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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1957
Page
5
A 1957 survey says the average college graduate lands a starting salary of 400 dollars monthly, double the 1947 figure. The column lists quirky facts from preachers to pigments, fortunes, births, and trivia, including goiter in trout from iodine deficiency, and Picasso’s quip about miracles.
Creci-David O son, age 61, planned to move from a trailer to a four room cottage. While away, a burglary occurred stealing clothing groceries and a gun from the trailer. That night the cottage burned down.
Soviet President Klementi Y. Voroshilov arrived for a 12 day state visit to Indonesia amid a 21 gun salute and a crowd of about 100000. A near riot formed outside the presidential palace as demonstrators threatened to mob the visitor.
The United States will bolster the Chinese Nationalist bastion of Formosa with Matador guided missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The U S Embassy said the U S and Nationalist governments agreed on stationing a missile equipped U S Air Force unit on Formosa.
Kansas farmers in Saline and Ellsworth counties collected soil bank payments on land they leased from the government. Investigators called the survey nationwide surprising and noted the program was used as drought relief in some counties. In Kansas government land was leased at Kanapolis Reservoir and Camp Phillips gunnery range and placed in the soil bank. One lease earned 1,475 dollars and 2,479 dollars in payments, another 435 dollars and 648 dollars, and another 395 dollars, more than he paid.
Standard Oil of Indiana unveiled Gold Crown Super Premium at a two day briefing at Whiting refinery. Newsmen toured the 1700 acre site and saw the Ultraformer process with a platinum catalyst transforming low octane naphtha into high octane fuel. The line aims to eliminate corrosion and spark plug fouling while delivering more power for high compression engines.
London reports the Foreign Office ordered Romanian attache Eugene Perianu to depart within a week amid accusations he attempted to recruit spies in the United Kingdom. Perianu has served at the Romanian legation since August 1951.
Kansas City headline reports E. O. Anderson resigns as president and business representative of Teamsters Local 541 citing ill health. He took the post April 5, 1954, reportedly chosen by James R. Hoffa amid federal indictments. Successor is Karl Rogers, with Orville Ring previously indicted for embezzlement and assault but acquitted on some charges.
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