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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1968
Page
3
The filmed version of Theodore White's The Making of the President 1960 will screen Friday at 8 p.m. in the Ottawa Univ auditorium. Open to the public with 25 cent admission. Sponsored by Campus Film Series and the history and political science dept.
Pence grocery expansion continues as Bob Pence buys the Osage City IGA Food Center from Dwight Thompson effective September 29. The chain will then run five stores including Humboldt Garnett Ottawa pair. Osage City manager Charles Gillette will stay on for now and a new building with general merchandise will replace the current downtown Osage City facility.
A large crowd of parents attended the joint Junior and Senior High PTA at Ottawa High School Monday night. Mrs. Victor Hughes chaired the session and introduced the executive committee. Deans and principals introduced teachers. rooms were assigned for class visits. Cookies and coffee were served to about 200 attendees. The next meeting is set for 7:30 p.m. October 21 in the junior high auditorium.
Leonard J Kelley 65 of Independence died this morning at Mercy Hospital Independence. Services set for 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Webb Funeral Home with Dr J Joyce Wilson officiating. Burial at Highland Cemetery. Survived by wife Eva R Staadt, daughter Carol Paul, sisters Gail Stephens and Bernard Scherr, five grandchildren, and other relatives. Mr Kelley was longtime Kansas State Employment Office manager in Independence and a member of First United Methodist Church and several fraternal organizations.
The Ottawa school lunch menu lists a weekly rotation with items such as pizza on Tuesday and Salisbury steaks on Friday accompanied by milk. Admissions include Mrs Hattie Bacon and others from Wellsville and Lawrence RFC 2. Births record two newborns with weights. Emergencies note multiple injuries from Sunday and Monday at various local locations.
Legal notice states a proposed amendment to Section 2 of Article 4 will be presented to voters at the November 1968 general election. The change concerns biennial general and township elections held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in even-numbered years.
OSH patients at Osawatomie State Hospital stage a musical play titled Once Upon a Dream written acted and produced by the patients. Five performances are planned two hospital matinees September 19 and 21 then a tour to Lawrence September 23 Leavenworth September 24 and Kansas City Missouri September 25. Since 1963 the patients have produced four plays with hospital staff and two volunteer therapists Mrs Harvey Fried and Mrs Joe Stephenson assisting.
Kansas publishes first notice of House Concurrent Resolution 1063 proposing two year township terms and three district county commissioners with six year limits. Also announces Theodore J. Wilson estate probate appointment of Robert A. Wilson as administrator with nine month creditor claim window. Ottawa officials.
Multiple public sale notices and a suit are listed from Franklin County Kansas. Notices include executions by Sheriff Joe Ferns and by the Jackson County State Bank against Young Furniture Mfg. Industries Co and others, with auction dates set for October 11, 1968 at 10:00 a.m. at the Ottawa courthouse. Also notice of suit involves many Burkett heirs and related defendants with unspecified actions in Franklin County District Court.
Plaintiffs Mamie Totten Viola Johnson Merle Elliott Lenita Faulkner Ben Wright Lawrence Wright Dorothy May Kaminski Mary Burkett Suzanne Summerville petition in district court seeks to determine heirs of Mable Totten Burkett Gladys Burkett Walker Harvey Russell Burkett Robert J Burkett M Totten Eva M Totten Wright and quiet title to described real estate with partition. Defendants must plead by October 25 1968 in Ottawa Kansas.
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