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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1971
Page
3
The Sunday morning service guest at Tally Baptist Church will be Dr. Roy W. Browning Sr. The church pastor Rev. Larry Miller has been called to Omaha due to his father's illness this week.
NightHawk League results list top high scores from multiple teams and bowlers. Notable performances include Burns Jr at Shine's Garage with 126-532, McClAy at Shine's Garage 176-493, and Toumberlin leading Montgomery Ward with 182-510. Various lanes show high games and totals for Cravens Oil, Heathman Oil, Lee's Downtowner, and others.
The high Friday reached 72 and the low today dipped to 38. A year ago the high was 51 and the low 36. The record high for today is 89 set in 1923 and the record low is 25 from 1908. Precipitation over the past 24 hours ending 8 a.m. was trace. Hourly temperatures continue through today.
The Oasis Club will sponsor a two day bus trip to the Ozarks on October 19 and 20. Attendees meet at 7 a.m. at First Christian Church and bring a sack lunch. The trip features the outdoor drama The Shepherd of the Hills by the Shepherd of the Hills Historical Society, with local cast and period buildings. Contact 242-5162 or 242-3688 to join. overnight accommodations arranged. return is the morning of October 20.
A reported break in at Star Industries Inc. in Pomona planed to be a burglary but was caused by a car backing into a large plate glass window Friday night or this morning. Franklin County sheriff's department officials said the glass was broken by the accident and no crime occurred.
Kathy Masters daughter of Mr and Mrs Wayne Masters of Kansas City was crowned homecoming queen at halftime of the Williamsburg Pomona football game Friday night Attendants were Pam Kendall daughter of Mr and Mrs Jean Kendall and Vicki Adams daughter of Mr and Mrs Gene Adams Williamsburg
In Philadelphia AP report Rev Dr Elson Ruff of the Lutheran notes the Serenity Prayer was penned by the late theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. Niebuhr first used it in Heath Massachusetts in 1934 and later gave a listener a card with the text.
Ocean City Maryland mayor Harry Kelley proposes considering female applicants for lifeguard posts next summer due to a shortage of male lifeguards. Capt Robert Craig head of the beach patrol agrees to personally test any female applicants.
The issue lists the Central Heights School menu for October 12 to 19 with daily meals. Police blotter items report a two car accident on East Wilson Street, a Rantoul youth cited after an accident on East Rock Creek Road, and multiple citations in Ottawa including driving while intoxicated and speeding. Also noted are divorces, marriages, admissions and dismissals at area facilities, a birth, and local obituaries with Wayne M. Powell’s funeral details.
The first parent student teacher meeting for the 1971 72 school year will be at 7 30 p m Oct 18 in the Cyclone Room Ottawa Senior High School The group replaces the PTA with student participation Five meetings are planned for the year All junior and senior high students are urged to attend Five discussion groups will include two led by students The topic is Emphasis On Curricular and Extra Curricular Activities For Students Motivation and recognition of students will be stressed A Film on drugs will be shown for attendees who do not wish to participate
Ottawa University lists a coming week of events including a lecture on greater government data controls at 6 45 p m October 12 in Administration Auditorium a Civil Religion in America talk October 13 at 10 a m in Chapel auditorium The Playboy of the Western World runs October 13 16 at Ottawa Memorial Auditorium October 16 features Soccer Harris Teachers College in St Louis and Football William Jewell College at Liberty Stadium Kansas City The Ottawa University choral concert occurs October 17 at 3 p m in the Chapel.
About 145 students will perform in the annual fall concert at 8 Tuesday night in the Ottawa Senior High School gymnasium. The boys glee club girls glee club and the Chevaliers will sing. Tickets are 25 cents from glee club members or at the door. TEL AVIV AP Israeli trade mission sells 350 building materials electrical gear pharmaceuticals and household items to Congo Kinshasa Zambia and Malawi.
Kansas City Blue Cross Blue Shield officials and regional Office of Emergency Preparedness met after a conference to resolve noncompliance with the President's wage-price freeze. An agreement on steps toward compliance was announced. Martha Peterson named chair of the American Council on Education succeeding a sequence of female leaders. Lady Peterson, 55, president of Barnard College and KU alumna, is the third woman to head ACE in its 54 year history. Kansas law prohibits releasing individual hospital identities for abortions, but permits reporting yearly totals. Harold E. Stewart, 73, Wamego merchant and funeral director, dies. services to be held Sunday. survived by widow and a son Jess Stewart. Stewart also served on Kansas Board of Regents designate.
Mary Lou Renner and Samuel Dean Devine Jr. pleaded innocent in Franklin County District Court on charges of forging prescription blanks. Trials were continued to January 10 after allegedly attempting to pass blanks at a local drug store this summer.
Prince Timmons Jr of 820 Burroughs waived arraignment in District Court. His trial is scheduled for October 20 on a charge of allegedly shooting at a motor car that appeared to be occupied at the time. The incident is said to have occurred in early September.
First published Sept 25 1971. notices cover Mary Jane Harder estate appointment to Clarence L Harder with nine month claims period. Pomona ordinance amends sanitation facility fees for non residents within five miles with per entry charges. hearing on Alvin B Cox estate to authorize sale of Lots 1 3 5 in Hamblin addition Ottawa Kansas for debts taxes and administration costs.
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