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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1964
Page
5
Kansas May revenue rose $1.8 million from a year ago as income, cigarette and cereal malt beverage taxes offset declines in motor fuel and inheritance taxes. Fiscal year totals reached $184.4 million with general revenue and sales taxes near budget estimates. Individual income tax led gains, while corporate income tax lagged.
CHICAGO AP A class of 26 first graders at the University of Chicago laboratory school wrote and illustrated five stories for a magazine-size book titled Interesting Stories. After seven months of daily work 150 copies sold, headed for a second printing. The project aimed to expose children to book production with help from neighborhood journalist Mrs. Farrand Ennis and designer Don McCabe.
Anti Australian Papuans on New Hanover Island form a fund to buy President Johnson and have him take over the island 300 miles northeast of New Guinea. The 2,500 strong movement boycotts a $4.48 head tax while awaiting U.S. military aid and ships rumored to arrive June 16. The Johnson Cult's leader Bosmialek, once a U.S. survey helper, claims 600 troops and landing sites for helicopters. The Australian administration deploys police. locals tout past pro American sentiment since World War I.
Wichita Eagle and Beacon reports a news plane carried platelets to Irwin Memorial Hospital at Ft. Riley for a critically ill aplastic anemia patient. Dr Frances Schlitz said the platelets, a blood fraction needed to halt bleeding, arrived within four hours after the call. Two donors had given blood by 10 a.m. with no commercial plane available.
A brief program note from the Junior League of the First M. E. Church Ottawa Kansas for Wednesday evening March 9 1904. Submitted by Mrs Roy Church.
HIAWATHA AP report says Leslie Dean works as the town's only meter maid on an eight hour shift counting meters and walking about ten per day. She enjoys the role, noting friendly townsfolk and the challenge of giving tickets for overtime parking. Born in Oneida, she has long lived in Hiawatha with husband Merle Gillian assisting at a local furniture store. Their son Orville resides in Placerville, California.
Gov. George C. Wallace argues that if Congress passes a civil rights bill it will be repealed in two to four years. He claims the law would require a police state to enforce and attack private property and free enterprise. Wallace notes strong national support from letters and primaries while planning to seek more electoral votes but denies organizing a nationwide repeal movement.
A U S Air Force spokesman said B57 jet bombers and crews are training at Clark Air Base near Manila for all contingencies but have no specific targets. The remarks came after a New York Herald Tribune report claiming a combat B57 force is training in the Philippines to bomb targets in Communist North Vietnam.
The Pathet Lao reportedly captured U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Charles F. Klusmann after he parachuted from his Crusader jet during a photo reconnaissance mission over central Laos. An air search continues as Cmdr. Doyle W. Lynn was rescued, and another American, Eugene Debruin, remains in captivity. Neutralist forces in the Plaine des Jarres area face artillery and mortar fire as they withdraw.
In Cleveland the New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller dodged two autograph books at a hotel lobby. He chose not to sign them, scrawling Rocky on a department store bag instead. Rockefeller is attending the 56th National Governors Conference.
Fulton Missouri AP report quotes former President Truman at Westminster College noting he was not the first president to fire a general. He cites Lincoln firing four generals before finding an able man and recalls dismissing MacArthur in 1951 over Far East policy linked to the Korean War.
TUSCALOOSA Ala AP Segregation barriers at the University of Alabama have been lowered further with three Negro women registered for summer session classes Vivian Malone of Mobile Ruth Benella Lewis of Birmingham and Velma Thompson of Tuscaloosa join the federally ordered admission in June 1963 noting Gov George Wallace’s 1963 schoolhouse stand context.
In Los Angeles AP report Leonard Thierys wife left him after bitter quarrels. He woke his three young children and forced them to shoot him with a pistol. The 7 year old Theresah, 5 year old Gary, and 4 year old Glen refused. Thierry, 32, was taken to General Hospital in critical condition with a bullet in his brain.
Dr. AYe den C. Miller outlined a multi million dollar expansion of the University of Kansas Medical Center over 20 years to a Kansas City planning commission. The plan envisions extending the hospital and campus eastward to the Missouri state line with property acquisition beginning immediately. He described the center as a growing community of 4,000 to 5,000 daily that will likely double in size in the next two decades.
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