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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1976
Page
7
Scout Troop 77 at First United Methodist Church held a meeting focused on campfire cooking. The group celebrated a district advancement award while practicing cooking basics from hard boiled eggs to pudding, iron quill honors noted for rank progress.
Coffey County sheriff officials reported ongoing homicide inquiry tied to the September 12 discovery of Malinda Hildebrand in her Ottawa area home. Four firearms linked to the case were recovered from a car trunk and a rural barn, with one suspect held on an unrelated charge. Authorities seek witnesses who were at the Hildebrand company office on September 9 and 10 to identify a suspect. The same dispatch notes tax collection and civic meeting notices, plus stock market brief and local ads.
John Largent died Sept 24. Services held Monday at Dengel and Son Mortuary with burial at Woodlawn Cemetery Pomona. Officiants were Rev Edward Marley and Rev William Weber. Music by Dorothy Matthews and James Driver. Honorary pallbearers named. active pallbearers listed. Also admissions discharges births and various civil and traffic notices, and farm market prices from Kansas City and Chicago.
Effective Friday October 1, Ottawa subscribers will be billed by mail and pay by mail or at the Herald office. City rate is 2.30 monthly in advance. three months 6.30 six months 12.60 or yearly 25.20. Carriers will not collect in Ottawa. other communities stay on office collect or pay by mail. Subscriptions from outside Ottawa to be automated later.
Altoona Kansas mayor William Hanson said the city will hire certified public accountants to audit city books for the first time in 30 years, funded by the city, after a petition from Gary Stanley editor of the Altoona Tribune. The Tribune offices burned in a suspected arson investigated by state and county authorities. Stanley had criticized city finances and a $90,000 federal sewer grant. Stanley presented a petition signed by 44 residents demanding the audit, opposed by Hanson and two councilmen. The mayor, 76, noted the audit may reveal a human error and questioned the value of a $6,000 audit.
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