City band concert and circus come to town
The city band will stage a concert at city park Thursday at 8 PM with a program including Star Spangled Banner God Bless America and more featuring Mary Peckinpaugh on trumpet Also the Al G Kelly Miller Bros Circus comes to Ottawa on Monday with matinee and evening shows opposite the fair grounds across 17th It travels in 65 all steel semi trailers employs 450 people and has 46 cages of wild animals 21 elephants 16 camels 11 zebras and 107 horses with six tents and a 5000 seat main tent largest outfit touring America.
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City Park
Mary Peckenpaugh
Lassus
Church's
Jesus
al G. Kelly Miller
Break Deadlock In Steel Talks
NEW YORK AP negotiators broke a bargaining impasse delaying a steel contract. The current pact expires June 30, risking a major strike. Industry four man team will meet with 12 major companies and local unions to submit progress reports and resume talks through Thursday with 12 separate meetings scheduled.
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New York
Steelworkers
Star Printers Threaten Strike
Kansas City AP Printers at the Kansas City Star threatened to strike today unless a satisfactory settlement is reached at a 2 pm meeting between the union and management. Negotiations on the new contract have been ongoing since the old deal expired last Sept 30. Inter national Typographical Union vice president John Pilch of Indianapolis will attend along with Star Co officials. About 400 union members are employed at the Star. Local No 80 officials have not disclosed terms, but one said the request centers on more union security and fringe benefits rather than wage increases.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Typographical Union No. 80
Kansas City Star Co
John Pilch
Indianapolis
International Typographical Union
The
Star
Beulah Storm Near Mexican Coast With Inland Mexico Move Predicted
Tropical Storm Beulah lingered off the Mexican coast with 65 mph winds near the center. The Weather Bureau warned Beulah was about 200 miles south of Brownsville moving at 4 to 8 mph and expected to move inland into Mexico later today.
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New Orleans
Beulah
Mexican
Mexico
Weather Bureau
Brownsville
Tex
Weather County Forecast Sees Warm Trend This Week
Generally fair and warm skies continue this afternoon tonight and Thursday. Highs near 90s this afternoon with overnight lows around the upper 60s. Thursday will see highs in the middle 90s and continued warm temps.
Harvest rushes as dry heat drives Ottawa wheat harvest
In Ottawa area Franklin County, hot dry weather accelerates early wheat harvest with yields of 20 to 40 bushels per acre and test weight around 60 to 62. Moisture runs 11 to 17 percent while storage on farm offers about $1.95 a bushel. farmers fear rain shortage harming late wheat and protein content.
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Nse
Concen
M. Perenne
Seyey
Ottawa
Franklin County
Grier
Charles Geiger
Long to Return Home as Louisiana Governor Moves
Mrs. Earl K. Long arrived in Galveston with doctors and aides to escort Gov. Long back to Louisiana. Officials disputed whether he would resume governorship upon return, while Lt. Gov. Frazar pledged to support his leadership and aid his return after a hospital stay for a heart strain.
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Gov. Long
Galveston
Tex
Earl K. Long
Louisiana Air National Guard
Louisiana
John Sealy Hospital
Oschsner Foundation Hospital
New Orleans
Long
Ochsner
Jack Gremillion
Gremillion
Lether Frazar
Denly
Frazar
Nixon Eyes Siberia Visit in Soviet Goodwill Tour
The Soviet government agreed to let Vice President Nixon tour several Siberian cities during a forthcoming good will trip to the USSR next month. If confirmed, he would be the highest ranking U.S. official to visit the region in peacetime, with final plans pending from the State Department and Soviet Embassy. The trip centers on opening the American national exhibit in Moscow on July 25 and mirrors a pending visit by Deputy Premier Kozlov.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Siberian
Soviet Union
Nixon
U.S
Henry A. Wallace
Siberia
State Department
Moscow
Frol Kozlov
Traffic Toll Topeka Listing 1959 Fatalities
Kansas traffic fatalities list from the state accident records section reports figures for the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. To date in 1959 show 220 deaths, compared with 207 in the comparable period of 1958.
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Topeka
Kansas
Navy Men Describe Jet Attack Over Korea Waters
Navy air crew testified at Yokosuka that Communist MIG jets raked their P4M Mercator with 15 to 20 bursts and wounded a tail gunner as the patrol plane limped back to base. The attack occurred 45 miles off North Korea, near international waters, and the crew said two Sabre jets later met them but the MIGs vanished.
