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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1958
Page
4
Duke a 400 pound royal Bengal tiger seeks mate with Duchess at Baltimore Zoo next door to discuss cage sharing. Zoo director Arthur Watson notes plans hinge on tame behavior and potential pairing.
Dr Milton Eisenhower says his Central American tour could shape new US policy views. He will meet Panama University students, with a four day Panama City stop, then Tegucigalpa, San Jose, Managua, San Juan, San Salvador and Guatemala City. His daughter Rush accompanies him. itinerary delayed by details.
AP report says a Kansas City police officer killed Michael Harris age 20 during a restaurant break in last night. His companion Charles Jackson age 27 was shot in the left arm inside the Powell cafe after being handcuffed. Police Sgt. Clarence Hoffman described the incident. A separate community notice lists an Ice Cream Social and a 4-H Club event at Acorn, four miles west of Princeton.
County forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with steady temperature rise this afternoon tonight and Sunday. Highs in the middle 80s this afternoon and around 90 Sunday, overnight lows 65 to 70. Today’s high 78 at 10 35 am with a 61 low at 4 am. Record highs and lows noted for the date. Hourly readings for the past day are included.
Local historian F H Parks recalls Ott Dam history dating to 1875 to 1912 and notes the dam will be removed to widen the river channel under the railroad bridge for flood control and to improve Forest Park’s appearance. The dam did not supply municipal water.
Atchison Kansas AP reports flood damage may reach 100 million dollars as surveys show ten store buildings destroyed and extensive damage to foundations and floors. Many businesses suffered stock losses beyond structural destruction.
After winds and hail, the Marais des Cygnes fell from a crest of 23.3 feet as river levels receded. A farm wife near Centropolis sighted a twister northeast of Ottawa around 8 p.m. No precipitation persisted overnight, and power lines were mostly restored by Friday morning with about 300 lines still down.
Rome and every major Italian city halted as a 24 hour nationwide transport workers strike shut down bus street car and suburban train services across the country.
Washington AP Robert F Kennedy says the underworld extorts at least a billion dollars yearly from labor management rackets as the Senate Rackets Committee widens its probe into gang infiltration of unions and business. He notes no area breakdown. Chicago mob figures invoke the Fifth Amendment amid questions about extortion and the May 13 Allgauer’s raid.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP A Thor IRBM blasted toward space in a test to recover a tactical nose cone. It was close to an operational Thor for test purposes as the 16th launch in the Air Force IRBM program begun in 1957. The 65 foot rocket rose at 1 36 am EST and burned for 20 minutes before coasting out of view. A nose cone search continued in the Atlantic after a Thursday Thor Able carried a nose cone 6000 miles in space. The Douglas missile is slated to provide the first stage for an Air Force moon shot in August.
A chemist, Gayle E. Back, 23, of Olathe, was severely burned in a chemical explosion while explaining an experiment to a Boy Scout. He sustained burns to the face neck chest and hands at the rear of a home owned by Joe Smith, 13, where Back was assisting with merit badge work.
Thunderstorms swept a broad area from Texas to the middle Atlantic, easing southward after spawning tornadoes in the central Plains and Mississippi Valley. Warm weather persisted from the Rockies to the Pacific, with eastern rainfall lighter yet up to an inch in some sections.
In Los Angeles AP reports Barbara Burns twenty year old daughter of the late comedian Bob Burns was jailed on suspicion of forgery after attempting to pass a $63 fictitious check at a grocery store. She had been free on bail pending appeal of a 90 day sentence for narcotics addiction.
In Atchison several rescues and narrow escapes occurred as flash floods swelled Friday. Noble Edwards, a 52 year old foundry worker, waded eight times to save others while neighbors used an extension cord to pull residents from rising water. A 63 year old man, R C Barker, climbed to a viaduct to ride out the flood. two locals helped save families stranded on tops and in cars as fire crews rescued 38 people. Two others drowned in their homes and a third was missing.
Salina Journal editor and publisher Whitley Austin was honored by the U S Air Force for the newspaper's work in Air Force community relations. The award recognizes his outlet's coverage and support of Air Force personnel and programs.
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus moves to have the U S Supreme Court review an injunction that barred him from interfering with Little Rock Central High School integration. Federal judges previously ordered removal of National Guardsmen, prompting riots and federal troops. The Court of Appeals set August 4 in St Louis for a related hearing on the evolving Little Rock case.
The Senate quickly sent a broad omnibus housing measure to the House in a voice vote, aiming for urban renewal and college loan programs. President Eisenhower may veto if the House adopts the bill as is, while backers say it would aid the elderly, low and middle income families, and slum dwellers.
Washington AP reports summer auto industry layoffs largely drive a spike in unemployment claims. New claims rose 100,900 in the week ending July 5 to 467,200, below the prior year’s 103,600 rise. Unemployment held at another 1958 low, with total jobless claims at 2,551,700 after a 59,200 weekly drop, the 11th straight decline.
About 200 maintenance employees at the University of Kansas staged a one hour sit-down strike over delayed paychecks. Workers including painters electricians carpenters and plumbers returned to work after Raymond Nichols executive secretary explained checks were delayed by a three day state holiday and the end of the state fiscal year. Checks were expected in Lawrence today.
In Ensenada Mexico a large group of about 3000 squatters seized roughly 4500 acres from a White Russian owned colony in the Guadalupe Valley, with no violence. Mexican soldiers moved in to patrol the area as officials label it part of a broader agrarian push by landless peasants.
Traffic fatalities listed by state accident records show 243 for the last 24 hours to date in 1953 and 263 for the same period in 1957. Also note a social item from St Joseph about a chicken dinner in Waverly, Kansas, on Sunday June 18, 1958, serving from 5 p.m. with home made ice cream and games for all.
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