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Newspaper

Ottawa Herald

Location

Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Aug 25, 1959

Page

8

It's Getting Harder To Balance Accounts

SAM DAWSON reports the strain of rising prices and taxes on the average family. CPI hit a new July high with August likely rising, while factory pay and hours fell due to the steel strike. Tax take rose to a record, pushing hidden taxes higher as personal incomes rose only modestly. Government data show a record production rate, with a projected rebound later in the year.

New York Ovate The Tax Foundation

Fifteen Hurt In BRO Wreck On Baltimore & Ohio Train

In Perrysburg suburb near Toledo fifteen were injured when seven of nine B and O passenger cars derailed. The diners car tilted forty five degrees. two other cars tilted but did not overturn. About 200 passengers aboard were taken to Toledo by bus. Engineer W F Fisher suggested an emergency cord pull after a thumping noise as possible cause.

Toledo, Ohio Baltimore & Ohio Perrysburg Cincinnatian Detroit Cincinnati Toledo W. F. Fisher

Mississippi Gov Race Tightens in Democratic Runoff

Mississippi voters head to polls to pick the 52nd governor in a likely tight Democratic runoff. Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin predicts 50 to 55 of 82 counties, while Ross Barnett targets about 60. The Republican party has no candidate. winner takes office Jan. 19.

Jackson, Miss Mississippi Carroll Gartin Ross Barnett Jackson Republican ‘Party

Yellowstone geysers knocked off schedule by quake

Dean Stone of the Maryville-Alcoa Times reports that the Montana earthquake altered the pace of many geysers in Yellowstone National Park, leaving some eruptions delayed and others occurring out of their usual sequence during the vacation period.

Yellowstone National Park Wyo Old Faithful Yellowstone Montana Dean Stone Maryville-Alcoa, Tenn Times

Park naturalist notes changes in geysers at Yellowstone

Merrill D Beal, park naturalist, reports no change in Old Faithful. Fountain Paint Pot in the lower geyser basin has definitely increased activity and appears to be encroaching on a parking lot area. Steady Geyser, once known for regular 15 foot eruptions, has diminished to four to five feet.

Merrill D. Beal Old Faithful Beal

Eisenhower to Visit Europe on 10 Day Diplomacy Tour

President Eisenhower plans a 10 day European trip beginning Wednesday with a news conference before flying to Bonn London and Paris. He will meet Adenauer Macmillan and de Gaulle and later Khrushchev as part of a bid to ease cold war tensions and boost Western unity.

Washington Eisenhower Europe Andrews Air Force Base Bonn London Paris West Germany Konrad Adenauer Harold Macmillan France Charles de Gaulle Nikita Khrushchev Soviet Union de Gaulle Adenauer Aberdeen Scotland Prince Philip Balmoral Castle

Last Veteran Is Hanging On

Houston AP reports Walter W Williams 116 the Civil War’s last living soldier remained in critical condition after failing to regain strength from pneumonia. His daughter Willie Mae Bowles said he’s not doing well as a second night out from his oxygen tent.

Houston Tex Walter W. Williams Willie Mae Bowles Williams

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