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THE OTTAWA HERALD Vol. 61 No. 87 OTTAWA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20,1957 TEN PAGES The Vote In Yeter day's Primary Election fard, 1st -Ward, 1st Pot, ad fcri, '2nd Pet. ward, 1st Pet. 2nd pet.

Ward, 3rd Pet, 4th TOTALS 94 48 48 18 388 81 143 57 67 599 50 411 10? 179 75 105 84 706 105 11 96 110 51 90 81 831 154 54 77- 44 130 18 203 100 44 805 130 10 100 130 103 860 5 58 103 64 18 454 Resolutions Approved At Flood Meet Resolutions asking congress to continue its approval of flood control and water conservation programs of the Army Engineers on streams in eastern Kansas were almost unanimously approved at a meeting at Emporia yesterday. Approximately 1,200 attended the meeting from the valleys of the Marais des Cygnes, Neosho-Cottonwood, Marmaton, Verdigris, and Walnut valleys. W'hen the resolutions were put to a vote the shouts of "aye" were almost unanimous. A small group. Hutchinson Man Died At Wheel Ralph George Coffee.

66, Hut-! chinson, died behind the wheel his 1951 Ford pickup about last night on the Franklin-Ander-j son county line southeast of Richmond. According to the Highway patrol. Coffee was driving along the everance easure Ta Ready TOPEKA The Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee today worked out the final details of a new bill to impose a two per cent severance tax on oil and gas in addition to property taxes, authorities, according to the pa- John Tj mb was Pc president! It probably will be introduced county line road, pulling a house trailer, when he suddenly slumped; over the wheel. Thomas Powell, 19. Hutchinson.

who was with Coffee, called the! John Lamb Is Rotary President trol. iof the Rotary club at a ineetinq of (in the Senate tomorrow, accord- death is unknown but is believed to have been a heart attack or stroke. The authorities say Coffee's body was taken to Garnett where an autopsy will be performed to de- Are Nominated however, answered with an em-, termine the cause of death phatic "no." Governor George Docking, and' several state legislators, were at the meeting for a brief time before rushing back to Topeka because of legislative matters. The governor spcke briefly, expressing the 'hope that the people of Kansas would be able to work out Side Swipes I In Residents of two townships have a perfect record this year for paying taxes. It was reported at the court house this morning that in Appanoose and Pottawatomie townships all taxes were paid by March 14.

Franklin countians will have an opportunity soon to see a construction contraption relatively new to this area when work gets way soon on the Santa Fe overpass at Wellsville on the K33 The contractor is moving in on the job and the work is to get under way immediately. It is planned to use what might be called a king size auger to eink holes for footings for he structure. The auger will bore holes in the ground about 36 inches in diameter. It is probably the largest auger ever used in const-ruction in Franklin county. Notice has been received that Franklin county's share of sales tax revenue this year will be $121,470.20.

Mrs. Elisabeth Briggs, county treasurer, who received the notice, said the check for that amount is expected about June 15. The county treasurer's office, in the meantime, will work out the division of the sum to different towns and other units in the county for distribution. Starting Thursday, Mrs. Edgar Kerr will play a half hour of organ meditation music, at First Baptist church, at 12:15 p.

daily through Easter. Chimes will announce the start of the organ mu- eic. The public is invited to attend these daily meditation services. I A. C.

Richeson and Howard I Duncan were nominated for the office of commissioner of finance and revenue in a light primary election yesterday. Emile Barnes was eliminated. Duncan received largest number of votes, 599. Richeson, who now holds the office, was second, with 411. Barnes received 386.

The names of Richeson and Duncan will appear on the ballot at the April 2 city election. In the voting for school board candidates, all six were nominated, since three positions on the board are to be filled. Mrs. Fred Kaiser received the largest number of votes, 860. Running second was Lowell Fouts with 805.

Dr. W. D. Bemmels was third with 706. Ralph M.

Crawford was fourth with 621. Marvin Durbin was fifth with 555. Dr. John Thornburg was sixth with 354r- Kaiser and Dr. Bemmels are present of the board.

First precinct to report its tabulations was the fourth ward, which is tihe northwest precinct. The figures from that precinct were reported at 6:17, just 17 minutes after the polls closed. Last to report was the third precinct of the second ward, the Garfield district precinct. w- ever, all results were completed before 8 p. 'm.

The vote was extremely light. A total of 1,396 votes were cast for the commissioner of finance and revenue. Registration exceeded 4,900 in the "city of Ottawa. Persons who have not registered may do so this week. The city clerk's 'office will be open evenings.

