Side Swipes and Local Notices From Ottawa and Waynesburg
Ottawa firemen practiced hose handling on Peacan Street to sharpen equipment use. B. F. Bowers plans revival of Franklin County Historical Society with a meeting next Tuesday at Bob's Clothes Shop. Ham radio fans stay connected across the nation with Ottawan Sam Weidner Jr guiding three former Ottawans in Albuquerque Los Angeles and Cedar Rapids. In Waynesburg Pa rainfall on July 29 confirms the town’s long running tradition with 74 of the last 83 Julys rainy.
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Ottawa Fire Department
Pecan Street
Franklin County Historical Society
B. F. Bowers
Bob
Bowers
and Elliott
Albuquerque
N.M
Vertice Wilson
Los Angeles
Walter Cleland Jr
Cedar Rapids
Dallas
Sam Weidner Jr
Elliott
W. A. Elliott
Waynesburg
Pennsylvania
PA law bans objects blocking driver vision from cars
Harrisburg governor signs bill prohibiting placing or hanging any object in a way that obstructs a driver's view from the rear view mirror. The new rule targets items like baby shoes and other obstructions to ensure clear sight lines for drivers.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
David L. Lawrence
Rev Charles P Knight sails for Holy Land with Ottawa visitor
The family of Rev. Charles P Knight learned in a letter that an unexpected Ottawa visitor joined him at the New York dock to see him off on his trip to the Holy Land. Vickie Kelly, daughter of the Ottawa Kellys of Chautauqua New York, traveled by train with friends to New York and met Knight before he sailed on the Maurentania. The Knight party expects him to dock in Southampton England on August 1.
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Charles P. Knight
Ottawa
New York
Holy Land
Vickie Kelley
R. L. Kelleys
Chautauqua
N. Y
Mr. Knight
Maurentania
Southampton
England
Scattered Showers Could Move In Across Kansas
The weather bureau announced scattered showers and thunderstorms may develop tonight and Thursday in eastern Kansas as cool air advances in the northwest and warm readings persist in the east. A brief heavy shower yesterday north of Quenemo along 110 Mile Creek covered a small area and did not reach Pomona.
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Kansas
Weather Bureau
Quenemo
110 Mile Creek
Pomona
Correction: A and W Root Beer ad notes eight beers
A correction states the A and W Root Beer advertisement listed eight beers instead of five. Ady.
County Forecast Warns of Warm Wind and Showers
Fair and warm conditions prevail this afternoon with strong winds and near 90 degree highs. Scattered showers or thunderstorms are possible tonight and Thursday with cooler Thursday highs in the 80s and overnight lows around the low 70s.
Ottawa Employment Picture Brightens Says Wasson
Ottawa area manufacturing has nearly doubled since 1955 while the population grew slowly. Robert F. Wasson of the Kansas State Employment Service notes manufacturing is the largest permanent sector with about 586 workers, and service and retail trade employ 731. The area’s total labor force is around 4,038 with roughly 3,688 employed and 300 to 350 unemployed. The office logged 2,210 new applications in the year ending July 1, 1959, tested 348 people, and placed 1,923, including 161 of 300 student applicants. There are 65 welders on file, but not in Ottawa, and a need for skilled machinists and sewing machine operators. Demand for heavy equipment operators may emerge by September. construction jobs help sustain local businesses and service employment.
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Lois Smith
Ottawa
Robert F. Wasson
Kansas State Employment Service
Wasson
Unem
Anderson
Miami
Richmond Free Fair Plans Announced
The 35th Richmond Free Fair catalog lists exhibit divisions such as dairy and beef cattle swine sheep poultry farm products industrial arts baked foods canned foods flowers antiques and more. The Aug 13 14 15 event features a new tractor pulling contest Friday Aug 14 at 730 pm and a girl baby show Saturday with three age divisions plus a twins division.
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Richmond
Alcohol, Driving And Television Mix Wrong
A BBC safety program tested driving after drinking whisky. Three Britons, two men and a 21-year-old secretary, completed a course faster after alcohol than when sober. Prof. Robert Drew said the test was rushed and drivers may have pushed harder under test conditions.
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Eddy Gilmore
London
BBC
Robert Drew
University College
Geneva Talks Break Off Over Berlin Settlement
Geneva AP report states Russia and the West will end the Big Four foreign ministers conference next Wednesday with or without a Berlin settlement. A U.S. spokesman noted Western ministers will seek discussions with Andrei Gromyko this remaining week to gauge any settlement prospects. The breakoff date was set by Secretary of State Christian Herter and the Soviet foreign minister at a luncheon at Herter's villa.
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Geneva
Russia
Berlin
U.S
Andrei A. Gromykov
Christian A. Herter
Herter
Youth Revived At Lawrence Pool Lifeguard Action
Lawrence Kansas AP report says Richard Schrader ten was revived by lifeguard Allen Young after being pulled unconscious from the Lawrence swimming pool. Police credited Young with saving the boy’s life using mouth to mouth respiration. Captain E H Austin an Air Force ROTC officer at the University of Kansas pulled Schrader from the deep end.
