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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1958
Page
7
A humor item notes a little girl in Ottawa asks about origin while her mother explains she came from Heaven. The piece sits among other AP briefs about grasshoppers depleting frogs in Colorado, three Tabernacle men facing trial for church service disruptions, and a 14 year old boy arrested en route to Juvenile Court after admitting car theft.
Paris reports indicate insurgents in Algeria threaten a break with Premier de Gaulle amid his bid to untangle France’s domestic and foreign crises. A communique by the All-Algeria Public Safety Committee opposes local Algeria elections within a month and urges a housecleaning of French parties. The group, formed after the May 13 revolt in Algiers, seeks one party rule but still pledges support for de Gaulle personally. De Gaulle reportedly favors splitting Parliament into a two chamber system with a weakened National Assembly for metropolitan France and a stronger Senate for the entire federation.
AP reports Wichita reached a season high of 103 as hot weather continued across Kansas. Yesterday highs ranged in the 90s with 88 at Olathe and Concordia the only scores below 90. The Weather Bureau warned of cooler conditions in the northwest and warmer in the northeast with possible scattered thunderstorms tonight. Overnight lows varied from 58 at Goodland to 76 at Pittsburg.
Fair and warm this afternoon with partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Scattered showers tonight bring cooler high 80s and 90s today with Lows 65 to 75. Wednesday’s highs in the 80s.
A Argentine airliner with 22 aboard crashed today off the coast of Brazil after taking off from Rio de Janeiro at 6 54 am for Buenos Aires. The flight had arrived earlier from Europe. Kansas wheat harvest expected to surge by Sunday with harvest machines in short supply. The Kansas State Employment Service reported immediate needs in several counties Caldwell 35 Wellington 39 Anthony 25 Kiowa 50 Liberal 25 for 7 500 acres.
Chicago banker David M. Kennedy, president of Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., told the SMU Southwest Graduate School of Banking that the economy does not justify a tax cut or further government action. He warned inflation remains the most serious problem.
State Accident Records Section reports traffic fatalities in the last 24 hours as 1. To date in 1958 the total is 186. For the same period in 1957 the total was 225.
Washington AP report notes Agriculture Department forecasts put this year’s wheat crop at about 1.271 billion bushels, a 33 percent rise from last year, with winter wheat at 1.069 billion and spring wheat at 202 million. The mid afternoon release signals a potential crop peak since 1952 and may pressure Congress on price supports and farm programs.
Washington AP reports a roaring dispute over a Senate labor bill aimed at union corruption but derided as ineffective by Secretary of Labor Mitchell. Senators Kennedy Ives Knowland McNamara Mundt critique provisions on secret ballots and bill timetables, with leaders pledging further analysis ahead of a June 10 floor plan.
President Eisenhower proposed technical talks with Khrushchev about policing a future nuclear test ban to begin July 1 in Geneva. The plan includes experts from the United States United Kingdom France and possibly other nations and suggests neutrals may join later. The aim is to explore disarmament steps without committing to final decisions.
Secretary Dulles outlined U S plans for international inspection posts to police a proposed test ban in Communist China and elsewhere. He cited expert advice that a global system must cover China Australia and the Sahara desert. He named physicists Lawrence Fisk Bacher to represent the United States at Geneva talks.
A Kansas City motorist reports being robbed of $7 after picking up two hitchhikers near the junction of Highways 24 and 40, four miles east of Tonganoxie. Oscar Brown, 47, said one man pulled a knife, forced him to strip, and tied him with a belt before he escaped and injured his arm in a ditch.
A De? airliner with 48 passengers and five crew dove to avoid a likely collision with an unidentified military plane. Four passengers and two flight attendants were treated at a doctor’s office after landing at Municipal Airport. no serious injuries reported. Captain Don Regan of Chicago said the other craft, resembling a C47 trainer, came from the left near Staunton, Illinois, about 35 miles north east of St. Louis. Civil Aeronautics Administration investigated. Staunton airfield serves MATS training. Scott Air Force Base declined comment.
Hundreds of job seekers crowded Milwaukee state employment offices after American Motors Corp announced plans to hire 1,200 more workers. The company asked screening for 450 at Kenosha and 750 at Milwaukee Rambler plants to end overtime on Saturdays and raise production from 750 to 835 cars daily, per VP E W Bernitt in Detroit.
Lt. Gen. S. E. Anderson says three lunar probes will be launched this year from Milwaukee, with August, September, and October targets. Probes will crash on the moon and use modified Thor missiles for a 278000 mile flight in about two and a half days, potentially producing elliptical orbits around earth and moon.
New York AP three monkeys joined a picket outside City Hall while police banned two baby elephants as five hundred Bronx Zoo Hayden Planetarium and museum staff protested the city salary plan. Signs read Stop monkeying with our pay as the demo aimed at the city budget director.
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