Lady Luck Sweet On Bashful Mike Brown
Ottawa University senior Mike Brown has had a whirlwind rise from freshman starter to All Kansas Conference end and NAIA All-America. He has an offer to try out with the San Diego Chargers, with an $8,500 yearly salary if he makes the 36-man squad, plus room, board, and exhibition-game pay. Brown projects as a kicker and end, plans for possible Officers Candidate School if not signed, and notes his college kicking success including 21 straight extra points in 1961.
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Jack Fenton
Mike Brown
Brown
Ottawa University
Horton
Kansas
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
San Diego Chargers
American Football League
San Diego
Chargers
O.U
Dick Peters
Pete
Lady Luck
Herald
Weather COUNTY FORECAST Snow by weekend. cold returns
Increasing cloudiness tonight and Saturday with snow spreading over the area Saturday evening and night. Continued very cold with lows tonight from zero to five below and Saturday highs near ten.
Flu Stricken Schools Closed in Kansas
Flu has hit two southeast Kansas schools with closures and high absenteeism. Galesburg in Neosho County shut temporarily while Labatte County Community High in Altamont reports about 200 of 800 students and some teachers absent. Prescriptions-Raney, CH 2-3092. adv.
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Parsons, Kan
Kansas
Galesburg
Neosho County
Labatte County
Altamount
Ottawan Pancake Feed Benefits Youth Camp
On Monday January 22 the Kiwanis Club hosts its annual pancake feed in Memorial Auditorium basement with serving times 11:00 to 1:30 and 5:30 to 8:00. Pancakes and other foods cost 59 cents per serving. Proceeds support the Mears Park youth camp project. Music by the Glo-Tones and SPEBSQSA quartets accompanies the meal.
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Memorial Auditorium
Kiwanians
Mears Park
Spebsqsa
Southern University Closed Amid Racial Demonstrations
The nation's largest state university for Negroes, Southern University in Baton Rouge, shut down after mass student demonstrations against segregation. President Felton C. Clark said there can be no communication in a mob situation as vandalism disrupted campus life. CORE officials alleged outside influence on the president. two student leaders were later arrested for disturbing the peace. Re admission will be required for returning students. the school enrolls about 4,900 with all faculty and students African American.
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Baton Rouge
Southern University
Southern
Felton C. Clark
Ronnie Moore
Congress of Racial Equality Unit
CORE
Moore
University
January Snowfall Sets Ottawa Record
Ottawa records a historic January snowfall with 23.2 inches to date and about 15 inches on the ground as 10 more inches fell yesterday. City crews clear arterial streets with graders and shovel loaders, pushing snow to curbs and into windrows for nightly removal.
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Kelsey
Ottawa
Robert Lister
Fire sweeps 16 story Madison Ave building under construction
A wind driven fire engulfed a 16 story Madison Avenue skeleton in mid Manhattan trapping dozens of workers on upper floors. More than 1,000 spectators watched as firemen rescued workers using aerial ladders. Two men were injured as construction work resumed after a strike shutdown on the New York Life Insurance project.
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New York
Madison Ave
mid-Manhattan
28Th Sts
Madison
New York Life Insurance Co
Ottawa Board mulls truce on rural school lines
Rural district representatives and Ottawa School Board members met with Sen. Wade Myers to discuss county unit concepts and possible lines. Myers proposed Ottawa halt annexations and seek more realistic boundaries to avoid unification, with the plan pending subcommittee review.
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Ottawa School Board
Wade E. Myers
Emporia
Ottawa
Ottawa Board
Nexation
Franklin County
Myers
Storm Braces Kansas For Fresh Snow In Snow Alley
Kansas, already hit by one of the worst winter storms in years, braces for more snow by tonight or Saturday as a new system approaches from the west. Wichita set a 15 inch daily record and 17 inches on the ground, with the region’s long-standing 12 inch mark also broken. Temperatures plunged below zero except in the southeast, while most the state saw clear to partly cloudy skies after the snow. The Weather Bureau notes the exact snowfall from the upcoming storm is still uncertain.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Wichita
Kansas City
Wichita-Kansas City
Roads Open But Slick Across Kansas After Snowfall
AP reports roads open statewide despite heavy snow with up to 17 inches in Wichita. Highway officials warn many dangerous spots as Northeast highways are snow covered and slick. Southeast division notes 8 to 12 inches with ice, all roads open but slick.
