Side Swipes and Safety Signs Highlight County News
A former Ottawa area resident Wanda Ecker and three companions narrowly avoided a collision when a reversing car rolled toward them on Cheyenne Mountain. The incident ended without damage. The Full O'Pep 4 H club in Pepin has a safety project to remove weeds and traffic hazards at blind corners and provide 100 traffic signs. Club president Gerald Reser led a survey with Don Jones and Undersheriff Dean Driscoll. farmers are urged to help clear the hazards on township roads.
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Ottawa
Colorado
Wanda Ecker
Harold Ecker
Rock Creek
Lyons
Miss Ecker
Cheyenne Mountain
Wi Rogers Shrine
Colorado Springs
Wiehl Fa
Pep- Jia
Gerald Reser
Don Jones
Franklin County Citizens Safety Council
Dean Driscoll
Weather forecast and ads fragment from local paper
Fair today afternoon tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Lows 55 to 65, Friday high near 90. Yesterday high 95, low today 46. Record high 95 in 1911, record low 52 in 1897. Various hourly temps and sky conditions noted. Classified ad segment promotes used tires at name-your-own-price and a Firestone Stores nylon sale at 249-c-11.
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Firestone
Record Crime Year Seen in FBI Report
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover said Uniform Crime Reports project a record year with 244 million major crimes nationwide. For the first half of 1955, crimes are estimated at 1,201,120, a 14.4 percent rise from the same period in 1954.
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Washington
United States
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Bureau
Uniform
O U Library Move Set For Wednesday
An Ottawa University library move will occur next Wednesday as students and faculty transport about 19,000 volumes in a six-book pack train system from the basement of the Women’s Residence hall to the new Myers Library. Librarian William Hutchinson plans 15 minute trips to minimize service disruption, with librarians at each end guiding the process and placing books in the new stacks. The Myers Library, funded by Dr and Mrs George E Myers, is near completion aside from final landscaping and missing private study booths along the walls of the stack area.
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Ottawa University
William Nutchinson
New Myers
Hutchinson
C. O. Mammel
Delinquency Case Under Advisement Judge Delivers Pending Decision
Judge Milo Harris took under advisement the case against Mrs. Margaret Youngman charged with contributing to the delinquency of her 14 year old daughter. A separate adultery charge remains pending. County officials visited the Youngman home at Second and Oak finding poor living conditions. The case stems from a party involving airmen from Forbes base at Topeka. witnesses were not summoned. Mrs. Jean Chester also faced a delinquency charge, received a jail term, and was paroled.
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Milo Harris
Margaret Youngman
Don White
Topeka
Youngman
Forbes
Jean Chester
K State student killed in crash near Manhattan limits
Donavan F. Hostetler aged 24 of Harper, a graduate student at Kansas State College, died in a one car crash near the northwest city limits of Manhattan. Glee McAuley, a Kansas State junior from Shawnee, Kas., was injured and listed in not serious condition by hospital staff.
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Manhattan
Kas
Donavan F. Hostetler
Harper
Kansas State College
Glee McAuley
Kansas State
Baldwin Youth Dies In Night Crash West Of Baldwin
James Gunther 15 of Baldwin was killed in a late night crash on US 50 a mile and a half west of Baldwin. He died from cerebral hemorrhage and a broken neck after his 1950 Plymouth sedan collided with a Chevrolet stock truck driven by Olen Williams. Bell suffered facial injuries. Williams was uninjured. An inquest may be held as factors complicate cause. Gunther was son of Mr and Mrs William Gunther of Baldwin and brother-in-law to Mrs Bill Ackerman of Ottawa University football ties.
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Baldwin
Kas
James
Gunther
Timmie Bell
Bell
William Gunther
Olen J. Williams
James Dyer
Williams
Buck Jones
Bill Ackerman
Ottawa University
Community Chest sets $20,000 goal for Ottawa drive
The Ottawa Community Chest board decided on a $20,000 package campaign to fund 17 agencies in a one day drive on October 16. John Sheldon heads the drive with subchairmen for business, employees, national firms, women’s solicitation, advance gifts, publicity, and other roles. Hill aims to finish advance gifts by October 13.
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Ottawa Community Chest
John Sheldon
Lyman Covlis
Warren Wesen
Ted Dorking
R. W. White
Firestone
Joel Towner
Ed Johnson
T. R. Clark
Robert Hil
Wayne Gilliland
Hill
City Threatened With Court Suit
Ottawa faces a possible court action over a demand from Black & Veatch for more than 4000 dollars for pre flood water and light plant improvement work. The claim dates from work before the 1951 flood and the city may settle or let the suit proceed. Ottawa officials questioned the bill, which included a 100 percent surcharge, as they were not in office when the work occurred.
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Ottawa
Douglas Gleason
Black & Veatch, Consulting Engineers
Kansas City
Black & Veatch
No Change In Weather Outlook Forecaster Predicts Fair Week
The weather bureau stated no change over the next two days. Forecaster Tom Arnold in Topeka said continued fair weather is expected through Friday with little temperature variation. Ottawa reached 95 yesterday, while cool nights persist with a morning low around 46.
