Ottawa Briefs Highlight Local Social Events and Incidents
Memorial VFW Post 5901 hosts a members only potluck at 6 30 this evening at the Post home with a regular meeting to follow. North Baptist Church Women’s Auction set for Tuesday at 7 p.m. 413 E Wilson. Navy Airman Roy G Pine of Garnett serves in Keflavik Iceland with the NATO Strik Fleet Exercise Royal Knight in the Eastern Atlantic. Valley United Methodist Church to hold a turkey dinner and food sale Oct 13 at 5 30 with a free will offering. Ottawa police report a rear car window broken on Locust Street Sunday night. Hawthorne school hosts chili and vegetable soup supper and carnival Oct 12 5 30 8 00 p.m. National Guard Building hosts Hobby Show Oct 13 10 a m 8 p m. Brown's Hardware and Sporting Goods report not available due to courthouse closing for Columbus birthday observance. Stinebaugh’s Greenhouse Williamsburg offers potted garden mums in bud and bloom at 1 00 each evenings and weekends. Brown’s Hobby and Craft Show Oct 13 10 a m to 8 p m at Armory Building. Irwin’s Gifts to demonstrate Romertopf Way Wednesday Oct 13 from 11 a m to 1 p m at Brown’s Hobby and Craft Show.
Wall Street Eases as Investors Await Nixon Phase 2
The noon Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 3.58 to 890.33 as trading slowed. Analysts said investors waited for AFL-CIO reaction on Phase 2 of Nixon’s economic plan, with many away for the Columbus Day semiholiday. Rails, steels, rubber shares mixed. most categories lower.
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New York
Nixon
New York Stock Exchange
Afl-Cio
Garnett School Bond Fails in Anderson County
Voters in Anderson County rejected a proposed 1.7 million dollar school bond by a near two to one margin. The Garnett city precincts largely opposed the measure while only one precinct supported it. Final tally: 740 in favor, 1,450 against. The bond was the sole item on Saturday’s ballot.
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Garnett
Anderson County
Library Notes New Juvenile Books At The Library FOR YOUNGER READERS
A list of new juvenile and older reader titles with brief descriptions. Notable titles include Gladys L. Adshead s Where Is Smallest Brownie Mercer Mayer s A Boy A Dog And A Frog Max Bolliger s The Golden Apple Claire Huchet Bishop and Kurt Wiese s The Truffle Pig Martha Alexander s We Never Get To Do Anything Natalie Babbitt s Knee Knob Rise Patricia Beatty s The Sea Pair Mary Calhoun s Magic In The Alley Frank Bonham s Viva Chicano and Hail Columbia.
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Gladys L. Adshead
Mercer Mayer
Max Bolliger
Celestino Piatti
Claire Huchet Bishop
Kurt Wiese
Martha Alexander
Natalie Babbitt
Steve Bellamy
W. E. Butterworth
Sea Pair
Patricia Beatty
Mary Calhoun
Frank Bonham
Columbia
Soviet Navy Boasts Toure
Washington reports that three Soviet warships including a Kashin-class frigate are moored near Guinea's capital Conakry to back President Sekou Toure and expand Moscow’s West African influence. U.S. intelligence notes the ships’ proximity to the presidential palace and doubts a full naval base will be built, suggesting limited use of Conakry port.
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Washington
USS
Sekou Toure
Guinea
Africa
Conakry
Toure
Guinean
West Africa
U.S
Mediterranean
Indian Ocean
Cuba
Caribbean
Moscow
Russia
West African
Ottawa recreation commission begins adult exercise class
The Ottawa Recreation Commission will start a jogging and weight program for adults at Ottawa High. Classes meet Monday Wednesday and Friday mornings from 7 to 4 with a 10 week duration. A minimum of 15 enrollees is required and the fee is 10 dollars. Bud Wheeler OHS football coach will instruct the course.
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Ottawa Recreation Commission
Ottawa High
Bud Wheeler
OHS
Hospital Notes and Local News Highlights In Ottawa
Admissions list reads Vera Figgins William sburg Mrs W E Scott Wellsville RFD 2 Mrs Charley Reynolds 1415 N Maple Maude Hazen 509 N Poplar Mrs Moses Payne Wellsville Calvin Bostic Williamsburg Dismissals include Jessie Langer and family Tone Glaum Jane Setter Leof M Hayes Julia Farr Edna G Dyer and local obituaries with funeral details and area cattle market report shows Kansas City hogs and cattle sales figures.
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Vera Figgins
Williamsburg
W. E. Scott
Wellsville Rfd
Charley Reynolds
Maple
Maude Hazen
Poplar
Moses Payne
Wellsville
Calvin Bostic
Shindig In Tran Fitting Persepolis Birthday Bash
Tehran AP reports Iran celebrates the 2,500th anniversary of Cyrus the Great at Persepolis with lavish feasting and pageantry. The Shah hosts a grand desert spectacle featuring ancient pomp, history capsules, and modern trappings.
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Tehran
Shah of
Iran
Persepolis
Cyrus the Great
India
Danube
Black Sea
Nile
Achamenian Dynasty
Cyrus
Darius the Great
Xerxes
Europe
Marathon
Sparta
Leonidas
Thermopylae
Salamis
Persia
Persian Gulf
Shah
West Country
Babylon
Weather County Forecast Night Then Warmer
Tonight clear and cooler with light variable winds and low 40s to 45. Tuesday fair and warmer with a high in the low to mid 80s. Precipitation probability near zero through Tuesday. High Saturday around 61 and Sunday 34. Sunday high 77 and today’s low 42. Precipitation for the last 24 hours trace. Hourly temperatures end at 8 a.m. today.
