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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1967
Page
12
CHa News Shorts reports most foodsellers in Hong Kong did not join a 24 hour strike call by Communist agitators protesting British rule. Red China supplies about 60 percent of the colony’s food. Only a few shops closed as authorities had suppressed rioting since mid May.
About 2,000 Korea University students clashed with police in Seoul during a march denouncing last Thursday's parliamentary elections as rigged. Tear gas drove protesters back to campus. Seoul National University closed for four days to curb rallies as protests spread to 14 major cities. The Democratic Republicans won 130 of 175 seats while the opposition New Democratic party vows to refuse sworn-in legislators without new elections.
An army communique reports a Bolivian guerrilla group that has killed 30 soldiers includes 17 Cubans, 14 Brazilians, 4 Argentinians and 3 Peruvians among about 100 fighters. After three months of fighting the army has failed to stamp them out and says the rebels are financed by Cuba with help from European and Latin American leftists.
A bus returning from a charity festival plunged down a 90 foot embankment 30 miles southwest of Salamanca. Ten Spaniards died and several others were injured in the accident.
The 1857 stone house built by Samuel S. Tipton near Mineral Point, an early stockman who brought the first purebred Shorthorn cattle to Kansas, remains largely unchanged though updated. The Tipton and Patton homesteads now form a 1530 acre farm owned by Charles E. Young of Garnett.
NE Kansas residents breathed easier after a 24 hour rain break as flooding streams receded. Kansas River at Topeka fell to 16.9 feet, Lecompton at 16.7, Big Blue slight flooding near the Nebraska line, and Cross Creek receding at Rossville after evacuations. In Lawrence, water from fields flooded two blocks of North Second Street near the Turnpike. traffic diverted, cleared by evening.
Area officials report 3 day total rainfall near 3.14 inches with more showers expected. Water standing in wheat fields prompts concerns over crop damage though rotting or pre mature sprouting cannot yet be determined. Pomona Lake sits 414 feet above conservation pool with a 1500 gallon per second discharge. Historic notes show Ottawa’s 1951 flood crest at 42.25 feet after 10 inches in four days.
The Rev. Robert P. Johnson has been elected general presbyter of the Presbytery of New York becoming the first Negro top administrator of the district. Since 1954 he has pastored Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. He will head 118 churches with 44,009 communicants and is regarded as an expert on big city problems. Unofficially he is called the pastor to pastors, succeeding the Rev. Graydon E McClellan who resigned last year to lead a similar post in Washington.
New York AP reports Helen Hall, retiring after 34 years as Henry Street Settlement director, learned of a planned surprise party at the Plaza Hotel. She banned speeches, calling them boring and embarrassing. Hall, in her seventies, has spent nearly half her life serving the Lower East Side. she is only the second director since the settlement was founded by Lillian Wald in 1893.
A truck with 3,700 chickens and a second with 47 head of steer collided on the San Bernardino Freeway in Los Angeles. Animals escaped, roamed the freeway and nearby streets, stampeding through San Gabriel Alhambra and Rosemead. A steer was roped to a baseball field. another tied to a telephone pole. No serious injuries reported and traffic cleared by evening.
The Supreme Court broadened press freedom by extending qualified libel immunity to coverage of prominent figures in newsworthy events. It overturned a $500,000 libel verdict against The Associated Press over reports on Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker during the 1962 University of Mississippi affair, citing lack of malice or prejudice in AP coverage.
A Sedgwick County jury cleared U S Rubber Co Farmland Industries and Consumers Co operatives in a 557000 damage suit filed by Jerry Simon of Hoxie Kan. The 1963 auto crash was linked to a tire cut not a blowout as two experts testified. Simon sought damages for injuries from the collision.
A compact Ottawa Chronicle entry dated June 13, 1967 highlights local events in Ottawa. It notes community activities, meetings, and brief notices reflecting the town’s mid June pace and civic life. Entities include Ottawa and local organizations.
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