Franklin County News Briefs and Local Notices
Franklin County Mental Health Clinic will be closed Monday for Veterans Day. Mary Ellen Malburg begins appointments Tuesday through Saturday starting October 23. Virgil Smith attends Kansas Association of Insurance Agents Convention in Topeka Wednesday through Friday. Eagle member’s dance Saturday 9 p.m. Dean Mathas Band performance of Joyful Heirs postponed at Spring Ridge Presbyterian Church Paola. Sidewalk Bazaar Friday and Saturday at 3rd and Main, sponsored by Franklin County Rehabilitation Facility. Esther Schmitt hospitalized at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for eye surgery in room 146. Bernhardt School of Dance invites enrollment. Ralph McCrea hospitalized at Anderson County Hospital Garnett. 25 percent off nationally advertised ladies sportswear for four days at The Village Shoppe. U S Post Office closed Monday for Veterans Day. no city or rural delivery. Kansas State football film shown Thursday Oct 18 at Anchor Savings at 8 p.m. Rumage sale by B P W Saturday Oct 20 Memorial Auditorium 3rd and Hickory. The Friendly Persuasions live at Pomona Tavern Thursday Oct 18 8:30 to 11:30. Furniture upholstering and custom seat covers offered at 242-5181 229 N Main.
Franklin County and Ottawa Area Admits Dismissals and Incidents
Franklin County sheriff reports a vehicle hitting a deer on county road 1061 near Rantoul, causing $75 damage to the Parrett car. Ottawa Police log a two car crash at the Pizza Hut lot with minor details. Obituary notes for Helen Maxine Hasty, former Franklin County resident, with service announced. Kansas City AP cattle, hogs, and sheep market summaries follow, with advance Friday estimates for cattle, hogs, and sheep.
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Franklin County Sheriff's Department
Virginia Parrett
Osawatomie
Parrett
Rantoul
Ottawa
Pizza Hut
Kevin D. Snider
Tremont
John C. Scott
Quenemo
Kansas City
Choice
Baldwin Maple Leaf Festival Weekend Schedule
Baldwin's 16th annual Maple Leaf Festival offers a packed weekend of theater, parades, and tastings. The Battle of Black Jack opens Friday at Baker University's Rice Auditorium with tickets from 2.50 for adults and 1.25 for children. reservations 594-6451 Ext 536. Saturday features tennis, Jaycees meals, kiddies parade, Maple Leaf Parade, Haskell Indians performance, puppet shows, bus tours, and the Ballad of Black Jack. Sunday includes Jaycees dinner, pony pull, historic site tours, and final performance, plus a crafts fair and various historical displays around Baldwin City.
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Baldwin
Baker University
Rice Auditorium
6Th and
Grove
Baldwin City Hall
Jaycees
First United Methodist Church
Haskell Indians
Laury
City Hall
Allen's Drive-In
Eighth and High
Baldwin Junior High
Us-56
Old Castle
Kibbee
Old Post Office
Vinland
Quayle
Coal Creek
Banquet Joint Effort For Farm City Week Ottawa
The Greater Ottawa Chamber of Commerce and the Jaycees join the rural urban Ottawa Rotary Club committee along with Kiwanis Sertoma and Lions clubs to sponsor a Farm City Week banquet at 7 30 p m Tuesday Nov 20 in the Ottawa University student union. Clayton Yeutter U S assistant secretary of agriculture will speak and the Ottawa Jaycees Outstanding Young Farmer Award for 1973 will be presented. Reservations at 242 1000.
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Greater Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
The
Jaycees
Ottawa Rotary Club
Kiwanis Club
Sertoma Club
Lions Club
Ottawa University
Ottawa Jaycees
Clayton Yeutter
U.S
Chamber
Changes In Franklin County Sheriff Staff Shakeup
Franklin County Sheriff Lewis Ashcraft reports staff changes in the department. Ricky Hamerickhouse will begin as dispatch officer for the Kansas Turnpike Authority in Wichita on November 1, after two weeks with the sheriff and earlier as Ottawa City Police night dispatcher. Ron Sheffield, a sheriff’s dispatch officer, trains to become road deputy, starting October 9 with Undersheriff Rex Bowling. Ted Miltz is newly employed as Franklin County Jailer overseeing the county jail.
