Ottawa library move stirs local interest and rain plan
Ottawa plans to move 19 000 library volumes tomorrow using a student faculty pack train in two to three hours from the south campus library to the Myers library on the north campus. If it rains, librarian William Hutchinson would borrow 400 umbrellas and proceed. Local residents back the move as a boost for new libraries. Ottawa National Guard officers head to Spokane October 7 to 11 for the National Guard Association convention. Dick Walt joins the University Daily Kansan staff as a weekday reporter. Mrs Beatrice Martin Peck recalls her dog Skipper being rescued by a cocker spaniel after an escaped leash incident at Rockwood Acres last Sunday.
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Ottawa University
Kansas City
Topeka
William Hutchinson
Myers
Forth
Hutchinson
Ottawa National Guard
Spokane
Wash
National Guard Association
Don Capper
127Th Field Artillery
Kansas National Guard
Dan E. Karr
127Th Field Artillery Battalion
Chet Medaris
Medaris
195Th Field Artillery Group
Ottawans
Dick Walt
University of Kansas
The
Herald
Walt
A. B. Walt
Girard
Chanute High School
Beatrice Martin Peck
Skippers
Rockwood Acres
Williamsburg Plans Vote On $364,000 School Bond Issue
Williamsburg voters will decide November 1 on a $364,000 bond package to fund new combined high and grade school facilities. District No 51 would seek $168,000 for the grade school and District No 6 $196,000 for the rural high school. The plan includes razing the old 1885 building while retaining a gymnasium auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamsburg
Douglas Brothers Mattress Promotion Ends Soon
Local ad promotes Sealy mattresses at Douglas Brothers with a save offer. Free merchandise worth 21.00 with a 100.00 purchase, promoting strong value and limited time emphasis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sealy Mattresses
Douglas Bros
Colt
No Let-Up In Summer Weather
Summer conditions persist in the Ottawa area with a high of 92 degrees and pleasant nights for sleeping. The mercury fell to 53 last night as cooler air arrived briefly, while the forecast calls for 90 to 95 highs and generally fair skies with no rain. Walter Schwarz reports Worden rain totals of 1.06 inches in September, bringing the year to about 25.55 inches, 2 inches below normal. Ottawa is about 6 inches short for the first nine months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Weather Bureau
Walter Schwarz
Worden
Start Elections In Townships In Franklin County
The first township election meetings to name Extension Council representatives in Franklin County are announced by Don Brown. Homewood township meets this evening at Homewood school with elections for agriculture, home economics, and 4-H representatives. Mary Deane Holle and Dick Jameson will report at meetings, with additional sessions in Harrison Elm Grove and Centropolis later this week.
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Extension Council
Franklin County
Don Brown
Homewood Township
Homewood
Brown
Mary Deane Holle
Dick Jameson
Harrison Township
Elm Grove
Centropolis Township
Centropolis
Farm Bureau Supper Tomorrow at Memorial Auditorium
A Farm Bureau supper is scheduled for Wednesday October 3 at 7 p m in Memorial Auditorium. Elections will be held to nominate township directors, Farm Bureau woman chairman, agriculture leader and youth leader for Centropolis Franklin Harrison Hamewood Ohio Peoria Pottawatomie Williamsburg Greenwood. State Program of Work will be considered for approval or rejection. The bureau will serve hot dogs and drinks. attendees should bring salad or pie and table service.
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Farm Bureau
Memorial Auditorium
Centropolis
Franklin
Harrison
Hamewood
Ohio
Peoria
Pottawatomie
Williamsburg
Greenwood
Mental Health Plan Discussed in Garfield Meeting
At Garfield school last night a county mental health clinic plan was discussed. The PTA groups of Ottawa and the Lions Club sponsored the meeting. Dr. Robert Forman and Mrs. Lelia Myers spoke on state and local mental health administration. A committee to work out plans was to be formed with interest from several groups. Contacts listed for Dr. D. G. Laury and Mrs. H. W. Martin.
