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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1956
Page
5
Ivan John Kirkwood, 11, fell from a Wichita school fire escape to a concrete sidewalk, suffering serious head injuries and a broken foot. His grandfather Mrs J H Kirkwood of Ottawas is at the hospital with him, as the boy remains in critical condition.
Kansas Legislative Council meets tomorrow to consider 37 proposals likely to yield recommendations for action by the 1957 Legislature. Decisions on most items will be deferred until the November council meeting. The session previews revenue, education, juvenile code, inactive state funds, penal system, mental health, county salaries, highway rights of way, sex offenders, industrial development, and a statewide speed limit.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions this afternoon and tonight with Wednesday fair and warmer. Winds southerly 20 to 30 mph east and central this afternoon and east and south tonight with extreme south Wednesday. Low tonight around 50 northwest to mid 60s southeast. high Wednesday in the 80s northeast to mid 90s southwest.
A major blaze at the Harry Brown Salvage Co on US 50 southwest of Ottawa destroyed eight vehicles two trailer houses a shop building and several auto parts. The fire began in a trailer house inhabited by A E Brown Sr and occurred while Brown was away in Paola and Osawatomie. No insurance covered the losses. Firefighters aided by bystanders removed vehicles and created a fire guard to prevent spread.
Free polio vaccinations will be offered to children six months to nineteen years old at Ransom Hospital September 25 from 8 to 10 a.m. and to junior and senior high students at their school September 27 starting at 1 p.m. Parents sign cards for younger children. hospital signups on September 25. Pregnant women may also receive shots at the hospital. Those outside the free group can obtain shots via their family physician.
Two elderly Pratt women, Mrs. Hattie Howerton and Mrs. Ortie Stewart, have been diagnosed with encephalitis, the same illness that recently struck residents in Scott City and Garden City in western Kansas. They became ill over the weekend and are being treated locally.
Ottawans may ride a chartered bus to Wichita for the Pike Blazer trip along the Kansas Turnpike on October 13. The bus leaves the North American Hotel at 8 45 a m and meets other buses in Lawrence. Cost is 12 per person including round trip transport, a box lunch, social hour, buffet dinner and program at Wichita.
TOPEKA William Perkins state purchasing director said the state may call for competitive bids on its gasoline purchases starting next month. Specifications are being drawn from year long studies and should be ready in October. The state estimates five million gallons are used annually with the highway department previously the top buyer. The department pays posted tank wagon prices minus 22 cents a gallon for volume. The notice ties into current election campaigns with in state Republican primary sparring over kickbacks on state gasoline.
The National Barn Dance will be at Memorial Auditorium on October 6 under Warren Blackpost American Legion sponsorship. The program, once a breakfast hour staple on WHAS Louisville and a suppertime feature on WJJD Chicago, features Uncle Henry's Kentucky Mountaineers with Spike Williams and Fiddling Buster Jenkins. Local square dancers will be asked to perform on stage.
Ottawa University night school sessions attract broad interest with registration at 7 pm in the university auditorium. Dr. Jess O Cullison leads. Miss Emma Snyder reports rural teachers are being informed. Art course Drawing and Painting available for credit or noncredit. credit counts as freshman to senior hours.
Grounding of all B52 training flights follows a fatal Strato fortress crash near Madera California that killed five airmen. A second California B52 crash earlier this year prompted questions about electrical system malfunctions. Wreckage is being examined while two crew members survived. five named dead include Richardson Campbell Brown Riggs Fulbright.
Two Ottawa women were arrested on morals charges tied to the 13 year old daughter of each. Mrs. Jean Chester and Mrs. Margaret Youngman faced counts of contributing to delinquency and adultery respectively. Chester received 30 days in jail and parole today. Youngman’s adultery charge was to be quashed in county court Saturday, with delinquency hearing set for Wednesday before Judge Milo Harris.
Washington reports the American consumer has lost the price bulge with the price index at an all time high. Officials warn cautious inflation ahead while predicting a higher plateau rather than a return to last spring levels. Wage gains outpace inflation by a wide margin for the average factory worker.
Ottawa High School announces 80 cardinal red and white band uniforms and seven for twirlers, purchased from a Kansas City supplier and funded equally by the city band board and the board of education. The gear, 100 percent wool whipcord, will be worn for the first home game on Sept 28 as current outfits, in use 15 years, bow out.
Don Brown announces dates for eight township Extension elections to elect three representatives per township to the county Extension Council. Voting begins October in Homewood, Harrison, Centropolis, Ohio, Pomona, Williamsburg, Franklin, and Pottawatomie townships with polling at local schools and high schools. Each meeting starts at 8 pm with 4-H programs and reports by Brown, Holle, and Jamesson. Ride the bus to Brown's Home 9:30 am and 5:00 pm daily.
Secretary Seaton said federal law changes allow possible disposal of the Wyandotte Kansas City cemetery but require official tribal rolls, tribal referendum, and congressional action. The tribe has long fought to sell the 2 acre site valued at about 14.5 million dollars, with opposition within the tribe and questions of historical status under review by lawmakers.
Wellsville youths Wayne Leach and Scott Moherman had loitering charges quashed in district court following a prior discharge of Jimmy McGaugh and Richard Moherman. Disturbing the peace charges against Moherman and Leach remain pending. Bonded for hearing, cases were moved from county to district court.
In Kansas City the pontifical requiem mass for Archbishop Edwin V. O'Hara opened today at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception marking solemn funeral rites for the church leader.
London hosts envoys from 18 nations as the Western Big Three advance a plan for an international users' association to run Suez Canal transit. Dulles arrives after talks with Eisenhower. Egypt seeks UN vigilance while denouncing the move as warlike.
About 200 people are expected for the Second District Conference of the Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers at Lincoln School on Wednesday September 19. Registration begins at 8 30 a m with opening session at 9 30 presiding district director Mrs Merle Gugler.
Ottawa and western and central Kansas are slated for a slow temperature rise after a cool spell. Night lows in the east forecast near 60, Ottawa's overnight low was 53, yesterday's high reached 82. Precipitation chances remain dim per the weather bureau.
A terse note advertises trading guns with a best deal in town at Brown's Hardware. Details are unclear but the prompt indicates seeking exchanges or bargains. The location Brown's Hardware is named as the venue for the trade.
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