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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1962
Page
5
Cleveland AP report says heads of five unions representing about 200,000 on train crews refused the National Mediation Board’s offer to arbitrate the deadlocked fight with railroads over staffing. No strike is planned during the 5 day cooling off period. Kennedy could extend talks with an emergency board.
J E Wolfe of Chicago, chief spokesman for the nation’s railroads, said the railroads will implement labor economies as soon as possible after five railroad unions in Cleveland rejected a government arbitration offer. The actions follow a presidential commission recommendation and require formal termination of federal mediation services.
A Topeka traffic log shows hourly toll figures for a Friday in July with comparisons to the prior year. The AP style note records counts for 1962 and a comparable 1961 period, detailing totals and shifts in traffic volume.
Tanys Toot wonders aloud whether any fishing worms were unearthed in the desert, musing on odds, odds and scraps of bait. The remark carries a light, humorous tone fit for a local column item.
Nobel laureate William Faulkner, famed for Yoknapatawpha County, died in Oxford at about 2 a.m. He was 64, had recently returned from the University of Virginia where he lectured, and his sister Dorothy Oldham was with him. Funeral arrangements were set as his daughter from Charlottesville rushed to attend.
Edward F. Arn former governor of Kansas seeks the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate and will campaign in Franklin County on Tuesday arriving in the morning. He will speak at Colbern's restaurant at noon then campaign in the afternoon and dine with the Wellsville Kiwanis Club. He is expected to spend the night in Ottawa. Arn opposes Sen. James Pearson for the unexpired Schoeppel term.
A 100 kiloton underground H-bomb type blast at Yucca Flat Nevada test site marked the strongest U S underground detonation yet. Public observers were barred and officials announced the test, Project Sedan, the first to be disclosed, with fusion via deuterium and reduced fallout.
AP dispatch reports continued showers across Kansas with southeast districts receiving heavy rainfall. Dexter logged 2.80 inches and Chanute 2.08, Parsons 1.93, Fort Scott 1.67 while the northeast saw lighter showers. Two funnels were sighted southwest of St. Joseph but did not touch ground. more showers are forecast for today and tonight, mainly in the east and southeast, with wider coverage expected by Saturday.
Partly cloudy warm and humid through Saturday with widely scattered evening showers and thunderstorms. High on Saturday in the upper 80s and a low tonight around 70.
Whiting Indiana judge William Obermiller ordered 15 sand whacks for three youths tied to a June 18 beach party. Steve Shorr 18 Peter Welcome 17 and James Hunt 16 faced spankings with hands on their seats along with hair shaved and mandatory beach cleanup Saturdays until Labor Day. Cardona 15 received 30 days jail and a $65 fine for intoxication.
Washington AP reports five thousand men will be drafted in September for the Army. The Defense Department asked Selective Service to provide that many, maintaining a July and August level. The aim is to enroll 16,300 enlisted men in September, with about one third from the draft, while the Navy Marine Corps and Air Force do not plan to draw on the draft in September.
A Vietnamese woman in Saigon launches a Radio Hanoi program aimed at U.S. servicemen, echoing Tokyo Rose with Soviet jazz and communist messages. Authorities say enemy broadcasts have never significantly affected morale.
Ottawa's National Guardsmen of Headquarters and Headquarters Battery 1st Roc ket Howitzer Battalion 127th Artillery part of the 35th Division break camp at Camp Ripley Minnesota and head home Sunday July 8 after Independence Day training and a mid camp review highlighted by an alliance exchange with the British 43rd Wes sex Infantry Division.
Roger Degueldre, 37, condemned for leading the Secret Army Organization killers in Algiers, was executed by firing squad at dawn near Paris. He clutched a French flag, cried Vive la France, and sang the Marseillaise as shots were fired. Reports described a prolonged death agony with multiple attempted coup de grace attempts before a physician arrived.
ALGIERS AP The beleaguered Algerian Nationalist government announced a Moroccan invasion. Moroccan infantrymen occupied the post of Saf-Saf 16 miles inside Algeria and other points were seized. A Moroccan concentration was reported at Colomb Behar Sahara trading hub as shooting flared in Oran and a city curfew was imposed to halt further bloodshed.
Two McIntosh County Agriculture Department employees admitted taking money from Billie Estes to shift cotton allotments from Oklahoma to Texas. Dumas and Stone testified they were paid 1,640.80 dollars by Estes’s agent, and they resigned effective Monday. They said Stone received half the money and provided information they deemed permissible.
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