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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1960
Page
10
New Orleans public schools closed for a holiday season as 4000 teachers and staff faced no December pay due to state cuts in funding amid federal integration orders. Banks and courts tussled over released funds, with payrolls totaling about 1.9 million at stake and December checks possibly delayed amid ongoing legal action.
Kansas legislator Rep Hubert Fatzer urges a law requiring utility rates be based on original cost less depreciation to ensure fair returns and protect consumers from unreasonable charges. He cites a Shawnee district court referee finding in the Southwestern Bell case predicting higher rates including a possible 30 percent increase for Bell Telephone and potential rise for gas water and electric bills statewide.
The body of Robert W. Frazier, a former Kansas City school teacher, was found hanging in his basement in Topeka. Deputy county coroner William Levin ruled death a suicide. Frazier, who had lived in Topeka 12 years, taught in Independence Missouri and was a coach and chemistry teacher in a Kansas City high school before moving to Topeka. He is survived by his widow, daughter Pam Frazier, 16, son Bruce, 3, and his parents of Grain Valley, Missouri.
Kenneth Fugene Cindie, 46, Oklahoma, placed on the FBI ten most wanted list. He is armed and dangerous and linked to a Wichita restaurant robbery on Oct. 12, 1959, stealing 236 dollars with an accomplice arrested later in Amarillo. Cindie has a long record, tattooed “Opal” on his left forearm, and distinctive injuries and features.
A. G. Andrade, 67, oiler for the Santa Fe railroad, died Thursday night about four hours after a box car ran over his body and nearly severed his left arm. The car was being shoved by a switch engine in the Santa Fe yards. Workmen said Andrade slipped and fell in front of the car as he was crossing the tracks.
Washington reports eased fears over Israel's nuclear program after Premier Ben Gurion and Ambassador Harman assured the reactor in the Negev will be used for peaceful scientific purposes. U.S. officials welcomed the pledge though concerns linger about plutonium byproducts and bomb potential.
The notice states the United States will continue to act to ensure that developing atomic energy programs everywhere are devoted exclusively to peaceful purposes. The pledge underscores a commitment to nonmilitary use across nations and international cooperation in peaceful nuclear development.
John McClure, 37, of Reseda, driving a hand controlled car, struck a building where his former nurse Ellen Burn, 42, worked after she quit last September. He rammed her parked car and damaged her desk before police booked him on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Joseph J. Hickey, first Democrat in years to govern Wyoming, will resign to fill the Senate seat left by the late Keith Thomson. Secretary of State Jack Gage will serve the remainder of the governor’s term. Thomson died of a heart attack in Cody, Wyoming, Dec. 9, months after winning the Senate seat. OMahony plans retirement after a long Senate career.
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