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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1961
Page
7
Don Eyles Jr. of MEMPHIS believed his foreign car was gone after he pushed it over a bluff in a rage. Police recovered the vehicle from the Mississippi River, traced it to him, and will hold the car 30 days before auction. No charges were filed.
AP reports Jefferson County farmer Joe Corpstein burned a wheat referendum ballot in the street at Winchester in protest of a rigged system. National wheat quota support passed 1962 crop, Corpstein condemning the ballot as government manipulation. In New York, George Lisberg wins the right to see his 17 year old wife under court supervision in a precocious elopement case. In Texas, Jimmy Seals survives a 22 hour Gulf swim after being rescued. brothers Rickie and Buddy Hatters also saved. Seals credits life to the fish as he recovers in hospital.
Torben Hansen, 15, found a jam jar on a Gilleleje beach containing a letter from Susan Baldwin, 13, of Harrow, South Ontario. She said she tossed the jar into Lake Erie in June 1960 and Torben replied with a letter.
County forecast notes partly cloudy conditions through Saturday with highs in the low to mid 80s and overnight lows around 60 to 65 degrees.
Carol Stoffer, 11, June graduate of Pomona High School, plans to sell 46 hogs to fund her college education at Kimporia State. Her Clover Leaf 4-H prize pigs won Purina trophies in 1955 1957 1958 1960 and this year. Two of six dogs she showed at the Franklin County Fair earned grand and reserve champion honors. The grand champion was a five month Berkshire cross Berkshire Landrace. She also won this year swine showmanship. Parents are Mr and Mrs Kenneth Stoffer.
President Janio Quadros of Brazil submitted his resignation today, with the palace in Brasilia announcing the move. He was reportedly already leaving Brasilia and was en route to Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo as the announcement was issued by his press secretary.
An Ottawa American Legion will hold a meeting at 7 30 p m Monday at the North American Hotel Commander Merlin Casteel announces the event.
The 96th annual Franklin County fair closes tonight with over 2,200 exhibits released at 4 p.m. Remaining is the final rodeo performance. Results list top placers in 4-H and open class swine and sheep, dairy cattle, and fitting and showing contests with named exhibitors and breeds. Blue ribbon winners with other exhibits are listed on page 10.
Cedar House Inc will open its expanded facilities to the public Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. The addition increases capacity to 90 beds with 10 new rooms and modern amenities including forced air heating air conditioning and built in storage. The expansion was designed by IE Skidmore with Franklin County Construction Co as general contractor. The old dining room kitchen and laundry were converted to provide additional rooms.
Win ton A Winter a local rodeo enthusiast and attorney suffered bruises and a head gash requiring stitches after a horse ran over him during a team event with partner Robert B Anderson a creamery executive and school board member Jim Stockton a 31 year old rodeo performer from Arkansas City was admitted to Ransom Memorial Hospital with a broken leg after a bull dogging accident the incident occurred about 11 after the second rodeo performance ended and Stockton said the leg had been operated on three times and broken twice
West Berlin police reported communist guards fired warning shots at Frohnau to scatter about 30 West Berliners who gathered near the barbed wire barrier in the French sector to observe cross border activity. A guard ordered them back or be shot, and a brief exchange of gunfire followed before authorities led the crowd away for safety. The incident marked another flare in the border tensions of the ongoing crisis.
TOPEKA AP Eugene W. Davis resigns today as director of the Board of Probation and Parole effective Sept 30. Davis, in post since July 1959, has reached retirement age. A veteran public official and Democratic figure he has served as U S district attorney in Kansas and attorney for the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and Seward County attorney twice. He plans travel after retirement and may start a private law practice.
Antibes France AP jewels valued up to 100000 were taken at gunpoint Thursday night from a salesgirl near the fashionable Hotel du Cap d Antibes. The jewels belonged to jeweler Jean Martin who runs a shop at the hotel.
A near total lunar eclipse may be visible tonight with the moon entering Earth's shadow from 6 36 pm to 11 36 pm local time. Peak darkness occurs around 9 08 pm. Binoculars or a telescope will enhance the view though naked eye is possible.
Editorial discusses rising school dropout rates and their social and economic repercussions, urging action from educators, policymakers, and communities to improve retention, support at risk students, and expand programs to keep youths in school.
AP report from Topeka notes Kansas traffic deaths for a 24 hour period ending 9 a.m. Friday. Data references August 16 with figures for 1961 and a comparison to 1960 period.
Franklin County wheat growers joined a national turnout Thursday approving marketing quotas for the 1962 crop and a $2 per bushel price support. The local referendum: 90 for, 18 against, with 265,886 total votes and 211,199 backing the program representing 79.4 percent. The plan includes a 10 percent acreage cut and conservation land use, plus cash or store credits for retired acreage.
Washington AP reports a Scout rocket launched from Wallops Island Virginia at 1 29 pm carrying a 127 pound payload to orbit between 280 and 610 miles The probe aims to study micrometeoroids tiny space dust that could erode or puncture a space vehicle at speeds up to 45 miles per second The mission marks Scout breaks with only one success in three prior attempts The launch is described as the space agency s poor man s racket with a focus on protecting astronauts.
Ned E Roberts 48 of Okeene Oklahoma is the new pastor at Ottawa First Christian Church. He will lead his first service on September 3. The ordained minister and his wife were missionaries in the Belgium Congo for 15 years and have spent 12 years in U S ministry, six in Seattle after returning from Congo in 1954. He studied at the University of Washington and earned bachelor and master divinity degrees from Phillips University Enid. The couple has three children, one in graduate school at Washington University, another entering Phillips Theological Seminary, and a Phillips sophomore daughter. Roberts succeeds Robert Powner at Ottawa church.
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