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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1956
Page
1
Public notices from Ottawa list visiting relatives, local events, and school activities. Exceline school hosts its second annual homecoming with a 1 p m basket dinner on Sunday June 3. Local residents share hospital, education, and service updates including military training, job changes, and civic honors.
Hospital notes list dismissals including Marilyn McCall at 514 West Seven and others on Monday and Tuesday. Admitted patient Ruth Ann Cash of Ottawa route 2 and Theodosia Ruiz at 908 North Locust on Monday. Additional names include Mrs John Kramer and infant son, Mrs Claron Cordle, George Reed, Arthur Dennis, Mrs Estella Staley, Mrs Frances Loving, and the Deshazers of Baldwin.
A 25 year old crane operator told police he stabbed Robert Boyd Chapman 14 times on a lonely Texas road, robbed him, and dumped the body in a ditch after hitchhiking from Idaho. Chapman’s car was found. the suspect named as Clarence Edward Young, 6 7 and 275 pounds, in Wichita for three months.
Merle Roberts Jr., 38, a patient released in February from the State Mental Hospital at Csawatomie, opened fire on a patrol car near his home. Officers punctured his car with 13 bullets as he fled toward them, wounding none but prompting a gunbattle before he surrendered and handed over a rifle and two shotguns.
Mrs John Ochs aged 83 of Leavenworth dies at home after two months illness. She was mother of John Ochs owner of Richardson Shoe Store in Ottawa. Funeral set for Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at St Joseph Church Leavenworth.
Funeral services held for Edith E. Vinson 81 of Rantoul died May 25 in White Rock with Rev. W G Ward presiding. Pallbearers listed. interment Oakwood Baldwin. Separate funeral for Mary Catherine McFarland 92 at Sacred Heart church with Requiem High Mass. burial Saint Columbia cemetery Gardner.
Dry warm weather aided flood recovery in Indiana and Illinois allowing the Indianapolis speedway 500 mile race to proceed. Indianapolis faced a flood emergency with 2,100 Civil Defense workers on duty and 21 schools closed as 1,500 families evacuated. Heavy weekend rains caused extensive flooding along Sangamon River and nearby creeks, with two children drowning in Illinois. Tornado sightings in Iowa Texas and Illinois caused limited damage. Maury McDermott joins the Yankees after previous losses to the Red Sox.
Household goods and various sales announced across towns including Pomona Anderson County Ottawa Wellsville and Wellsville area. Entries list sellers such as Jack Nelson Neill George and Joe Brown with addresses and sale times on Tuesdays Thursdays or Thursdays nightly at locations like Pavilion street 1136 N Main and 516 West 6th Bt. Ottawa.
Oklahoma City City Service Gas Co president Glenn W Clark announced mailing 6 3 million dollars in refund checks to distributors after the Federal Power Commission approved a compromise natural gas price settlement last month. The refunds go mainly to distributors in Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma who will forward the money to customers.
Washington authorities ruled that idle workers must pay federal income tax on new supplementary unemployment benefits SUB plans negotiated by the United Auto Workers with General Motors Ford and Chrysler. The benefits start June 1 and are not wages for withholding or social security taxes, but must be reported as nonwage income. SUB covers up to 65 percent take home for four weeks and 60 percent for 22 weeks, aiding over a million workers in auto and other industries. U.S. Savings Bonds are safe.
Floyd R. Grey aged 23 and Betty Jean Toumberlin 15, Ot Kenneth Bern Kent 28 and Sally Joan Stans bury 21 Pomona, Robert D. Murphy 20 and Mona Mae Shields 17 Wells ville, George Benjamin Moor 25 Ottawa and Myra Nell Scott 20 El Dorado, Donald R. Caruthers 17 and Wilma K. O Connor 17 Wellsville, James Odell Leffingwell 21 Salina and Edith Irene Bear 21 Las Animas Colo.
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