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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1957
Page
1
The Franklin County Shrine Club met at the North American Hotel with Douglas Gleason presiding. It announced the Fall Shrine Party for Oct 26 where Shriners will entertain their ladies. the party committee includes Arthur Brink John Weidmann and O C Curby.
For the week ending September 21 1957 Santa Fe carloadings totaled 21804 down from 26371 in the prior year. Connections brought in 12908 versus 13251 last year and total cars moved reached 34712 compared with 9622 in 1956. In the preceding week Santa Fe moved 33303 cars. George Zielisdorf has returned home from St Luke s Hospital in Kansas City after surgery.
Admitted Mrs. A. R. Fenton of 734 N Oak Guy Weburg Overbrook and Mrs. Harold Black Jr Lane Monday. Births to Mr. and Mrs Lester Markhart Monroe Trailer Courts a son born Monday weight 5 lb 6 oz. Mr and Mrs Thomas Odea RFD 2 daughter born today weight 9 lb. Dismissed Mrs Elizabeth Bell 802 S Cedar Monday Mrs Walter T Clark Quenemo today.
Washington reports the cost of living rose two tenths of a percent in August, the 12th monthly advance, lifting the CPI to 121 percent of the 1947-49 average and 3.6 percent above a year ago. Food and housing costs edged higher while nonfood prices held, and the index’s rise is expected to trigger automatic wage adjustments for about 157,000 workers tied to the index.
Typhoon Faye's winds fell to 75 mph from a peak of 120 mph as it moved westward across the northern Philippines. A stevedore drowned when his boat sank off the west coast. A tugboat sank and four motor vessels ran aground but all aboard were saved.
Sheriff Jay Brown returned from Butler Missouri empty handed as Cecil Hubbard refused to waive extradition. Hubbard is wanted in Ottawa for obtaining money under false pretenses and allegedly defrauded William Gilliland of $800. County Attorney Don White said he is studying advisability of filing extradition proceedings with Missouri authorities. White postponed a decision to attend the preliminary hearing of Max Likes on a charge of statutory rape involving a 15 year old Ottawa girl last March.
The Kansas Water Resources Board is split into three major committees. Richard Seaton of Coffeyville will chair the federal projects committee. C. Y. Thomas of Mission Falls leads the state planning committee, and Don Christy of Scott City heads the information and research committee. The board will meet on the second Monday of July, September, December, March and June. A proposed $161,000 budget for next year was approved for review by Gov. Docking, $45,000 more than this year. Voters will decide in 1958 whether to amend the constitution to allow participation in water and flood control works.
The Ottawa Chamber of Commerce will supply the program for the Rotary Club meeting tomorrow noon at North American Hotel. J Ledge Craig, manager of the Denver District of the U S Chamber of Commerce, will speak on Can Do About the Business sector What Chambers of Commerce Climate. He will also attempt to organize an Ottawa economic discussion group, recalling a prior Ottawa University monthly dinner group.
The Kansas Corporation Commission has taken under advisement the proposed merger of McKrae Telephone Co and United Telephone Company of Kansas Inc both of Abilene. McKrae exchanges to be merged include Altamont Altoona Benedict Buffalo Burlington Coyville Fall River Fredonia Lafontaine Neosho Falls Piqua and Toronto.
Noel Field, a former State Department employee and alleged U S spy, visited Warsaw amid a secret trial of Polish security chiefs. Field, exiled in Hungary since 1954, had been a translator for a Hungarian publishing house and may influence the trial. He previously appeared in Poland in 1948 and was arrested by the Communists shortly after.
A fifth death from influenza pneumonia was reported in Rouyn Quebec. Ontario and British Columbia have deaths, with spread to Whitehorse Yukon Territory. Schools closed in Amos Sturgeon Falls Sherbrooke Trail and Calgary reports thousands of new cases. Air depot personnel and nurses affected as emergency units are set up.
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