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Topeka
Kansas
Highway Department
Wichita
Department
Ranger 3 Moon Flight Postponed By Atlas Troubles
Cape Canaveral AP United States postpones the Ranger 3 lunar launch postponed for at least a month due to Atlas booster difficulties. The mission aimed for a 66 hour lunar flight relaying TV pictures and deploying an instrument package to study moonquakes and meteors. The delay shifts the next optimum window to about February 20.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
U.S
John H. Glenn Jr
Earth
Atlas
Absenteeism Hits Ottawa Schools Over Weather Flu
More than 500 children were absent from Ottawa schools this morning as officials blamed cold weather and illnesses. Absences rose across all grade schools with Eugene Field at 135 students or 31 percent out. Lincoln 93, Garfield 90, Hawthorne 87, Sacred Heart 50, and about 105 junior high students missing. Some classes faced substitutes due to illnesses.
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Ottawa
Eugene Field
Lincoln
Garfield
Hawthorne School
Sacred Heart
South Africa vows to maintain racial policy despite pressure
Cape Town AP report says President Charles C. Swart declares South Africa will not depart from policy of racial separation despite pressure from United Nations and other sources. He warns of armed defense if needed against external forces and South West Africa, notes government programme shaped by UN crisis and Verwoerd era stance.
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Cape Town
South Africa
United Nations
Charles C. Swart
South West Africa
Swart
Laos Unity Talks End With Forum For National Government
In Geneva the three Laotian princes agreed on a formula for a government of national unity. Prince Souvanna Phouma said great progress and hopes for a united Laotian government by month’s end. Ratification remains with rightist supporters of Prince Boun Oum.
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Geneva
Laos
Souvanna Phouma
Prince Boun Oum
Traffic Toll TOPEKA 1962 death log report
Kansas traffic death log for 24 hours to 9 a.m. Friday January 23 1962 notes 23 deaths, compared with 31 deaths in the same period of 1961. Official AP data counts fatalities across the state.
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Topeka
Kansas
Thanks For Lift weathered snow curbside clash
City Manager Robert P. Weatherford offered a ride to a freezing woman at a Kansas City bus stop. She accused him of harsh enforcement as they reached downtown and she angrily exited the vehicle before he continued to work.
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Kansas City
Robert P. Weatherford
Weatherford
Seven High Schools In County Closed In Snow
Snow forced Franklin County to close seven of its nine high schools today. Ottawa and Rantoul remained open. Closed were Williamsburg Pomona Appanoose Princeton Richmond Lane and Wellsville. A special reading class at Princeton High tomorrow was moved to January 27.
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Snow
Franklin County
Ottawa
Rantoul
Williamsburg
Pomona
Appanoose
Princeton
Richmond
Lane
Wellsville
Osage County
Quenemo
Scranton
Burlingame
Carbondale
Lyndon
Olivet
Melvern
Overbrook
Tany's Toot Shoes Spark Public Grumble Over Comfort
Local shoppers complain that new over shoes fail to reach previous height standards leaving customers with discomfort and fashion concerns. Retailers say imports and materials drive the change and promise adjustments.
Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians and Physicists by Ernest Ikenberry
Dr. Ernest Ikenberry, former Ottawan now Auburn University professor, authored Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians and Physicists published this month by Oxford University Press. He graduated Ottawa High School 1932 and Ottawa University 1936, served in the Navy, taught at LSU, and directs research in applied mathematics and mathematical physics. He is active in several societies and counts Mrs. Ikenberry, a language professor at Auburn, among his family.
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Ernest Ikenberry
Ottawan
Auburn University
Auburn
Ala
Oxford University Press
Ikenberry
Ottawa High School
Ottawa University
O. U. Library
Navy
Louisiana State University
Germany
Italy
Journal of Mathematical Analysis
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Raney
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Hendrik Verwoerd
Verwoerd
National Party
Africa
Highland Park
Leland Barnhart
Liberty School
Ottawa Street
Leland
Albert Barnhart
Ottawa Rfd
Tany
Math Authority
The
Society of Sigma XI
American Mathematical Society
American Physical Society
Auburn Rotary Club
Randoph-Macon College
University of Alabama
University of Paris
University of Poitiers
University of Geneva
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