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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1955
Page
1
Community items include subscription offers for The Herald, a correction on garbage disposal costs, rummage sales at 115 N Main and 116 N Main, and attendance at the Omaha fire chiefs convention. Also reported are a church men’s dinner, a drunk driving conviction, a police radio dispatcher change, a divorce filing, a settled personal injury suit, a bank loan default suit, a PTA meeting, a vacation trip, and visiting guests from Nazareth Israel.
The Topeka hearing into Eugene Hiatt’s purge victim allegations entered its second day. State official J Martin M Kiger testified Hiatt, purchasing director, was cited as insubordinate on multiple occasions. Kiger described efforts to relocate Hiatt to a new post, with Gov. Fred Hall approving the transfer.
Miss Fannie Gray of 722 East Logan Street aged 74 lifelong Franklin county resident died today at Ransom Memorial hospital after a yearlong illness born December 29 1880 five miles east of Ottawa she was a charter member of United Presbyterian church and active in Social Circle Missionary Society and Mary Martha class survivors include three brothers James H Gray Ottawa Frederick W Gray Firebaugh California and William E Gray Canyon City Colorado and one sister Mrs Rebecca Stiemier Canyon City California funeral services Saturday at 2 pm at MecVey Dengel Mortuary Rev M Todd Macdonald officiating interment in Peoria cemetery Charlie Ashwill of 1135 North Cedar aged 72 died yesterday at Ransom Memorial hospital born May 15 1883 at Pomona lived Franklin county all his life never married survivors include one sister Mrs E P Johnston Thayer Kansas and six brothers Herbert Ralph Ashwill Harlan Ta Andrew Kansas City Mo Thad Crete Il Barl Oakland California and Vint Ashwill New York City plus several nieces and nephews Towner's Funeral Chapel to conduct service probably Saturday at 10:30 am interment Woodlawn cemetery Pomona Rose Porter of Melvern aged 73 died yesterday at Golden Age nursing home in Franklin Kansas after two years of ill health born May 22 1882 at St. Clair Missouri lived in Melvern 19 years moving from Waverly widow of William A Porter who died last June member of Church of God of Melvern survived by daughter Violet Burris of California two step-daughters Mable Hendler St Louis and Tarrance Rutledge Topeka one step-son Leonard Porter Waverly funeral services pending
Marriage licenses listed for Russell H Wigglesworth and Patricia Louise Mitchell Ottawa 23 and Earl F Krueger and Helen I Kiethorn Portland 27. Also notes Buddy Dike TCU fullback who missed half 1954 season with a fractured kidney will play with a special protective pad developed by trainer Elmer Brown.
Hospital notes list admissions for Bobby Gage at 533 S Locust and Mrs George Evans of Lebo plus Carol Ann Loux at 1900 Main as of Wednesday. Birth announcements include a Pomona daughter born today weighing 9 lb 9 oz and a 4 lb 11 oz son to Mr and Mrs Loren McCurdy at 407 E 4th. Discharges note Mrs Jennie Baxter of Waverly and Mike Staffrey of La Cygne with Mrs John Robison and baby son in Williamsburg today.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told the United Nations General Assembly that the world may be entering a decade of peaceful change ending the cold war. He cited improving international atmosphere since 1954, potential German unification progress, and better European security. He urged mutual aerial inspections and blueprint exchanges to advance arms reductions and noted a favorable trend in the Far East due to UN and other efforts.
Kiger details his attempts to obtain information on a proposed oil and gas contract for state cars from Hiatt. After Hiatt was dismissed a file hinted at a past study. He recalls a July governor office meeting where bids on state boiler insurance were ordered returned unopened, leading to negotiated purchase. He defended no intent to accuse dishonesty and described hindrances in obtaining information from Hiatt.
Johnston population around 2000 in South Carolina has never recorded a traffic fatality and few serious injuries. Kansas River Basin reports highlight pollution concerns affecting water use with 13 years without a fatality or serious injury. Public hearings by Prof. Dwight F. Metzler set for Oct 4 in Newton and Oct 5 in Hutchinson and Wichita to discuss pollution abatement policy per basin.
Funeral services for Ernest Beaver and Charlie Ashwill will be held at Towner's Chapel. Beaver's service is Friday at ?.m with Woodlawn Cemetery interment. Ashwill's service is likely Saturday at 10:30 a.m. with interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
A funeral service is set for Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Church of God in Melvern. The body will lie in state at Shaffer Mortuary in Lyndon until the funeral hour.
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