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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1961
Page
6
Virginia Jennings of Ottawa University joined a Kansas Registrars Association panel in Salina today. The brief item notes various local notices, sales, and events, including turkey farm advertising, a car crash report in Princeton, and a rummage sale at Memorial Auditorium.
Nellie Mae Cash 74 of 840 S Cherry died at Ransom Memorial Hospital after a stroke. Born May 16 1887 in Garnett she moved to Ottawa and married there in 1905. Survived by sister Mrs A Edwards and several nieces and nephews. Funeral Monday 2 pm Elder H L Brandon officiating at Hope Cemetery. She faced a first degree murder charge in her husband William’s death last August, admitting she beat him with an old gun after a dispute over $90.
Funeral services for Harry Gibson will be held Friday at 2 p.m. in Towner's Chapel. Burial follows at Walnut Creek Cemetery in Wellsville.
KC Markets Kansas City AP cattle 7 percent higher for good to high choice steers and helferes. cows and other classes steady. Hog prices up 25 to 40 cents for 1-3 barrows, gilts 250 to 280 pounds. Sows 13 to 16, lambs and sheep about steady with good to prime lambs 14.30 to 16.00 and ewes 3.00 to 4.60.
An all male jury in Paso, Texas, found Leon Bearden, 38, guilty in 22 minutes of hijacking a Continental jet over New Mexico on August 3. Bearden and son Cody, 16, of Coolidge Arizona, await sentencing after Cody pleaded guilty to transporting a stolen vehicle. The Bearden case marked the first of its kind, with life imprisonment sought for Leon. The plane landed in El Paso for fuel after the hijack was forced toward Cuba.
Don Brown county agent Rosemary Crist home economics agent and Ross Nelson attend the 47th annual conference of the Kansas State University Extension Service October 24 to 27 at Kansas State University Manhattan. Progress and plans for the Rural Areas Development program in Kansas will be featured.
A 272 acre farm in Jefferson County north of Oskaloosa Kansas was given to the Kansas State University Endowment Association by Wesley A Zellner of Junction City. Net proceeds will aid K State students through scholarships or loans, announced by Kenneth M Heywood director of development and endowment.
Hospital notes show admissions for George B. Kyle and M. E. Smith and Lee Bearty with dates Wednesday and Thursday. Births reported to Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Backs include a son born Wednesday weighing 7 pounds 5 ounces. Discharges list Mrs. Edwin Schwartz Fred A. Gump Bert Norton and several others with street addresses and towns.
Kansas Governor John Anderson was presented a 92 year old Hereford bull by the Kansas Hereford Association at the American Royal Live Stock Show on Kansas Day. He announced plans to buy 10 heifers and run them on his De Soto farm, saying cattle income supports state farms and education for his three children. The event featured Gov Anderson and U S Sen Frank Carlson in the main arena amid red and white beef displays.
Washington AP reports the Pentagon refused to confirm that Secretary McNamara has recommended against using extra Congress funds for more strategic bombers. A spokesman said no final decision or formal recommendation has been made, while The New York Times said McNamara sent his decision to Kennedy and the President was expected to approve if not already done.
The 1961 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Dr Georg von Bekesy, born in Hungary and now at Harvard, for discoveries on cochlear stimulation mechanisms. Prize equals 250 200 Swedish crowns. The award was announced at the Royal Caroline Institute after a three hour session.
Warden Tracy Hand reports the Kansas Penitentiary near maximum capacity with 1,848 inmates, as admissions exceed releases. The facility surpassed safety standards for segregation and security, with historical lows of 464 inmates recorded on December 31, 1918 and an all-time high of 2,034 in April 1986.
Orlando AP report says Teamsters Union President James R Hoffa and Detroit banker Robert F McCarthy Jr pleaded innocent to mail fraud charges. They are named in a 16 count indictment accusing misused Teamsters funds totaling over 500000 for Sun Valley Inc a retirement housing development for union members.
Civic and study groups in Ottawa raise funds for a Community Book Fair with co sponsorship from city P.T.A. groups the library and other groups. The event runs during National Book Week starting November 12 on the library's second floor. About 1000 books will be displayed and orders may be placed with a minimum $1 deposit.
Philip C. Marsh Jr., a 45 year old security officer with General Dynamics at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, was found dead in his car on a rural road near Plattsburgh. State police say he apparently committed suicide after being missing since Sunday. He left home Sunday, reportedly to buy beer, and is survived by three children.
Public notice states that on October 11, 1961 a petition signed by twelve Franklin County households from Harrison Ottawa and Lincoln Townships Kansas was submitted to the Board of County Commissioners seeking to vacate a road along the section line between sections 9 and 16 in the described township.
A dense list of farm and livestock sales and related auctions across Kansas towns including Emporia Overbrook Ottawa and Waverly. Entries note sale dates Oct 16 20 21 23 24 27 28 30 and details like sale names locations and contact numbers. The Community auction and storage sale details are repeated with times and addresses for weekly events.
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