Ottawa native Beverly Lowry linked to polio case in Kansas City column
In a Kansas City Times column by Landon Laird, Beverly J. Lowry of Prairie Village, daughter of Ottawa insurance executive Claud Cochran, expecting a baby, in St Luke’s with polio. Rizzuto connection cited. bouquet from Phil Rizzuto. Also notes survivors, hospital updates, and local events including Ursuline Academy cornerstone anniversary and Red Cross flood relief totals. Football talk features Ottawan coach John Giger.
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Kansas City
Landon Laird
Beverly J. Lowry
Prairie Village
Claud Cochran
Kansas City Insurance
Ottawa University Board of Trustees
Lowry
St. Luke’s Hospital
More Ransom Bills Found In Circulation
The FBI reports two more $20 bills from the Greenlease ransom money tied to the Missouri region were found at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and traced to Springfield and Sedalia banks. The discovery supports claims that the money is circulating after being missing for years.
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FBI
Federal Reserve Bank of
Springfield
Sedalia
J. Earl Milnes
Federal Reserve Bank
Minot
N. D
Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Heady
Bobby Greenlease
Kansas City
Louis Shoulders
Elmer Dolan
Hall
Labor Day Weekend Marks End Of Summer Season
The Labor Day weekend signals the end of summer activities for Ottawa residents and the close of many local businesses. Students prepare to return to Ottawa University and colleges, while others finish summer jobs. Government offices close for three days, and the Herald will not publish on Labor Day. Highways are expected to be crowded Friday through Monday.
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Ottawa
OHS
Ottawa University
Herald
Risk Rates To Be Raised In Rockwood Acres
Rockwood Acres residents face higher insurance rates after insurers placed the development in Division 9 for fire insurance. The class change follows homes being over 1000 feet from a hydrant. City officials discussed water supply, noting a 4 inch main from Cedar to Lincoln and 6 inch lines in Rockwood. A study will decide if a new line is feasible from Cedar to Lincoln or Eleventh to Fifteenth along Lincoln Street.
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Rockwood Acres
Rockwood
Princeton
Richmond
Fifteenth Street
Cedar
Lincoln
Highland Heights
Eleventh
Lincoln ‘Street
City Engineering Department
Highest weekly polio total reported by Public Health Service
Washington reports 2279 new polio cases last week, the year's highest weekly total. For the first time since June 4, 1955 the weekly total surpassed the comparable week in 1954.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Red Cross Short of Goal for Northeast Flood Relief
The Red Cross says it remains $2 million shy of a 10 million dollar relief target for Northeast flood aid. It announced yesterday that emergency contributions total $7,481,926 to date.
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Red Cross
G. C. Fredeen
New York
Deadline Extended for Kansans Driver Licenses
TOPEKA five more days extended to renew licenses. Ed Camp state motor vehicle commissioner announced motorists have until Sept six to purchase licenses. State Highway Patrol will not enforce during Labor Day weekend due to heavy traffic. Drivers missing renewals face possible arrest for driving without license and must retake driving exam if renewing after the deadline.
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Ed Camp
State Highway Patrol
Peron Seeks Immediate State Of Siege For Buenos Aires
Argentine President Juan Peron plans to urge Congress to declare a state of siege in Buenos Aires this afternoon as he tightens control nationwide. Informants say the lower house will pass quickly and send it to the Senate for swift action, with Peron needing only his signature after approval. He told a Plaza de Mayo rally he would not resign to calm unrest despite earlier threats to quit.
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Buenos Aires
Peron
Congress
Senate
Plaza de Mayo
Bonds Set For Two Men In Ottawa Car Theft Attempt
Two men Franklin Sparks and Roy Wiles faced $7500 bonds after a county court hearing for an attempted car theft in Ottawa Saturday night. Sparks waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to district court, while Wiles requested one and was set for September 6 with attorney Don White. Both remained in jail after failing to post bond.
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Ottawa
Franklin Sparks
Flint
Mich
Roy Wiles
Bloomfield
Ind
Art Jensen
Bob Conaty
Martin Dickinson
Williamsburg
Milo Harris
Don White
Wiles
Sparks
Harris
Franklin County Teachers Institute Closes at Ottawa High
The four day event ended with Ottawa University Day at Ottawa High School. Speakers included C. W. Southard J. O. Cullison W. D. Bemmels Evelyn Kinney and Virginia Jennings representing Ottawa University faculty.
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Ottawa High School
Ottawa University
O. U
C. W. Southard
J. O. Cullison
W. D. Bemmels
Evelyn Kinney
Virginia Jennings
Eight Killed in Kansas Highway Accidents
Associated Press reports eight people died in Kansas traffic crashes raising the year’s highway toll to 358 with 367 last year at the same point. The victims include Mrs. Lloyd E. Andersen of Artesian South Dakota and her four members of the family in a Seneca collision, plus several other fatalities across Wichita Beloit and Galena areas.
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Lloyd E. Andersen
Artesian
S. D
Eglin Air Force Base
Florida
Seneca
Andersen
Donald M. Wedman
Dan Charcoal
Brown’s
Holnville, Kas
Wellington
Leah F. Packer
Wichita
Wilford Grow
Atlanta
Kas
Beloit
Hunter
James Lee Gandy
Galena
Municipal Garbage Plan Is Discussed In Ottawa
City officials weigh a city operated garbage system funded by revenue bonds to cover pickup and disposal. A study will determine cost and per customer charges. current Ottawans pay 1.00 for trash and 0.75 for garbage. A potential November or spring election and zoning talks for South Main and annexed North Edge areas are noted alongside sidewalk work and a rest room request for the parking lot. East Wilson street residents seek stop signs and paving with city county paving plans to grade the street for future surfacing to reduce dust.
