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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1960
Page
4
New York AP reports lines that riders use to taunt bus drivers at the curb and on board. The set includes jibes about fares, routes, chewing gum, credit cards, and personal jests aimed at drivers and their authorities.
In McPherson Kansas the bond issue passed by 1,870 to 1,061 to fund a new high school building and additions to several other schools. The measure was approved Tuesday by voters in the AP report.
Norris Poulson the 64 year old mayor of Los Angeles announces he will not seek re election. He cites health as a key reason and plans to return to his first love accounting after his June 1961 term ends. Poulson is known for facing Khrushchev and bringing MLB west through the Memorial Coliseum bid.
Actor Cameron Mitchell and his wife of nearly 20 years divorce in Hollywood. Johanna Mitchell, 43, testified that after a separate maintenance decree was granted on Feb 13, 1959, Mitchell began living with a woman across the street in full view of neighbors and their children.
In Haysville a car hit two boys on bicycles Tuesday night. Victims were Billy Rutherford 13 and Gordon Bergman 14 both of Haysville. The drivers Barbara Goodman 20 and Donald Peckham 24 of Wichita escaped with minor injuries. Rutherford’s body flew 158 feet and Bergman 94 feet as the car skidded 252 feet and overturned.
Los Angeles AP reported actress Bette Davis filed for divorce from husband Gary Merrill in Portland Maine alleging extreme cruelty. The couple wed in 1950 and had multiple reconciliations after earlier disputes.
Reports from Chicago Detroit Atlanta and San Antonio outline racially charged violence and protests. A white truck driver died after a rock attack in Chicago and a Detroit shooting spree wounded five teens and two whites. In Atlanta Martin King warned of voter registration challenges. In San Antonio demonstrations led to closed department store restaurants and arrests. Charleston and New Orleans show desegregation tensions with store policy changes and school attendance debates. Public polling in New Orleans reveals stark white and Negro parental opinions on school integration.
MANHATTAN AP Melvin Hunt 17 of Tribune is new president of the Kansas Future Farmers of America. Hunt, Star Farmer for the southwest Kansas district, is a son of Mr and Mrs Chase Hunt. Also elected were Larry Richardson Altamont vice president Gene Raymond Garnett secretary Roger Aberle Labetha treasurer Darryll Johnson Hoxie reporter and Dallas Kibbe Osage City sentinel. Labette County Community High School Altamont won four of twelve team contests plus a second and third place. Robert Baker Altamont earned two individual honors and placed second in two other contests.
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