Riley area with parents the Frank J. Cretencords. Numerous readings note christening sponsors, travels to Fort Leonard Wood training for Feuerborn Jr and Benny Bennett, and long lists of relatives visiting, hospital stays, and weekend visits across Kansas and Missouri from Fort Riley to Topeka, Lawrence, and Ottawa Health details include Alma Bastin, Margaret Edwards, Effie Maxey, and Glen Wharton among many others.
John Richard Merit, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted, was found 50 feet underwater in a diving suit on a barge off Long Beach. Police ordered him hauled up after he boarded the vessel during a diving expedition. Merit, 28, was sought for a robbery in Atlanta, Georgia.
Singer Tommy Sands arrives in San Antonio to begin eight weeks of Air Force basic training at Lackland Air Force Base. He will receive four months of advanced training after basic before joining a reserve squadron in the Los Angeles area.
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