Ottawa area police and civic briefs span drunkenness to school gains
Police court notes record several drunkenness pleas and license revocations in the 1600 block and on South Main as well as a speeding citation near Park Street. Other items report 4,271 district enrollment, Attended Water Works school gathering 153 participants, and a Sunstroke related illness among Kansas Turnpike workers. Local returns from Ohio trips and hospital discharges close the round of reminders and community notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Water and Light Department
Water and Sewage
Kansas University
Lawrence
Elmer Bell
Enos Horn
Carl
Mariand
Marion Ackley
Ernie
Hospital Notes Admits and Births Across Towns
Admitted patients include Mrs Earl Watts Quenema Mrs Sta Michael Wellsville Victor Basel Williamsburg Mrs Jack Sauer Cedar Jim Finch Rantoul Miss Mary A Stiles Cedar Mrs W N Douglas Sycamore Mrs Elmner Sumner Oak Charles Mavity Locust Sunday Mrs Ralph Ferguson Richmond Praan AEPUS Mr and Mrs Robert Callin Quenemo son born Saturday weight 7 4 oz Mr and Mrs Robert Cox Baldwin son born Saturday weight a th 1445 az Mr and Mrs Charles Hamilton Williamsburg daughter born Sunday weight 8 lb 10 oz Dismissed Mrs Charles Lilly 118 S Poplar Saturday Mrs Ralph Latimer and baby son 1112 N Main Mrs James Ware Williamsburg Sunday Mrs Earl Walls Quenemo Mrs H G Benton route 1 today
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Earl Watts
Quenema
Sta Michael
Wellsville
Victor Basel
Williamsburg
Jack Sauer
Cedar
Jim Finch
Route 1
Rantoul
Mary A. Stiles
W. N. Douglas
Sycamore
Elmner Sumner
Oak
Charles Mavity
Ralph 0. Ferguson
Richmond
Praan
Aepus
Robert Callin
Quenemo
Robert Cox
Bald
Win
Charles Hamilton
Charles Lilly
S. Poplar
Ralph Latimer
N. Main
James Ware
Earl Walls
H. G. Benton
Ottawa area deaths and PTA news and accident report
Degree-Glenn Elgin Hammond earned a B S in engineering from Texas Western College El Paso a Ottawa High School graduate and son of Mrs Evalina Hammond a former Wyкоff school PTA council meets tomorrow at 4 in room 212 senior high. Minor damages A 1955 Ford wagon driven by Mrs Bennie Simpson of Greeley route 1 collided with a 1956 Chevrolet hardtop driven by Richard James Davis 20 of Williamsburg route 2 in the 400 block South Main Sunday evening. The mishap caused injuries. Chevrolet damaged 25 Ford 10. Denied guilt Raymond Terry 55 Ottawa address arrested on charge Fritz Reiner of Peabody. Judging Team A 4 H home economics judging team will go to the Kansas Free Fair Topeka for competition in judging. Survivors include son Paul and daughter Mrs R Lawrance Jayhawk Ottawa. Team members Lou Ann Kline Wichita Mrs W T Hop-kins Williamsburg Maurine Neal Farandikins Williamsburg Virginia Nephews Harry and Frank Carey Acorn Princeton. Eulaj Reiner Williamsburg and Her Mae Cartmill also of Jayhawk will join the group with Lovann Lawrance to compete in demonstrations of fruits. Mary Dean Holle home demonstration agent will accompany the girls to the fair. Hau Liemeuu LaL Lulsd Mrs Hopkins Frank Reiner and Mr and Mrs Harry Reiner will attend the funeral tomorrow afternoon in Peabody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennie Simpson
Greeley
Richard James Davis
Williamsburg
South Main
Fritz Reiner
Peabody
About
Kansas Free Fair
Topeka
Paahndy
Totmorrow
Paul
Be Ing
Louann
Ottawa
Maurine Neal
Farandikins
Neal
Virginia
Harry
Frank Carey
Acorn
Princeton
Eulaj Reiner
Mae Cartmill
Jayhawk Man Minchathan
Miten Club
Lovann Lawrance
Mary Dean Holle
Funeral services for Mrs. sey and Basil Hull
Funeral services were held for Mrs. sey Jr., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Hull, with Rev. M Todd Mac officiating at Exeter Exeter Academy preparatory call. Burial was at Mt Muncie Cemetery Leavenworth. Court opened in September term before Judge Coffman with civil cases heard and next Monday set for jury. custody of four children granted to Miguel Carmona Wellsville. insuff funds check charges against Paul E Hottenstein by Gibson Standard Service.
