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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1956
Page
6
The weather bureau’s first tornado hunting airplane, an F51, prepared for action after nine test flights. Jim Cook, 34, from Texas, flies under a $45,000 contract to log 300 daytime hours around thunderstorms to study tornado genesis with $25,000 worth of refined instruments onboard.
Cook describes attempting to break up hail storms with silver iodide crystals over Western Nebraska. He notes the tornado work could be easier if the funnel is clear and isolated, and stresses not wanting to do anything hazardous given the investment in the airplane and instruments.
A wild cat strike by the Philadelphia Transportation Co. disrupted commuting this morning as workers protested the firing of three Transport Workers Union members for refusing dangerous work. The PTC claimed sub surface lines were unaffected, but about one third of surface routes were hit. Union officials could not be reached for comment.
Fletcher Montgomery, 49, Victoria Kas, a college Plumber, died when earth collapsed in a ten foot drainage ditch on the Fort Hays State College campus. Two coworkers Witt and Pfeifer escaped by jumping aside as the ditch gave way.
Hall told the U S Highway 36 Association in Mankato that no bartering occurred for Jewell County or other counties. He rejected L M Weltmer's claim that road officials promised to drop Jewell County projects if the county backed Hall, and affirmed no changes to 1 7 million highway plans through 1958 despite Weltmer's wire recording assertion.
World-Wide News Briefs reports eight bodies recovered after a gas explosion at a Hsinchu coal mine. Nineteen killed and two critically injured. Also notes Peron moves within Panama Canal area and other brief items including a Madrid jewelry heist and a Romanian deputy premier dismissal.
The Air Research and Development Command announced a new crash pusher machine that can move a 400,000-pound crashed bomber off a runway in under 20 minutes. Previously, such clearances took 5 to 15 hours. The device is for emergency use to restore runway operations after a crash.
Secretary of Defense Wilson told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that B52 bomber production will climb to 20 aircraft per month from the current six. He said the United States is not being outstripped in air power by the Soviet Union and noted fiscal year expenditures will reach about 36 billion dollars.
In Cowley County Kansas and Kay County Oklahoma oil lease funds are tied to band leader Sam Kay e. Court records in his federal suit against L C Smitherman and Simon Cohen show Judge Delmas C Hill ordered $47 202 61 to Kaye and $23 601 32 to his manager David Krengel for the period ending December 31. Cohen received $26 460 49 and Smitherman $26 284 42.
Vancouver editor Bruce Larsen persuaded three inmates at Oakalla Prison Farm to spare guard Ernest Loveless after a six hour hostage stand off. Tremblay Frenette and Talbot demanded five more years and cut a camera during the incident. Larsen negotiated Loveless’s release while coordinating with prison officials and the attacked guard's safety.
A Baltimore warehouse suffered a blaze that destroyed two large conditioning units valued near 600 dollars each, damaging about 1,500 and causing an estimated one million dollars in total losses.
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