Franklin County Corn Crop Value is $1.3 Million
Franklin County reports the corn crop valued at 1.3 million dollars as the area surveys yields and market conditions. A separate local note highlights the Ottawa High School band touring Valley Falls en route to a football game in Atchison.
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Franklin County
Ottawa
Valley_Falls
William Barker
Valley Falls
Atchison
Ottawa High
Barker
Don Brown
Trigg, Ottawa Leader, Dies At 35 In Kansas
Thomas Eugene Trigg 35 of 1227 Hickory died suddenly at 8 a m of a heart attack at home. He was linked to Colby Furniture and formerly managed Highway Furniture Mart. A 1943 Pensacola graduate, he served as a Naval Air Force lieutenant in World War II and captained Ottawa University football in 1946 and 1947. He was active in First Baptist Church and held posts in the O U Alumni Association, Lions Club, and fraternal groups. Survived by wife Julia and two sons, and several relatives. Funeral arrangements by Lamb Funeral Home. He was a university graduate and active in many local organizations.
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Thomas Eugene Trigg
Hickory
Colby Furniture Company
Hiway Furniture Mart
Cadmus
Kas
Paul
Ethel Richards Trigg
Ottawa
Naval Air Force
Julia
Pensacola
Fla
First Baptist
Ottawa University
O. U. Alumni Association
Warren Black Post
American Legion
Ottawa Lodge
Lions Club
James Richards
Robert Eugene
Parker
Overland Park
Shaw for Sound Water Policies in Kansas Speech
Warren W. Shaw, Republican candidate for governor, pledged to pursue sound water policies to ease drought pains. He urged federal aid where appropriate and stressed state and local measures, saying the state must enact laws governing water management fair to agriculture, industry, and urban residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Warren W. Shaw
Kansas
Shaw
Tt Am
Fall Mild Weather Forecast With Warm Wednesday Outlook
The forecast calls for continued mild fall weather this afternoon tonight and Wednesday with a low in the 50s except northwest mid 40s and a high near 80. Yesterday's high was 78 and the low 34, with a year ago high 63 and low 39. The record highs and lows for this date were 88 in 1938 and 1950 and -25 in 1945. Hourly readings through 8 AM show varied temps from 63 at 9 AM to 76 at midnight, with river stage at 0.49 feet this morning and partly cloudy skies yesterday aided by a NE breeze.
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Sane
Balin
Renew Search For Missing Transport
London led a vast Atlantic search today for the missing U S military transport with 59 crew members aboard. More than 100 planes an aircraft carrier and many ships swept the area though officials signaled the effort would shrink to a token force by nightfall. A communiqué from Third Air Force and the 9th Air Rescue Group said a large-scale general search is no longer practicable after the Navicella tanker found debris 370 miles southwest of England.
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London
Atlantic
U. S
Third Air Force
9Th Air Rescue Group
Navicella
England
Franklin County Fair gains $3000 from Community Chest
The Ottawa Franklin County Fair receives a $3000 share from the Community Chest budget. The 90 year old county fair, once at Forest Park, was relocated to flood free grounds at the southwest Ottawa site where management is expanding facilities. Emphasis is placed on 4-H club exhibits.
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Ottawa
Community Chest
Forest Park
Hall Cites Progress In State Penal System
Gov. Fred Hall asserts commendable progress in Kansas penal system over two years while discussing two advisory reports. He says reforms have been implemented without waiting for official findings, and notes 32 improvements since May 1955 cited by a legislative committee. Hunter defends policy at Leavenworth amid criticisms of prisoner classification and custody limits.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
Hall
Walter Hunter
State Penal Board
Citizens’ Committee
Leavenworth
Hunter
Kansas
Citizens Committee
Lansing
U S Aid For Victims Of Aggression
Secretary Dulles asserted that the United States would provide aid within constitutional limits to any victim of aggression in the Middle East amid Iraqi troop movements into Jordan and Israeli concerns. He also defended editing news conference transcripts and voiced confidence in controlling hydrogen bomb issues despite Stevenson critiques.