Deadline for registering will be 10 p. Friday evening, March 22. The Weather FORECAST Increasing cloudiness this afternoon with rain beginning extreme south, spreading across central with occasional thundershowers tonight and over all except extreme north Thursday; warmer east this afternoon and over state tonight; locally cooler east Thursday; low tonight 35-45; high Thursday 5500. High temperature yesterday 50 at 3:10 to 4:00 p. low today 26 at 5:20 a.

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.36 .34 .32 .31 .30 .30 .29 .28 .27 .26 .27 .30 Yesterday's Mostly Cloudy; yesterday's wind N. Light; river stage this 50 of a foot. Rescinds Contract A $126,206 contract ivith- Remington Rand Univac to punch cards for drivers' licenses ivas been rescinded by the state highway cooiunission. House Approves 120 Measures TOPEKA House passed 120 bills during a two-hour session this morning. Most of them were of a minor and local nature.

They now go tc the Senate. All but five of the bills were passed during "bulk" roll call votes. As many as 25 bills were vote on at a single time. The House faced a staggering list of 176 bills ready for roll call vote when it began work today. Two were pared from the list when a couple of minor measures were stricken from the list.

There were 54 bills to be voted on individually this afternoon. Speaker Jess Taylor (R-Tribune) said the bulk roll call pro cedure was "quite a fantastic little ordeal," but described it as necessary to meet a deadline for consideration of House bills by final adjournment today. Taylor stopped proceedings. at one point to explain the procedure to a packed gallery of school children House members were called on to assist clerks in the final reading of bills voted on by the bulk roll call method. At times there were as many as 25 persons read ing at once.

Five bills requiring individual roll call votes were acted on prior to a noon recess. All passed by wide Wind Damaged Wheat Severely TOPEKA damage to (ji erosion Kansas wheat last week has beeti termed "severe" by the federal and state depart' ments of agriculture. The agencies said the worst damage occurred an area ex tending from north central counties diagonally southwestwsrd to the corner of the slate. A. C.

Richeson Howard Duncan O.U. To Mark Charter Days This Weekend Ottawa University students and their guests Friday, Saturday and Sunday will celebrate the 92nd anniversary of the university. Between 150 and 200 prospective students will be present for the annual Charter Days event. Actually, the college charter was granted April 21, 1865. But as students will be away for the Easter vacation at that time, the birthday party will be held early.

The celebration will open with a dinner in the Commons Friday evening. At 7:30 all students and guests will attend a party in Wil son Field House. Shirley Benson is in charge of the opening party. Joanne Whiteman will direct the presentation of the university program of education at a Saturday morning session in the university auditorium. There will be a variety of events Saturday afternoon.

A style show will be held in the Women's Residence hall beginning at 1:30 under direction of Myra Moor. Wilson Field House and the swimming pool will be open for recreation groups from 1:30 to 4:30. An intrasquad track and field meet will be held at 2 o'clock on Cook field. Coach Bill Boucek will divide his 65 candidates into a pair of squads and stage a regular meet for the celebration. In the evening the Charter Days banquet will be held in the Commons with the music department presenting the program, Ruth Turnbull is in charge of the event.

Mr, 0. U. and Miss 0. selectee by vote of students, will be revealed. The evening will be closed with parties in the residence halls.

Norma Stuermer is genera! chairman of the celebration. Prof Wayne Angell is faculty sponsor. Weatherman Sees Chance For Rain There is a chance for rain in southern and eastern Kansas tonight and tomorrow, it was announced today by Richard Garrett weatherman at Topeka. He stated that a wide rain area in the southwest part of the Unitec States is expected to move east and north. Ottawa had a high of 50 yesterday and a low of 26 this morning T6day was slightly warmer.

I wish to thank all the voters who so ably supported me at the Primary Election Tues. Signed: Howard Duncan. (Pol. Adv.) 87-c-lt Ottawa Flyers Gave Dinner Members of the Ottawa Flyers Club entertained their wives, and one husband, at a dinner at the North American Hotel Monday evening. The one woman pilot, of flood control and water conservation for the good of all people of the state.

About 50 persons from Ottawa attended the meeting, and there was also a good representation from La Oygne, Quenemo, Melvern and other points in the valley. Resolutions adopted were also put in petition form, and the petitions were circulated through the audience. Between 900 and 1,000 signatures were secured on petitions. In a question and answer session following the governor's talk, several persons in the audience raised questions concerning the projects that have been authorized, and also concerning theories that so-called little dams will take the place of so-called big dams and perform satisfactory flood control work. Questions of an engineering na ture, relative to the authorized projects were answered by Col.

