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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1956
Page
5
Numerous local households hosted visitors from Ottawa, Garnett, Centerville, Derby, and Kansas City with dinners, suppers, and social calls on Sundays and weekdays. The Acorn Club met, and W S C S activities included a September meeting, a speaker, and upcoming bazaar plans.
The Northeast Kansas County Officials Assn set aside for further study a proposal to shift automobile taxes from local to state collection. Local units currently collect personal property taxes on cars, and the state amendment would tax at license issuance. The group will survey county clerks statewide before action. Maurice Bryan was elected president with Gilbert Groves as vice president and Frances Jones as secretary. the March meeting will be in Marysville.
Wesley Reed of Chickasha Oklahoma an oil field driller was awarded 160000 by a district court jury against Safeway Stores Inc for injuries from a February collision two miles south of Chickasha Reed had sought 273200 in damages The suit centered on a Safeway semi trailer truck collision while Reed attended church last Sunday.
Mrs. Lester Clark hosted a gathering with many neighbors and relatives at her home on Monday. Various families visited, shared desserts, and noted quilting projects. Community groups met at the church basement for luncheons and reports as officers prepared for the next year. Henry Arthur Mesenhimer returned from Germany to enroll at Bethany College, while others enjoyed open houses and local reunions in Ottawa and surrounding towns.
Family in Topeka were guests last Sunday of Mr and Mrs Loriie Rundle and Mr and Mrs Robert McArdle with Jimmy and Gary also visiting. Rev and Mrs Ward Nance were evening callers.
Dallas NAACP leader Dr H Boyd Hall said Texans face a new era of persecution as Texas Assistant Attorney General William Davis, flanked by an armed patrolman, checked NAACP records in Corpus Christi. NAACP regional attorney A Simpson Tate noted armed state officers accompanied by Rangers and police during visits to NAACP offices across Texas. Tate said the cooperation with the attorney general is ongoing but the armed presence is coercive and intimidating. Davis declined comment. Egypt's first railway locomotive was built in England in 1852.
In San Antonio Texas Maj Gen John H McCormick ordered Salk polio vaccine for nearly 10,000 airmen at Lackland Air Force Base after five officers were stricken with paralysis. The general was among the first to receive the shot.
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