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Weather Bureau
Tom’ Arnold
Topeka
Ottawa
Newspapers At Paola Merged Form Mia mi County Publishing Co
The Miami Republican and Western Spirit in Paola will merge under Mia mi County Publishing Company Inc starting next Monday. Directors include Drew McLaughlin sr and jr Emily Jaine Adams Florence A. McLaughlin L M Schwartz Helen Kohlenberg and Nelson S Reppert. Two weekly issues, Spirit on Monday and Republican on Thursday, will run from separate plants before being housed in the Spirit building. The move mirrors a similar consolidation of Garnett papers.
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Paola
Miami Republican
Western Spirit
Miami County Publishing Company, Inc
Drew McLaughlin
Drew McLaughlin, Jr
Emily Jaine Adams
Florence A. McLaughlin
L. M. Schwartz
Helen E. Kohlenberg
Nelson S. Reppert
Schwartz
Spirit
Republican
Garnett
Phillips Quits Planning Board in City Resignations
A city planning commission member B. B. Phillips resigns after J. B. Muecke also steps down. The move follows the city commission reversing planning board recommendations on re zoning near Seventh and Main for business use. Ottawa officials award Kansas League pins to city workers including L. Hough for 25 years and others for 10 years. Veterans Day parking lot use approved after Joel Towner of the American Legion requests it.
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City Planning Comission
B. B. Phillips
City Commission
J. B. Muecke
Planning Commission
Seventh and Main
Kansas League of Municipalities
Ottawa City
Kenneth Andrews
L. Hough
Ralph Snethen
Henry Harper
Fred Lehnert
Bruce Menning
Harry Meaknan
Merle Snethen
Don McFarland
M. L. Montgomery
Joel Towner
American Legion
Hickory Street
Ottawa voting on garbage disposal plan faces ballot
FBI reports urban crime up in Kansas during first half 1956 with rises in murder robbery burglary larceny and auto theft while aggravated assault falls. Kansas cities over 25 000 show varied counts in Wichita Topeka Hutchinson and Salina. Ottawa moves to submit a trash and garbage plan to voters November 6 after petitions show majority support and opposition.
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Washington
Kansas
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Kansas Cities
Wichita
Topeka
Hutchinson
Salina
Attorneys Confer On Move To Cancel State Paint Contract
Three attorneys debated today whether the State Highway Commission should cancel a contract with Sales Service Inc Kansas City for 58 000 gallons of white paint delivery delays and failure to meet specs spurred the discussion. The commission planned a separate purchase of 54 900 gallons of yellow paint from Tomahawk Sales Inc Kansas City meeting specs and being delivered. Gov Fred Hall and commissioners met in a closed session to discuss the matter.
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State Highway Commission
Atty
John “ Anderson
Charles Hobart
State Department of Administrations
Highway Department
Sales Service Inc
Kansas City
Fred Hall
Commission
Traffic Deaths in Topeka 1956 Record Update
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the State Accident Records Section show 5 deaths in the last 24 hours. To date in 1956 the total stands at 471, compared with 423 for the same period in 1955.
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Topeka
Kansas
Babe Zaharias, World’s Top Woman Athlete Dies
Galveston Texas. Babe Didrikson Zaharias, famed athlete known as The Babe, dies at 42 after a long cancer battle. Her husband George Zaharias said she died peacefully in her sleep after a lifetime of triumphs in AAU basketball track Olympics and golf.
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Galveston
Tex
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
George Zaharias
Lever
Thex
Beaumont
John Sealy Hospital
George
Zecharias
Ottawa man burned in truck fire after collision
Claude Arthur Aubry 24 of Ottawa suffered burns to his legs and arm when gasoline ignited under the Rainbo bread truck he drove during a noon collision with a pickup driven by John E. Cotton 59 of Paola. Aubry was treated and released at the hospital. Cotton uninjured. Both drivers appeared in county court and were fined 10 and 6 dollars in costs.
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Paola
Kas
Claude Arthur Aubry
Ottawa
John E. Cotton
Cotton
Aubry
Woman Dies In Topeka Fire
In Topeka a 28 year old Kansas City woman Ninetta Estella Beechly visiting her grandparents died in a residential fire that also seriously burned the grandmother. The 65 year old grandmother was hospitalized in critical condition. The grandfather, 69, was away when the blaze began. Fire officials cited smoke and flames from the kitchen and dining room as the likely scene, with cause not yet determined.
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Topeka
Kansas City
John Montfoort
Ninetta Estella Beechly
William Jones
Montfoort
Jones
Three Killed In Two-Car Crash Near Independence
Three people died in a two car wreck ten miles south of Independence Kansas on a country road. Ralph Blackett 48 Coffeyville gate dealer died at a Coffeyville hospital. Sheriff Floyd Huggins tentatively identified Fred Welker Vancil 69 and Vinna Mohler Vancil 63 both of Wichita as the other victims.
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Independence, Kas
Here
Ralph Blackett
Coffeyvile
Coffeyville
Floyd Huggins
Fred Welker Vanecil
Vinna Mohler Vancil
gWichlta
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Edgerton
O.U. Library
ALC Red Cross
Franklin County Fair
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Teens, Inc
Freeteeere
Salvation Army
Girl Scouts
Contingency
Christian Rural Overseas Program
Humane Society —O
National Guard Enlisted Men's Fund
ISO
Gleason
Kansas Children’s Service Lobby
Anny
Ottawa Boys Club
Chest Board
Phillips
Planning Board
Don Capper
Andrews
Leo Ferguson
League of Women
Pas
Srd Bonine
Lamb Ambulance
Death
Babe Zaharias
Mike Mulcahey
Buick Co
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