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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1959
Page
5
A preliminary meeting last night discussed reorganization, with a follow up planned next Tuesday at 7 30 PM in the Carnegie Library to elect officers. B F Bowers, former president, called the session. locals urged countywide interest in preserving history.
Weather county forecast calls for scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon through Thursday. Daytime highs reach the upper 80s to 90s with nights in the 70s.
A letter from John L. Humerickhouse describes Ottawa National Guard members completing two weeks at Camp Ripley Minnesota. The 127th Artillery arrived 11 days ago for training disrupted by a violent windstorm that leveled tents, with 17,000 men of the 35th Division affected. The second week focuses on firing the inch howitzer, then return home Friday with Ottawa arrival planned around 11 a.m. Sunday.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev urged peace with the United States stating talks with President Eisenhower are a prelude to a summit and not negotiations. He said mid September is likely for his visit to the United States and Eisenhower to visit Moscow later in autumn. He emphasized no territorial disputes and urged cooperation for lasting earth peace while avoiding any rocket display during the talks.
Frank Weis aged 70 of Princeton is reported improved at Ran som Memorial Hospital after a fall into a well Monday afternoon near Princeton. He was seriously injured but has moved off the critical list, according to his physician.
Boeing Airplane Co reports three Fort Hays State College math majors awarded $209 scholarships for 1959 60. Recipients are Kay William Dundas Beeler senior Adolph Beyerlein Phillipsburg senior and Delbert Lessor Wakeeney sophomore.
Garden City Kansas officials have invited Premier Nikita Khrushchev to visit the city. Mayor Harold Fansler and Chamber of Commerce president Stewart Boone sent telegrams to President Eisenhower recalling his 1957 stop and urging Khrushchev to see the area’s agricultural strengths.
The steel strike's three week spread idles nearly 100000 workers in related industries across states including New York Maryland Alabama Wisconsin and Colorado. Unemployment claims rise in coal iron mining railroads trucking and dock work as demand plummets and shops and retail trade suffer with most affected areas in Pennsylvania and Detroit.
New York AP reports a third straight mediation day between steel executives and the United Steel Workers as pessimism persists. Both sides refuse to comment on progress toward ending the 22 day old strike while David McDonald and Joe Finnegan exchange pointed remarks amid federal mediation efforts.
The Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad plans to reorganize into a single Delaware chartered corporation. It would merge the Missouri parent K K T Co. and the Texas subsidiary M K T Co. into one entity under Delaware law. No changes in operations or capitalization are expected, though Missouri laws are cited as restrictive. Directors have approved. stockholder approval pending ICC authorization.
Washington AP report says James Hoffa paid a long standing debt to the Chicago underworld with three million dollars of Teamsters health and welfare funds. The Senate committee charges Hoffa personally arranged deals to benefit the underworld and Paul Dorfman’s family. Dorfman introduced Hoffa to Midwest mob society. Hoffa declined to comment, calling the hearings dishonest and aimed at union busting. Midwest Teamsters faced reduced health welfare benefits and inflated insurance charges since 1950.
McDonnell Aircraft Corp reports progress on the Mercury space capsule on schedule under a 20 million dollar NASA contract for the environmental system. Project manager Logan T. MacMillan says NASA requirements are being fulfilled and no completion date has been announced.
Kansas City police interviewed Morris Dean Minters, 27, who proved evasive during a routine talk. Detectives learned he was wanted in Texas as a parole violator, explaining his presence at the station. He had applied hoping to join the police force, amid a recruitment drive for 200 officers.
Ottawa area residents express mixed views on Soviet Premier Khrushchev's planned fall visit. Of 13 surveyed by the Herald, seven favored the visit, five opposed, and one undecided. Opinions split by gender with several calling it potentially beneficial or futile.
President Eisenhower plans a nationwide radio and television address at 5:30 p.m. CST to urge Congress to enact effective labor control legislation this year. The White House said the 15 minute talk would focus on labor reform, amid a widening Senate inquiry into Hoffa and allied figures connected to union activities and insurance programs.
Laotian troops recaptured jungle outposts abandoned to Communist forces in Phongsaly near North Vietnam. A Defense Ministry communique said government forces inflicted severe losses on Pathet Lao bands along the Dien Bien Phu border. Some posts in Sam Neua remain in Communist hands. emergency military rule was declared in five provinces.
Robert Patrick 22 of Inglewood stole a city bus after a 20 minute layover, crashing it at a service station near Los Angeles. He admitted drinking and was booked on suspicion of grand theft after police found him at the wheel. Bus driver Cecil Hearn had left the vehicle in a restroom break.
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