Waverly events and Udall tornado aid headline in local notes
The Waverly Sportsmen's club sponsors a beach show and a hunt in Waverly city park on June 4 and 5. The June 4 bench show starts at 8 p.m. with the hunt to follow. Families of John Frank and August Rockers mark the 100th anniversary of their homestead at the John Mersman farm near Garnett. Herman Rockers, who homesteaded the place in 1855, was born in Hanover Germany in 1820. Frank countians helped Udall tornado victims, with Needham and Pickering aiding Odd Fellows and Rebekahs and pledging funds. Police remind no left turns at Main and Second, Third, and Fourth streets today due to holiday traffic.
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John
Frank
August Rockers
John Mersman
Garnett
Mersman
August Rocckers
Herman Rockers
Cole County
Hanover
Germany
Rockers
Franklin Countians
Udall
Kas
Steve Needham
Rantoul
W. L. Pickering
Ottawa
Odd Fellows and
Rebekah Lodges
Rebekah
Eva May Hill
Mr. Hope
Geraldine Hillege
Wichita
Needham
Odd Fellows
Pickering
Kansas
Herald
Rapidair pilot lands at Ottawa to avoid storm
Springfield Missouri based Rapidair Inc. pilot Roscoe Prescott landed at Ottawa Municipal Airport Friday evening while en route from St. Joseph to Springfield with a body. He weathered a large storm near Kansas City and considered circling west before landing at Ottawa at about 7 30 p.m. The body was left at a local funeral home while flight resumed next morning. Prescott reported seeing a funnel cloud near a storm cluster north of the area.
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Prescott
Rapidair, Inc
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Udall. Kas
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Oklahoma
Central
Mississippi Valley
Nebraska
Weather Bureau
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City Park
Memorial Auditorium
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Charles Williamson
Williamson Coal Company
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Water and Light Department
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Sycamore
Waff
Lyndon
Osage City
Reading
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Marais Des Cygnes
Richard Garrett
Topeka
Quenemo
la Cygne
Anderson County
Bill Graham
Harris Community
Garnett
Sand Creek
Charley Roehl
Logan
Main
Art Jensen
Bob Conaty
Eric DeGraffenried
Dee Montgomery
Baldwin
Commencement Speaker Cites Opportunities For Graduates
Ottawa High School awarded 118 diplomas at Memorial Auditorium. Dr. James A. McCain, president of Kansas State College, urged graduates to seize growing opportunities and to fit themselves for service despite keen competition. Several students earned straight A averages and scholarships to multiple state and regional universities.
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Memorial Auditorium
James A. McCain
Kansas State College
Manhattan
McCain
Kansas University
Sylvia Salb
Hosetta Landers
Doug Scott
Kay Daugharthy
Ottawa University
Carolyn Wenthe
Washburn University
Ravenna Peterson
Peggy Bunyan
Kansas State
Fred Kaiser
Don Sexton
Vernon Hay
Kent Granger
Henry A. Parker
Hood
S. Robert McCrea
Board of Education
William Luce
North Baptist Church
M. Todd Macdonald
United Presbyterian Church
L. B. Paine
Correction Hills Dog Food Pricing Update
Advertisement error corrected for Hills dog food four cans priced at 43 cents instead of 23 cents. Correction notice appears in Cheney markets section with classification 147-c-1t.
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Correction — Hills
Cheney
Weather report with hourly temperatures and records
The report lists yesterday’s high of 83 degrees at 4:00 pm and today’s low around 56 degrees between 1:50 am and 6:10 am. Hourly readings for the 24 hour period ending 8 am show temperatures from 57 to 81 degrees, with a river height of 13.3 feet and a light east wind. Record highs and lows for this date are 92 in 1926 and 34 in 1907, respectively, with highs 76 and lows 59 a year ago. Sky was partly cloudy yesterday.
Optimism On Polio Serum Sees Resumption Of Immunization
Washington reports rising optimism from Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele that the antipolio inoculation program will resume next week with second shots of Salk vaccine for nine million schoolchildren and possibly a booster shot seven months later. Approval and release of additional vaccine supplies follow stricter production and testing standards. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis funds the shots as vaccine makers comply with safer procedures and testing.
