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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1959
Page
4
Don Brown Dairy notes pasture quality declines as plants mature. Cows need supplemental feeding and better night grazing with reliable water. A Kansas State survey shows 70 percent use some formulated feed. decisions hinge on price, dealer, quality, and reputation.
TOPEKA AP Mrs. John J. McGrath a Topeka resident and mother of Robert Mc Grath editor of the Hobbs NM Sun News died Thursday at age 92 Born in Scotland she lived in Kansas for nearly 80 years widow of a Santa Fe Railway employee She leaves two sons and a daughter in Topeka John A Hugh B Mec Grath and Mrs W H Bracy A sister Mrs Margaret Kirkwood lives in Burlingame Kansas Burial will be in Carbondale Kansas
Reports from HDU News detail various local homemaker groups meeting at community centers and homes. Members led lessons titled Use of the Food Dollar, shared projects for 1960, and organized charitable contributions and refreshment hostings. Next meetings planned for July 1, July 9, July 14, and July 16 across multiple households and the church annex.
After days of rain the Weather Bureau issued a forecast for New Haven noting cloudy skies and showers. The brief alert hints at continued unsettled conditions with brief mention of possible precipitation.
Lawrence Kansas AP reports over 1 000 educators from all fields meet in many small study groups to hammer out a teacher training program. They aim to satisfy both professional educators and liberal arts scholars amid long running feuds. They seek a written plan though disagreement remains over how much time future teachers should devote to methods versus broad general education.
PITTSBURGH AP A strike of open hearth workers at the South Side plant of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp ended early today. The strikers voted to end the walkout at a United Steelworkers Local 1272 meeting. They had walked out Sunday night over incentive pay rates. J&L said production would resume with little delay. About 1,800 strikers and 4,200 other employees had been idle.
Washington AP reports rapid Senate approval of a seven billion dollar increase to a peacetime national debt of 295 billion dollars and, within an hour, Treasury plans to borrow five billion dollars in new cash early next month under the raised debt ceiling.
Kansas City AP report notes Jane Hadley, 12, returning from swimming class, revealing she is the sole girl in the class amid boys with crew cuts. She says she participates in hair-carry during life-saving lessons as the only girl.
Secretary of Defense Neil H McElroy announced a special conference of U S military chiefs to discuss the new streamlined command system. He said he would meet Sunday morning after the annual service secretaries conference with about twenty officers from the Pentagon and the field. The gathering follows the seventh annual service secretaries conference at Quantico which opened Thursday night and runs through Saturday with about 1600 civilians and military officials in attendance.
McElroy announced a meeting shifting focus from service secretaries to the defense secretary and Joint Chiefs of Staff to address any problems that arose in the initial six months of operation. The session aims to resolve issues from the first half of implementation.
The Health, Education and Welfare Department announced a grant of $112,204 to aid a 65 bed general hospital for the Labette only medical center at Oswego. Total project cost is $1,372,750. A second grant of $500,000 supports a 54 bed Shawnee Mission hospital in Merriam Kansas, with a total cost of $1,276,836.
The Air Force says its latest Discoverer satellite rocket failed to reach orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base California. The capsule weighed more than 300 pounds prompting speculation about possible scanning gear. No life was aboard the fourth Discoverer.
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