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Japan
al U.N. Navy
North Korea
Air Force
Aviation Electronics
2.C. Donald
Withington
Far East
Iwakuni
Tokyo
Corder
Mayer
Radarman 1
Floyd W. McClintick
Richfield
Ohio
Asst
Walter S. Robertson
Geneva
Two Guns Not Working Aboard Navy Plane
Washington AP report says two gun units of a Navy patrol plane were dismantled and crew confusion kept the remaining gun from firing in an attack by Communist jets over the Sea of Japan. One crewman was wounded as the Pentagon cited a preliminary Burke order.
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Sea of Japan
Washington
State Department
Eisenhower
Congress
Pentagon
Adm
Arleigh A. Burke
Naval Operations
Navy
Five Children Die In West Side Apartment Blaze
AP dispatch reports a three alarm fire in a four story Chicago building at 2301 2319 W Madison St claiming five young lives. Two children Mary Morris 5 and William Jr 11 months were found in a fourth floor apartment while Sam Yar borough 11 and his brothers John 3 and Lawrence 2 perished on the third floor. The blaze lasted about an hour and all other residents escaped.
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Chicago
Madison St
Mary Morris
William Jr
Sam Yarborough
John
Lawrence
Beck and executives indicted in Taft-Hartley case
A federal grand jury indicted former Teamsters chief Dave Beck and two corporate executives for a 1954 payment to Beck. Roy Fruehauf and Burge Seymour admitted the payment in testimony earlier. They face potential penalties up to a year in prison and $10,000 fines each, with companies fined up to $10,000.
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New York
Teamsters Union
Dave Beck
Beck
Fruehauf and
Seymour
Senate Select Committee
Hickman Named New Art Faculty At Ottawa University
Ronald Dean Hickman of Lawrence will join Ottawa University faculty next fall to teach art, replacing Dana Johnson who resigned to Arkansas City. Hickman holds an MFA from Kansas and studied design, jewelry, silversmithing, ceramics, drawing and painting. He is married with two children and will move to Ottawa late summer, teaching regular sessions plus one night class.
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Ronald Dean Hickman
Lawrence
Ottawa University
Andrew B. Martin
Dana Johnson
Arkansas City
Hickman
University of Kansas
Design
Ottawa
Eisenhower says willing to meet if Geneva progress made
President Eisenhower told reporters he remains open to a heads of government meeting if any reasonable progress is made at Geneva though Geneva talks appear deadlocked. He warned that prospects for a summit have not brightened. The president also rejected bringing steel management and union reps to the White House to break the deadlock, citing inflation risks and potential harm to the economy. He noted the Sea of Japan incident is being studied and said he will use personal influence to push Strauss confirmation as secretary of commerce. He also criticized a wheat bill nearing completion, opposing higher price support.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Geneva
White House
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Steel Workers Union
Strauss
Senate
Lewis L. Strauss
Coyle brothers captured after Massachusetts manhunt
The Coyle brothers, once wanted for a Cape Cod liquor store hold up and linked to the killing of Officer James Kane in Philadelphia, were captured in woods near Route 28 in Middleboro Mass. One brother, William, 22, died at St Luke's Hospital after police bullets struck him. John, 24, was unharmed. They abducted William Sedgwick, 49, who escaped as police closed in. A posse of up to 400 including state troopers and FBI hunted them since Monday morning.
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Middleboro
Mass
Coyle Brothers
Massachusetts
St. Luke’s Hospital
William Coyle
John
Philadelphia
William Sedgwick
Conservation Officers
FBI
Walter Schmidt
Union City
N.J
Victora Canova
Canova House
John Lacasse
New Bedford
Young Coyle
Paul Keating
James F. Kane
Doyles
Sedgwick
Kane
Expect Highway Opening By Fall
Interstate Highway 35 is expected to be open to traffic from Ottawa to the Kansas City area in late summer or early fall, announced by Walter Johnson, Topeka chief engineer of the Kansas State Highway Department. Bids for a maintenance and office building at Ottawa will be opened June 22 in Topeka. the site is on state land near 17th Street and US 59.
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Ottawa
Kansas City
Walter Johnson
Topeka
Kansas State Highway Department
Wellsville
Olathe
Johnson
17Th Street
Fatal Mistake Atop Smokestack Ends Life Of Steeplejack
Paterson New Jersey AP reports Phillip Youkan aged 51 a steeplejack fell 490 feet to his death Tuesday when a rope he used to support himself was accidentally cut with an acetylene torch while dismantling a smokestack.
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Paterson
N.J
Phillip Youkan
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