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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1962
Page
4
AP reports President Kennedy holds an optimistic view of the economy with rising production sales and profits over the next 18 months and a potential small budget surplus in fiscal 1963. Wall Street shows hedging as traders weigh government policy versus market confidence and corporate profits.
The Alpha Study Club gathered Wednesday afternoon with eight members present led by president Mrs Pauline Jackson. Refreshments followed and the February meeting was scheduled with Mrs Willard Miller. Community members and guests attended various social events including visits to relatives and a new recreation hall opening by Johnson and Frazee in the Fraze building.
Leavenworth AP Lowell Tee Andrews seeks relief from death row as his lawyers file a writ of habeas corpus with the Kansas Supreme Court. Attorneys James R. Ahrens and Richard C. Allen, Washburn University law professors, argue constitutional rights violations in the Wyandotte County killings of his father mother and sister in 1958. He remains on death row at the Kansas Penitentiary since January 20, 1941.
TOPEKA AP A bill to create Old Santa Fe Trail Tracks state historical park won approval today by a House committee. The measure, approved by the State Parks and Memorial Committee, calls for 60000 to be transferred from the Kansas Centennial fund to acquire three tracts in Ford and Gray counties. The State Historical Society would manage the acquisition of sites said to preserve tracks from early Santa Fe Trail travel.
Convicted Springfield man James R. Doc Caffey, accused of storing narcotics in a bank safety deposit box, was found guilty on the narcotics possession charge by a circuit court jury. The outcome follows prior proceedings in the case.
Judge Douglas Greene postponed the final sentencing for a 35 year old Springfield man who had his 20 year prison term previously arranged. sentencing now set for February.
A truck driver, Wayland Clanton, 28, of Dismet Kansas, was blown from his cab by an explosion as nearly 8,000 gallons of gasoline ignited near a Jayhawk Pipeline Co storage terminal. Fire crews from Liberal and Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. confined the blaze with no serious injuries reported.
Inmates and officers at the Suffolk County House of Correction on Deer Island work to round up about 600 pigs that escaped from a destroyed pig farm after a wind-boosted fire. The pigs roamed freely after the Wednesday blaze, with only a few penned before dark.
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