Extension Council Elections Planned in Eight Townships
Franklin County Extension Council votes set for October in eight townships and Ottawa City. Two year terms for elected members. representatives from last fall townships carry over another year. Meetings begin at 8 p.m. with program and refreshments in each community.
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Ottawa
Franklin County Extension Council
Greenwood
Lincoln
Wycoff
Ottawa Township
Green Dell
Hayes
Appanoose
Cutler
Rantoul High School
Peoria
Emory Green
Richmond
Richmond High School
Knight says Nixon friend offered him any Califor nia job to quit race
Los Angeles AP Knight recounts a wealthy Republican ally of Richard Nixon offering him California’s top posts if he withdrew from the 1962 governor race. Knight says two witnesses will testify, while Nixon denies the charge and Camp says no discussion occurred. A high ranking Los Angeles Republican financier is named as the emissary.
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Los Angeles
Goodwin J. Knight
Richard M. Nixon
California
Knight
Nixon
William A. Munnell
Melvin Rees Faces Death Sentence With Possible Parole Hurdle
In Spotsylvania, a jury sentenced Melvin Davis Rees Jr. to death for the 1959 kidnapping and killing of Carroll V. Jackson Jr. and his family. The fate now hinges on federal actions to commute two life terms from Maryland for murder and kidnapping, with appeals ongoing.
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Spotsylvania, Va
Melvin Davis Rees Jr
Virginia
Rees
Spotsylvania
Carroll V. Jackson Jr
U.S. District Court
Baltimore
Jackson
Mildred
Susan
Plans Begin For Capitol Christmas Observance
Washington AP reports early plans for Capitol Christmas observance with a fund drive for a large Christmas tree and daily carol singing by choirs. Notes to Congress members and Capitol employees urge generous contributions. Signed by J Leney Caraway and Morgan D. Roderick.
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Washington
Capitol
Congress
J. Leney Caraway
Senate
Morgan D. Roderick
Jayhawk 4-H Tour Showed Off Beautification Projects
Margaret Good reports on the Jayhawk 4-H Club August tour featuring a potluck at Cole School. Members visited Bobby McClay’s Holstein heifer, the D A Rybolt home landscape work by Richard Peggy Rybolt and Joan Leonard, Margaret Good’s pink bedroom makeover, a store stop with refreshments, and Larry Lowrance and Becky's flower garden with a champion dahlia.
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Margaret Good
Jayhawk
Cole School
Bobby McClay
Bobby
Ottawa
D. A
Lowrance’s
Becky
Holstein Heifer
Jayhawk 4-H Club
4-H Notes New Year Dawns For 4-H Clubs
Franklin County hosts 18 clubs with 44 members as they begin a new year October 1. Enrollment month in Kansas promotes joining 4-H, with clubs organized under county extension services. Members, leaders, and parents form the core, meeting monthly for business, programs, and demonstrations. Entomology and photography emerge as popular new projects.
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Franklin County
Kansas
Wills and Titles Talk At Spring Creek School Meeting
HDU News notes a neighborhood gathering at Spring Creek School where William Bowers presented a lesson on wills and titles and other legal papers. About 40 people attended including Mrs Rosalie Osburn who discussed skin testing for TB and showed a related film. James G Kohler spoke to 16 Work and Fun and Progressive Units with 11 guests at the Christian Church Annex as Mrs Don Brown presided. A Wellsville meeting Monday night drew eight members with Judge Floyd Coffman delivering a wills and titles lesson and inviting public attendance for a 38-person turnout.
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Roy Gerhard
William Bowers
Spring Creek School
Rosalie Osburn
James G. Kohler
Christian Church Annex
Don Brown
Wellsville
Floyd Coffman
Lunch Counters Are Integrated in Atlanta Stores
An agreement to desegregate dining facilities in dozens of Atlanta stores took effect without incident after negotiators waited for school integration and a mayoral nomination. The March agreement with Negro sit-in leaders pledged that a Negro boycott then under way would end and lunch counters would be desegregated in the fall.
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Atlanta, Ga
Atlanta
Step Toward Church Unification in Kansas City
In Kansas City AP reports the Christian Churches Disciples of Christ move toward merging with the United Church of Christ. The assembly opens with about 10,000 registered. the UCC counts around 2.2 million members in 8,200 congregations across New England and the Mid Atlantic.
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Kansas City
Christian Churches
United Church of Christ
International Convention of Christian Churches
General Synod of the United Church of Christ
Philadelphia
The
Disciples of Christ
Midwest
West Coast
Assembly
New England
Middle Atlantic States
Congregational Christian and
Evangelical and Reformed Churches
Generals Must Trim Waistlines
General Curtis E. LeMay orders 91 Air Force generals to undergo medical fitness exams and pursue regular exercise. A drafted program by Maj. Gen. Oliver K. Neiss allows half day weekly recreation or exercise or shorter high intensity sessions at Pentagon facilities. Doctors would monitor progress to ensure proper physical condition as part of a Defense Department fitness push.
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Washington
Curtis E. LeMay
Air Force
Pentagon
Air Force Chief of Staff
Oliver K. Neiss
LeMay
Defense Department
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Extension Council
By Don Brown
Ottawa City
First Methodist Church
Ert Finch
Jerry Buck
Janet
Apple Grove
State Bank
Tecumseh and Main
Hill
Pres
Mamie Sands
Ed Hosler
Glen Hayward
Howard
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
By Ross Nelson
Nelson
HDU News
Johns - Manville
Nuzman Lumber
Ottawa Herald
Pai
Paine
Sheldon
Farmalls
Truck and Tractor Co
MOP
Santa Fe
Fred S. Hofman
Jef
Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Fire
Farm Bureau Mutual
Leo C. Miller
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