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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1960
Page
7
Local officials and residents attend meetings in Kansas and Missouri towns. Charles Mainly of the Boys Club directors travels to Joplin for a Show-Me Council gathering with sessions Friday through Sunday including laymen director instruction. Oct 16 Aud rium rummage sale and various local ads appear.
Wellsville P T A will sponsor a family entertainment variety show as November's fundraising project. The program, set for November 18 at 7 30 pm in the school multi purpose room, comes with a 390 dollar budget approved at the latest PTA meeting. De votions led by Mrs Eldon Whiteaker and several members presented first second and third grade acts featuring music health and safety themes.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev endured a brutal UN General Assembly session with sharp verbal clashes. Back in Moscow he may confront consequences at home as he nurses painful wounds from the heated exchanges that culminated on Wednesday night.
Report on Nixon and Kennedy preparing for a third coast to coast debate set for 6:30 PM CST. The hour long telecast features mirrored studios in Hollywood and New York with Bill Shadel as moderator and a panel including Roscoe Drummond and Frank McGee. Campaign teams cite extensive ABC technical effort and a complex telecast spanning CBS Chicago NBC Washington productions.
Hospital notes list several admissions and births including Galen Bristow and a newborn weighing 6 lb 11 oz, daughter of Mr and Mrs Donald Shipman at Willow Street, and Mrs Nellie Pearl Myers and Mamie Hamilton with entries from Williamsburg area. Ashley Brooke baby daughter of Mrs Robert Knight and baby at K U Medical Center and other listed families.
Carl Worthy Kunish, a seven of Emporia man, is free on a $1,000 bond after entering an innocent plea in County Court. He faces trial Oct. 19 on charges of enticing a minor and soliciting a girl under 18 to pose for photographs. The alleged incident occurred Oct. 10 involving a 16 year old. Police staged the arrest after officers were alerted by a local teen.
Mrs. Clarence E Castleberry died Oct 9 and funeral services were held at Lamb Funeral Home on Oct 2 with Rev Harold Peters presiding. Burial followed at Hope Cemetery. Pallbearers included Robert Cole Clifford Castleberry Jasper Young Donald Winters Dale Castleberry and Albert Pata. Family moved to a new home on E 3rd and a community dinner followed.
A man named James M. Blount, 24, who married less than a month ago, plans to trade his motorcycle for a car after a crash while taking his bride, 46, for a ride in Sarasota. She fell when the bike hit a bump, was treated for cuts and bruises, then rode home with him.
Lawrence I Carey, 18, and Diana H Shuck, 17, both of Ottawa, received marriage licenses along with Ottawa pair Carey and Shuck ages 18 and 17 respectively. The filing details indicate preliminary eligibility and domicile.
Washington report cites Adm. Radford doubting Kennedy remarks on defending Quemoy and Matsu. The article notes the islands are claimed defendable with enough forces, while the U S mutual defense pact with Nationalist China remains unofficially open to congressional action and presidential discretion.
Sheriff's report says two Wellsville stations were broken into last night or today. About $28 to $29 stolen, including $7 in change from Louis Brecheisen Standard Station and $11 to $12 from Marvin Strum Mobile Station. Entries were made by smashing a glass pane to reach and open the doors.
AP report from Kansas City shows cattle receipts around 4 200 with steers at 44.35, choice heifers about 24.95, cows steady to firm, high utility and commercial at 15.00 to 75, slaughter calves and vealers near steady. Hogs 3 200 with barrows and gilts mostly 18.18 to 18.00, sows steady, weights 100 to 119 pounds at 27.50 to 35, and 270 to 400 pounds at 15.00 to 15.00. Sheep 600 all classes steady with slaughter lambs 18.50 to 17.00, choice and prime 1.50, utilities to good at 4.00 to 4.80.
At 4 p.m. yesterday a barn at 05 5th suffered heavy damage when three and four year old boys reportedly played with matches. Firemen took nearly three hours to extinguish the blaze, incurring about 1800 dollars in damage including 600 to the building and 1000 to the barn contents such as 200 bales of hay five saddles bridles and a bag.
Earl Michael Morse 19 of Boston Mags faces second degree arson in the Dec 5 1959 Tally Theater fire. Bond set at 5000 with Oct 26 arraignment. Merlin Lloyd Hershberger 31 Canton Ohio bound over after waiving preliminary in County Court. bond 25000 with January 1961 trial. They were arrested after flight to avoid prosecution and checked into a Davenport Iowa hotel Oct 7. Hershberger used the name Charles Morse to purchase the theater.
District Judge Floyd Coffman ruled that Freeda Wilson's appeal of the April 4 decision suspending her driver’s license was filed too late and by telegram. The ruling denied a new trial while the Kansas Highway Commission had sought uphold of the license suspension after a post-accident driving complaint.
Minneola School Reunion will be held Sunday at the school eight miles northwest of Ottawa. A talk by Mrs. Lee Maranville of Ness City, a former teacher, will follow a basket dinner. She is president of the reunion group. The district, Franklin County’s fifth, organized Dec 29, 1877, with early days noting a town at the site named by Edmund N. Morrill. The legislature once met there overnight.
AP reports West Berlin archaeologists found a well about 1 80 years old within the city bounds. A wooden ladder descended to water buckets carried by housewives. At the bottom lay numerous skeletons of mice dated to roughly the 2nd century B C, scientists say.
Russian Premier Khrushchev and the Soviet party, while not fond of Americans, appeared to favor American products as they prepared to depart. Baggage including crates, cartons, tires, anti freeze, and auto batteries were loaded onto trucks from their Park Avenue headquarters.
Delaware Township near Bonner Springs in Wyandotte County Kansas received a federal grant of 19208 toward a 281300 sewer disposal project. The notice also covers probate actions in Franklin County Kansas including estates of Carl N. Anderson and Sylvia D Funk with hearings and final settlements and a special election notice for Princeton Kansas planning general obligation bonds.
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