Head Start Kids Are On Their Way
A Head Start Recognition night in Ottawa featured 17 pre school children performing for parents teachers and guests. Thirteen will attend kindergarten this fall and four will enter Head Start next year. Certificates were awarded to mothers volunteers staff and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosie
Ottawa
Kathern Renee Bishop
Lola Mae Burgoon
Connie Coleen Criqui
Michael James Daniels
Zena Louise Evans
Dean Richard Lane
Randy Dale Ledom
Reva LaJoe Long
Darrell Wayne Moore
Kathy Diane Moore
Douglas Wayne Morgan
David Neal
Annette Raylene Reeves
Lori Ann Robinson
Ramona Sue Turner
Rex Waddell
Sandra Wilson
Noteables
David Clapsaddle
Head Start
Robert Frost
Clapsaddle
First Methodist Church
Marvin P. Forker
One French Leader Quits Amid GAullist Crisis
Paris AP reports Education Minister Alain Peyrefitte resigned amid student strikes that crippled France’s economy. Premier Georges Pompidou will assume Peyrefitte duties, as the strike crisis widens and calls for a provisional government surface.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Alain Peyrefitte
France
Premies Georges Pompidou
Peyrefitte
Charles de Gaulle
Gauls List
Latimer seeks Franklin County Attorney nomination
Mike Latimer a 25 year old Ottawa lawyer filed for the Republican nomination for Franklin County Attorney. He is a Washburn University graduate with a law degree earned in January and a bachelor’s in business administration. Latimer resides at 1119 S Cedar with his wife Susan and their eight month old son Darren. He has worked in private practice with Richard Skoog and cites local roots as his qualification. The incumbent Myron S Steere has not yet stated if he will run. Democrat Gary Jordan also seeks the nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loren Latimer
Bob
Squire Shoppe
Latimer
Washburn University
Topeka
Susan
Washburn
S. Cedar
Darren
Richard Skoog
Franklin County
Myron S
Jack” Steere
Steere
Gary Jordan
Washburn Law School
Judge White Seeks Second Probate Term in Franklin County
Donald L. White, 42, announces bid for a second consecutive term as judge of the Franklin County Probate Court on the Republican ticket. He also serves as judge of the county and juvenile courts and municipal court in Ottawa. White, a Franklin County native born in Lane, is married to Flo with three children Tab Jacque and Michelle. He is a graduate of Ottawa University and the University of Kansas School of Law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald L. White
Franklin County
Judge White
Lane
Leonard
Scoop” White
Esther White
Bruce Lant
Ottawa
Flo
Tab
Jacque
Michelle
S. Cedar
Ottawa University
University of Kansas School of Law
County Forecast And Veteran’s Biography Snippet
Weather forecast notes clear to partly cloudy and warmer through Wednesday with lows near 50 and highs in the upper 70s. The rest outlines an Army Air Corps World War II veteran and Korean War Air Force veteran who began private practice in Ottawa in 1954 and served nine years as Franklin County attorney, with affiliations to Masons Kiwanis and the Elks.
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Army Air Corps
Air Force
Ottawa
Franklin County
Masons, Kiwanis
Order of Elks
Methodist Church
Envoys Figure To Be Around For Some Time
Paris AP top U.S. negotiators Harriman and Vance plan to move from the Hotel Crillon as talks with North Vietnam drag on. Thuy and the North Vietnamese team moved to a villa near Paris, with aides noting slow momentum in discussions on military activity and the U.S. role. Over 70,000 North Vietnamese troops are said to be in the South.
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Paris
U.S
Southeast Asia
W. Averell Harriman
Cyrus R. Vance
Crillon
Xuan Thuy
Harriman
Vance
Thuy
France
Eco
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
United States
Vietnam
Didde Funeral Services Thursday for Ottawa Businessman
Bernard M. Didde 48 a Ottawa businessman died suddenly Monday. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Rev. Robert A. Burger officiating. Burial will follow in Mount Calvary Cemetery Ottawa. A Knights of Columbus prayer service is planned for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home and rosary at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. The family requests memorials to Sacred Heart Church. Didde a World War II veteran owned Didde Office Supply and lived in Ottawa since 1950. He was a Navy Aviation Cadet 1944 45 and studied at the University of Iowa and Emporia State College. He married Dorothy Diebolt in 1947. He was active in Sacred Heart Parish and Ottawa Kiwanis Club among other organizations. Surviving are his wife three daughters and three sons at home, four sisters and three brothers.
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Bernard M. Didde
Ottawa
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Robert A. Burger
Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery
Knights of Columbus
Lamb-Roberts
Memorial Fund
Sacred Heart Church
Didde
Didde Office Supply
Nortonville
John A
Catherine
Nell) Didde
U.S. Navy
University of Iowa
Emporia State College
Dorothy Diebolt
Emporia
Sacred Heart Parish
Ottawa Kiwanis Club
Paul Schmidt
Mary Katherine
Anita Marie
Barbara Jean Didde
Gerald Bernard
Michael John Didde
George C. Schneider
Mission
A. P. Wehrle
Albuquerque
N. M
Maurice Johnson
Houston
Tex
Harlan Foster
Hoyt
Kan
Carl Didde
Edmund Didde
Kansas City
John Didde
Topeka
Oil Slick In Search Area For Lost Sub
The Navy reported an oil slick spotted along the Scorpion search area two days after the atomic submarine went silent with 99 crew aboard. Navy ships scour the Atlantic for debris or surface evidence as a cautious effort, with officials noting oil slicks are routine but expressing growing concern as time passes.
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Washington
Navy
Scorpion
Norefolk
Atlantic
Pentagon
Cate
John F. David
David
Memorial Day Closures and Summer Pool Opening in Ottawa
Many government offices including Franklin County and city offices close Thursday for Memorial Day with some closures Friday. Ottawa Post Office windows shut Thursday with no carrier service. special holiday mail remains for perishables and inside box mail. Memorial services planned at Highland Cemetery by VFW and American Legion. East Fifteenth Street detour to cemetery. bricks removed and dirt drop. Forest Park pool to open Thursday at 1 p m with 1 p m to 9 p m hours and standard admission and season ticket pricing. Lifeguards named with backups listed. Herald office closed. Thursday paper not published.
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Franklin County
Kansas Employment Security Division
Employment Service
Highway Patrol Office
Unemployment Compensation Department
Selective Service
Federal Home Administration
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation
Soil Conservation Service
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Ottawa
Chamber of Commerce
C of C
Highland
Fifteenth
Fifteenth Street
Orlis Cox
Ottawa Recreation Commission
Forest Park
Cox
Ellen Speer
Glenn Perry
Becky Reynolds
Cicily Park
Sara Killough
Christy McAdoo
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The
Mothers Club
Christian Fouchet
Georges Gorse
Pierre Messmer
Louis Joxe
Francois Mitterrand
Federation of the Left
de Gaulle
Mitterrand
Mike Latimer
Michael Latimer
White
Warren C. Black
American Legion
Sacred Heart Council
Bernard Didde
Norfolk
Monrovia
Mediterranean
Ottawa’s
West Franklin
Pomona
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
East Fifteenth Street
Highland Cemetery
Ninth Street
Lincoln Street
Harvey Drake
ORC
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