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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1968
Page
6
Ottawa warms as the public pool opens for a second season with a kaleidoscope of swimsuits. Families and teens enjoy diving boards and wading pools while sunbathers soak up rays and note the scene around the L shaped facility.
Ottawa USD 290 board approved a five member teacher crew to build a shed on sleds for athletic equipment at Ottawa High School and oversee summer repairs. Projects include renovating the junior high third floor, repainting rooms, adding blinds and new windows, and new equipment purchases. Architects discussed a new southwest Ottawa elementary school using pre cast walls.
Mid-America Dairymen Inc plans a July 1 consolidation with Producers Creamery Co. of Springfield and Chillicothe Missouri Sanitary Milk Producers and Square Deal Milk Association of St. Louis and its Bennett Creamery unit. The new cooperative will cover Missouri Iowa southern Illinois southeast Nebraska and part of Kansas serving about 14 000 dairy farmers with over three billion pounds of milk annually. Headquarters will be in Kansas City with P D Turner as executive VP of the Kansas City division and five of twenty directors already Mid-America allies.
TEL AVIV AP wartime dispatch reports renewed Israeli air and ground bombardment along the Jordan River on the eve of the war's first anniversary. Artillery, mortars, and tanks fire from both sides. civilians killed and several wounded as Israeli forces strike Arab artillery and positions near the Sea of Galilee.
North Vietnam leader Gen Vo Nguyen Giap told L Humanite that the United States is losing the Vietnam war and seeking peace to escape defeat. Diplomatic officials in Paris saw the interview as a hardline signal aligned with Paris talks, while Le Duc Tho arrived as special counselor to Thuy. Hanoi press and editorials linked Moscow support to press for a phase two in talks, urging Washington to unconditionally halt bombing before any political discussions.
Hurricane Abby moved onto Punta Gorda mainland with gale winds and two foot tides as flood and tornado warnings covered central and southern Florida. Five people were missing and a child died in the flood damage. Forecaster Arnold Sugg predicted weakening as Abby moved northeast across the state.
Partly cloudy tonight with a shift to mostly cloudy conditions Wednesday and a chance of thundershowers mainly on Wednesday. Warm trend continues with tonight’s low in the mid 60s and Wednesday’s high in the upper 80s. Monday high around 90, today’s low near 63, with year ago figures 85 and 58. Record highs and lows for this date noted.
An Ottawa dentist received a bill he thought came from Southwestern Bell for advertising in the Yellow Pages. The $75 charge turned out to be a self-declared solicitation from a Tarzana firm offering to publish his name in a classified directory. Southwestern Bell warns readers to read such cards carefully to avoid paying for noncustomer services.
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