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Vol. 60 No. 223 THE OTTAWA HERALD OTTAWA, KANSAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1956 TEN PAGES TOPEKA WV-Alf M. Landon says additional funds will be needed to operate the Kansas state government and yesterday called on Republicans and Democrats to tell the people how they proposed to raise the money. The two parties will hold their councils tomorrow at which platforms for the general election camapaign will be adopted.

Warren W. Shaw, Republican nominee for governor, said Saturday he anticipates no need for new or higher taxes unless they arc made necessary by rising education costs. Landon told the Topeka Daily Hearing Tonight On Zoning Plan At a meeting of the planning Side Swipes In Tht Day's Ottawans who would like to view the planet Mars tonight when it makes its closest approach to the earth can do so on the Ottawa University 6-inch telescope. Dr. W.

D. Bemmels of the university physics department said he will have the telescope set up on the open area west of Ward Science hall for those who would like to take a look at the planet, beginning at 10 o'clock tonight. The planet is now within 35 million miles of the earth, the closest it will be for 17 years. It is the large, reddish looking object in the eastern sky which rises shortly after the moon comes up. The university telescope, while not large, is of sufficient power to show the shape of the planet distinctly as well as to give some Idea of the larger physical features.

Dr. Bemmels recommended that young children be left at home tonight it would be diffiwlt for commiss on seven youngsters to make out the fea- petitions for exten ding the business tures or to understand what they limits jn varjous rts flftown will be presented by the County Real Estate Board. The meeting will be held at city hall at 7:30. Among the proposals to be heard is one that would include the block south of Park street to Seventh, and from Main to Hickory. Part of this area was proposed several weeks ago as a socalled spot rezoning petition to provide a site which the Southwestern Bell Telephone company desired as a location for a new telephone headquarters.

Property owners in the area protested, and Another rezoning proposal to be the protest was upheld, icard tonight is for inclusion of the area south of the high school grounds to Seventh, and west to Lhe Santa Fe railroad within the business district. There are nine members of the planning commission, and it was hoped a majority would be present tonight. Some are away on vacation. Two of the members because of previous personal interest in the telephone site proposal do not desire to sit at the hearing. It was said by J.

B. Muecke, secretary of the commission, that the hearing would be held -even-'-if quorum is not present and the proceedings will be recorded for consideration of all the members at a later date. A decision is not expected for 10 days or more. Asks Parses To Tell Plans For Raising Sfafe Revenues Capital from Estes Park, where he is vacationing that the 1955 Kansas Legislative voted for increased state government expenditures in 1957 without'provid- ing where the state would get the money. Landon, a former Republican governor, said the 1956 budget session also failed to provide additional money.

"The issue now is in the lap of the party councils," Landon said. "Both parties owe it to the people of Kansas to state in their platforms where they propose to get the money." Landon did not estimate how much additional money would be needed. Shaw said Saturday "it is my firm belief that there can be reductions in expenditures in every other field except education." Ike To End Vacation Tomorrow PEBBLE BEACH, refreshed President Calif. W-A Eisenhower He added if increased school wil1 end his vacation of golf here population makes higher appropriations necessary then he would recommend that the 1957 Legislature lake appropriate action to balance the budget by either putting on a new tax or increasing existing taxes. Shaw said he has reason to believe that higher than expected tax collections this year will mean that "the budget will not be out of balance when we go.

into the 1957 legislative session." are seeing. Five babies were born at Ransom Memorial hospital during the weekend, boosting the total for August to 34. If there are more than four births this week, August will exceed July in number as there were 38 last month. A huge cucumber grown by Carl Hoopes, route 2, Pomona, was brought to the Herald office today. The cucumber measured 13 inches long, inches in circumference, and weighed four pounds.

