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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1960
Page
3
Garfield P T A schedules its annual penny supper at the school with serving starting at 6:30 p m. residents are asked to bring their own sack lunches and stay until 3 30 or 6 p m. Also noted are water rate details, civil defense meeting in Topeka, burglaries, bond posts, rental ads, and local officials' attendance at meetings.
Two persons were cited by police for driving while intoxicated and related offenses after separate Saturday collisions. Earl L. Lloyd, 409 Ash, posted 350 bond and caused minor damage in a collision with John F. Schwinn’s parked car on East 2nd Street. Ada Marie Baldwin, 54, entering a one way alley wrong way after colliding with a panel truck driven by Ralph E. Davis, both in the 100 block of East 2nd. Lloyd and Baldwin are scheduled for Police Court tomorrow.
The 4.4 Club and Junior Judgers 4H Club hosted a Golden Age party at Richter Methodist Church annex on Saturday evening. Couples married 50 years or more were recognized. Special guests included Fred Shoemaker Otis Elliott and others from Ottawa Vinland Pomona. Leonard Humphrey showed slides. 51 attended.
Patient admissions include Cecil Vining Richmond county commissioner, William Payne 717 58 Main, Louis Williams Greeley, and Mrs Rummage Sale at W F Reinke Williamsburg. Births listed for Delia Bay’s nephew Rev Troy P Bess Holton burial in Holton, N Oak baby girl, 4 lb 13 oz, Nichol 521 N Cedar boy 8 lb 7 oz, Brannon baby 2 lb 3 oz. Rummage Sale Oct 12 City Auditorium. Union Chapel Church chicken noodles supper Oct 1 1:30. Note of Joan Lamb at National Selected Morticians meeting in Chicago. Also university officer Hegberg earns MS from Stanford, assigned to Lockheed satellite center. Homewood township election to Franklin County extension council tomorrow. Discharges list several local residents including Mrs Boyer Osage City Teddy Coons and twins, Klein, Bryant, Chambers.
Owen Harvey Ensley 78 longtime resident of Homewood and Ottawa died Saturday evening. Funeral services Tuesday at 2 pm Lamb Funeral Home Rev William Weber officiating with interment in Princeton Cemetery. Beulah E Castleberry wife of Clarence E 408 FE 4th passed away last evening. Funeral services Wednesday 10 30 am at Lamb Funeral Home interment in Hope Cemetery.
A local notices list includes names and addresses such as Mrs. Gerald J. Siscoe 7238 Poplar, Paul E. Jamison Baldwin, Mrs. Lester Mills RFD 4, Mrs. William Meiers and infant daughter Quenemo, John K. Fitch West Dorm A, Rick Allen How llard Williamsburg, Michael Mel zig RID 1, Louis Williams Greeley.
Harvey Ensley Owen 78, retired farmer of Crestview nursing home, died Saturday at Ransom Memorial Hospital after admission on Thursday. Born November 18, 1881 in Wayne County Iowa, he married Rosetta Wemmer in 1906. Surviving include daughter Mrs. Dean Guy and a granddaughter. services at Lamb Funeral Home with burial at Princeton Cemetery. Also noted is the death of Mrs. Clarence E Castleberry 54 of 408 E Fourth, who died at Ransom Memorial Hospital after admission that day. She was born December 19, 1905 in Conway Missouri and married Castleberry in Olathe in 193?. Surviving are her husband and a large extended family including seven sons and twenty grandchildren. Continuous obituary details list multiple siblings and spouses.
Cattle run 16 500 calves 1 600 slaughter steers to 25.00, heifers 24.25, cows 13.50 13.00, bulls 38.00-50. Commercials mixed. Hogs 4 500 active, barrows gilts down to 25, sows steady. Sheep 1 600 slaughter lambs steady to higher, feeder lambs strong. Prices for various grades and weights listed.
Public notice details Ordinance No. 227 approved by the Pomona mayor and council on October 4 1960 prohibiting any junk yard commercial or otherwise within city limits. The ordinance takes effect on passage and publication with the first and last publication dates noted.
The obituary notes services from Lamb Funeral Home on Wednesday at 10 30 a m with burial in Hope Cemetery. The deceased are Mrs Talbott and Mr Lawrence of Everett Washington with funeral arrangements by Lamb Funeral Home.
Proposition to amend article 15 of the Kansas Constitution to authorize prompt succession and measures for continuity of state and local government during disasters from enemy attack. Resolution asks for voter approval in 1960, with detailed provisions on powers, financing, and constitutional limits. includes certification by Secretary of State.
A 1960 Ottawa Kansas ordinance outlines paving Walnut Street from First to Fifth Street including intersections. It authorizes hot mix concrete paving with base, curb, and grading, financed by a special assessment on affected properties, with the city paving and maintaining the right of way.
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