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Washington
Dulles
United States
Middle East
U.S
Jordan
Hussein
Israel
Iraq
Palestine
U.N. Security Council
Adlai Stevenson
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Watches Fatal Crash By Son In New Augusta
In New Augusta Mississippi farmer George Cochran watched a Navy trainer fly over for a training flight his son George Everett Cochran 22 was aboard. The trainer disappeared behind trees and a crash and explosion followed leaving the family uncertain about the fate of their son who had written from Pensacola Naval Air Station that he would fly over during isolation training.
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New Augusta
Miss
George Cochran
Naval Air Ccadet
Navy
Cochran
George Everett Cochran
Pensacola, Fla., Naval Air Station
al Isolo
Chest Drives Underway In Business District Kickoff
Community Chest workers held a morning kickoff at the North American hotel with 42 business men attending. The drive aims for $20,000 this year as early gifts of about $7,000 were turned in before the official opening. Lyman Corlis and Warren Wesen chair the business district effort. John Sheldon is general campaign chairman. Residential solicitation also started this morning with co chairs Theron Clark Joel Towner and Ed Johnson.
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Lyman Corlis
Warren Wesen
John Sheldon
Cochairmen
Theron Clark
Joel Towner
Ed Johnson
CROP Committee Meets Wednesday in Ottawa
The Christian Rural Overseas Program group schedules a Wednesday evening meeting at First Baptist Church Ottawa. Franklin county is divided into four areas with chairmen and helpers. Rev A N Lambert state director of Topeka will assist. the event will feature the film I Saw the Need for church and youth groups and other organizations.
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First Baptist Church
Ottawa
Franklin County
Leroy Wassmund
Southeast
Lois Turner
Central
Truman Milton
Northwest
Glen Gillette
Southwest
Cecil Vining
Richmond
Oren Milliken
Williamsburg
Wayne
Robert Craig
Gerald Meese
John Millard
Christian Church
W. B. DeVilbiss
Church of the Brethren
A. N. Lambert
Topeka
Burglars Blast Safe At School
Thayer Kansas report says burglars used high explosives to blow open the public school vault last night and fled with 167 dollars and 80 cents in cash and checks. Sheriff Lee Montgomery investigates possible ties to a similar cut at Morehead school where the vault held nothing but the blast caused about 200 dollars in damage.
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Thayer, Kas
Thayer
Lee Montgomery
Morehead School
Morehead
Rescued From Plane Down In Pacific Ocean
Pan American Flight 6138 ditched about 1000 miles southwest of San Francisco after two engines failed. Coast Guard rescued 31 survivors, five with minor injuries. Survivors to be taken to San Francisco aboard the destroyer Johnson. pilot Richard Ogg aided by weather ship Pontchartrain.
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San Francisco
Pan American
Pacific Ocean
Coast Guard
Honolulu
Richard Ogg
P.S.T
Pontchartrain
Pontcha
Ogg
Ocean Station
Orient
G. L. Haaker
Richard L. Brown
Frank Garcia Purser
Patricia Reynolds
Mary A. Daniel Ad K.S. Araki
Navy
Western Sea Defense Command
Bennington
Vammen
Frank Petrarca
Johnson
Fog Shrouds Ottawa Morning Weather Quick Clearing
Thick fog covered the Ottawa area at dawn and lifted after sunrise, with the heaviest concentration around 6 a.m. In Kansas the weather returned to a milder pattern with no rain and fair, mild temperatures, while Texas saw heavy weekend rainfall up to 7 inches and in Odessa a flash flood. Small craft warnings extended from Cape Hatteras to Tarpon Springs.
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Ottawa
John P. Kelsey
Kansas
Texas
Florida
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Florida Keys
Tarpon Springs
Odessa
Angel Street at Ottawa University opens October 31
Ottawa University drama department will stage Angel Street a three act Victorian thriller in Memorial auditorium on October 31 Director Ruth Lathrop trains the cast Marilyn Miller from Wellington Dennis Evans of Grinnell Ia Joan Wilcher Garland Mildred Crow Wichita Larry Gunnell Newton Stanley Simpson Cadell Thomas Whitfield Denver lead a large local and out of state production staff handles costumes makeup and staging Julie Fenton Arlington Carol Krispence Marion Sharon Mueller Moline John Henthorne Concordia and others contribute to the production team.