Bowling Scores From Wednesday League Totals by Player
Bowling scores listed for multiple evening leagues with high games and series for players on teams such as Bowlerettes, Hits & Misses, Plugs, Sundown League, Brunswick Kids, and more. Notable high singles include C Roehl 194 and J Snider 183, with several 400+ series across divisions.
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Hustlers
Bledsoe
Coffman
Dodd
Foster
Timbler Tumblers
C. Roehl
Brunswick Kids
Heckert
D. McClay
J. Bugg
K. Liegerot
Smith
Alleycats
Finch
Garnett Receives 20000 Park Grant for Enhancements
Garnett, Kansas, secures a $20,000 federal park improvement grant from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation in Washington. Projects cover lighting upgrades at two ball diamonds, a nature trail north of Lake Garnett, and camping sites at both north and south parks. The grant funds 50 percent of costs. the city will supply the other half through in kind services. This marks the second of four phases in Garnett’s park and recreation upgrade plan.
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Dennis Mitchell
Probate and City Ordinance Notices From Ottawa Kansas
Notices publish probate actions for Edith C. Thompson and Maude N. Richardson with heirs and creditors urged to file claims within nine months. Also an Oct 4 1971 ordinance approves combining Princeton Kansas waterworks and sewer systems into the Water and Sewage Department with rates to remain until further changes.
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State of Kansas
Franklin County
Edith C. Thompson
Murl D. Thompson
Oden
Thompson
Princeton
Kansas
Water and Sewage Department
K.S.A
Grease Fire Hurts Ottawans
Two people were injured when a pan of burning grease spilled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Ruest at 605 Willow. Ottawa Fire Department arrived at 10 10 p m to find the fire out. The Ruests were treated at Ransom Memorial Hospital and released.
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William Ruest
Willow
Ottawa Fire Department
Ruest
Michelle
Ransom Memorial Hospital
G. A. Diamond
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Ottawa Memorial
VFW
North Baptist Church Women’s Auction
E. Wilson
NAVY
Roy G Pine
Edith McMillian
Keflavik
Iceland
Atlantic
Michigan Valley
R. S. Hanes
Ottawa
Hanes
Hawthorne School
George Kipper
Kansas City
Kan
Richmond
Baptist Memorial Hospital
National Guard
Brown's Hardware and Sporting Goods
Columbus
Stinebaugh
Brown’s
Armory Bldg
Irwin
Romertotf
Brown
Adv
Wall Street
KSU
Terry Wollen
Kansas State University
Veterinary Medicine
Wollen
Thomas A. Gerdis
Veterinary Medical Sciences
Olin G. Wollen
Pine
Library Notes
United Nations
Portugal
Soviet Union
Jessie Langer
Main
Roger Crews
S. Cedar
Walter Pankratz
Tone Glaum
E. Red
the Daily Report
Christopher Crump
David M. Baldwin
S. Main
Loren A. Wade
Baldwin
Gary D. Davis
Olive
Cromwell
Davis
Ottawa Police Department
Danny Lee Brittle
Hiawatha
Lavernon G. Lohman
N. Sycamore
Dorothy M. Brown
Baldwin Rfd
S. Poplar
James Grogan
Jane Setter
St. Boniface Catholic Church
Dennis Pickett
Wilfred Smith
Donald Setter
John Lutz Jr
Eugene Peine
Edward Platt
Johnny Rubick
George Hess
St. Boniface
Setter
Michael
Johanna Strobel
Joseph Setter
Elizabeth Setter
Osage City
Mary Platt
Clara Peine
Katherine Hess
Helen Lutz
Anna Dydrek
Anthony Setter
Lawrence
Michael Setter
Leof M. Hayes
Scott City
Damron Towner Chapel
Henry Bondurant
Melvin Clevenger
Paul Damron
Dudley Shaw
Duane Shaw
Paul Davis
Sanford Shaw
Warren Davis
Wendell Davis
Princeton Cemetery
Julia Farr
Edna G. Dyer
Baldwin Nursing Home
Ives Chapel United Methodist Church
C. S. Coldsmith
Oakwood Cemetery
Dyer
Smuggler, Colo
Edgar
Ella
Gay) Thorne
James L. Dyer
Tran
Alexander the Great
B.C
Ghengis Khan
Tamerlane
Marco Polo
Omar Khayyam
Zoroaster
Saadi
Hafez
Associated Press
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Amarillo
Anchorage
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Birmingham
Bismarck
Boise
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Buffalo
Charleston
Charlotte
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Duluth
Fort Worth
Bam
Everest & Jennings
Custom Baby
Amb. Service, Inc
Ottawa, Kansas
Richard
Skoog
Skoog & Latimer
Main St
Attys
Maude N. Richardson
Parancard
State of
Irene Miskimen
Leta Gower
Amy Walls
Lela Gower
Stevens
Brand & Brand
First National Bank
Roberta J. Donart
Mildaen Bronson
Ottawans
Mrs. Ruest
Bamui
North Main
Towner
Incorp
ATS
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