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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1961
Page
5
Cole and Peoria communities plan a joint meeting Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Cole School. Patrons should bring pies or doughnuts and personal table service. Children will be in costume.
Robert Dean, 18, pleaded innocent to an assault charge after police records allege he beat Frank Hanson at 5th and Cedar about 7:15 p.m. Saturday. Bond set at 50 pending Nov. 14 trial. Also in court, three forfeited bonds totaling 150, while three others were fined 170 for moving violations. Virgil Gumm, Clyde Konser, and Lloyd Milene forfeit 50 bonds each on drunk and vagrancy charges. N. C. Riemer paid 20 for failure to yield and no license, Rose Cathcard 10 for a backing collision, and Lyle Reddick 170 with 30 days suspended for DWI and no license. Reddick had earlier pleaded innocent.
Friends and political supporters of Congressman Robert Ellsworth will gather in Kansas City on Thursday, Nov. 16 for a Report-to-the-District dinner with Ellsworth as guest of honor and sole speaker. About 360 attendees from Kansas Second District counties expected. tickets at $10, funds to help the 1962 campaign.
Fannie Kraus, Pomona correspondent for The Ottawa Herald, ends a 44 year service began in 1917. She was the community’s longest serving paid correspondent, earning gratitude as residents honor her years of informing Pomona. Homecoming festivities Oct 20 featured Esther Larson crowned queen with attendants and a heart formation by the band and pep club.
Admissions include Mrs. Mary Waterbury guardian Angels nursing home Mrs. Edgar Anderson John W Wren Mrs Wilbur Yates plus entries for Pierce nursing home Monday Births list two at 9 and 10 pounds plus ounces for Clotfelter and Allen and Coen birth weights 6 pounds 10 ounces Tuesday Dismissals include Edward Myers Mrs Marvin W Allen and Mrs Thomas D Pyle and baby son plus Waverly RFD 2 Tuesday
Carnegie Free Library will close Thursday Friday and Saturday to allow staff to attend the joint Missouri and Kansas Library Associations conference at Hotel Muehlebach Kansas City. Attending staff include Nell Barnaby Mrs C A Peacock Mrs R K Keelin and Miss Louise Walker from the library board. Key speakers include Dr Philip C Brooks director of the Harry S Truman Memorial Library and Gretchen Schenk public library consultant Summerdale Alabama. Vance Packard author of The Hidden Persuaders and The Status Seekers will speak at Friday’s banquet. Receptions set at the Kansas City Public Library and the Truman Memorial Library with book due dates extended to October 30 for items due on closure days.
Local markets report from Kansas City AP notes cattle at 4,600 head with calves 400, steers and heifers steady, cows steady to strong, vealers unchanged, feeders steady. prices include good to prime steers 23.25 to 25.75, good to prime heifers 22.50 to 24.75, cows 15.00 to 17.00, stockers 23.00 to 26.00, feeders 20.50 to 25.75. Hogs 5,500 head with barrows and gilts up to 25 higher, sows steady to strong. 1-3 barrows 200-260 lb at 16.35 to 17.5, sows 300-400 lb at 15.00 to 15.75. Sheep 1,000 head, lambs steady. good to prime lambs 15.00 to 16.00, ewes 3.00 to 4.25, feeders 9.00 to 12.00. Corn prices around 2.201, oats and barley mixed with minor shifts. butterfat and eggs listed with small changes.
Manila, AP Salvador Rodan, 35, set himself and a cluster of 25 tenement homes ablaze after pouring gasoline and lighting a match. Three children are missing as investigators confirm the self inflicted fire caused fatal burns to Ro dan and rapid spread through the district.
The Ottawa Kiwanis Club sponsors a Parmelee Inc plant tour in Kansas City on Thursday. Kiwanis president Harold Leitaker says the tour aims to show Ottawans how the plant operates, mirroring a similar Ottawa operation due in November. Departure is 10 a.m. from Colbern's Restaurant. lunch to follow. Ottawa Mayor Kenneth Andrews, city commissioners, and Ottawa Industrial Development Inc. are invited.
Mrs. Margaret Culbertson 90 of Crestview Nursing Home died today at 9 15 a.m. Surviving include the widower 130 N Locust two daughters Bertha Jones Los Angeles Matilda Pyle Quenema one son Ed Quinn Oregon seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Mrs Pauline W Edington 65 formerly of Ottawa died yesterday in Kansas City born in Ottawa she lived 17 years in Kansas City retired Sears employee Surviving two sisters Florence Hickey and Lulu Kimmel Services Thursday 11 a.m. Freeman Chapel Kansas City Burial Leavenworth. Mrs Ada Belle Reeder 98 died today at Cedar House nursing home widow of James A Reeder born April 19 1863 Beulah Iowa daughter of S B and Maria Darling member of the Methodist Church Surviving one brother Joe Darling two grandchildren and a daughter in law Services Thursday 10 a.m. at Towner's Chapel Rev Roy Armstrong officiating burial Valley Brook Cemetery Michigan Valley.
Mrs. Marie Vickers, vice chairman of the Democratic State Committee, said Kansans can claim the nation’s most costly pony ring as Cedar Crest is prepared for Gov. John Anderson’s Shetland ponies. The project cost to date reaches 188 691 dollars, with a 5951 dollar split rail fence for the ponies and work unfinished. The former governor Docking had opposed the mansion plan as wasteful.
Ottawa’s electric service faced an outage that disrupted phone lines and hospital power briefly. Southwestern Bell's diesel-electric generator at Park and Main aided a rapid restoration in about ten minutes, vs twenty five to thirty minutes without the unit, thanks to quick hookup and steam pressure maintenance.
The Franklin County Historical Society held an executive committee meeting in the library to discuss future aims. Committee chairmen were named and four general meetings were scheduled for the year. Plans included establishing a Franklin County museum to preserve local historical items. The society lists about 80 members with a goal of at least 200 and invites interested residents to contact membership chair Mrs Harris Cochane at CH 23811.
Funeral services for Mrs Nellie Mae Cash who died October 19 were held October 23 at St Paul AME Church. Officiants were Elder H L Brandon Rev I B Brown and Rev J R Gray. Pallbearers included Roy Lewis Leroy Greene Theron Stovall W C Campbell William Roberts and Harvey Williams. Hymns were sung by the church choir and soloists Mrs Ida Roach and Mrs Elsie Arthur with accompaniment by Mrs Louise Armstrong. Burial followed at Hope Cemetery.
In Kapuskasing, Ontario, a US Air Force School bus crashed into a gravel truck, killing the bus driver and three children and injuring 18 others. The incident occurred Monday, leaving a scene of devastation and demanding emergency response.
Overbrook and Ottawa auctions list a dense schedule of livestock and miscellaneous sale events across Franklin and Osage counties. Firms include Emporia Livestock Sale Co, Franklin County Sale Co, Osage City Livestock Sale, Ottawa Livestock Commission, Waverly and Neosho listings, with weekly Saturday or Wednesday sessions and special consignment events in October and November. Local contacts: Ernest Arnold, Claude Myers, Harold Stewart, Charles Beatty, Printy family, and community auction details in Ottawa, Topeka, Lawrence areas.
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