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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1961
Page
6
Two hundred thirty five or more attendees visited Jun ior Senior High School for Back To School night. Teachers outlined goals and class work while parents toured altered class periods and enjoyed a 30 minute parent teacher consultation session.
Swedish U N troops guard a train from Luena toward Elisabethville as Baluba tribesmen launch four attacks in Ka tanga Province. The defenders repulse assaults with heavy fire, suffering no Swedish casualties while the train reaches Luena and fortifies around the station. A helicopter ferries in supplies. Twenty nine American missionaries and families reach Ruanda Urundi after detention by pro Lumumba forces in Kivu.
Two armed men snatched a bag from grocer Walker Thornton as he closed his store in Detroit. They ignored an envelope in his other hand containing hundreds in receipts. The bag also held peanut brittle pork chops and some medicine.
Burnice Iverson Geiger, 58, admitted embezzling 2,126,859.10 dollars from the Sheldon National Bank where she was assistant cashier and director. The bank is closed temporarily as FDIC and FBI investigate the shortage, one of Iowa’s largest bank cases, shocking the northwest Iowa town of 4,251. Geiger is in custody and waived preliminary hearing. details of the scheme were not disclosed.
County forecast calls for generally fair and mild conditions through Wednesday. Expect highs this afternoon in the 55 to 60 range with overnight low temperatures around 25 to 30. By Wednesday highs will be in the 50s.
Kansas House minority leader Rep. Dale E. Saffels of Garden City denounces Gov. John Anderson's plan to divert 6 million in state property taxes from mental hospitals to college buildings. He urges united Democratic opposition and warns the move would disrupt the mental health program. Anderson will unveil the budget in a joint session at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Ottawa business leaders met at a Centennial coffee gathering to hear plans for April 29 to May 6. Loren Latimer outlined charity and parade activities, beard growing contests, costumes, and window exhibits to draw thousands, while merchants, Elks, and Indian groups coordinate displays and food for out of town guests.
TOPEKA AP Rep Jerry L Griffith of Derby says he will introduce a bill to abolish capital punishment and replace it with a life sentence without parole. He argues the penalty lacks deterrent value and that executions target those unable to navigate legal systems.
A 20 year old girl entered a store in Oslo and swapped a tattered coat for a new leather jacket then left. She was nabbed by a clerk on returning later in a thin dress attempting to reclaim the old coat.
Tugboat and ferry crews in New York harbor blockade rail traffic into Grand Central Terminal halting all commuter and long distance service. The strike affects 40,000 Harlem and Hudson division riders while New Haven lines run normally. The stoppage, now in its second week, stems from contract deadlock involving 660 crewmen on 11 roads.
TOPEKA AP The Kansas Supreme Court opened its January term Monday with memorials to four former justices who died in recent months. They were William W. Harvey and John S. Dawson former chief justices and Harry K. Allen and William D. Jochems.
Traffic death log from Topeka shows 24 hours ending 9 am with 1 death and 23 overall in 1961, compared to 16 deaths in the 1960 period. Data outlines annual trends in Kansas road fatalities for the period.
Atlanta AP reports a thief took about 2,000 girdles valued at around 50000 from Warner Bros Co in a weekend theft at a suburban Chamblee plant. Police are seeking the suspect.
4 H COUNCIL officers of Franklin County were installed at a meeting last night. Sandra Herring was elected president, Jim Milliken is vice president. Other officers include Anna Channon pianist Patricia Abersold song leader Norma Houston reporter Judy McClure treasurer and Helen Lederer secretary. Miss Houston, Rainbow Club member, received a pen and pencil set from the state 4 H Foundation as second prize for outstanding state news writing.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower will speak from the White House at 7 30 p m CST outlining his two terms in office. The nationwide broadcast will be carried by all major television and radio networks.
A diver reached the Texas Tower personnel quarters but found no response to taps. Navy units and private crews pressed a grim rescue 70 miles southeast of New York as underwater noises sparked hope of survivors among 28 aboard the storm-sunk radar tower. Despite attempts, authorities reported no one alive in the submerged debris. One body recovered, another sighted but lost. captain's decisions cited in evacuation delay.
A City of New Orleans passenger train struck a gasoline truck at Magnolia Mississippi at about 80 mph killing nine people and injuring six. Among the dead were engineer J A Livingston and fireman John L Collins. The truck driver Morris Piggott also died. The explosion spread burning gasoline over nearby workers including four Negro laborers. The train left New Orleans at 7 10 am and was due in Chicago at 11 40 pm.
Miss Clara Kaiser 83 of 324 West Fifth and Mrs Allea Hewitt 81 of 416 South Willow were struck by a car while crossing Main Street yesterday afternoon. Kaiser treated for a bruised right hip. Hewitt for head and leg injuries. Neither was hospitalized. The 4 p.m. accident happened at 5th and Main as they stepped from the west curb. Dorothy S. Jameson 44 of Rural Route 8 admitted turning left off East Fifth, saying the sun blinded her as the women crossed.
Bank robber seized eight miles west of Tonkawa after a brief hold up at the First State Bank of Billings. A mobile phone alert from customer Jack Tapp via Harvey Johns' company truck aided highway patrol capture, with the suspect, his wife Sharon Steinmetz, and their four month old daughter taken into custody in Lamont and Billings. The 1600 dollars were recovered.
A federal grand jury has resumed work after a recess of more than three months in Kansas City. U.S. Attorney Edward L. Scheufler said cases under investigation include counterfeiting income tax fraud and related offenses involving western missions.
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