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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1961
Page
7
School hosts a seven thirty p.m. Back To School Night in the high school auditorium. Parents tour classrooms in a structured hour long visit with six minute periods and four minute bells.The program offers flexible visiting plans for families with multiple children.
Memphis Tenn AP report notes the city’s last mule barn, once the world’s biggest mule market, is being converted to cattle trade as mules dwindle due to farmer shift to tractors. Wade H Tribble leads the barn firm and cites vanishing demand.
Kansas City report says former Governor George Docking will be named by President-elect Kennedy to the Export-Import Bank board with a proposed $20,000 annual director’s pay. Docking, a banker and former Kansas governor, would join the agency aiding U.S. firms financing foreign trade. Docking declined comment.
Continued mostly fair weather with warm days and cool nights through Saturday. Today's high in the 50s, low tonight in the 20s, Saturday high around 50. Yesterday's high 58, low 28. Record highs and lows for this date noted. Hourly temperatures provided for today.
President elect John F Kennedy meets with Secretary of State nominee Dean Rusk in Palm Beach to discuss foreign policy and organizational matters. Rusk says no immediate sharp departures, Senate confirmation likely smooth. Kennedy also announces retainment of Eisenhower appointees Charyk Morris Gudeman with roles in defense commerce and budget.
The 18-year-old daughter of Phil Harris and Alice Faye is engaged to Ted Alcus, 25, of New Orleans. The couple plans a mid-April wedding. Alcus works for an advertising firm in New York City and Alice Faye Harris has studied at the University of Arizona.
To mark Kansas centennial visitors will sample pioneer fare. Hugh Stevens of Wichita announces distributing the winning menu to over 1,000 restaurant members of the Kansas Restaurant Association and Kansas Centennial Commission. The menu features Fort Larned oxtail soup Kansas Centennial fried chicken Kit Carson baked potatoes wagon train gravy Cherokee corn on the cob Lean Bear tossed salad sliced love apples Buffalo Bill biscuits Sand Hill plum jelly Pawnee Creek ice cream General Custer mas cake and Black Kettle coffee.
Nearly 100 native Kansans who gained fame outside the state will be honored at a Founder's Day dinner in Topeka Municipal Auditorium on Saturday January 28. The event is sponsored by Kansas Native Sons and Daughters and the Kansas Centennial Commission with John Cameron Swayze serving as master of ceremonies. Distinguished speakers include Gov. Anderson, Dale Sharp Edward R. Weidlein Patrick Wymore Milburn Stone and Vivian Vance among others. awards will be given for the pioneer factual story and state oratorial contests. The Frankie Masters band will play at the centennial ball following the banquet.
The Saturn missile service tower, a 310 foot 28 story Kaiser Steel built structure, was shown to newsmen at Cape Canaveral. It houses power, heating, air conditioning and lighting with three elevators and five movable platforms to service the 230 foot Saturn rocket for future tests aims at lunar and interplanetary goals.
In Brussels the lower house approved the government's austerity program 115 to 90 amid a 25 day Socialist strike. Premier Gaston Eyskens defends cuts in welfare and higher taxes to offset Congo revenue losses. The Socialist opposition calls for a federated Belgium and regional autonomy actions rose at Namur.
At the annual Carnegie Free Library board meeting the 1960 circulation rose nearly 40 percent from 1950. 1256 books were added to the collection including children's room titles. Purchases favored basic books about various regions. Jaycee Jaynes donated $100 for children's books and 16 memorial volumes were given. Subscriptions total 81 magazines with 79 provided by organizations or individuals. Last year added titles include Hot Rod Electronics World and Modern Maturity. Renovations updated the first floor, a second floor meeting room, a new furnace and a heating system for the children's room. Activities featured story hours by O. U. students and recreation commission staff, a summer reading program, Great Books, and five travelogues last winter. Staff unchanged: Nell Barnaby librarian. C. A. Peacock assistant. T. K. Keelin children's librarian. Shirley Borglund clerical. Ivan Yingling custodian. Don Madison re-elected chairman. Mrs. John Kelsey replaced Maude Adams. other board members: Harold Crawford, Louise Walker, James J. Chandler, B. F. Park, Lyman Corlis.
Ottawa's Chamber of Commerce directors reaffirmed support for relocating K68 west of Ottawa. The Route A plan would shift the road from Driver's corner toward US 75, past the Pomona reservoir, with a spur to Quenemo and the Quenemo-Lyndon segment reverting to county control. Residents of Quenemo Melvern and Lyndon object, fearing loss of state maintenance on the present stretch.
Havana AP report says Fidel Castro will address tonight's rally seen as a move to discipline dissenting labor factions. Observers note the parade aims to counter last month’s anticommunist electrical workers demonstration that led to a union purge.
A 14-year-old ninth grader at Ottawa Junior High School, Lyle Turner, found a wallet with about 25 dollars belonging to Mrs. Q. Rathjen. He returned it during lunch, earning a ride back to school and a reward from the grateful owner.
Laos government forces using four U S planes attacked rebel artillery positions 70 miles north of Vientiane for the third straight day. No damage reports were available. Western intelligence noted a Soviet spotter plane directing rebel fire, raising concerns of Soviet or Chinese arms support.
The first shipment of President Eisenhower's papers is en route to the unfinished Eisenhower Library in Abilene Kansas. Franklin Fleete, retiring administrator of General Services, said 2,000 file drawers of White House papers from eight years are being moved by guarded trailers, along with books and other materials. Papers needed by the President will go to Gettysburg Pennsylvania and be deposited later in the library. It will be some time before researchers can access the collection.
Washington AP reports unemployment jumped by half a million in December to 4.5 million, highest December total since 1940. The Labor Department notes the jobless rate rose to 6.8 percent from 6.3, with another potential rise to 5.5 million by January if trends persist.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Robert F. Kennedy for attorney general after a two hour hearing. Republicans cited his lack of private practice experience while Democrats praised his background as a former Senate Investigations subcommittee counsel. Kennedy testified under oath at age 35 as the nation prepared for John F. Kennedy's administration.
AP notes Kansas traffic death log from the 24 hour period ending 9 am. During 1961 and the comparable 1960 period show a briefing on fatalities with numbers indicating a toll comparison. The terse item emphasizes year over year traffic safety data for Topeka and surrounding areas.
Congolese soldiers mutinied at Camp Hardy where ex Premier Lumumba is jailed, locking up officers amid pay dispute. Rumors spread that Lumumba might be free, sending Leopoldville into frenzied excitement as ferries packed with Europeans and locals. No official confirmation of Lumumba's liberty was issued, and lines to Thysville were cut.
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