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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1962
Page
8
Dr Leslie J Nason urges students to adjust study patterns to boost exam results. Identify key test prompts by teachers, practice answering likely questions, and focus on material that will appear on the test rather than chasing all details.
A House Interstate Commerce Committee hearing features garish pinball machines as lawmakers address a proposed federal ban on gambling type devices. Attorney Rufus King explains the difference between amusement and gambling pinball machines, while Atty. Gen. Kennedy notes organized crime profits from them, urging tighter laws.
The Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base near Kansas City will begin an exercise to maintain interceptor pilot skills and test the Air Defense Command. To cut resident phone calls, the Air Force will announce exercises in advance, with one starting today.
Charles F. Fields, 30, a model prisoner for 15 years, escaped for 90 minutes and killed a man and raped a woman. The spree included a $94 robbery and theft of three trucks and a car. He was recaptured without a struggle near the state prison farm by Supt. Lee Henslee and Sheriff Harold Norton after wrecking a pickup.
Former Indonesian premier Sutan Sjahrir and about a dozen leaders from dissolved parties were arrested in Jakarta. Authorities reportedly acted on orders of President Sukarno as tensions rose over West New Guinea. Sjahrir, once premier from 1945 to 1947, had largely stayed out of public life since 1949’s independence milestone.
Both the Masjumi and the Socialist party opposed Sukarno's guided democracy until his ban on August 17 1960. The move removed major political forces as Indonesia shifted to a new regime.
Senate and House Republican leaders blocked National Chairman William E. Miller from drafting a GOP state of the union document. Miller circulated a 4000 word critique of the Kennedy administration and proposed affirmative programs. Dirksen and Halleck shelved the idea, opting to issue broad principles later in the year while continuing their weekly Ev and Charlie news conferences ahead of the first 1962 briefing.
KANSAS CITY AP Donald S. Puckett of St Louis was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of escaping from the Leavenworth Penitentiary honor farm on December 24. He was recaptured hours later at Weston Missouri, across the river from Leavenworth. Puckett, 42, is serving a four year term for transporting stolen goods across a state line.
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