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Eastern School
Basil Kel Hull
Sey, Jr
Basil
Lucy G. Hull
Kelsey, Sr
Towner
Exeter
N. H
M. Todd Maclead
Phillips Exeter Academy
Donald
Albert J. Wil
Com Liams
Lawrence Ott
Mt. Muncie Cemetery
Leavenworth
Floyd H. Coffman
Miguel Carmona
Wellsville
Chicago
Gibson Standard Service
Paul E. Hottenstein
Ike Steps Up News Sessions
President Eisenhower appears to be increasing use of the presidential news conference as his re election campaign begins. He will hold an off schedule session with reporters tomorrow in the afternoon marking a departure from his usual practice. In recent weeks he has met with newsmen under unusual circumstances suggesting a shift in his approach this election year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Air Crash Near-Miss Bewilders Oklahoma City Region
Civil Aeronautics officials probed a near collision between a Continental Airlines DC transport and a small Cesna 170 over Bartlesville Oklahoma as both aircraft landed safely. The DC 10 carried 14 passengers and three crew. damage included a sheared right elevator and damaged rudder and right aileron. Private pilot Jim F Folk of Carthage Texas had four Bartlesville children aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartlesville
Okla
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Continental Air Lines
Continental DC
el Paso
Tex
Kansas City
Jim F. Folk
Carthage
Methodists See Life Improving at World Conference
At Lake Junaluska North Carolina Methodist leaders from around the world discussed progress toward better life on earth. They said improvement is slow but real with some headway in areas of global society. The Rev Christa Charan Pande of Calcutta India said the prayer Thy Kingdom Come is being lived daily in a world better than yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Junaluska
N.C
Christa .Charan Pande
Calcutta
India
Maine Voters To Polls Today
Portland voters cast ballots in a high stakes Maine election. Republicans bid to recapture the governorship from Edmund Muskie and reclaim Maine’s three U S House seats. Muskie seeks a historic second Democratic governorship.
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Maine
Portland
Aine
Eisenhower
Edmund
Muskie
U.S
Tf Muskie
Willis A. Trafton Jr
Emporia Death Called Death by Own Action
In Emporia Kansas a staff member at the state teachers college was found suffocated in a vacant apartment refrigerator. Coroner reports suicide with no signs of foul play. Irene Fox, 47, supervisor in the elementary school, had recently returned from a health-related leave. Funeral services were set for Junction City, where she was born.
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Emporia
Kas
Emporia State Teachers College
D. Warris
Irene Fox
Miss Fox
Clayton Martin
Junction City
Man Admits Killing on Warrensburg Farm
Harold Ray Amer 20 signed a statement admitting he killed Alfred Askins Jr. 28 near Warrensburg Missouri after Askins allegedly tried to force him into an unnatural act while frog hunting on Amer’s grandfather’s farm. Askins’ body was found on the farm 16 miles northwest of Warrensburg. Amer was arrested while sleeping in a Kansas City tourist cabin. police found three death by own action notes and said he planned to turn on the gas later. He had been in Mexico and returned Friday and is held for investigation in Askins death and related $1000 bad checks charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Harold Ray Amer
Alfred Askins Jr
Warrensburg
Wayne Gibson
Amer
Askins
Mexico
New Books At City Library
Among new offerings at the Carnegie Free Library are five titles highlighted by Miss Nell Barnaby. Adelle Davis’s Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit guides nutrition, and Laura Fermi’s Atoms in the Family recounts life with Enrico Fermi. Charlotte Armstrong’s A Drama of Poison and Frances Lockridge’s The Faceless Adversary add suspense, while McCall’s Treasury of Needlecraft covers embroidery and other crafts. The note mentions insect pests entering via trade channels.
