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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1975
Page
7
A quirky local feature near Pomona's Appanoose School draws visitors who tour an old cottonwood where a battered red stop sign has hung for two years. Nearby another inverted stop sign on baling wire elicits surprised reactions from motorists.
Funeral services for Albert Bennett Rendell 71 of Carbondale will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Covenant Church Scranton burial in Carbondale Cemetery. He died Wednesday in a Topeka hospital after a lung ailment. Born November 16 1903 near Carbondale he was a life long area resident. Surviving are his wife Freda Segelquist Rendell a son John Andrew Rendell and a brother William Rendell. Friends may call at Greenwood Roberts Funeral Home Overbrook today until 9:30 a.m. Saturday and after 10 a.m. Saturday at the church.
Former Central Heights Schools superintendent Hurd seeks a change of venue from Franklin County to Douglas County. District Court Judge Floyd Coffman notes venue shifts affect trial location within the district. A hearing on the motion is set for November 6 at 3 p.m. The trial for an alleged misappropriation of funds remains continued, with Hurd pleading innocent to all related charges.
Dollar and cents deals from Shurfine and Metzger Salvage, garage sales at 615 S. Hickory, and community notices for DINE by candlelight at L M Buffett. EAGLES dance at Honey Creek Clan on Oct 11. Turkey ham supper by Wellsville UMW on Oct 29. October sale events across Village Shoppe and Willis Garden Center.
Franklin County 4-H Horse Club reelected Roberta Cox as President and Bill Blake as vice president at the first meeting of the new year. Kelly McGlashen will be Secretary and Linda Blake Reporter. Members planned year events including a Christmas horse exchange on December 2 and an Easter egg hunt on horseback.
Relatives and friends of Eldon Ralph Fisher will meet at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home on Saturday morning October 11 1975 to travel to Highland Cemetery for graveside services at 11 00 officiated by the Rev Canon Harold J Weaver with B P C E Ottawa Lodge No 803 providing services Exalted Ruler Charles Burlingham. The family will receive friends Friday evening October 10 from 7 00 to 8 00 at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home.
Ottawa Arts Council invites local painters sketchers photographers and historians to gather on Saturday afternoon on the lawn around the Franklin County Courthouse. Don Lambert says weather looks ideal for the session to spotlight courthouse and downtown beauty. Works will be displayed in Corner Gallery Ottawa Library and other downtown venues.
Topeka Kansas AP Former Gov Robert B Docking and former Atty Gen Vern Miller are subpoenaed to testify in Shawnee County District Court as the first of six trials in the architectural contract kickback case. Indictments allege a $30,000 kickback tied to a $500,000 design contract for KU expansion in fall 1973.
President Ford says new 1975 grain harvest estimates could decide whether to restrict U S wheat and corn exports to the Soviet Union. He expects announcements after USDA issues its report, with possible interim sales to Russia and possible oil talks with the USSR noted, while domestic prices should not spike. Local notes list Nancy Knight at Kansas Wesleyan, Ottawa Chamber Ambassador Club, Saints Alive concert in Richmond, and Stephen Beckwith's homecoming from Trinity Lutheran Hospital.
God lives wherever people are in city ghetto crowded business district and populated suburb. Faith Lutheran Church invites attendance at 10 30 am every Sunday to worship.
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