Beard Spoils Red Propaganda Show BERLIN (ffi A Big Soviet propaganda show backfired on the Kremlin because of a beautiful Vandyke beard sported by a Soviet air force colonel. The unnamed colonel was photographed yesterday as he paraded In the ranks of a Russian aid division leaving Oranienburg, East Germany supposedly for home. The withdrawal was in line with the much ballyhooed man cut in the Russian garrison holding East Germany. The Russians gave the Oranienburg division a giant propaganda sendoff with East German leaders telling more than 10,000 spectators that Allied troops must now follow suit and leave West Germany. The colonel's picture in the ranks of the departing division was splashed today in Der Abend, a West Berlin newspaper.

But along with it, Der Abend published another picture of the colonel. The second picture also showed the colonel saying goodby, but in the ranks of another Russian air division which was supposed to have left East Germany last June after a similar big propaganda sendoff at Brandenburg. "Has the colonel come back from Russia to say farewell a second time?" asked Der Abend. Der Abend published its first picture of the "twice departing colonel" on June 21. At that time, the newspaper explained, the colonel was singled out at Brandenburg to be photographed because of his beautiful Vandyke beard.

Await Reply On Suez Canal CAIRO W-Egypt will reply tomorrow to the request for talks on the Suez Canal crisis, an official Egyptian source said today. President Nasser is expected to agree to meet with Australian Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies' five-nation committee, selected last week by the London Suez conference to present an 18-nation plan for international control. Usually reliable sources said they understood Nasser will agree to meet the committee in Cairo with the proviso that Egypt is not obligated to accept the plan. Menzies stood by iiv London, awaiting the reply.

The message had been expected today, since sources in Cairo said it was transmitted to the Egyptian Embassy in London yesterday. Egypt's reply was framed after Nasser had a special meeting with his Cabinet yesterday. Menzies was appointed by the London Suez conference last week to head a five-nation committee to present to Nasser the plan for an international authority to operate the canal. The propfcsed by the United States, was endorsed by 17 of the other 21 nations at the conference. Informants here said Nasser- would receive Menzies and his committee in Cairo, but would insist that the entire Suez problem be discussed, not just the majority plan.

India at the conference proposed that an international board be empowered' only to ad- Ejjypt in running the canal. Road Improvement Hearing Scheduled A hearing on the economic effect of the proposed improvement of highway K33 at Wellsville, open Greeley Schools To Open Tuesday The Weather tomorrow and fly back to Washington to prepare for his re-election campaign and tackle govern ment problems. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty announced today the President and Mrs. Eisenhower will leave for the capital from the Naval Air Station at nearby Monterey.

They will make the flight aboard Eisenhower's plane, Columbine III. The President and First Lady have been vacationing at the Cypress Point Club since last Thursday evening. They arrived shortly after Eisenhower accepted nomination for a second term at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. In response to newsmen's ques- i tions today, Hagerty said Greeley public schools will open nower FORECAST Generally fair this afternoon, windy east and central; partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; widely scattered thundershowers extreme west late this afternoon and northwest and extreme west tonight and Tuesday; not quite so warm northwest this afternoon; low tonight near 55 northwest to 70-75 southeast; high Tuesday near 90 northwest to upper 90s southeast. May Suspend Union For Fraud the State Highway Commission in Chanute Sept.

7, beginning at 1:30 p. m. Highway Commissioner J. R. Cheney said this is one of the first hearings of this type calling for this procedure on all highway improvements under the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956.

It will be a separate hearing on the economic advantages or disadvantages of the proposed improvement, and has no connection with land-condemnation procedure which has been instituted in district court here. The Wellsville improvement project calls for a new overpass over the Santa Fe tracks at Wellsville and widening of K33 from the overpass north about a mile. Holstein Sale Here Labor Day A sale of fine Holstein cattle to be held on the Franklin county fair grounds, at the south edge of Ottawa, on Labor day, is expected to bring a large number of buyers here. The sale is under, auspices of the Eastern Central Kansas Holstein Breeders association, H. H.

Van Horn of Pomona, a member of the sale committee, said 71 head of Holsteins had been listed for the auction. Most of these are pedigreed heifers, but a few grade cows and some 4-H calves will be included. This will be the first time the breeders have held their sale here. Five previous sales have been conducted at Tonganoxie. In the association are breeders in i East Central counties.