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Carnegie Free Library
Nell Barnaby
Les
Adelle
Davis
Enrico Fermi
Laura Fermi
McCall's Treasury of
Union Church Bldg and Contents Auction Diary
Sale dates listed for Centropolis Overbrook and Ottawa areas including auctions at Union church building, Overbrook Livestock sale, Roberts Market Sale, Fred Miller Dairy Sale, and James Tirestone Estate. Entries show dates September and September 26 with locations 38 miles northwest Centropolis and 12 miles east of Ottawa.
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C. A. Myers & Son
Centropolis
Ottawa
Union Church
Overbrook
Kas
A. J. Dawson
Willow St
C. KR. Goodman
Noorth
Pomona
Roberts Market
East Lith St
Lawrence
Fred Miller
Jerit
James Chenier
Wilson St
James Tirestone
Northwest
State Traffic Toll Up To 437
Kansas reported 437 traffic deaths for 1955 over the weekend up from 389 a year earlier. Latest victims include 18 year old Robert Baty of Thayer and 47 year old Roy Johnson. Parsons man fatally injured on a county road near Parsons Friday night. Bill L. Grow, 26, of Viola, died in a Wichita hospital after injuries from a crash two miles east of Goddard Saturday night. Alfred Gaines, 73, of Detroit Michigan, died in a one car crash two miles west of Junction City on US 40 yesterday. Lloyd Montgomery, 85, of Topeka, killed when a car struck a tree in North Topeka yesterday.
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Kansas
Thetate
Robert Baty
Thayer
Roy Johnson
Parsons
Bill L. Grow
Viola
Wichita
Goodard
Alfred Gaines
Detroit
Mich
Junction City
U.S. 40
Lloyd Montgomery
Topeka
North Topeka
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Jay Elis
Mike Mulcahey
Buick Co
Edge of Otttawa
Brockway
D. C
Saturda
Lamar Fredhan
James Shaden
Marro
Soroptimist Club
Wed
Glenn Gilbert Jones
Main
Sth
Park Streets
Lawrence City
St. John's Catholic Parochial School
M. J. Klein
Route 4
R. W. Everett
Fostoria
Lake Erie
Ohio
Clifford B., Blunt
Cedar Pond
Harold Leichsworth
St. Francis Hospital
Kansas Turnpike
View Grange
Carl Hoopes
Iahated
Massasoit
Mrs. Hill
Flora
Canada
Mrs. C. B. Hill
Nyssa
Ore
Glenn Elgin
Hammond
Texas Western College
Ottawa High School
Evalina Hammond
Wycoff School
PTA Council
Raymond Terry
Hau Liemeuu Lal, Lulsd
Hopkins
Frank Reiner
Harry Reiner
Louis H. Dengel
Smith
Anne Baxter
Bing Grace
William Crosby
Kelly
Holden
Perlberg-Seaton
Ice Squad
Ike
Tonite
Warner Bros
Mand Scort
Warner’s
Peng
Ca Aero Ua OL A ‘of
Boi Ck
Ea Eork
Stai Kieron Moore
Lois Maxwell
Donald Wolfit Wrang Rayen Forpes
Mmmy Hamily
Thea Gregory
Candy Harry Lee Danziger
Hillcrest
N. P. Slaughter
Clovis
N. M
B. M. Richards
Amner Bros
Vas Hunter
Natalie Woop
City Library
Jack Nelson
Anderson County
Werbrook Livestock
Paola Fair Grounds
Pama
Kanar
Neill George
Waverly
Don Wallace
Leho Corner
Laura Hill
Apt
Noel Siebuth
Leho
Albert Stewart & Son Farm
Albert
Harold
Franklin County
Wilson and
Logan Street
H. W
John Kunard
Wilson
Printy & Son
Ben Printy
Cap
The
Pomona Lions Club
Pomona, Kansas
Bondini
Entraordiay
Marin Levig
King Pratvall Syndicate, Inc
Joe Towner
John G. Kaiser Drug Store
Masonic
Western Australia
Sevssene
Lamb Funeral Home
Stvawa
DLMCE
Porter- Spears
Agenc
Yom Porter
George Spears
Organization of
Bles
Anchorg Savings An Loan Association
William Overton
President
Kansas City, Kansas
North American Building
Duan Nofsinger
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