E. C. Adams, district engineer, Kansas City, and by Myron DeGeer, Tulsa, who is assistant chief of operations, for the Corps of Engineers, Tulsa district. Questions regarding the theory that the so-called little dams are are: needed were- answered by Lamar Phillips, Ottawa, who quoted from statements of the Department of Agriculture, the agency which has charge of wa tershed programs which include small detention structures. In regard to the question, the Department of Agriculture has stated many times, Phillips said LONDON announced! oday she is ready to accept an ffer of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to conciliate in the "yprus dispute.

Colonial Secretary Alan Lcnnox- Boyd told the House of Commons he NATO offer is to conciliate mong Britain, Greece and Tur- all members of the 15-nation alliance. Lennox-Boyd said that, with the ew development, Britain is mak- ng a fresh appeal to Archbishop Vlakarios, exiled Greek orthodox eader of the Cypriot Union-with- reece movement, to call a halt the campaign of violence in the British Mediterranean colony. The colonial secretary made it lear this was the government's nly answer to the underground SOKA's offer to call truce in exchange for Archbishop Makarios' elease from the Seychelle Is- ands in the Indian Ocean. Lennox Boyd said if the arch- ishop makes a clear statement calling for an end to the violence he "government will be ready to bring to an end his detention in he Seychelles." whose husband was a guet at the dinner, was Mrs. George Barnes.

Speaker at the dinner was John A. Bailey, district sales manager for TWA, Kansas City. Bailey showed a film of overseas passenger service of TWA. He brought with him a scale model of a Super Constellation, which was given as a door prize at the dinner, and was won by John Carlton. Bailey's talk was on "Progress of Aviation." Forty-seven attended dinner.

Car Theft Spree Halted By Police An attempt by Howard Lee Allen, and Nathan E. Morgan, 16,, to escape from Topeka Boys Industrial School in a string of stolen cars ended in Emporia jail on Monday. According to police, the boys stole a car from a used car lot in Topeka and drove it to Ottawa. In Ottawa they ran low on gas and parked the stolen car in the city parking lot on Hickory street, next to the Minnick Motor Company's used car lot, about 10 a. m.

Officers said they then got into a 1952 Dodge on the Minnick lot and drove away. The authorities report the car ran wit of gas in Emporia. When Emporia police saw the boys abandon the car they became suspicious and picked them up for questioning. Yesterday, Sheriff Jay Brown went to Emporia and brought the boys back to Ottawa. Morgan has been charged with grand larceny and is to have a preliminary hearing Monday morning.

AMen is still a juvenile and will be returned to Boys Industrial School. that "in the case of minor storms the watershed work of the De partment of Agriculture's Soi Conservation Service, including small detention structures, woulc a significant effect on levels; but in the case of majo storms, such as occurred in 1951 the effect of the watershed pro gram would be relatively minor hence, our programs are in sense a substitute for reservoir such as those designed by Corps of Engineers." The meeting was sponsored the- several river valley organize tions, in cooperation with Missouri Arkansas Basins Floo Control and Conservation Associa lion. In attendance were 15 mayor of towns in the valleys, as well a other city officials and citizens. Chairman of the meeting was George Fox, Chetopa, Kas. banker.

DOCKING APPOINTS TOPEKA W) Gov. Georg Docking today named Marion Beatty, Topeka, and Harry Wiles, St. John, to the Kansa corporation commission. Both are attorneys. They report the cause lne new iy.

hosen directors this noon. A. R. Peterson was elected vice-president, and Glen Hayward reelccted secretary-treasurer. Directors chosen by (he club members are Leonard Allen, Sam Christerson, Floyd Coffman.

Rev. Charles Knight, Dean Nofsincer, Prof. Charles Southard, Larry Wassmer, Lamb and Peterson. Miss Mary Ponton and Terry Scroggins, members of the 0. U.

Washington seminar group, told ot their experiences on their visit to Washington and the United Nations. Britain Ready To Conciliate Two Injured As Hit tractor Two Ottawans received severe injuries in a car- tractor acci dent which occurred 2 1 miles south of Ottawa on US59 last nigh at 7:15. Marvin John Gentner, 44, 84' S. Mulberry, received a broken right shoulder blade, several bro ken ribs, and severe lacerations 01 the head and lower legs. Thomas Lowe Whitaker, 72, 1428 S.

Main received lacerations of the face and scalp and chest injuries. Both were brought to Ransom Memoria hospital. According to Highway Patrol men, Gentner was driving his 1955 John Deere tractor north on the highway when he was struck from behind by a 1941 Ford driven by Whitaker. The troopers said Whitaker evi dently thought the white rear ligh on the tractor was a single ligh on an oncoming car until it was too late to avoid the collision. They said the Whitaker car struck the left wheel of the trac tor squarely, tearing the Wheel axle housing from the tractor.