Members of the sale this time are Martin Dickinson of Homewood, Francis R. Wempe of Law rence, and Van Horn. Several, experienced auctioneers will cry the sale, including Jack Nelson of Pomona. Others are Boyd Michels of Kansas City, and Mike Wilson of Topeka. An authority on pedigrees, T.

Hobart McVay, will be here from Nickerson. The sale will start at noon on September 3. Grades will be sold before 1 o'clock. Lunch will be served at the fair grounds. Cattle have been listed from Williamsburg, Pomona, Richmond, Lawrence, venworth, Louisburg, North Topeka, Lecompton, Basehor, Hill, Baldwin, Mayetta, and Seneca.

Loan Association Asks Foreclosure The Ottawa Building and Loan association filed a foreclosure suit district court yesterday against Mr. and Mrs. Charles 0. Smith and others. The loan association's petition charges the Smiths with $8,089.62 and percent annual interest from August 1955 still due on a mortgage made July 11, 1955.

exchange for the $7,950 loan, the Smiths mortgaged part of six lots in Ottawa and agreed to pay $44.20 monthly. The loan association says the Smiths (1) failed to make monthly payments, (2) failed to pay interest premiums, and (3) failed to pay 1955 taxes of $246.67 which were paid by the association. The petition says the mortgage note is now in default and the association therefore asks foreclosure. Ottawa Building and Loan requests an order of sale from the court provided the principal and interest on the mortgage is not paid by the date of the court's ruling on the amount due. Proceeds from the sale are requested by the loan company to (1) pay taxes, '2) pay costs of the action, and pay the, principal and interest due on the mortgage.

Church Discusses Air Conditioning A proposal to air condition Ottawa First Methodist church is under consideration. A membership ballot on the plan was taken yesterday, and the idea gained near' ly two to one approval by the voters. Final action will be taken by the official board of the church. A new furnace is- also under consideration, and probably will be decided on. It would be economical to install the air conditioning and the furnace at the same time.

It is estimated that air conditioning would cost around $16,000, and a new furnace bstween $6,000 and $8,000. Singer Sewing Machine Takt over payments. Call 1641-M. 323-C-it day session. surgery he underwent June 9 is at Members of the faculty include: an end now.

Duane Baugher grammar room Since arriving here, the Presi- and grade school principal; Mrs. dent has played 18 holes of golf Marjorie Best intermediate ea ch day as compared with only room; Walter A. partial rounds before he came to arts and coach; Mrs. John Campbell commerce; Mrs. Marjorie Dunlap primary room; Ambrose Jennings mathematics and science; Mrs.

Dorothy Kneller English and home economics; E. Milton Long music and driver education, and James Morgan, jr. social science and superintendent. Mrs. Dunlap replaces s.

Juanita Holderman who resigned because of poor health. Mrs. Dunlap has taught in a rural school the past four years near her home in Kincaid. Baugher replaces Mrs. Florence Setter who was principal of Greeley Grade school for the past 15 years.

Baugher was principal of Centervilie grade school in Anderson county the past two years and was president of the Anderson County Teachers association. Long replaces Kenneth Cooper who taught driver education and music in Greeley. Cooper has moved to LeRoy. Long taught tire past year in Richmond and in Weldon the five years previous. H.

B. Kleinsorge will be custodian. Hot lunches will be served this school year at the same price as the past year, said Morgan. Mrs. Gus L.

Kratzberg will be in charge. Greeley schools will again have the milk program. Transportation will be furnished by Ralph Macklin, and Fred Lalman will drive one of the buses. Macklin replaces Everett Howell who retired. Board of members are La Doyt George H.

Lickteig, clerk, and Maurice J. Piene, treasurer. the West Coast. Aides said Eisenhower has been taking a complete vacation from politics here. He reportedly will talk over campaign plans with Republican National Chairman Leonard W.