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Franklin County
Lewis Ashcraft
Franklin County Sheriff's Department
Ricky Hamerickhouse
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Wichita
Sheriff's Department
Ottawa City
Ron Sheffield
Rex Bowling
Ted Miltz
Train Tanker Crash Kills Two in Kansas City Area
A Missouri Pacific freight collided with a gasoline tanker near 135th and Cherry in Martin City. The train engineer from Jefferson City and brakeman from Osawatomie were killed. Duane Peck of Clinton escaped injury and drove 250 feet away. Fire spread for about half a mile as the tank truck exploded, with the brakeman found four blocks south of the crossing.
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Kansas City
Missouri Pacific
Jefferson City
Osawatomie
Kan
Duane Peck
Clinton
135Th and
Cherry
Martin City
County Commission Reviews Washout Bridges in Ottawa Area
Franklin County commissioners viewed a washed out bridge on Tally Creek northeast of Ottawa. Bridge slated for replacement with revenue sharing funds. bid setting for replacement of that and a Wolf Creek bridge may occur early next year.
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Franklin County Commission
Ottawa
Robert Lister
Tally Creek
Lister
Wolf Creek
Weather Balloons Spark UFO Reports Across South
The Associated Press notes weather balloons trigger more unidentified object sightings in the South. National Weather Service offices in Palestine Texas and Montgomery Alabama launched balloons, one 150 feet across drifted near Mississippi at about 50,000 feet, another reached 85,000 feet near Montgomery. Sunlight reflecting off these high flyers explains dusk sightings. Eglin Air Force Base warns high altitude rocket tests today and Friday may look like UFOs as rockets emit colored gas clouds.
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Associated Press
South
National Weather Service
Palestine
Tex
Mississippi
Weather Service
Montgomery
Ala
Macon
Eglin Air Force Base
Florida
Propane shortage worries Kansas farmers hit by weather
Farmers in Kansas and surrounding states face propane shortages as a new regional Office of Oil and Gas office in Kansas City reports 50 to 60 daily complaints about obtaining gas for crop drying. Delayed harvests due to wet weather limit demand, while allocations prioritize home heating and food processing, risking short supplies when fields open.
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Kansas City
Office of Oil and Gas
Vernon Shadel
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
Shadel
John Morehead
Sedalia
Warrensburg
Lexington
Clinton
Morehead
Herschel George
Paola
Kan
George
George Statham
Farmland Industries, Inc
Farmland Industries
Statham
Mrs Helen Hasty dies. services set in Denver
Mrs Helen Maxine Hasty a former Franklin County resident and wife of Robert Glenn Hasty died Tuesday in Denver Colorado Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:00 p.m. at Lamb Roberts Funeral Home with Rev Paul W Pentz officiating Interment will follow at Highland Cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home from Saturday evening until time of service
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Robert G. Hasty
Helen Maxine Hasty
Denver
Colo
Franklin County
American Medical Center
Lamb-Roberts
Highland Cemetery
Paul W. Pentz
Hasty
Ransomville
Alexander and
Sarah
Decker) Fisher
Robert Glenn Hasty
Ottawa
Robert James
Jim’ Hasty
Lakewood
Marsha Waylon Platt
Pleasanton
Calif
Lenora Kissinger
Mattie Miskimon
Williamsburg
Viola Beasley
Lewis Fisher
Harold Fisher
Manchester
N. H
Lamb- Roberts
American Cancer Society
Colorado
lLamb-Roberts
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Beautyland
Virgil Smith
Kansas Association of Insurance Agents
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Franklin County Rehabilitation Facility
Esther Schmitt
N. Mulberry
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
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Richmond
Anderson County Hospital
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Ed Gardner
Kansas State
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Friendly Persuasions
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Kansas Highway Patrol
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Don Lytle
Ed Amrein
the Daily Report
James Lancaster
Arnold Lemon
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