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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1968
Page
3
Dr James E Doty president of Baker University will give the Sunday evening baccalaureate sermon at the University of Kansas. KU will hold its 96th annual graduation Monday evening around 7 30 as graduates proceed from Mount Oread to the football stadium.
The Ottawa PTA Council and Ottawa Carnegie Library launch the 1968 Summer Reading Program on Monday June 3 with a Dr. Doolittle Walk With the Animals theme. Students from first through sixth grade enroll, must read 10 books to earn a certificate and 25 to complete, with progress tracked by giant moths on the table. reports are due by Saturday August 10.
Washington AP A nationwide strike against Western Union set for 12:01 a.m. EDT was averted at the last minute by a tentative three year contract. The wage package would raise all non messenger staff by 5 percent now, 5 percent in 1969, and 6 percent in 1970, plus a classification fund and fringe benefits bringing total gains to about 18.5 percent. Messengers gain 6 cents an hour over the period.
Admissions include Joe Lytle Ottawa RFD 2 Mrs. Charles Wahan Baldwin Mrs. Richard McCord 625 N Hickory Friday Clarence Sheldon 940 S Cedar Saturday. Dismissals Melvin Manning Osawatomie LeRoy Rose Quenemo Mrs Gladys Baxter 122 Park Mrs Michael Kutler and daughter 1713 S Main Friday. Emergencies Dean Pound 634 S Maple laceration Friday Roxanne McCurdy 320 E 4th cut eyebrow Eddie Foushee 620 S Cherry hurt right side face Friday released upon posting 50 dollar bond. Doris J McDaniels 34 116% W 3rd resisting arrest reckless driving DUI jailed. Danny Leroy Everson 21 125 Willow drunk in public jailed. Damage to right rear fender bumper of car driven by Lester F Holderman 50 Garnett 117.88 after collision in 300 block S Main Friday involving Robert A Moser 22 619 S Oak no damage to Moser car. Damage estimated 350 and 193 to car and pickup in collision Hickory and Tenth Friday pickup Joseph A Moody 47 608 N Cedar southbound and car Kathy L Burgoon 19 Olathe eastbound Tenth no injuries no citations. Kansas City AP cattle market report with numbers on steers heifers cows feeders prices across categories for slaughter and live cattle hogs sheep.
Ottawa Police arrest records show John L. Rose aged 47 of 513 North Poplar jailed on a drunken in public charge. He faces custody after the alleged incident, with details limited to the citation listed in the blotter.
North Vietnam announced that Le Duc Tho, 57, a Politburo member and veteran revolutionary, departed Hanoi for Paris to join Xuan Thuy as special adviser in Paris peace talks. Tho, known for staunch anti imperialist stance, may speed talks and shift Hanoi bargaining dynamics. He is expert on South Vietnamese affairs and has a long revolutionary record.
Kansas State University President James A. McCain condemned media overreaction to campus unrest. He argued that the actions of a small, destructive minority receive disproportionate publicity, eclipsing the broader student body’s perceived idealism.
Eight paintings including Titian Ecce Homo and Van Dyck Death of Cleopatra were stolen from the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu Romania. Thieves cut six other works from frames. Theft discovered Tuesday.
A sharp earthquake struck hilly eastern Sicily before dawn, registering five on the Mercalli scale. The quake shook Agrigento causing residents to flee into the streets for about four hours, with no reports of injuries or serious damage.
In Yermo California AP report archaeologists return to excavate Calico Mountains rock fragments claimed to be Stone Age tools possibly 120000 years old. Miner Glenn S Gunn, holder of Mojave Desert claims, granted 30 day reprieve but warns of negotiations over his claims and mining interests. Assistant U S Attorney Thomas Coleman says an injunction may protect the dig as federally owned land operates under the Antiquities Act permit.
Norfolk AP Navy has sent two deep submersibles Links Perry and Deep Diver and the Ads Mark 4 diving system to the Azores to probe the ocean floor near the last Scorpion position. The nuclear submarine and 99 crew were missing after expected to reach Norfolk Monday.
A Columbus Negro, Gwylard W. Locke, won $10,000 in a federal court ruling after claiming discrimination blocked his construction job chances. U.S. District Judge Joseph P. Kinneary also ordered Local 189 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry to guarantee him a job.
On July 2 1968 at 730 pm in City Hall Ottawa Kansas the City Planning Commission will hear petition by Robert Coleman to rezone all of Blocks 1 and 2 Colemans Subdivision from District A to District C. Protests may be presented. results go to the City Governing Body for action per law.
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