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Ottawa University Dramatics Department
Angel Street
Memorial Auditorium
Ruth Lathrop
Marilyn Miller
Wellington
Dennis Evans
Grinnell
Joan Wilcher
Gar‘land
Mildred Crow
Wichita
Larry Gunnell
Newton
Stanley, Simpson
Cadell
Thomas Whitfield
Denver
Joan Fenton
Arlington
Carol Krispence
Marion
Sharon Mueller
Moline
Patricia Keeran
Chicago
Mary Nofsinger
Lombard, WI
Charlotte Richardson
Wilmore
Katherine Luchsinger
Pe‘oria, Ill
Judy Edwinson
Atchison
John Henthorne
Concordia
Law Dean Moreau Seeks Departure From KU
Frederick J. Moreau dean of the University of Kansas School of Law since 1937 and longtime professor asks to be relieved of his dean duties by July 1 He cites desire to devote time to study and teaching of law and legal writing and requests a year off for study and research guidance from Chancellor Franklin D Murphy.
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Lawrence
Frederick J. Moreau
School of Law
University of Kansas
Franklin D. Murphy
Moreau
Shaw Melvin differ over gasoline kickbacks
Lawrence man George Melvin testified that there was an understanding of a one cent per gallon payment to Shawnee County GOP chairman for doing business with the state. He cited prior 1951-55 contributions to the county committee by gasoline dealers selling to the State Highway Department.
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Topeka
Shawnee County
Republican Central Committee
George Melvin
Lawrence
Fred Hall
Hall
Warren W. Shaw
GOP
Edward F. Arn
Shaw
Shawnee
Melvin
Ann
Lit
State Highway Department
John Anderson
Anderson
Frank Theis
Theis
NLRB examiner dismisses Kohler UAW unfair practice charges
A trial examiner for the National Labor Relations Board dismissed two year old charges filed by the United Auto Workers against Kohler Co in Sheboygan Wisconsin. The ruling, subject to appeal to the full NLRB, weakens UAW hopes in its 22 year strike against Kohler the nation’s longest running labor dispute.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
United Auto Workers Union
Kohler Co
Sheboygan
Wis
UAW
Kohler
Bellwether Counties Signal Eisenhower Reelection Victory
Five of six bellwether counties shown by editors and reporters to favor Eisenhower in reelection polls. Albany County Wyoming seen as switch, Laramie County similar. Iowa’s Jasper and Palo Alto counties plus Oregon Crook County and others retain bellwether status from McKinley era. No Iowa sampling. Stevenson favored by some editors in Albany and Laramie counties.
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Washington
Eisenhower
William McKinley
Associated Press
Stevenson
Crook County
Ore
Albany
Laramie Counties
Wyo
Jasper
Palo Alto
Iowa
Vanderburgh County
And
Stratford and
Coos
Cooss Counties
N.H
Albany County
Laramie
GOP Denies Prison Lug Allegation In Kansas
Democratic state chairman Frank Theis charges Republicans press prison staff to raise funds for governor candidate Warren Shaw. GOP chair James Pratt calls the claim a lie. Theis cites a 1956 receipt showing $335 collected at Lansing and paid to Leavenworth County Republican Committee treasurer Frank Ulrich.
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Topeka
Frank Theis
Warren W. Shaw
GOP
James Pratt
Theis
Bob Sprague
Lansing
Frank Ulrich
Leavenworth County
Republican Committee
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C. W. Schneider
Ralph Basel
Victor Basel
FFA
Kansas City
Ed Curby
PTA
Tom Trigg
Thomas E. Trigg
Dick Wall
K. U
Community Chest Aids Co. Fair
Lamb Ambulance
Af Ooo
Rae
Herald
Lamar Phillips
Son
E. Stanley Jones
Dr. Jones
Bellwether
Jaynes & JayCees
Mears Park
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