Hall and other GOP leaders a few days after returning to Washington. Reporters tried today to find out some of the details of the presi- dent's campaign plans but Hagerty said anything on that would have to wait until the Pres- dent gets back to the White House. Hagerty said one of Eisenhow- lot hold a news conference Wednesday, the customary day but held open the possibility of a conference later in week. Little Change In Babe's Condition GALVESTON, Tex. A hospital spokesman said today that there had been no significant change in the condition of Mrs.

Mildred (Babe) Didrikson Zahari-, as, famed athlete in 1 serious condition because of cancer. Dr. G. A. W.

Currie of John Sealy Hospital said "There has been no significant change in the past 24 hours. She remains comfortable and alert and visits with her family and spends much of her time reading the many wonderful messages of good wishes and prayers that have arrived." Yesterday, a spokesman said she had lost some ground because of difficulty in taking nourishment. Fatal Stabbing On Election Bet DALLAS, Tex. man was shot to death and another knifed critically late last night in a fight over a election bet. A 19-year-old man, stabbed in the chest, told officers he shot Hilton Campbell, 21, to death in a street fight.

He told officers he and Campbell bet several weeks ago on which date voters would go to the pools. Persons interested in saving lives are invited to the organizational meeting of a local citizens safety committee Tuesday night at 8 p. m. in the basement of the First Methodist church. In terms of a unified statewide movement the safety campaign from the citizens standpoint is new.

The state organization was formed July 10 in Topeka. Ottawa's representative was Don W. Jones, president of the Kansas Firemens association, who was elected to the legislative committee. The growing death rate from traffic accidents in Kansas is an immediate 7 concern of the state safety and of local committee's which have been organized rapidly. Previous to the state-wide movement, various localities had started campaigns for safety.

Father Of Four Held For Holdup TOPEKA (ffi-A father of four small children was arrested yesterday four minutes after a grocery store had been held up and robbed of $528. Police said Lev's Shuckahosee, 28, of Topeka, admitted robbery. He told police he needed money to pay off debts. Police quoted him as saying he had been out of work until last week when he got a job working on the Tuttle Creek Dam north ol Manhattan. Herald Want Ads get results.

Weekend Highway Crashes Are Fatal To Six Persons (By The Aaiociated Preei) Six persons died over the weekend of injuries suffered in Kansas highway accidents. The deaths raised to 400 the number of traffic fatalities in the state this year, compared with 352 at the same ime in 1955. The latest victims: James Elbert Benson, 76, Bonner Springs farmer, who was killed in a collision on K32 four miles west of Bonner Springs yesterday. His wife was Walter Weldon Drydale, 40. Colorado Springs, who died in a Norton hospital yesterday seven hours after he was injured when a car overturned six miles west Of Norton on U.

S. 383. Drydjde'i 13- year-old nephew suffered minor injuries. Mrs. Billie J.

Minear, 29, and Mrs. Helen G. Winningham, 31, both of Wichita, who were killed in an accident on K15 at the southern outskirts of Wichita Saturday. Two other persons were injured. Dana R.

Bishop, 38, Syracuse, who died in an El Dorado hospital Saturday, second victim of an accident west of Beaumont Tuesday. His father, S. D. Bishop, 72, was killed outright. Alva Eugene Babcock, 66, retired farmer of near Tonganoxie, who was killed yesterday in a truck accident on the old Leavenworth-Tonganoxie road, five miles from Leavenworth.

High temperature yesterday 98 at 1:55 p. low today 71 from 5:30 a. m. to 6:15 a. high year ago today' 100; low year ago today 65; record high this date 106 in 1913; record low this date 41 in 1910; high Saturday 95; low Sunday 69; hourly temperatures 24 hours ending 8 a.

m. today No Kidnaping, Just Left Home WEST SPRINGFIELD, that Mrs. Edwina G. Simpson and her three children had been kidnaped by a car-stealing hitchhiker ended today when police reported Mrs. Simpson sim- FOREST PARK, Pa.

