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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1961
Page
4
In Birmingham a housewife, Alice Churchill, forgot a rice pudding while on an express train. A porter sent a note in a signal box with a penny weight, prompting Signalman John Westwood to call Vera Churchill, who works at the Birmingham police station. Vera returns home to find the pudding perfectly cooked and tasty.
The Soviet Embassy will stop stamping immunity on parking tickets for Izvestia reporter Yuria Barsukov and Tass reporter Mikhail Sagetelyan after a State Department protest. The two had claimed diplomatic immunity to avoid fines totaling about 70 dollars over four months. They were told to pay the penalties.
Topeka AP says resort like weather with 80s temperatures continues into the weekend. Highs this afternoon expected in the 80s while tonight’s lows fall to the 60s. Friday’s highs ranged from 78 at Goodland to 91. night lows from 63 at Goodland to 71 at Wichita.
Partly cloudy and mild through Sunday with widely scattered thundershowers developing tonight and Sunday. Highs today and Sunday generally in the upper 80s with lows around the mid 60s.
U S officials warn a drastic curb on refugees into West Berlin could spark a rapid East German crisis. Khrushchev threatens a separate peace and Soviet troops could be used to restore order if rioting erupts. The refugee flow nears 150000 for the year as East Germany weighs travel limits and U S officials press NATO planning.
CANON CITY Colo AP David Francis Early, accused of killing three members of a Denver family three days after his release from Leavenworth in April 1958, died in Colorado's gas chamber Friday night. He had been convicted of killing Mrs Merrill A Knight wife of a prominent Denver attorney.
Havana charges two men armed with a 30 caliber machinegun at Guantanamo Bay planned to shoot Raul Castro during a rally on July 26 the eighth anniversary of the revolution. The report says the plot involved a simulated attack to justify U S aggression and CIA involvement.
Elizabeth Ann Duncan and two accomplices won a stay of execution in the 1958 Ventura County case in which she hired Baldonado and Moya to assault and bury Olga Duncan, Frank Duncan’s pregnant wife. The stay was issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals after district court delays and appeals moves.
Kansas City residents react as county attorney Robert Brown touts a 1988 law banning sales or gifts of cigarettes to anyone under 21 with fines up to 25 dollars and six months in jail. Students question enforcement while officials admit they were unaware of the statute.
A boiler explosion in Wells England blew two engineers from a passenger locomotive as the train rolled along a Cheddar Valley line. The unmanned train passed a station before a rear guard hit the emergency brake. Rescue teams rushed the injured engineers to hospital where they remained in critical condition.
Dr. Edward Klerr, 61, a former foreign correspondent for International News Service who later worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, died of a heart attack Thursday in Washington.
Traffic death log for Topeka reports numbers for 24 hours to 9 am Saturday. The August figure for 1911 shows 312, while the comparable 1960 period records 289.
Patricia Abersold of Silver Leaf will represent Franklin county in the state and Mid-America fairs after winning the demonstration contest at the Masonic Hall in Ottawa on Friday. Her bread making demonstration earned her a spot, with competitors James Dunn Judy McClure and Tharon Hornburger Norma Houston Kathryn Houston and Joe Reed also placing in various ribbons. full judging results will be released next week per Miss Rosemary Crist.
GOP leaders outline four regional sessions to review failures from the 1960 election. William E. Miller, Barry Goldwater, and Bob Wilson will participate as regional meetings target organizational weaknesses in big cities. Southern states meet November 17 18 in Atlanta Georgia. Midwest dates pending for November.
Los Angeles AP Charles II Williams aged 58, longtime West Coast publicity chief for Newsweek and former Chicago and New York newspaperman, died in a hospital Friday after an operation.
Paris dispatch notes rising fear for Charles de Gaulle as rightist forces push to topple the Fifth Republic. Vacations, Algerian peace talks, Bizerte, and Berlin loom as journalists warn of potential danger to the regime.
Abilene Kansas residents learned in Henry Jameson’s centennial history that 1807 to 1872 saw a wildest town era with gambling halls and a stockade for “wild women” and a booming prostitution trade. The book含 also four chapters on Eisenhower with unpublished material on his early campaigns.
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