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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1959
Page
1
A mixed clipping blends a playful civic notice about spring dog tethering in Ottawa with stray crime brief items from San Carlos Denver and Regina. It includes a cheeky child audience request about not teasing tethered dogs, a police chief warning, a burglary report, and a ship arrival feature noted alongside a local garden center ad.
The finals of the Northeast Kansas League meet start at 7 30 p m at Cook Field Ottawa University with prelims at 3 45 p m. Competing schools are Ottawa Lawrence Leavenworth Highland Park and Atchison. Admission is 75 cents for adults and 50 cents for children.
The 460-foot Grace Lines freighter Santa Regina, first American vessel on the rebuilt St Lawrence Seaway, faced a four hour offshore wait as the new American pilots union negotiated with owners. City officials welcomed it only after the union agreed to seek federal mediation. The dispute centers on employing a union pilot to guide the 15,000-ton ship into Calumet Harbor while Tugboat men back the union and the line says it already has a pilot who navigated the ship through the Great Lakes.
Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight then Saturday with scattered showers or thunderstorms late Saturday evening. Continued warm with highs 85 to 90 this afternoon, 65 low tonight, and around 83 Saturday.
London reports Britain will launch a joint space project with an American satellite. Prime Minister Macmillan and top ministers approved the plan on Friday. The Daily Telegraph cites a cost between 20 and 56 million dollars. Indications say the satellite would be propelled by Britain's Blue Streak missile and contain American instruments inside.
Franklin County treasurer Mrs Roselyn Whitley will release funds from protested 1957 and 1958 taxes after approval by Judge Floyd Coffman. Totals show 1957 taxes 32960.29 and 1958 first half 16970.63 with Ottawa School District 30 receiving 2673.16 and Rantoul Rural High School 2 getting 2561.24. Ottawa city totals 1445.31 split between 1957 and 1950 portions, with distribution based on railroad property in each unit.
Topeka reports a warm day with near eighty nine to ninety degrees in many areas. Forecasters expect cooler conditions and thunderstorms to move into northwestern Kansas tomorrow with humidity rising. Wichita tied the year high, while Goodland saw lower readings and warm overnight lows.
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter will deliver a nationwide radio and television report from Paris on the Western foreign ministers conference. The White House announced the plan for next Thursday and said he will also review the upcoming East West foreign ministers conference set for Geneva on May 1.
Ottawa unit changes as part of the 35th Infantry Division reorganization into a Pentomic division. Headquartered Battery 127th Field Artillery becomes Headquarters and Headquarters Battery 1st Rocket-Howitzer Battalion. The move makes it the only battalion of this type in the division, with Lt Col Chester T. Medaris noting the garrison mission includes general support and atomic fire delivery in a north Iraq crisis context.
BAGHDAD, Iraq AP The firing squad has been ordered for six more rebels against Premier Abdel Karim Kassem's Iraqi regime. The Ottawa Unit commanded by Capt. Donald R Capper will form additional sections to assume responsibility for supply and vehicle maintenance for the entire Battalion. Other units include Battery A 8 inch Howitzer at Paola and Battery BY 762mm Honest John Rocket at Pleasanton. Both weapons have Atomic capabilities. Life prison terms were given to ten others including the garrison's Moslem chaplain. A sergeant was acquitted.
Clare Boothe Luce resigns as Brazil ambassador after a White House meeting with President Eisenhower. In a letter she cites a poisoned climate from public attacks by Sen. Morse and others, while Morse’s opposition to her appointment faced a Senate vote of 79 to 11 in Luce’s favor.
The United States with Britain and France aims to keep a Geneva package for German settlement intact. The plan, approved by Western allies, seeks reunified Germany with security guarantees for central Europe and threatened Berlin. If talks stall at Geneva, Britain may pursue a Berlin-focused path.
Traffic fatalities listed by the State Accident Records Section show 140 deaths to date in 1949. In the latest 24 hours ending at 9 am today the toll fell by 2 compared with the comparable period in 1958 which recorded 142 deaths.
Washington AP Secretary of Defense Neil H McElroy admitted no American intermediate range missiles in Britain were ready to fire. Senator Stuart Symington quoted Gen Nathan Twining saying missiles were ready in January. Symington said on a British base inspection there was nothing ready to go and not meeting operational standards. McElroy later said there was no problem delivering the agreed number but base preparation has taken longer than expected.
In Aldine Texas a riot erupted at a suburban school board meeting after a dispute over a dry treasury. Deputy sheriffs restored order as two board members were cut and three officials hid in a restroom. Teachers had voted twice not to work without pay in the 9000 pupil district.
Ottawa High School honor students from both junior and senior levels will tour Kansas City May 16, visiting Hallmark Cards, Midwest Research Institute, and end with a Cinerama showing. The trip, funded by the Chamber of Commerce, costs 5 dollars per pupil with sponsors welcome.
Workers celebrated May Day with parades as Khrushchev, beaming, accepted the Lenin Peace Prize for 1958 in Red Square. The scene contrasted with separate rallies in capitals around the world amid international tension.
Cuban invaders move toward Panama City as National Guardsmen intercept. Moscow described antiaircraft as massive while East Berlin rallies echo calls for surrender. Panamanian officials report most of Nombre de Dios evacuated. OAS and Papal events shape a tense peace atmosphere with leaders urging settlement.
PITTSBURGH AP John Peterson, 16, bobbled a grounder in a sandlot game, the ball rolling into a curbside sewer. He crawled in headfirst to reach it and got stuck with his head in the sewer. Neighbors tried oil and grease, then police firemen and a Pittsburgh Railways Co crew jacked up the sewer and freed him.
Mrs. Sarah Irene Vaughn, 57, was killed when she stepped in front of a car while crossing U S 36 with her 19 month old granddaughter. The child was under observation at Hiawatha Hospital and apparently uninjured. Public Base sale items listed by Paul Laubach Querie at Kas Adv.
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