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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1959
Page
4
A Columbia construction firm reported a large paint brush stolen Wednesday night and a gallon of paint taken Thursday night with no cleanup help on Friday. Officials secured turpentine as part of the incident.
Ernest A. Burns of Pomona retires from a 41 year rural mail career on RFD 2. He started September 17, 1917, served in WWI with the 89th Division, returned to mail duties, and earned an honorary certificate from Postmaster General Summerfield. The route grew from 24 miles to 65 miles with gravel roads and Burns never had an accident across the era. He and his wife have four children in Kansas, Colorado, Washington, and Ontario, with one son in Ottawa and plans for college.
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter departed Andrews Air Force Base for Geneva to seek a reasonable Soviet German Berlin settlement. He cautioned against high expectations, urging infinite patience, and noted the trip marks the first use of the new Boeing 707 variant. He planned a stop in Ottawa to meet Prime Minister Diefenbaker and Foreign Secretary Green before meetings with French and British colleagues.
James R. Hoffa is to appear before the Senate rackets probes Monday to answer charges that his Teamsters Union cheated members and conducted a secret strike-breaking mission. Probe chairman John R. Mc Clellan said Hoffa made deals with favored employers and reduced rank and file take home pay, while Hoffa charged the committee is antiunion. Wally Butler testified Hoffa’s teamsters helped against a Detroit bottling-plant walkout.
Isolated thundershowers expected in the late afternoons and evenings with otherwise clear to partly cloudy skies. No significant temperature changes through Sunday, with highs 85 to 90 and overnight lows around the 60s.
New York AP reports the steel industry sees no path to a contract before the midnight Tuesday strike deadline. R Conrad Cooper says plants will shut down and no further talks are scheduled. union president David J McDonald vows no concession. Industry seeks more management prerogatives while unions resist wage or benefit costs. Open hearths and blast furnaces will be cooled starting Sunday as firms prep for a possible walkout.
Former U S Senator William A Blakley is in critical condition after a massive heart attack Friday Dr R B McBride described his status as pretty critical and said the attack resembled those that struck President Eisenhower and Senator Lyndon B Johnson in the past
In Lawrence Kansas an inquest is planned for Helen Kenneth McKenzie 52 production manager at Tecumseh DuPont plant near Topeka. He died in a Lawrence hospital after suffering deep neck cuts from a power saw and a wood chisel driven through his neck in what relatives believe was a basement shop accident around 6 am.
The Agriculture Department forecasts this year’s corn crop at 4 1224 450 000 bushels and wheat at 1 155 182 000 bushels. The corn figure exceeds last year’s record of 3 799 844 000 by 424 606 000 and surpasses the ten year average of 3 251 064 000. Wheat is 26 464 000 bushels below last month’s forecast and below last year’s 1 462 218 000 harvest. Both crops may widen surpluses from prior large yields.
The government will seek another trial for Richard A. Mack and Thurman A. White after a hung jury ended their 14 week trial over rigging a Miami television channel award. A decision by Federal Judge Burnita S. Matthews will determine whether retrial moves forward.
Mayors from eight towns join a bulldozer ceremony at the Pomona reservoir site for the Kansas Marais des Cygnes Osage flood control project. Col L E Laurion notes the dam will be 7750 feet long 85 feet high and capable of impounding 4000 acres, with potential flood protection up to 8100 acres during storms. Officials from Pomona Quenemo Burlingame Ottawa Osage City Scranton and Ly don attend amid a community gathering led by publisher Jack Miller and master of ceremonies Lamar Phillips.
Carl Ray Barker 31, banker at Bank of Eclectic, shot and killed bandit James Franklin Bray after Bray and accomplice kidnapped Officer Maxie Taunton and robbed the bank of 250 dollars in coins. Barker beat Bray with the robber’s pistol, splashed scalding water on a wounded man, and used a shotgun to fire on Bray at close range. Eclectic, Alabama, police say Bray died. accomplice William D Hayward is hospitalized. Barker and his family were held captive until the shootout.
Armour & Co halted all Chicago livestock slaughtering and began closing its vast stockyards plant, affecting about 2,000 of its 3,000 Chicago area employees. Wool, soap, fats and oils operations and distribution will continue. The move starts a plan to discontinue slaughtering at six of 31 plants this summer, eliminating an estimated 5,000 jobs. By August slaughtering will end at East St. Louis Denver Tifton Ga West Fargo N C and Columbus Ohio. Friday’s shutdown ends slaughter operations in Chicago by the city’s three big meat packers.
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