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Garfield School
PTA
Ottawa
Lions Club
Robert Forman
Shawnee County
Lelia Myers
State Board of Health
Topeka
D. G. Laury
The
H. W. Martin
PTA Council
Will Rebuild Old Building At High School
The school board voted to convert an old wood vocational agriculture shop into a 24 by 40 foot garage for board vehicles. Elmer Kerbs’ $1418.75 bid covers foundation work and remodeling the structure, which sits beside the high school and has been a fire hazard. The center portion will be razed and two ends joined to house the driver education car a pickup and a small tractor.
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Elmer Kerbs
Ottawa Area Students Constitute Fall Enrollment at Ottawa U
Ottawa University reports 102 students from Ottawa and nearby towns in fall enrollment. Students hail from 25 states and seven other nations, representing 88 Kansas communities and 115 communities in other states. Names listed include seniors Duane Bechtle Esther Bemmels and others from Ottawa and nearby towns across classes from freshmen to seniors.
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Ottawa
Ottawa University
University
Kansas
Duane Bechtle
Esther Bemmels
Freda Gardner
Charles Hartshorn
Maxine Haug
Joseph Henning
James Kahler
Albert Keefer
Roger Keltner
Betty Kimball
Carol Macdonald
Wesley Dyer
Elvin Phipps
Mary
Joy Stenger
Ronald Stout
Robert Wehmeir
Carolyn West
Marvin Wilson
Garnett
Wayne Fink
Beverly Johnson
Clausie Smith
Charles Holmes
Osawatomie
Donald Moore
Robert Howard
Ben Moor
Florence Arnold
Wendell Arnold
Joyce Fowler
Paola
Robert Peterson
Robert Walters
Norman Bastion
David DeHar
Ruth Dryden
Betty Northern
Phillip Stewart
Parker
Beth Diehm
George Diehm
Princeton
Benton Nitcher
Charles Walter
Rantoul
Connie Dempsey
Carolee Ferrer
Richmond
Gerald Milcfelt
Wellsville
Robert Cramer
James Wright
Williamsburg
LeRoy Fitzgerald
Duane Randel
Doyle Reichard
Terry Robe
Soldier Beaten To Death at Junction City Jail
A 38-year-old Fort Riley sergeant, M. Sgt. Charles A. Nower, was found beaten to death in Junction City jail. Police held Fort Riley private Emmett Williams, 19, on a warrant charging first degree murder. Nower is survived by his widow Mary Ethel Nower of Junction City and his mother Bernice Nower of Benton Harbor, Michigan.
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Junction City
Ft. Riley
Charles A. Nower
5Th Army Food Service School
B. M. Wolf
Emmett Williams
Nower
Mary Ethel Nower
Rt. 2
Bernice Nower
Benton Harbor
Mich
Clinton
N. C
Tennant Farm
Sampson County
Coleman Carter
Rufus A. King
King
Carter
Susan
Democrats Name Max R Gilmore Sheriff Candidate
The Franklin county Democratic committee appointed Max R Gilmore a 33 year old Ottawa resident as Democratic candidate for sheriff to fill the vacancy after Olin Minckley’s death on Sept 22. Gilmore, a World War II and Korean War veteran, works 30 years as a Hercules Powder Co guard and is an Ottawa property owner. Minckley had planned to name Gilmore as undersheriff if elected.
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Franklin County
Democratic Committee
Max R. Gilmore
East 15Th
Olin Minckley
Gilmore
US. Armed Forces Institute
Madison
Wis
Ottawa Masonic Lodge
Post ‘No
The
American Legion
Hercules Powder Co
Sunflower
Ottawa
Minckley
Negligence In Crash Death Near Baldwin Kansas
A coroner s jury finds negligence by Tim Bell 16 driver of the car in a Baldwin area crash that killed James Gunther 15 a Baldwin High School student. Bell faces negligent homicide charges. Olen Williams driver of the stock truck involved survived. Both teens were Baldwin High School football players.
