Damage Estimate At School Was A Teeney Bit Low
Insurance adjustors finally set the Ottawa High School fire losses at a little more than 50 000 dollars. Smoke damage topped 14 000 dollars in cleaning costs while repairs included 6 000 for a west shop wall 5 000 electrical work 3 400 ceilings and halls 8 000 gym repainting 2 500 mechanical work and 4 500 loss of shop items. District building funds cover the costs pending final insurer payment.
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Ottawa High School
De Gaulle Takes Charge as French Farm Crisis Worsens
Paris AP reports President Charles de Gaulle moved into the farm dispute urging farmer cooperation and a halt to bloody demonstrations after riots left about 250 demonstrators and police injured. In Quimper more than 100 farmers and 66 gendarmes were hurt per official counts.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Brittany
Quimper
Grand Champion Lamb at Kansas show led by 13 year old Steve Menzies
Steve Menzies, 13, of Manhattan, showed the grand champion 105-pound Hampshire lamb at the Kansas National Junior Livestock Show in Wichita, besting 219 entries. His family is connected to Kansas State University. He also won top pen of three lambs, a repeat of last year’s champion line.
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Wichita
Steve Menzies
Manhattan
Carl Menzies
Kansas State University
Menzies
Major Tax Jump Ahead At Princeton
Tax increases hit Franklin County with Ottawa showing a 14.62 mill rise and Princeton a 33.82 mill jump the largest in the county. Lane decreases 0.65 mill while bonded indebtedness and rising school costs drive district totals higher. First half due November 1 and second half by June 20.
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Unified School District
Ottawa
Princeton
Lane
Pomona
Rantoul
Richmond
Wellsville
Williamsburg
West Franklin
Central Heights
Symington urges staged halt to Vietnam action with talks
Sen. Stuart Symington urged a fixed date pause in all U.S. military action in Vietnam followed by possible unlimited war if peace talks fail. He linked the halt to Saigon agreeing to negotiate with any group and offer amnesty to Viet Cong. He warned the move reflects concerns over Soviet gains in the Mediterranean and cautioned against invading North Vietnam.
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Washington
Stuart Symington
Vietnam
Symington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Air Force
Saigon
Missouri Democrat
Senate
Laos
Thailand
Middle East
Europe
Mediterranean
United States
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Charles de Gaulle
France
Ners el Kebir
Algeria
Book Fair At Ottawa Junior High Opens October 2
Ottawa Junior High School hosts a five day Book Fair from October 2 to 6 in the library open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students, parents and visitors may browse, buy books, and support the library and Drama Club which receive 20 percent of sales. Co chairs are Miss Judith Crane and Mrs Jo Ann Cearfoss.
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Ottawa
Drama Club
Judith Crane
Jo Ann Cearfoss
Book Fair Co
Educational Reading Service
Religious Groups Offer Refuge To US Draft Dodgers
A national group of 320 signers including 35 clergymen pledges sanctuary in churches and synagogues for youths resisting the Vietnam draft. They call on authorities to observe constitutional rights while planning a public ad in magazines and newspapers.
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New York
William S. Coffin Jr
Yale University
Coffin
Weather Summary for Monday and Past Conditions
High Monday 83 in the day’s warmth with a 61 degree low today. Compared to last year’s 84 high and 58 low, records show 91 in 1909 for high and 36 in 1908 for low. Hourly readings end at 8 am with 66 at 9 am and 69 by 1 pm, barometer at 29.89 inches.
Cool View This Year On Red China UN Entrance
United Nations in New York faces doubt over seating the Chinese Communists. Turmoil from Mao Zedong's purges and Red Guard violence has cooled support from longtime backers in Asia and Eastern Europe. Gromyko Britain and France offered limited or no endorsement, reflecting uncertainty on the seat held by the Nationalists.
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Red China UN
United Nations
N.Y
Mao Tse-tung
China
Peking
Mao Tseszung
Asia
Europe
General Assembly
Andrei A. Gromyko
Britain
France
Traffic Study Proposal For Toll Road Link
A committee of the Kansas Highway Commission and Kansas Turnpike Authority agreed to request traffic studies from Wilbur Smith and Associates of Atchison. The firm’s representative will be asked to appear at a joint meeting on October 13 to discuss linking the toll road between Johnson County and Mid-Continent International Airport at Kansas City.
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Topeka
Kansas Highway Comemission
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Wilbur Smith and Associates
Atchison, Kan
Johnson County
Kansas City
Highway Commission and Turnpike Authority
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California
Boys’ Club
Third and Mulberry
Orlis Cox
Marty Woodward
Donald Bouska
Guy Briscoe
Don Woodward
Gene Price
Mildred Pritchard
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