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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1956
Page
1
Community briefs include piano tuning, reunion plans, hospital visits, and civic items. Guests, vacations, school and club activities, and local business ads appear alongside traffic and legal notices, with names like Joe Howser of Ottawa and Dr. Brockway.
Mayes appeals conviction after arrest for driving while intoxicated as frost coats the ground in early morning. The case, Iowa's first arrest of the season, led to a $100 fine and 30 days in jail. Ottawa and Osawatomie officials list lawyers and city attorney, with additional notes on hospital visits and marriage licenses issued in probate court.
Robert Harrison, 50, publisher of Scandal Magazine, wounded in jungle woods near Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic after a quarrel over a Confidential magazine story. Suspect Richard Weldy, 35, claims accident as rifle discharged during argument while hunting with Harrison and others. Weldy under arrest. officials seek full story before deciding prosecution. Geene Courtney, a singer, was present on the hunting trip.
Stillborn infant Eldon Dean born to Mr and Mrs Arlag Halbach at Ran som Memorial hospital. Walter Herman Sample 72 of Dawson Creek, Canada, died Sept 4 after illness. funeral plans incomplete. Mrs Lucy G Hull 84 of Pomona died at Ransom Memorial hospital after ten days illness. funeral at Towner Chapel with burial at Mt Muncie cemetery.
The Agriculture Department designated seven additional Kansas counties as drought disaster areas. Eligible stockmen may obtain grain feeds at reduced cost and grazing of soil bank land is also authorized. Counties named include Chase Barton Chautauqua Elk Kiowa Stafford and Wilson.
A force liaison officer of the Ground Observer Corps addressed the Kiwanis Club during the weekly gathering. The sergeant is stationed in the area to help establish a Ground Observer Corps unit in civil defense. New officers for the Chippewa Amateur Radio Club were elected at the Greenwood club house on Lon Nitcher farm near Ottawa. Don Catuska became president with Bill Bryan as vice president, Dave Zimmerman secretary, Lon Nitcher chief cook, and Reed Richardson publicity chairman. ten members attended. Jaycee Jaynes demonstrated Christmas candle making at Mrs EB Haley’s home Tuesday evening, then moved to John Gaver’s for a brief business session. fourteen members and guests Mines, Doyle Sellers, Armand Harris, and Lowell New attended.
Admitted: Rose Anne Sink route 4 Mrs Effie Henley 207 Willow Henry Fishburn Overbrook Charley Eschenberger Pomona Roy Nelson Pomona Mrs Arlee Halbach 127 Walnut today Births: Mr and Mrs Ralph Latimer 1112 N Main a son born Wednesday weight 7 lb 10 oz Dismissed: Mrs Jack Seyler and baby daughter Wellsville Harold Horton Tremont Til today
GOP National Chairman Leonard W. Hall announces the party will deploy truth squads nationwide to monitor Democratic campaigns including former President Harry S. Truman. The teams, with researchers and congress members, aim to “keep the record straight” during the campaign season.
Reach Cyprus NICOSIA reports Athos II, the French troop ship, arriving with 1,200 airmen and 1,300 troops assigned to Suez crisis duty.
A fatal automobile collision on U S Highway 54 near Nevada Missouri killed Robert Lee Rye 21 of Nevada. Ev Straight Run eggs coe goferett L Williams 44 of Nevada was injured. Other items list market prices for eggs butterfat and corn.
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