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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1956
Page
7
The piece explains Kansas open but closed primary rules and the branding iron requirement that records party membership at the polls. It notes low expected turnout in primaries, with about 25 percent of eligible voters participating versus 61 percent in November, and warns that a small voting cohort can sway nominations.
ST. LOUIS plans an 18 million dollar animal disease laboratory with 25 disease studies. A 10 member committee will inspect top sites next week after narrowing from 68. Delegations from universities chambers of commerce and state groups pressed for Idaho Oregon Washington Missouri Illinois and other states. Don Collins chairs the panel and aims to complete hearings tomorrow with site inspections to follow.
Bids totaling 5 137 666 were received for Ft. Riley projects. Allen M Campbell Co Tyler Texas submitted the apparent low bid of 3 866 074 for six three story masonry block barracks. Construction Industries Salina was low at 1 010 060 for Custer Hill facilities. Star Industries Wichita bid 643 779 on a hangar and other airport facilities.
Kansans must be informed to accept the water resources goal, said Ernest Johnson, Kansas Chamber of Commerce water resources council chairman. He outlined major issues for the next Legislature including water rights adjudication, state role versus federal relations, a state water plan, pollution, and amendments to watershed and irrigation district laws.
Rudolfo Barron is bound over to District Court on a second degree murder charge in the death of Mrs. Fern Crossley age 27. Her body was found at Spearville in June. Judge Keith Wilcox ruled the evidence does not support a first degree murder charge.
Michael Lee Fowler, eight, son of Donald L. and Mrs Fowler, drowned yesterday in theLite Arkansas River. He sank in eight feet of water while wading near the riverbank.
Two escapees from Tarned state mental hospital, Roy V. Miller 44 and Barney Morgan Allen 38, were apprehended in Wichita yesterday after leaving on Tuesday. Miller was nabbed at his family home, Allen arrested downtown Wichita earlier in the day.
The National Safety Council reports 1956 traffic deaths rose through May to 14,720, a 79 percent increase from the previous year’s period. The toll continued rising with a record 3,170 fatalities in May, while Wichita, Kansas, shows a notable decline in deaths for the five months.
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