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U.S
Leonard A. Scheele
Scheele
Public Health Service
House Commerce Committee
National Foundation For
James Shannon
Lamb Ambulance
Five Wrecks Reported From Rainy Night City and County
A string of five traffic accidents occurred during a heavy rain storm, starting about 8:15 p.m. on the overpass south of town and continuing within the Ottawa area. Notable incidents involved Ray Fredston of Cozad and Jerry Patton of Maple, with damages around 75 dollars per car.
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Seventh
Main
Ray Fredston
Cozad
Nebr
Jerry R. Patton
Art Jensen
Bob Conaty
Wayne L. Harrison
Macon
A. L. Masters
Wichita
Masters
Ottawa
US 59
Don E. Moorer
Kansas City
Jove Hartley
Hartley
Earl Buckley
Hickory
Buckley
Grant Kirkland
W. O. Clutts
Clutts
Kirkland
Baldwin Junction
Eric DeGraffenried
Dee Montgomery
Milo Harris
Former Ottawa U Student Appointed Labor Commissioner
Roy L. Warkentine of Wichita was named by Gov. Fred Hall to the state labor commissioner post for four years beginning May 31, subject to Senate confirmation. A 42 year old former Ottawa University student and Marion native, he played football under Coach Erickson, later serving as secretary treasurer of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen local in Wichita. He has worked as a bus driver and in a bus company executive role.
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Roy L. Warkentine
Wichita
Fred Hall
Ottawa University
Marion
Charles D. Erickson
Warkentine
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Senate
County Plans Hopper Spray Across Roads
County agents and commissioners devised a plan to spray hoppers along county roads concurrent with bindweed spraying. Township boards urged to spray township roads, and spray materials will be available to farmers for fence rows and fields. Aldrin hopper poison, arriving Tuesday or Wednesday, will be sold at cost in 53 gallon barrels at the county barn. farmers should bring containers.
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Don Brown
Brown
Udall Tornado Fallout Looms Across Plains Towns
After a deadly tornado roared through Udall, Kansas, relief poured in as 300 vacant Wichita housing units opened, Red Cross pledged up to one million dollars, and authorities organized aid and search efforts. Ottawa and Osawatomie also faced flooding and power outages from storms and a lingering wash of rain.
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Udall
National Guard
Washington
Charles Bk. Slusser
Wichita
National Red Cross
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texas
Arkansas
Earl B. Rowe
Fred Hall
Red Cross
Garnett Man Is Guilty of Manslaughter
A Garnett district court jury found Blackie Lewis guilty of first degree manslaughter in the April 2 slaying of Fred Hermreck at Lone Elm. The 59 year old pipeline worker faces from five to 20 years in prison. The defense presented seven character witnesses and a new trial motion was filed after the verdict.
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Garnet, Kas
Blackie Lewis
Lewis
Fred Hermreck
Garnett
Lone Elm
Gwinn Shell
W. W. Lam
Joe McGinnis
Sam Lwing
Ray Perkins
Charles Alford
Elmer Peters
C. E. “Bus” Stanley
Stanley
Anderson County
Hermreck
Floyd H. Coffman
Ottawa
Memorial Day Observance Closes Ottawa Businesses
Stores will close in Ottawa for Memorial Day. Public buildings will shutter and there will be no mail deliveries. The Herald will not be published. American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars with auxiliaries will conduct services at local cemeteries and in numerous other area cemeteries.
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Ottawa
Herald
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Three Men Break Four Minute Mile In Heavy Track
London runners Chris Chataway and Brian Hewson, along with Hungary’s Laszlo Tabori, all broke the four minute mile. Tabori won in 3:59, while Chataway and Hewson clocked 3:59.8 on a heavy track with about 50 degrees temperature.
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London
Laszlo Tabori
Hungary
Chris Chataway
Brian Hewson
Britain
Babori
Chataway
Hewson
Royal Air Force
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