Ottawa Students Rank Nationally in NEDT 1964
Forty six Ottawa Junior High School students placed among the US top ten percent on the 1964 National Education Development Tests. Ninth graders Janet Anderson through Jackie Weber and others earned national honors. tenth graders John Bacon through Jon Ziegler joined the list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
United States
Doloris Doman
QCJHS
Science Research Association
OJHS
Doman
Janet Anderson
Scott Chesbro
Nancy Clark
Lynda Dale
Becky Fisher
Craig French
Mark Holden
Ted Hoppe
Richard Hughes
Bonnie Lewis
Karen McKenzie
Tom Mulcahey
Judy Northway
Roy Pahlman
Kenneth Presley
Becky Reynolds
Joan Ross
Jewel Scott
Clark Underswood
Thomas Wellington
Jane Wollen
Sara Wood
Jon Ziegler
Cold weather forecast with snow and gusty winds
County forecast warns of a cold wave with 20 to 30 mph north winds and intermittent snow tonight. Accumulations reach an inch or less with temperatures dropping to 20 this evening and 10 to 15 by Saturday morning.
IRA raid disrupts Abbeyleix mansion visit of Princess Margaret
Police halted a 20 mile chase after 10 men were arrested near Abbeyleix following a power station explosion that shattered windows at Princess Margaret’s holiday mansion Abbeyleix House. No injuries were reported as seven suspects were later captured deeper in the countryside. The incident appears tied to an IRA campaign to unsettle the Queen’s sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbeylee
Ireland
Princess Margaret
Abbeyleix House
Margaret
Lord Snowdon
Viscountess de Vesci
Irish Republican Army
Elizabeth II
Deliberate Nuclear Rocket Test Aims To Ease Fears
Scientists plan a controlled accident at the Kiwi nuclear engine test site near Las Vegas to gauge hazard from a runaway reactor. The blast would light the desert with a sunbright fireball up to 100 feet across, releasing heat and radioactive debris but not matching a bomb’s yield. Officials say safety measures will limit danger and aim to prove communities can endure reactors nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackass Flats
Nev
Hoover Dam
New Zealand
Percival King
Keith Boyer
Los Alamos
Boyer
King
Thomas Shipman
Health plan move gains support in Ways and Means
A survey shows 15 of 25 Ways and Means members may favor sending the administration health care plan to the House for a vote. Chairman Mills expects action by March with a $1.2 billion network of regional medical complexes and Social Security financing. The committee, now 17 to 8 in favor, plans to begin work by month’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Associated Press
Wilbur D. Mills
Ways and Means
Mills
Dane Ger
Fear Of Gas Explosions Strikes Garnett Evacuation
In Garnett, authorities evacuated 24 homes after repeated gas explosion threats in the Wallace area. A 14 month old, Ray Wallace, died later at KU Medical Center. another child, David, 4, was in critical condition. Investigators tested city gas mains and drilled for gas pockets while officials urged residents to leave and planned restoration once tests concluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welda
George Wallace
Zeke Wigglesworth Garnett
Ray Wallace
University of Kansas Medical Center
Wallace
Garnett
Harry McAfee
Cities Service Gas Co
Bill Gray
Howard Rubin
Gas Service Co
Ottawa
Gas Service
Gray
Tulsa
Lincoln Street
Wallace Home
McAfee
Rubin
Okla
David
KU Medieval Center
Anderson County
Oil Company
Cities Service
Johnson backs wage bills while delaying right to work repeal
President Johnson plans to push minimum wage and unemployment compensation ahead of organized labor’s goal to repeal Taft-Hartley section 14B. He may postpone a repeal until spring while seeking changes favored by unions, including banning situs picketing in construction. He remains opposed to lowering the standard work week to 36 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Johnson
Organized Labor
Congress
Capitol Hill
Cotogress
Reapportionment May Change Legislature But Lobbyists Face Same Tasks
In Kansas the upcoming legislative session will again rely on a Third House of lobbyists. They include businesspeople, attorneys, association officers and former legislators who register with the Secretary of State. Their work spans watching bills, drafting influence, and counting votes, with headquarters in the third-floor rotunda between the House and Senate. The lobbyist ranks likely top two hundred, reflecting broad interests from oil and gas to education, civil rights, and utilities, as bills are studied and proposals advanced or shelved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Third House
House
Senate
Secretary of State
Chambers of Commerce
Statehouse
Change Of Image Sought By City Selma Alabama
SELMA ALA AP A new city administration seeks to erase Selma as a symbol of racial strife In three months mayor Joe Smitherman 35 pursues better Negro leader relations while promising impartial law enforcement and prompt arrests of all troublemakers He replaces sheriff posse policing with city police oversight and details a calmer scene after King speech and voter drive with no disorder reported with Wilson Baker former Reds catcher guiding enforcement as a professional police approach prevails
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
Ala
Joe Smitherman
Smitherman
Martin Luther King Jr
Jim Clark
King
Wilson Baker
Cincinnati Reds
University of Alabama
Baker
South
Also Mentioned on This Page
Appropriations Committee
Labor
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!