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Lawrence, Kas
Richard Schrader
Lawrence
Allen Young
Ralph Casteel
Young Schrader
E. H. Austin
University of Kansas
Huge Atlas Missile Test Lights Up Atlantic Night
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida AP a block busting Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile streaked 5500 miles over the Atlantic Tuesday night boosting U S hopes for an operational ocean spanning war rocket recovery ships began a search near Ascension Island for a small data capsule that popped from the Atlas nose cone The 18 inch spherical capsule carried instruments to record performance on its 15000 mile per hour flight and to test the heat on reentry from 300 miles altitude It was ejected automatically from the cone as it neared the ocean a parachute eased its descent and a balloon like device inflated so it would float on the water There was no plan to recover the cone.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic
U.S
Ascension Island
Missed The Boat At Macytown Vessel Christening
In Bay City Michigan Lillian McCormick missed the boat on Tuesday as a champagne bottle failed to break on the 4500 ton destroyer Lynde McCormick during its christening. The ship bears the name of her late husband, an admiral, prompting the rescue by a sponsoring party who boarded a tug to follow the ceremony into the harbor.
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Bay City
Mich
Lillian McCormick
Lynde McCormick
Surprise GOP Gains In Hawaii Vote Shocks Democrats
Honolulu AP reports Republicans won three of the top five offices in Hawaii's first state election, gaining control of the State Senate 13-12 while Democrats kept the House 33-18. Governor-elect William F. Quinn, lieutenant governor James K. Kealoha, and Senate winners Hiram L. Fong and Oren E. Long marked notable GOP success. Daniel K. Inouye won the lone House seat amid a strong primary showing by Democrats.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Senate
William F. Quinn
John A. Burns
Congress
Islands
Hiram L. Fong
Oren E. Long
Daniel K. Inouye
Quinn
James K. Kealoha
House of Representatives
Fong
Inouye
McClure Wins Lansing Post Office Contract
Herbert R. McClure of Richmond Kansas has been awarded a 14465 dollar contract to build a new post office in Lansing. The award was reported from Lansing Kansas by RP.
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Lansing, Kas
Herbert R. McClure
Richmond
Kas
Lansing
Eisenhower says Nixon reception shows friendly Soviet feeling
President Eisenhower told reporters Nixon’s reception in the Soviet Union indicates goodwill toward Americans. He said Nixon can discuss with Premier Khrushchev a possible visit but cannot invite him. The remarks imply Nixon may have raised the idea of a U S visit indirectly.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Richard” M. ‘Nixon
Soviet Union
Nixon
Nikita Khrushchev
Nixon Faces Hecklers in Siberia During U S Visit
In Novosibirsk Richard Nixon confronted hecklers as he toured a hydroelectric dam and a science center. He pressed his point about Soviet troops in Poland Hungary and East Germany while defending his talk with Khrushchev on disarmament. Eisenhower praised Nixon's conduct and touched on steel wages foreign aid and labor bills.
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Sverdlovsk
Soviet Union
Richard M. Nixon
Poland
Hungary
East Germany
Novosibirsk
Siberia
Ural Mountains
Nixon
Siberian
U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences
United States
Grigory Belousoy Fedorovic
U.S.S.R
Fedorovic
Germany
Queen Elizabeth Collides With Freighter Off Coney Island
The Queen Elizabeth, the world’s largest passenger liner, and the American Hunter collided about 1.5 miles off Brooklyn’s Coney Island at 3 29 p m. The 83 000-ton liner was 90 minutes from New York en route to Europe. No injuries were reported in the incident.
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New York
Coney Island
Europe
Brooklyn
House approves deep cuts in foreign aid bill
The House passed a 3.1865 billion dollar foreign aid bill amid deep reductions and a force-out provision aimed at withholding information. The measure, sent to the Senate 279 to 136, drew Eisenhower's opposition who called the plan unconstitutional and warned the aid cuts would harm programs.
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House
Eisenhower
Senate
Washington
Congress
Kansas Traffic Toll Reported For 24 Hours
AP dispatch from Topeka notes 1959 road fatalities logged by the state accident records section. For the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. the toll stood at 319 for the year thus far, versus 287 in the comparable period of 1958.
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Tupeka
Kansas
Slow Down Highway Program Moves In Congress
House Ways and Means Committee voted 15 to 19 to slow interstate construction. It rejected a gasoline tax rise and proposed funding via up to one billion dollars in highway revenue bonds and a four year extension beyond 1972. If approved, states would see highway allocations fall from 2.1 billion to about 600 million in 1961 with steep cuts thereafter. The federal government provides 90 percent of interstate funds.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
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