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E. G. Stith
J. R. Cheney
League of Women Voters
City Planning Commission
South Main
Ottawa
South Cedar
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
South Hickory
East Wilson Street
Wilson and
Davis
East Wilson
Kentucky Derby Winner Lawrin Dies at 20
Kansas City report states Lawrin the 1938 Kentucky Derby winner died at Woolford Farm from a heart ailment. The 20 year old thoroughbred passed away yesterday and will be buried beside his sire Insco.
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Kansas City
Lawrin
Woolford
Herbert M. Woolf
Insco
Levees for Ottawa Won't Raise River Levels
Ottawa area residents fear higher river stages with the proposed levee system as reservoirs at Melvern and Pomona would hold back flood waters. The plan would widen channels and regulate discharge to prevent Ottawa floods, reducing risk during 1951 level storms and guiding releases through controlled gates.
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Ottawa
Marais Des Cygnes
Army Engineer
Pomona
Melvern
Logan Street
Seventh Street
Quenemo
Ottawa hosts Chamber leaders workshop dinner
A preliminary Chamber Leaders Workshop dinner will be held Tuesday September 6 in Ottawa under the sponsorship of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. James G. Roberts of the U S Chamber will speak at 7 p m at the North American Hotel. Reservations are due by Saturday. Price is 1 50. Attendees include directors and business leaders from Ottawa and invited towns such as Baldwin Bonner Springs and Lawrence. Local organizers also schedule workshops in Chanute Atchison Manhattan and McPherson ahead of a September 23 Lawrence workshop.
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Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
James G. Roberts
Southwestern
Dallas
North American
Wellsville
Roberts
Ledge Craig
Denver
U. S. Chamber
Harry W. Woods
Kansas State Chamber
E. R. Zook
Lawrence
Peg Carr
Chanute
Atchison
Manhattan
McPherson
New Fury On Gaza Front
Fighting flared along the Gaza front as Israel claimed two Egyptian fighters were shot down by Israeli jets. Egypt denied the claim, saying the planes collided in clouds during a reconnaissance mission. An Israeli army spokesman said the Egyptians entered Israeli air space and both pilots were killed. Eyewitnesses reported the Egyptian planes were flying south along the Israeli coast toward Gaza before turning toward inland targets.
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Gaza
Israel
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Egypt
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Dson L. W. Burns
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Yad Mordechai
Gaza Strip
State Workers Get Three Day Weekend This Year
Gov Fred Hall announced a three day holiday for state employees this weekend with Saturday off in addition to Sunday and Labor Day. Normally they work only a half day on Saturday.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
Weather forecast and temperature readings summary
Forecast calls for fair weather through Friday with warmer conditions in the east and north central. Tonight low 55 to 62 and Friday high in the lower 90s. Yesterday high 84, low today 48. Hourly and daily temperature readings noted, including record highs and lows for the date, and river level of 59 feet.
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North Central
N.E
Coolest Day Since June 4 Brings Sept Frigid Note
Ottawa mornings dip to 48 degrees marking the coolest start since June 4 as September opens cool. August moisture totals reach 1.68 inches, keeping year to date at 23.69, 1.55 inches below the 25.24 normal. August records four 100 degree days and four rainy days. Kansas warms toward 90s Friday as the Weather Bureau forecast calls for clear skies through Friday.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Weather ‘Bureau
106 Degrees In Los Angeles Today
Los Angeles recorded 106 degrees at 11 a m marking the highest temperature in 16 years and near the city’s all time peak. The reading ties with the 106 degree mark of Sept 21 1939 and nears the 1891 record of 109. Hot weather expected to continue through tomorrow with yesterday’s high at 101.
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Los Angeles
Kansas Farm Prices Fall to Nine-Year Low
The Department of Agriculture reports the August 15 Kansas farm prices index at 227 percent of the 1910-14 average, down six points from July and the lowest since 1946. A sharp drop in live stock and livestock product prices drives the decline, compared with a 1951 peak of 315 percent.
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Topeka
Kansas
Department of Agriculture
For Sale Old newspapers 10c per bundle
Brown's Hardware 227-c-lt offers football shoes and old newspapers for sale. Bundles of old newspapers available at Herald office for ten cents each.
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Brown
Bundie
Herald Office
Kansas Hits Two Million Population
The Kansas population rose to a record 2,050,478 this year, up 51,021 from 1954. Sedgwick County led gains, with Wyandotte, Johnson, and Riley also adding residents. Wichita remained the state’s largest city and Manhattan rose to join the top 10, while Bourbon County showed the largest rural decline. Urban areas accounted for 51.5 percent of Kansans.
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Kansas
State Board of Agriculture
Wyandotte County
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Riley
Geary
Shawnee
Salire
Reno
Dickinson
Butler
Bourbon County
Wichita
Kansas City
Manhattan
Great Bend
Hutchinson
Salina
Pittsburg
Leavenworth
Lawrence
U.S
Release of Polio Vaccine Hits New High Across States
Washington Public Health Service releases 3 348 000 cubic centimeters of Salk polio vaccine for children five through nine. It is the third and largest allocation under the voluntary control plan begun July 31. Kansas receives 35 487 shots as total outside the National Foundation program rises to 5 371 000 cubic centimeters.
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Washington
Public Health Service Today
Kansas
National Foundation
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