Ottawa City Commission Ponders Thirteenth Street Paving
The Ottawa City Commission splits on how to pave Thirteenth Street from Main to Walnut. Mayor Williamson supports an advertised bid, while Harry Murphy backs tying the project to Haworth Construction’s current contract for Eleventh Street, arguing weather and engineering delays if separate bidding occurs.
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Rosie Lister
Ottawa City Commission
Thirteenth Street
Main West
Walnut
City Commission
Harery Murphy
Charles Williamson
Murphy
Haworth Construction Co
Eleventh Street
Lyman Corlis Jr
John L. Richeson
Olive
Olive Benefit
Fin
Olive Street
Commission
Haworth
Eleventh
Thirteenth
Vern Wadkins
Ash Street
Wadkins
Ottawa Man Receives Term For Burglary in KSIR Taver ns
Michael George Rockey, 26, of Ottawa, found guilty on five counts of burglary in District Court. He is sent to the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory in Hutchinson for five to 10 years on each count, to run concurrently, with eligibility for a probation hearing after about 10 months. Co-defendant Floyd Alexander Cape, 50, Williamsburg RFD 1, faces grand larceny charges and will be tried later.
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Ottawa
Kansas State Industrial Reformatory
Hutchinson
Michael George Rockey
Floyd Alexander Cape
Williamsburg
RFD 1
Cape
Baldwin Ward
Elbow
Rockey
Hutchinson Reformatory
Reformatory
Pomona High School
Hutcheinson
Floyd Coffman
Kids Drawings Show Happy Doctors Across New York
About 1,000 drawings by children treated by New York area physicians were collected to gauge satisfaction with doctors. Young patients depict doctors as friendly in bright offices, with fears like needles and expressions of love for their physicians. The effort covered about half of the Health Plan of Greater New York’s 31 medical centers and included hundreds of entries and many honorable mentions.
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NEW York
Leslie Garrison
Lori Levine
Gillman
New York Area
Greater New York
Michele Savron
Bronx
Milton Gold
Simya
Algo
Gold
US Professor May Have Botched Berlin Arrest Claim
AP reports Columbia University instructor Ronald Wiedenhoeft, 30, may have been arrested in East Berlin over photographs of city buildings tied to his research on Berlin architecture. State Department noted he photographed in East Berlin during a mid June stay with his wife and two daughters.
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Wiedenhoeft
Weather highs and lows for the date record values
The report lists Wednesday high of 16 and today low of 71 with a year ago high of 67 and low of 65. It notes record highs 100 in 1939 and record low 39 in 1902, plus 2.62 inches of precipitation in the past 24 hours ending 7 am and hourly temps to 8 am.
Choo Choo Still Property Of Chattanooga City Dads
Chattanooga retains the Civil War locomotive General after a court allowed the injunction to stand. A Chattanooga boarding party stopped the engine from being sent to Kennesaw, following a seizure amid a dispute with Georgia officials. Mayor John Adams of Kennesaw commented on the two skirmishes in court.
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Chatanooga City
Chattanooga
Ten
John Adams
Kennesaw, Ga
Ray Brock
Brock
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Kennesaw
Speeding fines rise in Ottawa city and beyond
Starting today mph fines increase as Ottawa Police Court Judge Don White ends dollar laxes. Next Thursday morning speeding 30 mph over the limit bears a $60 fine, 11 to 15 mph over $15, 2 dollars per extra mph over the limit, with examples in 30 and 20 mph zones. Rail bond at police HQ will follow the same scale.
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Ottawa
Auditorium facelift planned for Memorial Auditorium
Plans presented to the city commission by Bob Grabham call for gold color aluminum panels on the exterior, slotted to mimic brick, new aluminum and glass doors, a cross hatched screen over the upper windows, shrubbery to hide flood lights, and sandblasting of decorator stone. The project estimates at 2586 dollars excluding sandblasting, with work to start next year after interior remodeling finished this year.
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Memorial Auditorium
City Commission
Bob Grabham
Auditorium Board
Grabham
Park Gift Proposal and City Canopy Project Update
Joel Towner offered four city lots totaling about 100 by 130 feet in Hamblin and Waltons Addition at Eighth and Burroughs for a park or recreation area and the commission referred the gift to the Park Board. The canopy project in the 200 block of South Walnut nears completion. Ottawa fire truck Seagrave hydraulic cylinder repairs and minor adjustments were completed. Safe school driving was noted, but traffic cautions have risen in the past ten days.
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Joel Towner
Hamblin
Walton
Eighth
Alpha
South Walnut
Don Hamilton
Water and Light Department
Ottawa
Seagrave
Poice
Eugene Flaherty
Britain protests seizure of Shanghai consulate
London protests Red China's seizure of Britain's 116 year old Shanghai consulate and plans a formal note demanding compensation and restating British rights to the property.
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London
Britain
Red China
Shanghai
Military Gets Its Targets McNamara Bombing Stand Overruled
Washington reports a shift in Vietnam war policy as President Johnson and Defense Secretary McNamara reportedly clash with military chiefs over bombing strategy. New targets include Haiphong and surrounding areas while emphasis moves to fixed installations and industrial sites near Hanoi, with three major bombing phases noted this year.
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Washington
U.S
North Vietnam
Johnson
Roberts
McNamara
Haiphong
Hon Gai
Panhandle
Okey
Ing
Thai Nguyen
Hanoi
China
Gerald R. Ford
House
Senate Defense Preparedness
Beangan
John B. Stone
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Fifteenth Street
Naomi’s
R and R
Baldwin - Ward Manufacturing Co
City Auditorium
Hickory
Hickory Street
Wells Volved
Phil. G. Goulding
Pentas Gon
White ‘House
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