Local brief roundup with fines and arrests
Levi E Vetaw of Lawrence fined 200 dollars and sentenced to 90 days in jail after a guilty verdict for driving while intoxicated. He was free on a 500 dollar bond pending trial in County Court. Additional items note a $125 claim against Lyle J Dykstra for June 1958 work, a clothing sale ad, a car part theft report, a family picnic announcement, a transfer at J C Penney Ottawa, a Greenland radar base contributor returning home, a rummage sale, a fall causing back fracture at 509 S Mulberry, and local police citations for failure to yield and speeding with court dates Sept 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi E. Vetaw
Lawrence
Vetaw
Deaths and notices from Ottawa area columns
Deaths MRS. FRED W. FUNK born Sylvia Rozell 63 of 1107 Main died at Ransom Memorial Hospital after a stroke. Survived by son Harold Funk and two grandchildren. siblings in California and Downey. Funeral arrangements by Lamb Funeral Home. MRS. CARRIE E. LITTLE died Sept. 8 in Calhan Colorado with service held Sept. 11. survived by widower Gerald and two grandchildren. Naomi Club potluck set with officers to be elected. Dance at Gardner Roller Rink advertised with prizes.
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Fred W. Funk
Main
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Sylvia Rozell
Homewood
Ottawa
Malta Bend
Carey H. “Dad
Ida Belle (Brown) Rozell
First Methodist Church
Harold Martin Funk
Hoisington
Harold H. Ingraham
Harry B. Maxwell
Downey
Calif
Earl M
Carrie E. Little
Calhan
Colo
Evergreen Cemetery
Colorado Springs
Harve McCullough
Junction City Man Is Slain
A 69 year old Junction City man, Charles Emory Rupp, was found dead with a shotgun wound in a workshop at his home south of the city. Sheriff Vance Collins called it a murder with no robbery, no ransacking, and no motive evident. No gun was found on the scene. The case remains under investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junction City
Vance Collins
Charles Emory Rupp
Shot death report and Kansas weather and markets snippet
A shooting near a residence left a man named Rupp dead, neighbors recalling a noise like an explosion around 11:15 am. The report also includes farm commodity quotes and futures data from Kansas City, listing Wheat, Soybeans, Corn, and Livestock prices and market activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waugier
Escorn
Rupp
City
Two Held In Murder Of Colorado Man
Police say a Denver area heir William Scott Wright was found murdered in a remote canyon west of Denver. Harold Wooley and Mary Wooley, former acquaintances, confessed to shooting Wright and burying him under rocks after moving his body from his mountain cabin. They allegedly forged a $500 check to Wright, triggering the investigation into his disappearance. Wright's estate is valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, left to him by his mother. Eva Paul, a Denver waitress, reported that she picnicked with the Wooleys near the canyon on the Fourth of July, noting their unusual interest in the area.
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Denver
Calo
Gojfor
William Scott
Wright
Harold Wooley
Wooley
Mary
Eva Paul
Wooleys
Zoning Requests Denied by Ottawa Plan Commission
The Ottawa planning commission denied two property owners’ requests to reclassify zoning. G. H. Marshall at 7th and Main seeks general business zoning. Nellie L. Brown at 719 Mulberry seeks local business from first family dwelling. City commissioners upheld the planning commission ruling amid dust complaints from earth-moving levee work and noted August airport operating cost of 51.19 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa Planning Commission
G. H. Marshall
7Th and Main
Nellie L. Brown
Mulberry
Marshall
Planning Commission
Ottawa
Army Engineers
Many Die In Italian Apartment Collapse In Barletta
Barletta Italy AP disaster teams say death toll may exceed 100 after a five story apartment building collapsed in an earthquake. Forty five bodies recovered, 58 missing, 15 injured. Almost all victims died in bed as rest of residents faced rubble and possible more victims. Missing include three workmen who arrived to repair a wall. The building had four additional stories added recently and housed businessmen city workers and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barletta
Italy
Request for Second Snorkel Box Denied by Officials
Ottawa city officials had requested a second snorkel type mail box on the east Hickory street side to reduce traffic hazards. Postmaster T. J. Cummings reported the regional postal office in Wichita denied the request, noting crossing street for mail removal would rise to about 24 times daily. The 24 hour post office would risk unattended operation if mail was collected from a second box at night.
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T. J. Cummings
Ottawa
Postal Department
Wichita
Hickory
Cummings
Hospital Notes Admissions and Births Reported
Admissions include James Vieux of Wichita Mrs Jesse Medien 903 N Oak George W Stewart 09 S Mulberry Del mar Grey Pomona Wednesday Mrs Byrd Ross 1934 S Main Births Mr and Mrs Bernard Smith 324 Eirth a daughter born today Dismissals include Randy Hinderliter 1528 Oak Mrs W K Blank RFD 2 Wednesday Mrs Raymond Ledom 418 N Sycamore Hale B Blair 805 W 6th Clarence EB Hazen 509 N Poplar Mrs Francis Russell 527 Mulberry James Vieux Wichita today
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James Vieux
Wichita
Jesse Medien
N. Oak
George W. Stewart
S. Mulberry
Delmar Grey
Pomona
Byrd Ross
S. Main
Fred C. Prager
Bernard Smith
Eirth
Randy Hinderliter
W. K
Notice of Sheriff Sale in Franklin County Kansas
Legal notice from Franklin County Kansas announcing a sheriff sale by order of the Fourth Judicial District. Auction set for September 1, 1959 at 2:00 PM at the courthouse in Ottawa, to sell described tracts in Ottawa and Franklin County including portions of Lots 24 28 and 26 28 29 31 33 35 in Block 98 and adjoining tracts, held in partition.
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State of Kansas
Franklin County
Kansas
Edna Carey
Emory C. Guy
EU Ralph B. Logan
Norman Lee Logan
Ralph B. Logan
District Court of
Fourth Judicial District
Franklin
Fourth Judicial District Court
Ottawa
Block SR
City of
Block
City of Ottawa
Block 98
Main Street
Injured at Pomona Dam Worker Suffered Facial Injury
James Vieux age 40 of Wichita an employee of List and Clark Construction Co on the Pomona reservoir project sustained bruises and a cut over one eye when the earth moving machine he operated slid down a fill. He was treated at Ransom Memorial Hospital and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Vieux
Wichita
List & Clark Construction Co
Pomona
Vieux
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Pamela Mason becomes U.S. citizen in Los Angeles
British born actress Pamela Mason was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in a Los Angeles ceremony attended by about 200 people. Her husband, actor James Mason, remains a British subject.
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Los Angeles
Pamela Mason
U.S
James Mason
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