Gentner was hurled from the tractor into the ditch and the car came to rest on him. Passers by aided the trdopers in raising the car so Gentner could be pullec from under it. The troopers said only the sof mud in which Gentner landed kep him from being crushed. Both vehicles are reported to a total loss. Union Head Profited In Horse Stable WASHINGTON UP! Senate investigators developed today that 'rank- W.

Brewster profited heav- ly from an "equal" partnership a racing stable with a Seattle nsurance man who lost on the venture but was making $300,000 a year in brokerage fees on Teamsters Union welfare funds. Pierre Salinger, a staff accountant for the Senate Rackets investigating Committee, testified lis examination of the records ndicated that insurance man George Newell put up nearly al 1 the operating funds. Yet when the dissolved, he said, Brewster was credited with $44,366.03 while Newell took a loss of $40,712,75. Salinger said one of the partnership's assets, as listed on the books, was a $17,000 note from -Newell tolc him Brewster had never actually signed such a note. He quotec Newell as saying he feels Brew sler owes him that amount.

Brewster said there was stil some controversy between him and Newell as to their financia affairs. Brewster acknowledged tha Newell paid him something over $5,000 a year in each of the years 1051, 1952 and 1953 as "stable manager." Brewster told te Senate Rack ets Investigating Committee the money was "salary" paid for a job which he said required him to get up at 4:30 a.m., every day to supervise the walking of New ell's race horses. Robert F. Kennedy, committe' counsel, said Newell had listed the $5,000 payment for 1951 on an income tax report as a "commis sion" paid to Brewster. "I would not have taken anj of that money if I knew it came from commission," Brewster said He added that "I cannot help' how Newell listed it, and that h( has heard the broken subsequent ly changed it.

Before the questioning got int Brewster's relations with Newell the senators had brought from Brewster that a campaign contri bution was made to Gov. Goodwin J. Knight of California, and that Brewster later interceded with Knight to get Charles Tait of Se attle appointed as San Francisco's port director. ing to Sen. Howard Immei (R- committee chairman.

The bill is expected to go directly to the floor of the Senate for debate without referral to the oil and gas committee which has killed similar bills in past sessions. It will be the first time in the 'history of the Senate that a severance tax bill has ever reached the floor. A bill sponsored by two senators for a five per cent tax with efunds for property taxes paid in oil and gas has been referred eparately to the oil and gas It is being retained in the ax committee. Supporters of the severance tax relieve they have better than an chance of getting it through Senate. A House leader said chances of passage there may good if it ever hits the floor.

Gov. George Docking has announced he would veto any increase in the two per cent retail sales tax. It would take a two-thirds vote override a veto. It's considered doubtful'that the margin could be mustered in the House. Some Souse members aren't sure a one' per cent increase could be oassed at all.

The Legislature is faced with a jroblem of finding sources for at least 12 to 14 million mo-re dollars balance bhe budget. Several bills to raise about eight million already have passed the Senate and are expected to win approval in the House. The severance tax would raise about 8.4 million. If the Legislature adopts that as part of the tax program, it will still have to find four to six additional million. Docking has taken no stand on a severance tax but his dose associates? bejieve he would sigir it.

He suggested it as a possible source in his legislative message in January. Swap or buy through Want Ads Can Make Corn Loan Agreements Loans and purchase agreements will be available through April 1 for the 1956 corn crop, Russell Wray, chairman of the Franklin County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee, hag announced. Franklin county. is Included in the commercial area in which corn loans and purchase agreements will be available to all growers of the 1956 corn crop. The top support, averaging $1.50 per bushel nationally, will be available to growers of the 1956 corn crop in the area who complied with their farm acreage allotments or with Soil Bank corn base acreage requirements.

The national average rate of $1.50 per bushel represents 84 per cent of the October 1, 1956 parity price. The rate for non-cooperators in Franklin county is $1.26 per bushel. Faces Indictment WASHINGTON- James (Jimmy) Hoffa, bouncy little big- shot of the Teamsters Union, today faced an indictment accusing him of conspiring and bribing to get secrets of the Senate's racket probers. Invited To Dance Students of Ottawa high school are among those invited to Paola senior class dance March, 23, at which rock and roll disc jockey B. B.

Dilson will appear, The Paofa senior class is sponsoring the dance to raise funds for their senior trip. They have invited students from seven high schools to attend, Ot tawa, Garnett, Osawatomie, Spring Hill, Louisburg, Baldwin and Olathe, Lamb 380 THE TRACTOR, from which Marvin Gentner was thrown in last night's collision, lays in the US59. In the background is the 1941 Fordi Thomas Whitaker was driving at'the time of the a the right, the left wheel of the tractor can be seen. Both vehicles were listed as total losses (Photo by Highway Patrol Trooper Bob County).