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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1959
Page
3
TOPEKA AP reports two families fear rabies after a chipmunk bit their daughter Janice 7 and another child during a California vacation. The animal was given to Hugh Thurber and his wife in Redwood City California where the incident occurred.
Janice Ottawa and cousin Gordon Kelley, son of Leslie D. Kelley, were in Liberal Kansas when the chipmunk they were with became ill and died with its teeth in the cage bars. Police and highway patrol relayed the body to Manhattan state labs for rabies testing eight days after the bite, to determine if the children will need rabies shots.
Washington, AP Kansas wheat farmers say the soil bank rules for 1960 give no incentive to participate. Rep J Floyd Breeding says payments based on five year history punish crop failures, noting western Kansas averaged about 10 dollars per acre in 1959 but would fall to 4 to 7 in 1960. He urged Senate action to amend the appropriation bill.
Negotiations in the Standard Oil refinery strike began July 8 and went into recess Wednesday with no progress reported. Closed sessions with H. A. Grif.
Waves stirred by speeding ships on the St. Lawrence River pound town waterfronts. Mayor Jack Langmuir said several vessels were clocked at double the eight knot speed limit.
Gov. George Docking refused to approve travel expenses for Marion Beatty to attend a Federal Power Commission hearing in Washington. Beatty, a Democrat, said the action was retaliation for statements he made after resigning as KCC chairman in July. KCC Chairman Harry Wiles and Commissioner Richard Byrd will travel. Wiles sought approval for Beatty to go. The FPC hearing concerns whether the ECC can join to ask the Supreme Court to clarify authority over minimum natural gas prices in the Hugoton field.
Eleven new polio cases, ten in Wichita, lift Kansas year total to 108, up from 16 at this time last year. State health officials expect new onsets to peak in another week.
Elmo Mahoney plans to ask the congressional election subcommittee in Washington to preserve the 1938 election ballots in Kansas Sixth Congressional District. Mahoney, a Democrat, was defeated by 283 votes by Republican incumbent Wint election, alleging irregularities. County clerks in Jewell, Saline, and Decatur counties have burned the ballots under a law requiring ballots burned six months after the election unless one of the offices voted on was contested.
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