Divorce Granted After Bell Tactics Complaint
Alyce Hardman, 35, won a divorce from San Jose police sergeant Stanley Hardman after alleging he woke her with a bell for coffee. Judge W. W. Jacka awarded the family home, $1 monthly alimony, and $50 monthly for each of their three children. The sergeant kept a frying pan, saucepan, and coffee pot.
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San Jose
Calif
Stanley Hardman
Alyce Hardman
W. W. Jacka
Sgt. Hardman
Mail Carriers Seek Weather Relief After Severe Conditions
Buffalo AP reports the State Association of Letter Carriers adopted resolutions urging laws to suspend mail delivery during weather emergencies and reduce the daily route from eight to six hours when temperatures exceed 80 or fall below 10.
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Buffalo
N.Y
State Association of Letter Carriers
Block on federal aid to education bill blocks plan
A coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats voted to prevent House consideration of the administration's federal aid to education bill. The move likely ends federal funding for construction of public school facilities this session, though aid to schools overcrowded by federal workers and a student loan program may be saved for later passage.
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Washington
House
Weather County Forecast Clear to Partly Cloudy Warm Through Thursday
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and continued warm conditions through Thursday with highs near 90 to 95 and lows in the mid 60s. Yesterday’s high reached 93 and the low was 64, with record highs and lows noted for the date. Hourly observations through 6 a.m. show continued mild evening and overnight temperatures without major fluctuations.
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Scee Ae
Fire Destroys Best Truck Line Center
A fire destroyed the Best Truck Line building at 321 N Main, with two tractors and office equipment lost. Fire Chief Gilliland said crews contained the blaze in 45 minutes, though walls fell after eight hours on the scene. Nele Isham, owner, blamed a spark from a welding torch on a van-type truck. No serious injuries were reported.
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Harry Gilliland
Nele Isham
Cedar Isham
Tawa
Gilliland
Ottawa
Isham
Ottawa Fire Chief cites string of big city fires
Ottawa crews faced several major blazes in the past week including a Santa Fe derailment connected propane car explosion and a high profile fire at Best Truck Line Inc on North Main. Fire Chief Harry Gilliland notes the truck line blaze as the worst since the old mill fire in the 1940s.
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Ottawa
Santa Fe
Best Truck Line, Inc
North Main
Harry Gilliland
First and Main
Tally Theater
Hope Auto Strike Can Be Averted
Detroit AP Walter Reuther the UAW president took over bargaining with General Motors and expressed hope for a settlement under a one week extension of August 31 deadline GM must concede more money before a 1961 settlement Seaton GM chief negotiator returned stressing a settlement that satisfies employer shareholders and public He did not view the mediation service extension as government intervention Time was insufficient Ford resumed talks with UAW Dennis Ford vice president industrial relations said Ford has no new offer planned.
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Detroit
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors Corp
Louis G. Seaton
Seaton
Federal Mediation Service
Ford Motor Co
UAW
Malcolm Denise
Ford
Oh No Not That Hand Injuries Reported at Hospital
Two young men received hand injuries at Ran som Memorial Hospital with one slicing his palm on a hand sickle and the other catching a finger in a fan while working on a tractor. Dana Leecy 244 years old, son of Mr and Mrs Wally Leecy, was rushed by police escort at 1 p.m. His throwing hand was feared but the injury was not serious. Alvin Lee Klingler 17, son of Mr and Mrs Oliver Klingler, was to report to Kansas City for Camp Pendleton, Calif, arriving at 8 a.m. Thursday. his index finger suffered minor damage and will not affect Marine training.
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Ransom Memorial Hospital
Dana Leecy
Wally Leecy
N. Cedar
Dana
Alvin Lee Klingler
Oliver Klingler
Francis Klink
Alvin Lee
Kansas City
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Marines
Reinforcements Rushed to Stanleyville Amid UN Tension
In Leopoldville the United Nations sent 350 Ethiopian troops to Stanleyville as clashes with Congolese forces escalated. UN chief in Stanleyville Ingram Englund faced arrest threats during talks with Antoine Gizenga, when a Congolese soldier briefly confronted him with a rifle before Ethiopian guards stepped in.
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Leopoldville
Congo
United Nations
Stanleyville
U.N
Ingram Englund
Antoine Gizenga
Gizenga
England
Trucks Are Still Rolling After Ottawa Fire
Nelce Isham and wife had built Best Truck Line in Ottawa from Merle Paul Truck Line gains. They expanded by acquiring Mid Kansas Truck Line, growing to 35 pieces of equipment and 15 staff. A fire destroyed the headquarters on Main Street, but a temporary office opened and trucks continued operating across SE Kansas.
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Mrs
Nelce Isham
Ottawa
Ishams
N. Main
Mid- Kansas
Gardner and Olathe
Best
Nelce
Best Truck Line
Kansas
Missile flies out of control at Cape Canaveral
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP A Minuteman missile exploded in flames during a test launch from an underground silo. Initial reports said no personnel were injured and the launch crew remained in a reinforced blockhouse several hundred feet away. No damage details were provided.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Cape
Air Force
Lesson and features listed in reader pages
Inside content notes a lesson on reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire and various columns. From Our Readers and Dr Mother discuss old wives tales while Berlin politics and after-dinner cigarettes are noted on pages 10 and 4.
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Dr. Mother
Goulart Set as Figurehead President in Brazil Crisis
Brazil's three military ministers agreed to accept Joao Goulart as a figurehead president with a Congress appointed prime minister until 1963. The plan, to be sent to Brasilia, hinges on Congress and political leaders' acceptance to end the crisis sparked by Jânio Quadros's resignation. Goulart would be largely decorative while a prime minister runs the country.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Joao Goulart
Congress
Brasilia
Janio Quadros
Marshal Odylio Denys
Navy
Adm
Silvio Heckel
Air
Brig
Gran Moss
Goulart
Quadros
Paris
New York
Integration Start Quiet In Georgia
Nine Negro pupils entered previously all white Atlanta schools with police keeping watch as the city’s 100 year segregation barrier began to fall. Authorities dispersed spectators at four high schools and one man was ordered to remove a boycott sign. The peaceful opening followed a long campaign by civic leaders and officials, with downtown lunch counters desegregating under prior agreements. Atlanta’s 69,000 white and 46,000 Black pupils reflect the ongoing, uneven desegregation across schools.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
South Carolina
Murphy High School
Rule Against School Closing
A three judge federal court in New Orleans struck down Louisiana's school closing law that allowed districts to vote to abandon public schools facing desegregation orders. The ruling also tied the grant in aid program to the law but did not rule the grants illegal.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Traffic Toll Topeka AP Log Update
Kansas traffic death log reports 24 hours ending 9 am Wednesday with totals for August 3 and 1951 34 237 and a comparable 1960 period 31g across the Topeka area.
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Topeka
Kansas
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