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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1959
Page
6
A northbound Santa Fe Streamliner was delayed after a freight train derailment near Welda forced a detour from Iola to Garnett via Missouri Pacific. The belated train was due in Ottawa around 2 p.m. today.
In Tallahassee the Leon County grand jury convenes to consider indicting four white men accused of raping a Black coed from Florida A&M University. A Florida Legislature committee kills a death penalty abolition bill for capital crimes including rape. The victim’s classmates raise funds as mass meetings applaud the action.
Plans are being made for the annual JOOF celebration in Pomona, set for July 16 and 17. Holiday Amusement Co. rides and concessions, prizes and dancing are slated each evening after the program, with L. W. Nitcher as chairman, Merle Montague as vice chairman, and committee members Nels Kristenson Leo Wittman and Dick Bethel.
Partly cloudy and cooler this afternoon, generally fair tonight and Thursday. Tonight will be cooler with lows near 50. This afternoon highs reach the upper 60s and Thursday highs in the lower 70s.
Ottawa hosts its first Sixth Grade Convention at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ottawa Junior High School. Principal Lowell Gish explains the event helps sixth graders prepare for high school with tours, music, games, refreshments, and a student moderated panel.
Ottawa hopes to be named as a pilot plant site in a federal study of small nuclear plants. The city may submit a questionnaire on plant size and future needs as officials push to stay in the running. Ottawa also tackles street sweeper bids, planning group participation, and licenses a jeep-based ice cream vendor for 14th Street routes.
John G. Thompson of DePaul University, son of former Ottawa Chamber of Commerce leader, garnered major praise for solving Frobenius conjecture in finite group theory during his PhD work at the University of Chicago. Dr Albert notes applications in communications and defense. Thompson spoke in Washington at the US Chamber convention.
A 16 month old boy, Bruce Cox, died after being struck by a car his father was backing from a garage in Greenwood, Jackson County. The child passed away about three hours later at St Luke's Hospital.
Ottawa saw .16 inches of rain Tuesday night and early today as strong winds and hail failed to materialize. Forecasters expect partly cloudy skies in the eastern portion with lows in the 50s and highs near 70. The five day outlook runs about five degrees below normal.
Washington AP John M Cabot a career foreign service officer is in line to be ambassador to Brazil the job Clare Boothe Luce quit after Senate confirmation. Luce resigned after a clash with Sen Morse who was kicked in the head by a horse. An authoritative source says President Eisenhower will submit Cabot's name soon. Cabot age 57 is currently ambassador to Colombia and has Latin American and global service history.
The Little Rock School Board, led by three segregationists, fired 44 teachers amid integration tensions. Among those dismissed are Central High School officials and principals, including J. W. Matthews, J. O. Powell, Elizabeth Huckaby, and Horace Mann principal L. M. Christophe. Moderates warned the action illegal for lack of a quorum and may challenge it in court. Gov. Faubus criticized for favoritism toward Negro students amid the ongoing school integration dispute.
President Eisenhower joins Sir Winston Churchill on a Tuesday visit to Walter Reed Army Hospital to see the gravely ill John Foster Dulles and Gen. George C. Marshall. Dulles, confined to a wheelchair, said it was good to see Churchill as the former secretary of state thanked him for the visit.
In a mock hearing in the Senate caucus room, three senators and a House member debated the U S national flower. Roses, carnations, corn tassels and marigolds were praised or mocked as lobbyists and gardeners weighed which emblem should symbolize the nation.
NASA awarded General Dynamics Convair Division a 33.4 million dollar contract to design test build and launch eight Vega space rockets by 1961 for lunar and planetary exploration. Vega boosters to loft a two ton space laboratory and carry crews in 300 mile orbits. General Electric won 4.12 million for liquid fueled engines for Vega second stage.
U S delegate Henry Cabot Lodge told a Soviet boycotted U N committee that earth satellites promise vast benefits if nations cooperate. He listed aims from weather data and radio relays to mapping unexposed lands and precise ship navigation, with plans for an orbital telescope and eventual manned spaceflight. Delegates from four nations stayed away.
Ottawa Elks ritual team and spouses head to Wichita for the Kansas Elks association contest. Defending state champions seek repeat, with 17 lodges in Kansas entering and a chance to advance to Chicago for the national convention in July.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev told visiting West German socialist editors in Moscow there would be no trouble in Berlin regardless of talks. He warned a separate peace with East Germany could end Allied access and trigger Soviet troop withdrawals from Hungary and Poland if NATO pulled back. He framed Germany as a war or peace issue and kept focus on a German peace treaty.
Washington AP: Rep Alvin Bentley says the Soviet Union does not want war over Berlin but is prepared to go to the brink. Bentley, who visited Berlin on a congressional study mission, says Allies must show determination to stay in Berlin. He calls West Berlin’s prosperity a major Soviet challenge and notes the current edge favors the West.
About 310 students and faculty are expected for OHS Junior-Senior Banquet at the National Guard Armory Saturday night. The event runs 6:30 p.m. to midnight with a 4 to 5 p.m. decorations viewing for the public. Reverend Charles Knight and Harry Rybolt co-chair the committees. Junior President Fred Gollier will give the welcome, Bob Keelin will respond, and Dean Watkins will offer the invocation. A dance with the Lawrence High School band follows the banquet.
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