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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1968
Page
6
The Kansas wheat crop for 1968 is forecast at 192.8 million bushels, down 22.5 million from a month earlier. Prolonged drying through April in major wheat counties is cited by the Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service as the cause of the decline.
May 1 briefs note rains improved conditions in some dry areas but arrived too late to save much wheat. The state faces its smallest wheat crop since 1963, with Kansas wheat production only intermittently above 200 million bushels since 1957. Eastern Kansas reports near normal pasture, while western areas show little pasture feed growth.
Wichita based 184th Kansas Air National Guard tactical fighter group with nine F100 bombers joins Army troops in Colorado for air support training. Planes fly from Ft Carson while unit awaits Air Force deployment orders after North Korea seized the USS Pueblo. unit based at McConnell Air Base in Wichita.
Wichita AP reports Hard luck clerk Done ald Brown of the Santa Fe Railway had his wedding ring slip off into newspaper packing for an office machine in Topeka 1956. The same crate carried repair machines to Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles Galveston and other destinations. A Topeka employee found the ring with initials D A B and Brown was notified and mailed the ring back.
Tiiois won the eighth national collegiate sols contest at Kansas State University with 1,254 points. Purdue finished second with 1,244 points, Texas Tech third with 1,227 as 12 teams competed. Mike Risinger of Texas Tech led individuals with 428 points, followed by John Stockton of Purdue and Tommy Calhoun of New Mexico.
Kansas born Democrat Jesse M. Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly, visited Lawrence and Kansas City for legislative conferences. He said he shed 100 pounds from 300 in four months, attributing the loss to “political health” after a cartoon mocked him as a Buddha. He revealed giving up many pleasures to achieve the weight drop.
Faster DETROIT AP reports the U S auto industry kept a brisk pace with weekly output around 206 447 cars, eased from last week’s 211 670 but well above 175 717 a year ago. Calendar 1968 assemblies reached 3 450 120.
In Omaha Hubert H. Humphrey and Robert F. Kennedy spoke to about 1,600 Democrats at a dinner before Kennedy headed to Mitchell South Carolina. Humphrey urged write-in support, while campaign aides denied direct involvement. Kennedy remained on the Nebraska ballot as a major contender alongside McCarthy, with Nixon and Reagan on the Republican side.
The 25th anniversary tribute recalls the May 1943 assault on Attu in the Aleutians, the lone World War II land battle on American soil. It recounts the 19 day struggle, American losses of 500 dead and 1,100 wounded, and the near annihilation of the Japanese force of 2,649 with 2,638 killed. Col Yamazaki and a Ladysmith captain are named among dead.
Washington AP reports Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey gaining delegate strength in Ohio Pennsylvania and Michigan as three of five key Northern states may decide his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Illinois and New Jersey hinges rest on Chicago Mayor Daley and New Jersey Governor Hughes while 541 votes from five states are at stake. Humphrey allies say he already has about 1,100 delegates with many selections pending.
Maine lawmakers allege the Army ignored pricing and favored large firms in the M16 rifle award, which went to Have rington and Hye dramatic Division GM. Maremont Corp. of Saco Maine bid 36 million for 240000 rifles but lost to Worcester and Pontiac firms. The dispute prompts House Armed Services scrutiny as price phase allegedly omitted to speed delivery amid Tet events.
Clovis New Mexico airman Captain Dale E Noyd 34 says he has no regrets aside from prison due to his conscientious objector stance on the Vietnam war His March 8 court martial conviction for disobeying an order to fly a training mission with a student bound for Vietnam was approved by Maj Gen Charles R Bond Jr 12th Air Force commander Noyd says up to a thousand others have acted similarly and will be there as he faces federal prison.
Former state treasurer George Hart filed Friday for the lieutenant governor nomination in Kansas. Politicians doubt he will run, noting his past bid for governor and failed attempt to reclaim a filing fee for state treasurer. Hart has previously said he may seek any state or national office if it is the will of God, including a potential run for the U.S. Senate.
New York City police statisticians report 163,324 arrests in the year and 16,669 admissions as dope addicts. The figures highlight the scale of law enforcement activity and drug treatment among city residents.
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