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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1958
Page
4
Haiti’s army said the country was quiet again after a pocket-sized coup attempt that left at least 14 dead. Duvalier partisans celebrated in streets as the U.S. warned Americans to stay indoors and a 6 p.m. curfew was set. Port au Prince airport remained closed stranding hundreds of tourists.
Armco Steel Corp. announced a 2.75 percent price increase on 12 products, including hot and cold rolled sheets. Sen. Estes Kefauver questioned the move, calling it unjustified and urging restraint to curb inflation. Major firms weighed similar actions as industry prices rise nationwide.
Flint Michigan hosts the 10th world pipe puffing championship this weekend with 75 to 100 entrants from across the United States. Competitors light the special blend and puff until they can no longer continue. the last man puffing wins. Last year's champion is Harold R. Soden of Lake Placid, New York, who lasted 70 minutes and 15 seconds.
Mrs. Bernice Evans, 45, reports being bitten by a dog. Patrolman Ben Way, assigned to investigate, is bitten on the left hand by the same dog.
Pittsburgh AP reports Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, is conducting exploratory cancer experiments in humans at the University of Pittsburgh. He says no cancer treatment exists and studies aim to reveal cell growth behavior. The Sun-Telegraph alleged adult testing for a year and injections into four children, including five year old Mary Anna Paul with Ewings sarcoma.
A 16 year old in South Bend Indiana was hospitalized with a frostbitten hand after it became stuck in a soft drink machine. He feared being mistaken for a thief, opened the top to free the bottle but the mechanism restarted and caught his hand. Firemen dismantled the machine to release him.
In Oak Grove Missouri the rodeo legend Gene Autry’s palomino Robin Hood, famed for 29 tricks, died at 28. Don Sullivan, a former hillbilly radio singer, said Robin Hood had been performing at state fairs recently and had learned tricks from Autry.
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