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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1971
Page
4
Postal service will be closed for Columbus Day with no city deliveries. Community events include Hawthorne School chili supper October 12, various dances at Naomi's Club and Latimer schoolhouse, an Eagle Dance, and a bake sale by Benner-Williams to support a scholarship fund. Army training updates, university debaters, and local commerce ads are also listed.
Hawkins Grange met Wednesday in the Grange Hall with Bill Rice presiding. Steve Wells is helping clean the Indian Cemetery for his Eagle Scout badge. Two members will receive Golden Sheath pins for 50 years at the Nov 3 meeting. Home economics seeks old eye glasses frames or jewelry for needy glasses. Loren Gensman’s condition improves and a card was sent for Robert Kile who broke his left shoulder after a ladder fall.
The Greenwood Community Center held a fall auction on October 2 with items contributed by community members. Jack Nelson served as auctioneer while a committee led by Mrs. Charles Hamilton Mrs. Ross Cain and Mrs. Lon Nitcher met with the Greenwood Ladies Aid to plan a ham and bean and chicken and noodle supper and bazaar set for November 13 at the center. Men plan interior and exterior repairs on the building.
About 20 persons attended the Williams burg Enterprise meeting in City Hall. Enterprise members explained the town’s situation to representatives of the East Central Kansas Community Action Program. Representatives outlined the aid the agency could provide and Ottawa University Volunteer Services also attended.
Mrs. Julia Farr longtime Rantoul resident dies yesterday. Funeral services from the Mortuary Saturday at 2 p.m. Rev. William Weber officiating. Interment Highland Cemetery.
A long list of traffic and public behavior citations includes blocking fire plugs, speeding in a 30 mph zone, no valid license, open container, and drunken public offenses. Bonds forfeited range from 10 to 100 dollars. several licenses suspended. A death notices summary and hospital transfers are noted along with a funeral for Mrs. Julia Farr.
Obituaries and funeral notices for Wilbur C. Humphrey Harry Ecord Ernest H. Finch John J. Rockers and Newton R. Fleming detail death dates services locations and burial plans. Clergy musicians pallbearers and family survivors are listed for each service with burial sites including Lyndon Central City Fouts Holy Angels and Princeton. Memorial donations are noted for Holy Angels Fund in Newton.
A village was fined 10 dollars plus costs for failing to have required safety equipment after a steer owned by Charley Reynolds was struck by a car on John Brown Highway near South McKinley Road. Edna Reichard, 60, of Williamsburg, drove the eastbound vehicle. In Kansas City, cattle futures were strong, with feeder cattle and calves rising up to 50 cents, and hogs and sheep showing varied movements.
Ottawa Little Symphony Auxiliary members met at Mrs. Stanley DeFries home to plan a benefit dessert at 7 30 p m November 8 in the Ottawa University Union. Guest speaker Leron Pagemiller of the Kansas City Conservatory of Music will attend. Proceeds go to the Little Symphony. Membership dues of 2 dollars may be paid at the event or mailed to Mrs. Leo Converse Box 112.
Central Heights schools will participate for the seventh straight year in the National School Lunch Program from October 10 to 16. Parents may visit the cafeteria with prior notice to Superintendent H Marvin Stephan. Type A lunches provide about half of students daily nutrition, featuring lean meat vegetables fruits bread butter and milk. The program, in its 25th year, is run by USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
US B52 bombers dropped about 900 tons on suspected North Vietnamese targets across South Vietnam Cambodia and Laos while ground fighting fell to small patrol clashes and shelling. Reports say NVA pulled back along parts of the frontier after a 10 day offensive. no US casualties reported as Typhoon Elaine disrupts operations and Americal Division 1st Infantry deactivates.
Stock prices pulled back from early gains but stayed up in heavy trading. The noon Dow rose 1.61 to 902.16 as gainers outpaced losers 3 to 1 on the NYSE. Analysts cited profit-taking and a flood of block trades indicating institutional activity, including a large 108,800 share block of Planning Research at 16 down%.
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