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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1962
Page
7
Ottawa High School Record journalistsfilled the Herald desks for a student day. Margaret Hughes led editorial duties while Roxie Martin planned layouts and Sue McKinley opened mail. Teachers and publishers praised the learning experience and student teamwork.
The 78th birthday of Harry S. Truman will be marked next Tuesday with a luncheon in Kansas City. About 60 foreign students from the University of Kansas and Kansas City area high schools join 200 guests including friends and former administration officials led by Vice President Lyndon Johnson.
Lake Teo near Baldwin Lake sees dirt work start for the Douglas County State Lake with the dam axis staked after a Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Commission work order. Site lies 144 north and 1 east of Baldwin as Scott County State Lake repairs finish and Rooks County Lake work continues on spillway and apron damage from last winter.
Elvis J. Stahr Jr. will resign as Secretary of the Army effective June 30 to become president of Indiana University starting July 1. Kennedy accepted the move with regret. Stahr, a Kentucky native, previously led West Virginia University and held key academic posts before his 1959 61 tenure as Army secretary.
Ottawa University board of trustees approved a record budget of 977000 for 1962 63 at their spring meeting in Myers Library. The current year operating budget stands at 933605 with 23 members present. Centennial Fund totals 225895.75 and bids for the student union are planned to be let early in June. The board also recommended recognizing faculty tenure in five year cycles.
The forecast calls for fair and mild conditions through Thursday. Tonight's low will be in the 40s with daytime highs around 80 on Thursday.
Six jobless men, poorly dressed and almost penniless, arrived by bus from New Orleans on Citizens Council of New Orleans tickets. Twelve others had come earlier in pairs or a large family. Urban League executive director Dr. Edward Lewis called the Council dangerous for exploiting poverty and skepticism rose over the plan. Representatives met the group at a Manhattan bus terminal to arrange shelter and job assistance. A subsequent note mentioned a large cotton prints sale at OK Bargain Store.
Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov at Idlewild Airport pins a medal on a two year old boy during a surprise visit before departing for Washington. Titov tours the airport with his party. Ray mudney and his son Raymond watch as Titov greets the child and pins the medal on his blue leather jacket.
Sterling College of Sterling Kan was granted a college housing loan of 379000 by the Community Facilities Administration. The funds will be used to build a dormitory to house 100 women students with a housemother’s apartment lounge recreation areas storage and laundry facilities.
The Rec ord notes a light, humorous entry about Tany's toot as a playful record or column item. The piece treats the moment with tongue in cheek and keeps the tone informal and local.
Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov will call on President Kennedy Thursday at the White House, accompanied by U.S. astronaut John H. Glenn, the White House announced. The visit underscores ongoing U S Soviet space diplomacy.
The United States exploded its third atmospheric nuclear device in the planned test series near Christmas Island in the Pacific. The Defense Department and Atomic Energy Commission announced a low megaton yield device, dropped from an airplane, heavier than the earlier shots of 100 000 to 500 000 tons of TNT.
AP notes Kansas traffic fatalities logged over 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday show 45 for April and 0 for May, with 152 for the year so far in 1962. The comparable 1961 period counted 70, and April fatalities previously unreported are included in the update.
Margaret Hughes editor of the Ottawa Record placed first in News Division among 597 contestants from 60 newspapers in the 42nd annual William Allen White Newspaper Contest. Tom Chappell earned honorable mention in Sports Writing for a feature on Ottawa High’s basketball star Gary Prager. Ottawa tied for sixth with two winners.
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