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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1963
Page
4
A garbled assortment of notices and items from Topeka area sources lists polio vaccine hours and locations at the Court House, hospital updates, bake sales, beauty service ads, a missing bicycle report, club meetings moved to Nov 14, and bridge winners. Also covers selective service physicals, a family trip, and a reader tip prize from The Herald.
A dated hospital notes list admissions and dismissals by patient name and address. Entries include Amos Barnhart Carl Redman Drexel Bule Cleveland Mrs David Burgoon Mon Why Monard Hoover John Stovall Mrs Larry Rickman and baby Guenter Albert Carpenter Marlin Mooney Bouglis Dickerson Alfred Spring Gayle Randel and others with various towns and routes.
Charles W. Heckman died November 1. Services conducted November 4 by Rev. Charles DuMond. pallbearers Ernest Sink Henry Gilroy Paul Heckman Marvin Durbin Claude Heckman Raymond Bainer. Hymns sung with Mrs. J. M. Kilgore. Buried Appanoose Cemetery.
Hannibal is overflowing with corn the farm type kind and the real thing with a 57 000 bushel pile on Broadway the citys main street. A shortage of barges and boxcars is causing the overflow and only one boxcar has arrived after ordering 38 two weeks ago. About 30 percent of the corn is in and good weather speeds harvest. The block long pile is sandbagged and plastic covered while officials warn its a gamble to store grain outdoors.
Topeka UP Don Wiggins resigned as secretary of the Kansas State Fair after Gov. John Anderson ordered it amid a KBI probe and state audit findings. The $10,500 yearly post was axed during a closed State Fair Board session. A search will start next week for a new secretary. Ferguson cited irregularities found by the KBI and audit, beyond routine red tape.
Police stopped Takao Ishimoto, 24, a member of the Patriotic Youth Association, as he appeared to stab Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda at an election rally in Tokyo. Ishimoto carried an eight inch dagger in his inside pocket.
Wichita AP delegates at the Kansas Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting favor selling wheat to Russia for cash, while deeming such sales distasteful. They also adopt stands opposing gasoline tax increases and household goods tax exemptions, backing public education overhaul, school financing reform, and tighter grain grading standards. The meeting runs through Wednesday.
Viet Nam correspondent James Marlow reports that U S policy under Kennedy lighted an economic fuse under Ngo Dinh Diem by gradually cutting aid. The 1960s shift included ending aid to elite airborne troops, curbing surplus food shipments, and signaling possible further reductions to press for a new government and broader support for the war effort. Kennedy warned changes could be needed and cited the test of aligning actions with winning the war.
Everett J. Cook 68 of Pomona died at home Monday at 7 30 p m He was a retired Santa Fe rail road worker and had lived in Franklin County since 1931 Services Thursday at 2 p m at Dengel and Son Mortuary Burial in Mt Hope Cemetery Williamsburg Born April 9 1895 in Charleston W Va he worked as a coal miner at Mulberry and Williamsburg before Santa Fe maintenance He married Sarah Ann Egeberry July 8 1916 at Mulberry Surviving wife three daughters Mrs DeLoris Griffin Mrs Erma Fritts Ottawa and Mrs Nadine Derrington Denver Colo four sons Everett J Cook Jr and William Pomona Marvin Chicago Ill and Charles Paola 14 grandchildren four great grandchildren and four sisters Mrs Vada Fletcher Mrs Grace Chandler Mrs Magrda Beadler and Mrs Dody Patrick Two sons and three daughters are deceased Emma Hartman 82 of Alva Okla mother of Mrs Frank Cox Richmond died Nov 3 She fell and relatives drove to Alva for funeral Mae Margaret Wingfield 83 longtime Ottawa resident died in Lawrence Hospital Surviving daughter Mrs Albert Brokmann and son W R Wingfield five grandchildren nine great grandchildren one sister and two brothers Funeral arrangements were announced
Six Malvern youths stopped a police car with a water balloon on Halloween. The balloon burst on the windshield and water drained onto the motor, stopping the car. Municipal Judge Wendell O. Epperson sentenced the youths to walk a half mile down Malvern's main street wearing signs indicating their offense.
A two car crash five miles south of Ottawa injured no one. Ralph W. Brown, 71, stopped at a county road stop sign and pulled into traffic, hitting Juanita M. Walen, 30, ofMeridan. Walen's 1961 Ford sustained about $200 damage, Brown's 1959 Chevrolet about $75. Brown was cited for failure to yield right of way.
Sale dates announced by Franklin County Sale Company include events every Saturday on Highway 59 in North Ottawa, a donation sale at Christian Church in Homewood Kans on Nov 6, an annual machinery consignment auction by Wilson and Locust on Nov 6, and a furniture and antiques sale by Mrs Ed Schriber located six miles west of Baldwin Junction on Highway 56 at 11 a.m on Nov 11.
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