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Bell
Wayne Alphin
Gunther
Olen R. Williams
Baldwin
James Dyer
Williams
Hall Says Suit Blocks Federal Hay Program
Gov. Fred Hall blocks an emergency hay program by refusing to sign a federal agreement while a constitutional challenge to the state's emergency fund remains in court. Dispute with Atty. Gen. John Anderson Jr. centers on use of funds from the State Board of Agriculture to finance drought aid.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
Supreme Court
Hall
John Anderson Jr
Anderson
State Board of Agriculture
State Finance Council
Attorney General
Board of Agriculture
Finance Council
Wilfred Cavaness
Rchanute
Harry Frazee
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Frazee
Texas
Roy Freeland
John Anderson
John
Weather forecast shows warm spell with cooler nights
Generally fair this afternoon tonight and Wednesday. Cooler tonight and southeast and extreme east, warmer Wednesday. Low tonight 45 northwest to 50 southeast, high Wednesday 90 to 95. Yesterday high 92, low today 53. Record highs 95 in 1953, record low 34 in 1906. Hourly temps listed through morning.
District Poultry Meeting Tomorrow in Ottawa
A district poultry meeting will be held in Ottawa tomorrow at Memorial auditorium and Masonic temple. It opens at 10 a m with a turkey dinner at noon and an afternoon session at the Masonic temple. About 20 counties’ poultry men are invited as part of four Kansas meetings, led by Paul Brady of Paola, a Turkey Growers Association director. M A Seaton, Extension Poultry Specialist, Kansas State College, and a Kansas Poultry Improvement Association representative will attend.
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Ottawa
Memorial Auditorium
Masonic Temple
Kansas
Paul Brady
Paola
Turkey Growers Association of
M. A. Seaton
Kansas State College
The
Kansas Poultry Improvement Association
School Board Hears Report On Need For New High School
A five member committee from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools presented Ottawa's school board with findings on cramped facilities at Fifth and Main. They urged a new senior high on a separate site of 30 to 40 acres and using current buildings for junior high, noting good maintenance but inadequate classrooms, gym, library, science rooms, and no formal guidance program. Superintendent Parker said rooms are taxed and expansion impossible. the 1917 senior high and 1928 junior high buildings have limited life and need funds for planning.
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North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Ottawa Board of Education
Fifth and Main
Santa Fe
Main Street
Ottawa University
Ottawa
Henry Parker
NCA
Kenneth Anderson
Igi
School’ of Education
IOVU
Save! Save! Save! Purchase Merchandise Offer
An advertisement promotes a bulk purchase deal from Douglas Bros offering 100 dollars of merchandise for 21 dollars, with contact at 253-¢-Lt. The note highlights limited time value and checkout savings.
Dulles Urges West Europe as Third World Power
Secretary of State Dulles said Western Europe should become a third great power in world affairs and not neutral toward Soviet communism. He backed unifying moves by Konrad Adenauer and the Western European Union and said the United States favors Europe’s development. He cited Tito’s stance on satellite independence, Suez policy differences with Britain and France, and support for Peron in Argentina.
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Washington
Dulles
Western Europe
Konrad Adenauer
Western European Union
Eisenhower
United States
Europe
Russia
Tito
Red
Britain- France
U. S
Juan Peron
Alberto Gainza Paz
la Prensa
Buenos Aires
Peron
Need More Ottawans For Turnpike Trip
Ottawans must sign 20 more by Friday to secure a chartered bus for the October 13 Turnpike Blazer trip. Only 15 have signed. 35 are needed. If not met, travelers will carpool to Lawrence to join that bus for a $12 per person trip covering the Turnpike ride to Wichita, lunch, social hour, buffet supper, and program.
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Ottawa
George Lister
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Wichita
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George Schneider
Brooklyn
Ball Park
Ottawa Area
Allen McCullen
Keener
Raleigh
North Carolina
Hatch
Need For New High School
West Europe
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