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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1971
Page
5
Local prize winner Arline Hoover of 1015 N Mulberry collected the door prize at Brown's Hobby and Craft Show held at the National Guard Armory on Wednesday. The prize was a piece of cook ware, with show helpers the O K and N E W S 71 E H U s assisting.
The Daily Report lists Frances A Warhurst versus Roy Warhurst seeking custody of a minor child. Interstate Securities No. 2 Inc. vs Wallace L. Leecy and Gloria Leecy seeks $975.80 plus costs. Citation for speeding by Dennis C. Devin, 22, Ottawa RFD 3, 81 in a 70 mph zone, fined $20 plus costs. Criminal Gary Dean Lewis charged with speeding to avoid an accident, fined $15 plus costs. Obituaries note Wesley Herbert, former Ottawa resident, dies in Topeka. Charles C. Hadley dies in Topeka at 73 after heart attack while vacationing in Oklahoma. services set. George Kipper, 57, Kansas City Kansas, dies after stroke. burial in Scipio. Hospital notes list several admissions, discharges, and births. livestock and market notes from Kansas City report cattle, hogs, and sheep prices and tomorrow's estimates.
Ottawa University faculty and staff and their spouses will attend a weekend off campus renewal retreat in Kansas City funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The aim is to reassess university objectives through cooperation among the college community and to provide a break during the new seven week term schedule.
Wall Street prices slipped in moderate trading as the noon Dow fell 6.86 to 881.94. Declines outpaced advances more than 2 to 1 on the NYSE as analysts blamed lack of Phase 2 details for investor hesitation and questioned whether the new policies are stimulating the market.
Ottawa fire crews answered a two alarm blaze at 634 Walnut this morning. Naomi Hamm Ray Langley and Betty Buck were pulled from the residence owned by Glenn King. No injuries were reported. Damages were about 350 dollars to the structure and 250 dollars to contents, insured for 5 000 dollars. The fire started when an ash tray and cigarette were dumped into a wastebasket.
James H. Metzger, VP at Security Benefit Life, spoke to Franklin County Farm Bureau members on ten keys to success. He framed life as a stock car race and urged observation, courage, persistence, confidence, honesty, faith in others, imagination, desire to win, and belief in God as essential drivers.
Pastor James McCrossen of Ottawa First Baptist Church was chosen president of the Kansas Baptist Convention at the Prairie Village annual meeting of about 300 churches. He will chair the convention’s board and guide its business for the coming year, having previously served as vice president and on both the board of managers and trustees plus as program chairman.
A rural Ottawa family, L. F. Lundstedt of Ottawa RFD 3, won a $20,000 condemnation appeal against the State Highway Commission. The county jury found the 308 acre precondemnation value at $107,800, with postcondemnation value at $87,800 after the I-35 extension. Forty acres of Lundstedt property are involved.
Overbrook in the Albright Funeral Home was purchased by Bob Roberts of Ottawa. Roberts, a former partner of Ernest Albright, will have Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Greenwood continue as managers while Albright assists in operation. Roberts already owns funeral homes in Ottawa and Baldwin.
Santa Fe Trail Riders held a meeting on October 9 announcing a parade ride in the Maple Leaf Festival at Baldwin on Saturday. Plans for a Halloween party were set and an outline of motorcycle riding rules and a film will be presented at the November 13 meeting starting at 8 p.m. in the Anchor Savings Building. Refreshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Ivan McFadden and Mr. and Mrs. David Mathias.
State of Kansas Office of the Secretary of State certifies that Egel Inc with registered office at 118 South Main Ottawa Kansas filed its resolution of dissolution in accordance with law. Document dated October 8 1971 and signed by Elwin M Shanahan Secretary of State with Sherman A Parks as Assistant Sec'y.
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