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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1967
Page
7
Ottawa University unveils a diverse concert lecture series starting October with tickets selling to the community. Notable figures include Allen Tate and Shmuel Ashkenasi, plus Janet Baker and Wayne Koons, with season tickets at $5 and individual performances at $1.50. The series aims to boost local support for future productions.
Cairo reports President Nasser has secured a promise from Yemen's President al Sallal to release on bail two Americans, Stephen Liap of Grand Forks and Harold Hartman of Baltimore, who are accused of firing bazooka shells at an ammunition dump in Taizz. Al Ahram notes trial preparations will proceed.
The International Press Institute and its South Korean chapter seek help to locate Lee Kleyang Bonn correspondent for Chosun Ilbo. Lee, 36, has not been heard from since April 14 while in Prague to cover the world women’s basketball championships.
Washington AP reports conductors and brake men in the independent Order of Railway Conductors and Brake Men authorized about 20,000 members to strike on June 2. The potential walkout would affect roughly 980 percent of the nation’s major railroads, risking a near paralysis of the industry during congressional hearings on Johnson efforts to avert such action.
Sir Francis Chichester reports the slowest week of his round the world solo voyage. The International Wool Secretariat said he radioed he sailed 509 miles versus 1,244 the prior week. The 65 year old yachtsman aims for Plymouth by May 20 in his 53 foot ketch Gipsy Moth IV, near the Azores about 2,000 miles from his destination.
Australian actor Rod Taylor faces eviction over his pet duck named Duck living at his Chelsea home in Orvington Square. He returned from filming at Elstree Studios to a landlord’s demand to remove the bird, sparking anger.
In Hannibal Missouri volunteers National Guardsmen and families pressed a six day search for Craig Dowell 14 Joey Hoag 13 and Billy Hoag 11 missing after being seen near Lover's Leap and Murphy's Cave. A geophysical technician from St Louis University joined the effort to locate a shovel and flashlights while women volunteers crawled through cave passages in the rugged bluff overlooking the Mississippi River.
The Book of the Month Club paid 325000 for the right to distribute the memoirs of Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, signaling the highest sum a book club has paid for such rights. Axel Rosin said the prior record was 250000 for William Manchester's Death of a President. Miss Alliluyeva's memoirs will be published October 16 by Harper and Row.
American singer Johnnie Ray arrived in Singapore Monday night to a quiet welcome. His last visit to Singapore, about 150 years ago, is fondly remembered by locals.
Burglars took two over and under shotguns two saddles a 421 inch television set and a chain saw from a Princeton area resident’s home. Richard Welch reported the theft occurred between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. while he was away. Sheriff Joe Ferns said entry was forced through the front door. loss estimate not yet prepared.
Washington AP report from NIH finds higher ranks in Benedictine and Trappist orders linked to greater coronary heart attack risk. Priests show about three times the heart disease rate of brothers. Trappists’ fat intake lower yet risk rises with senior status in both groups.
Frankfurt prosecutors report a fingerprint check shows the Guatemalan arrestee for suspected Martin Bormann is not Hitler’s deputy. The man, in his 70s, said he was Fabro Martínez born in Uruguay and worked as a farm laborer in Guatemala.
County Court fined Robert L. English 50 dollars plus costs after citing reckless driving on US-50 near Hillcrest Drive in the theater area. The citation carried a 14 percent reference and was recorded May 8.
Kay Gable widow of Clark Gable, aged 48, was reported improving today from a mild heart attack she suffered a week ago. The AP dispatch confirms her condition and notes continued medical care at an Hollywood hospital.
Neodesha contractor Marshal Carr remodeled an old gas line station into office space with a high ceiling and trophy room. The 1300 pound Alaskan polar bear, mounted after a 1964 hunt, occupies the lobby and now his office. Carr also displays a grizzly, moose, elk, antelope, fish catches, a lynx rug, and a Kodiak bear skin. A jaguar from British Honduras awaits mounting. Visitors sign a register.
Long list of TV programs with time slots from 9:55 to 10:15 PM across dates mid May 13 and 15, including Andy Griffith Pat Boone Dick Van Dyke Hollywood Squares The Farmer's Daughter and large slate of soap operas game shows cartoons and news. Multiple networks and show titles spill across the page with no single program dominating.
Hundreds of Chinese chanting Mao Tse-tung quotations disrupted a Hong Kong court delaying the trial of Chinese detainees from last week's Communist riots. Police of 20 000 on alert after Beijing accused Britain of fascist atrocities in quelling three days of strikes and protests.
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