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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1958
Page
5
Paris AP reports Pierre Balmain unveils a season of vertige necklines with a double dip uplift via the gorgerin. Designs feature knee-length skirts, high waistlines, puff sleeves, and two jacket silhouettes. Balmain favors violet touches and bold belts hugging the rib cage.
Air Force Captain Robert M. White, a 34 year old New Yorker, is selected as America's first X15 pilot. He has 4,200 flight hours and 52 combat missions in WWII and Korea. The X15 will be carried by a B52 from Edwards AFB and released over Utah, with White aiming to reach about 100 miles altitude and perhaps 4000 mph.
A 23 year old Jimmie D Morton pleaded guilty to a hit and run after a two day investigation. Police Chief Eugene Flaherty said Morton admitted the accident at South Main and 9th Saturday night. Morton received 20 days in jail and a $100 fine.
Chetopa Kansas reports say floodwater inundated about 10 acres of a 46 acre scout camp after a broken floodgate. Sheriff say houses evacuated, search for missing man abandoned as James Barr Jr. 33 allegedly admitted killing a man named Larry near Chetopa on July 5 1953 and burying him in a quarry east of Baxter Springs. Barr faces Milwaukee trial for an attempted rape.
Pawnee Creek rose to a record eight feet above flood stage flooding Camp Pawnee of the Kanza Council near Larned. Scouts were evacuated to Larned’s municipal auditorium as the creek advanced, cutting off access and delaying activities.
Leland Kretzer of RFD 2 Wellsville was arrested Monday night by Sheriff Jay Brown for obtaining a hotel room in Emporia under false pretenses. He is jailed awaiting Emporia authorities. The warrant charges him with using the room for nine days at a total cost of $71.63.
The FBI added Freder ick Grant Dunn a 53 year old Iowa bank robber to its ten most wanted list and removed Henry Randolph Mitchell the only name on the list since 1950. Mitchell is believed to be 63 if alive and was sought for a January 21 1948 Williston Florida bank robbery. charges were dropped due to fading witness memory. Dunn escaped from Lincoln Kansas jail January 11 and has a long history of safe cracking bank robberies with nitroglycerine for blowing safes. described as dangerous with gray blue eyes and scars including above the left ear and on the nose and lip. He has worked as a shoemaker railroad shopman and salesman.
Art Thompson of South Bend Indiana sues Ashton Oil Co in Johnson County District Court seeking 1250 dollars plus 10000 in punitive damages stating the well in Kay County Oklahoma was never drilled and naming directors C Deets Pickett Lea wood Fred J Ayesh and Robert L Jones as parties to the case and noting the company is bankrupt.
Captain R B James piloted a small private plane to a belly landing at McConnell Air Force Base after the landing gear stuck. The aircraft, which had departed from a nearby private airport, was only slightly damaged and the pilot was uninjured.
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