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Mercury In 90's Over Weekend Saturday and Sunday were a couple of warmish days in the current local string, with a maximum of 95 degrees on Saturday, and 98 Sunday afternoon. Sunday's minimum was 69. This morning the low was 71 degrees from 5:30 a. m. to 6:15 a.

m. A rather continuous breeze during last night helped to make conditions good for sleeping. A year ago it was up to 100, and there was an all- time high on Aug. 25, 1901. and again in 1936 of 107 degrees.

A record low of 43 degrees was er's first appointments in Wash- re istered on Au S- 26 mgton will be with Secretary of State Dulles on the London talks on the Suez Canal crisis. Hagerty said Eisenhower wi.l] Td'FornftocBt Safety Group Field Trip For County Teachers Teachers attending the Franklin County Institute next week will in a field trip by Harold Stevens of the Soil Conservation Service on Thursday morning. The trip will be made to view conservation practices. About 80 teachers will make the trip in three school buses. Stevens said stops would be made at places in the north and west parts of the county.

There will slop to study soils, a stop at the Ben Sham- see the shaping of sod waterways with use of multi- roses, a stop at the Paul Steinman farm for a pond construction demonstration, a stop at the W. D. Dunlap farm to view conservation work, a stop at the Leonard Sheldon farm on the county line to see terrace building, and a look at a completed conservation program on the Lloyd Daugharthy farm. The county will be in Add To Staff At Ottawa U. Horton Presley of Alton, 111., will teach English at Ottawa University beginning in September, President Andrew B.

Martin announced this morning. A teacher and Baptist minister, he holds a bachelor degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a masters degree from University of Illinois at Urbana. His major work is in English. He taught in University of Illinois and later in Shurtleff College at Alton. He is pastor of Main Street Baptist church in Alton.

He is married and has two sons, six and nine. The family will live at '1108 S. Main. Mr. Presley disclaims any relationship to the popular singer Elvis Presley.

However, he is interested in music. That was his minor subject in college. He is a tenor and plays the marimba. Chicago Polio Cases In Drop CHICAGO Twenty-six new polio cases were reported today lowest total for a weekend in Chicago since the outbreak reached serious proportions July 5. Previous weekend totals were 40, 63 and 66 cases.

The 1956 total now stands at 926 cares and 27 deaths. Leaves Hospital NEW HAVEN, Conn. Ed Sullivan, newspaper columnist and television personality, left New Haven Hospital today, after nearly a week's stay, for his Southbury home. teachers institute session Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in the high school building in Ottawa. Cattle Jam At K.

C. Stockyards KANSAS CITY dR-An estimated 21,500 caitle jammed the Kansas City stockyards today, the largest run of the year. It was the heaviest run since Oct. 31, 1955, when receipts reached 22,210. Stockers and feeders comprised about 75 per cent of the arrivals.

an re Ike Dares Reds To Reveal Tests PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. Wl President Eisenhower's announcement the Soviet Union has resumed nuclear weapons tests possibly including a hydrogen today as a challenge to Russia to publicize such tests in advance to reduce danger. Besides the challenge to strip intended secrecy, the announcement at the President's vacation headquarters here yesterday also was seen as a move to counteract recent Russian propaganda suggesting this country's tests of such weapons amount to a threat to world peace. Eisenhower made public Atomic Energy Commission port advising him that last Friday the Soviet Union detonated "a nu clear device with a yield less than a megaton." A megaton bias would have force equivalent to one million tons of TNT. And the White House, amplify ing the commission report, said the latest Russian explosion "almost" of that caliber much smaller than the biggest blast so far touched off by the Unilec States.

