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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1957
Page
6
Citizens in Richmond plan a Teen Town with a 75 attendee meeting at the grade school. A committee including Herbert McClure and Barbara Robertson will draft a constitution for presentation at the August 6 grade school gathering, urged for parental and teen attendance.
City Attorney Douglas Gleason and City Engineer George Ledom will travel to Kansas City tomorrow to meet Army Engineers. The talks address Ottawa real estate to be purchased for flood control right of way. Aims include starting preliminary title work to save time on condemnation steps and to avoid delaying contract lettings for construction later this year.
TOPEKA Robert H Guntert has been named director of the control division of the State Board of Agriculture Guntert acting director since January succeeds the late John Ju Monaghan who died last month Guntert joined the control division in 1947 As director he will supervise administration of laws governing seeds agricultural seeds fertilizers chemicals and livestock remedies
Fair hot and humid this afternoon tonight and Thursday with high in the 90s. Tonight low around the low 70s. Thursday highs expected from 95 to 100 degrees.
Guards seized and hostages freed as inmates riot for hours at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. Captain Everett Ripley reports order restored behind two cellblocks, prisoners calm, and security intact. Rioters demanded mail rights, better meals, and library fund probe. ~380 inmates involved. end followed assurance of inquiry by Attorney General Forrest H. Anderson.
President Eisenhower announced he will submit a new school aid bill to the next session of Congress, promising it will not burden taxpayers. He opposed adding a jury trial am endment to the civil rights bill, urged swift action on foreign aid, and denied using a donor’s contribution to influence his ambassadorial nomination. He defended his stand on school aid as necessary to address classroom shortages while warning against a plan that would imply a welfare of states. He expressed irritation at questions about Maxwell Gluck’s contributions and pledged not to let such matters influence appointments.
The Ottawa Recreation Commission hosts a 5 to 9 30 p m carnival finale at Forest Park. Exhibits of arts crafts cooking and woodwork line the east fence near the swimming pool with bleachers for spectators. A band under Bill Barker and accordion classes provide music as groups perform and demonstrate swimming beginner to advanced levels.
Farmer Edward Groff of Bernville reported two large ice cakes fell from the sky while he stood in a field. A 50 pound piece buried in ground and a second half as large landed at his feet. State police investigated with no answer as airline and weather officials cited unlikely sources.
An estimated one million people have fallen ill in Santiago and central Chile as an influenza epidemic spreads. The Ministry of Health says six patients have died.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced a dime sized atomic battery that could power a wrist watch now with a five year life and 20 microwatts output. Future models may drive portable radios hearing aids and equipment in guided missiles and spacecraft using promethium 147 as the source.
Waller F. George, diplomat and former senator, is gravely ill with heart disease at 79 in Vienna, Georgia. Doctors say he is gradually weakening and taking less nourishment but remain hopeful. Family physician Dr. Martin L. Malloy notes increased oxygen use but praises his spirit and comfort.
Ottawa City announces a 5.16 mill increase in the coming year tax levy to fund flood control bonds. The total levy will be 22.50 mills, 5.16 above this year and only 2.50 higher than 1956. The budget details will appear in The Herald on Monday, Aug. 0.
The weather remains warm and dry with Ottawa highs near 98 and potential scattered showers in western counties. The proposed 1957 budget includes 41,500 for first year flood control bond payments of 770,000 total, raising taxes by 5.18 mills and overall 4.16 mills, with a 13.48 dollar yearly increase for a 3,000 assessed home, plus shifts in general government costs and a new fire truck purchase this year.
Washington senior union leader George Meany ordered Paul Dorfman, a close Hoffa associate, ousted as secretary treasurer of Waste Material Handlers Union No. 20467 in Chicago. Meany ruled the suspension permanent amid findings Dorfman and his wife profit about 160000 dollars yearly from welfare accounts tied to Hoffa and other leaders.
New York reports wholesale food costs measured by Dun and Bradstreet rose to a 25 month high this week. The index reached 6.37 dollars, the highest since 642 in June 1959, up 4.8 percent from a year ago and slightly above last week. The index covers the wholesale cost of one pound of 31 basic items and shows gains in wheat corn barley hams bellies cocoa beans potatoes raisins and hogs while flour rye lard sugar coffee and cottonseed oil fell.
The Kansas State Chamber of Commerce endorses a proposed constitutional amendment to appoint Supreme Court justices by a governor from a commission list. Justices would later run for retention with no opposition, in the 1958 ballot. The chamber also urged Congress to end double taxation of corporate earnings and dividends.
U S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles met Russian delegate Valeriza Zorin in London as Western and Soviet officials push toward a disarmament accord. The five power group has been in talks since March 18 and plans an interim UN report while extending negotiations.
The 92nd Franklin County Fair in Ottawa runs Aug 29 30 31 at the fairgrounds. Martin Dickinson of Williamsburg chairs the fair board. Events include WIBW radio from 11 05 to noon Aug 29 and a TV star stage show Aug 30 headlined by Slim Wilson Sage of the Ozarks with the Tall Timber Boys plus Flash and Whistler and Mack Sanders Decca vocalist Herkimer P Pushbroom and the Roach Boys.
Jon Alterman and Marion Zook surrendered to Franklin County authorities and were transferred to Miami County to answer unlawful flight to escape prosecution and reckless driving charges. In Paola Police Court Judge C H Aterberry fined Alterman 31 dollars plus costs for reckless driving and 25 dollars for unlawful flight, and Zook 25 dollars plus costs for unlawful flight. The unlawful flight stemmed from an escape last month. Alterman had pleaded guilty to reckless driving and was fined. he allegedly urged Zook to return to Ottawa as the car was started and he fled. They later went to Chicago then returned to surrender to Sheriff Jay Brown. Miami County nabbed them on a warrant but dropped it for the police court charges.
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