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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1957
Page
6
In Coral Gables Florida woodpeckers damaged a tall white wooden column at Dr Franklin B E Verdon's restored home. A woodpecker fell into its hollow core while others pecked and removed molding as firemen and neighbors cut holes to free or locate the bird.
Cincinnati rubber workers return to B F Goodrich Co plants after a 16 day strike over unsettled contract talks. Agreement reached late last night but awaits ratification by 14 000 union members and the Rubber Workers Executive Board. Supplementary plant level contracts to follow. Agreement runs through April 15 1959 and includes a 60 day wage reopening clause.
A 30 pound leopard cub bit a 4 year old boy and scratched the child and guardian as it pounced from a cage at Audubon Park Zoo in New Orleans. The boy was treated at Charity Hospital for a gash and scratches while the animal was kept in a convalescent cage pending rabies testing.
Four Baptist ministers picketed Louisiana College in Pineville over actor Vincent Price listed as a scheduled speaker. Price planned to read Van Gogh letters on Wednesday while his liquor advertisement remained undisclosed, joined by two college students in the protest at the Baptist institution.
FBI agents and Windsor police sought identification of JL Ewing Scott, long sought in the slaying of his wife Evelyn. The suspect, calling himself Lewis Stewart, was held on an open charge after being picked up at the Detroit Windsor Tunnel while trying to leave Canada. fingerprint tests awaited. he had forfeited $25,000 bail after April 1946 forgery and grand theft indictments tied to his wife’s fortune.
Franklin County's share of the sales tax residue to be distributed June 15 amounts to 121,470.20. Quarterly shares of cigaret, liquor and gasoline taxes are listed as cigarets 6,433.11, liquor 2,552.83, and gasoline 10,599.61, totaling the county's distribution.
Peiping radio announced a 15 year effort to tame the Yellow River with a major construction program. A dynamite blast at Sanmen Gorge in Henan signals the start of a dam project in a planned 46‑dam system intended to control floods and bring development along China’s famed river.
U S Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow submitted his credentials to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon. The 53 year old career diplomat arrived Saturday to begin his tenure as the new American envoy.
About 170 Western Electric installers in the Houston area joined a sympathy walkout spreading to Texas and Oklahoma. Local 6290 of the Communications Workers of America said the action followed a company order for eight workers to Waxahachie on a commuter basis. The walkout may involve roughly 1,300 Texas and Oklahoma installers and could signal a broader protest by about 20,000 workers.
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