That blast at Bikini in 195' is generally thought to have hac a force of 15 to 17 megatons while this year's hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific has been offi cially estimated to have had the force of 10 million tons of TNT, 10 megatons. In announcing Soviet resumption of tests, Eisenhower said in a statement he wanted to emphasiz again "the necessity for effectivi international control of atomic energy and such measures of ade quately safeguarded disarmamen as are now feasible." added: "This is a goal which the Unitet States has consistently sought ana which has received the support a large majority of the members of the U. in funds. The actions were announced by AFL-CIO President George Meany after the opening session of a council meeting here in the Poconos Mountains summer camp maintained by the Ladies' Garment Workers Union. The council, however, put off until tomorrow any discussion of endorsing Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson or President Eisenhower, the Republican standard bearer.

The group is reported be leaning to outright endorsement of the Democratic ticket as caders of the separate AFL and CIO did in 1952. In the welfare fund cases, the council accepted a report by iti thical practices committee say- ng there was sufficient fund fraud in the Distillery Workers, Laundry Workers and Allied Industrial Workers unioni warrant further formal investigation. The moves were the first taken by the AFL-CIO since its merger ast December to carry out an announced aim of ridding the labor movement of corrupt influences. Meany also announced Uiat the AFL-CIO has accepted an application for membership from tht Shirley Resigns From Police Force Sgt. C.

C. Shirley has resigned from the Ottawa police force to accept work in Topeka, Oct. 22. Shirley said his resignation was effective today, but until results of an examination are completed he could not release the nature of his new job. He has served on the police force for the past five years and has lived in Ottawa since 1947.

Before starting his police ca reer, Shirley drove for the City Taxi company and for Paul Stone truck lines. MR. AND MRS. Archie Clark, 617 S. Poplar, are offering $100 reward for information leading'to the arrest and conviction of the "hit-and-hide" driver of the car which struck down their three-year-old daughter, Rita Jean, shown above, of the Clark home August 10.

Rita is home from the hospital, but her arms and legs still are unsteady. Her physician said it was too early to determine if there will be lasting effects. (Pbipto by Lee Perez) Brotherhood men and of Locomotive Fire- Enginemen, which claims 96,000 members. Action on endorsing Stevenson or Eisenhower was delayed until tomorrow because several of the 29 council-members were late in arriving here. The council members quite apparently had no notion of endorsing the Republican combination of President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon Instead, they saw a choice of endorsing the Democratic slate of Adlai Stevenson and Sen.

Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, or simply taking no formal stand for either party in the coming campaign. Opinion among council members as to a Democratic endorsement or no endorsement seemed closely divided, but supporters of the Democratic cause appeared to have an edge. It considered likely the council would make no formal endorsement at its four days of sessions. The problem was whether to summon the AFL-CIO General Board, composed of representatives of all the 140 AFL-CIO unions in the next few weeks. Any scheduling of a general board meeting well ahead of the November election would be regarded at intention to go ahead with a Steenson-Kefauver endorsement.

Teller Admits Bank Shortage WAYNESBURG, Pa. Ml A 27-year-old bank teller and part- time minister charged with illegally drawing $21,000 from a customer's bank account js quoted by arresting officers as declaring spent it on his family and to help a few friends in need. Robert of nearby Mount Morris, was held without bail following his weekend arrest on a charge of fraudulent pretense filed by Ray Fisher, a Mount Morris service station operator. Drodge was employed by the First National Bank of Morgantown, W.Va. Fisher claims Drodge tapped his account several times and that it now is short $21,000.

Justice of the Peace Earl H. Fulton said Drodge admitted taking some money and "I don't know how it happened. I was handling so much money'in the bank. I was one man there- then, when I got home, I was another." Thomas Boyd said Drodge told him he didn't spend the money on "wine, women or song." The sheriff said Drodgt added: "I gave some of it to people 1 knew needed it badly. I always figured I'd play it back.

I spent some money on improving our home." Enter Peak Polio Season TOPEKA tfl Eighteen new polio cases, the highest weekly number this year, were reported Kansas last week as the state entered the peak season for tht disease. The last two weeks of August and the month of September comprise the peak polio season ast week's number showed a decided upswing. They brought to 83 the number eported in the state this year, compared with 146 on the same late last year. Lamb Ambulance. Phone 930, If.