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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1958
Page
9
Ottawa Senior High Kayettes run World Clothing Week collecting usable clothing for needy people worldwide. Two 66 member teams competed with the Blue team led by Betty Hardage and the Gold team by Pat Smith. The top collectors earn a party at the rival team’s home tonight.
Mrs Mabel Carter, after 32 years of teaching, plans to retire in June and asked to take her desk home. The Norwood Board of Education met last night and approved the request.
A West Coast storm will bring more winter weather to northwest Kansas with snow and rain. Temperatures fall to the 20s tonight and reach 25 to 35 tomorrow. Winds may reach 20 to 30 mph. Rain or snow is likely across the north central region this afternoon and east tonight, with snow in the far west Saturday. Conditions should improve Sunday with cooler but not severe weather.
Increasing cloudiness and mild to day with rain tonight and Saturday. Not so cool tonight, colder Saturday. Highs in the 50s today, lows tonight around 30s, highs Saturday in the 40s.
The House Appropriations Committee blamed lagging farm income as a major recession cause and criticized the Agriculture Department for not proposing market remedies. It advanced a 1959 agriculture funding bill of 3.216 billion dollars and approved 750 thousand for a Civil Rights Commission amid regional opposition. The panel argued farm income declines and higher middleman take have harmed farmers since 1952.
In Berkeley California two University of California students Val Peterson and Jeff Snows broke the world teeter totter record with 150 hours. They paused only five minutes each hour and endured rain and wind while supporters fed them. They plan immediate rest for a week after the feat surpassing the 148 hour mark set last April by California peers.
Firefighters battled a blaze at Richard Cannady’s garage 823 North Hickory at 1 30 PM. Exploding shotgun shells amid the flames punctuated the response as crews worked to control the fire, which gutted the structure by 1 45 PM.
AP Foreign News Analyst discusses Soviet space program plans after Sputnik II. Speculation covers a possible giant five to six ton Sputnik, space platforms, or an elliptical mission beyond the moon. Western guesses note potential for a staged space cold war with proposals like international space and moon control.
Franklin County teachers and school board prepare a 7 p.m. banquet at Lincoln School with about 275 expected. Dr Don Davis of Emporia State will speak, Pomona Pirates Band will provide music, and candidates for the FCTA scholarship will be guests with parents. The $121 scholarship goes to a senior entering teaching. Doris Gates, Gloria Lederer, Loretta Roeckers and Doyle Roecker are finalists. The winner will be announced after test results are received. Jay Scott notes the test does not bind the winner to Emporia State and funds go to the chosen college upon enrollment.
The Franklin County farming community faces a late spring due to persistent rain and snow. The Herald praises farmers and families while noting Ottawa merchants offer farm supplies and services for a productive year ahead. Pasture moisture and water supplies improve odds for a strong planting season once soils dry.
Judges from Ottawa University declined to award the senior division prizes at Ottawa's second annual Science Fair saying none of the senior exhibits met national exhibit standards. Special prizes were given in other divisions with Bill Bemmels earning the science cruiser prize for rifle bullet trajectory. Junior winners Brenner Smith and Kathleen Reh received 25 and 15 dollar awards. Richard Loper won the junior grand prize for fossils with a 10 volume Popular Books Of Science set. City schools Applanose and Williamsburg received microscopes and dissection sets. Public viewing hours are listed with awards at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Newell A. George Wyandotte County attorney announced anew bid for the Democratic nomination in Kansas 2nd District. He won party nods in 1954 and 1956 but lost to Republican Errett P. Scrivner in general elections both years. George cites choosing Democratic congressmen over longtime Republican incumbents. He served as chief legal counsel for the War Manpower Commission during World War II and led regional legal roles with the Federal Security Agency. He has led local Democratic groups in Wyandotte County and the District of Columbia.
W C Handy, the 84 year old composer of The St Louis Blues and other jazz standards, died today at Sydenham Hospital New York after years of illness. He had suffered a stroke about three years ago and spent most of his time confined to his suburban home.
Carol Sue Bohn, 3, wandered from her home on Sycamore Street at dusk while visiting neighbors. A neighborhood search including police and sheriff's personnel followed, and she was found within half an hour in the 800 block of Sycamore by Marvin Crawford and returned to her parents. The girl said she went off to play, and her parents praised everyone’s quick help.
Thirty six Cuban rebels from New York, charged with conspiracy to violate the Neutrality Act, continued a hunger strike in a Texas jail. Four Ecuadorians also faced charges. Arnoldo G. Barron led the group, saying they bought arms in the United States with $20,000 saved over months and claimed Fidel Castro as a friend, while a Coast Guard cutter rammed their 95 foot vessel off the Texas coast and agents boarded it without resistance.
A New Jersey Power and Light Co. employee Dolly Rush jokes that sacks suit her Easter dress no longer. She quips that sacks look better filled with spuds than with her, reflecting light humor in office chatter at the Washington branch.
Elmer Smith of Ottawa area pleads innocent to one count in County Court. Judge Winton A. Winter sets April 30 for trial and preliminary hearing for remaining five counts. Smith faces charges of breaking into Deitrich Mercantile Store City Cafe in Richmond and a farm home of Fred Taylor west of Ottawa, with arrest in Baldwin earlier this week.
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