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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1961
Page
4
Side Swipes notes the Third Annual Lake Garnett Grand Prix at Garnett with races July 1 and 2 at the National Guard Armory. Registration June 30, races July 1 at 2 pm and July 2 at 11 am, plus a noon parade and a 2.8 mile course around a city park.
About 6,000 Democrats gather in Washington for a Kennedy centric event with supporters and party leaders including Vice President Johnson, Speaker Rayburn, and Truman. The $100 dinner marks Kennedy's 44th birthday and aims to shrink the party debt as he prepares for a Europe trip and talks with Khrushchev in Vienna.
New York AP reports Dave Garroway, 48, will resign from NBCs Today show. He has led the two hour morning program since its January 1952 start and hopes to leave by October 31 when his contract ends or sooner if possible.
Generally fair and windy this afternoon then partly cloudy and warmer tonight. Showers and thunderstorms expected Sunday with highs in the mid 70s and Sunday highs around 75 to 80. Overnight lows near 50, yesterday’s high 70s, record highs and lows noted for the date.
Ten Ottawa High School graduates received scholarships totaling 2960 dollars at last night’s commencement in Memorial Auditorium. Richard Hicks and Tom Campbell each earned two awards. Bax Campbell added a 100 dollar and 150 dollar share from others, with several others receiving 100 dollar awards from Kansas State Teachers College and local groups. The ceremony featured the principal Norris Burke presenting awards, diplomas handed by Mrs. Fred Kaiser, and remarks by Dr. A B Martin of Ottawa University. Graduation included music from the band and the benediction and invocation by local pastors.
Memorial Day observances will be held in Ottawa with VFW and Auxiliary services at 9 30 a m and American Legion service at 10 a m at High and Cemetery. Past Commander Clarence McFadden leads the VFW service while Evelyn Hinkle presides over the Auxiliary. Graves will be marked and flags placed before Memorial Day, then removed that evening.
Texans vote in a runoff to pick a U S senator with potential for Texas to elect its first Republican since Reconstruction. Candidates are William A. Blakley and John G Tower, both conservatives. Tower led the first primary while Blakley, a Democrat, has interim Senate ties and a big business fortune. Blakley and Tower advanced from a crowded field after an April 4 runoff with 71 contenders.
President Kennedy plans to sign a 500 million dollar appropriation to back his alliance for progress in Latin America. The package includes 100 million to aid Chile's earthquake redevelopment. The funding aims at social improvement and a decade of democratic progress with most loans expected to be pledged soon amid 200+ loan requests for land reform housing water supply and roads.
Scattered thunderstorms are forecast to spread across much of Kansas Sunday after forming tonight in the west. Light precipitation is expected. Ottawa reported a low of 40 degrees with a spring cold wave affecting eastern U S readings. The Marais des Cygnes River stood near five feet, having fallen from 26.32 feet on Thursday, while flooding continued on lower portions and other streams including the Solomon, Saline, and Neosho.
The first 27 Freedom Riders convicted in Jackson Mississippi chose to remain in jail rather than post bond while six more faced jail hunger strikes in Alabama. A stepped up campaign was planned with more riders expected to head South. Roy Wilkins urged students to defy segregation and ensure travel access as part of a broader fight to end discrimination.
An 18-year-old Franklin County 4-H member, Jim Milliken, is named one of four Kansans to tour Iowa and Illinois representing 4-H. He will travel June 11 to June 16 after a May 19 interview in Manhattan. Milliken, son of O M Milliken, Williamsburg, joins Arlen Etling Gray County Margaret Sughrue Finney County and Michelle Steele Sedgwick County on the car trip. He plans to attend Kansas State College in the fall.
Frederickburg AP reports Ralph W. Burgess a 19 year old father of two was freed after 16 hours trapped at the bottom of a 30 foot well. He was lifted to the surface at 6 15 am and rushed to a hospital in good condition despite mud up to his waist.
Police seek a man 35 to 45, 5 feet 10 inches tall, about 175 pounds, dark brown graying hair, in a dirty 1953 or 1954 Chevrolet two door with yellow plaid seat covers. He lured a 12 year old girl from a baseball diamond at a Baldwin park on Friday, took her to the park, and mistreated her before she tried to resist.
Gerald Clark a 42 year old carpenter's helper was killed Friday when a steel bracket failed causing a seven foot fall during catwalk construction on the Intercity viaduct in Kansas City police reported.
Ottawa University honors 1918 Kansas Conference champion basketball squad with six regulars and coach A A Schabinger, now in Atlanta. Reunion on June 3 brings back Roy Wynne, Vinton Cramer, Claude Cochran, Clay Swinehart, Herbert Le Grande, William McKee, and Dr Bert Potter along with other players from that era. Schabinger later coached at Emporia Teachers and Creighton, founded Official Sports Film Service, and is a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee.
Traffic deaths rise as motorists flood roads for a four day Memorial Day weekend. Weather curbs plans with unseasonable cold across much of the nation. An Associated Press survey over 102 hours tallies 537 deaths including 341 traffic fatalities, 14 boating, 78 drownings, and 106 other, with Memorial Day alone potentially reaching 100 deaths.
Washington reports widening support from Latin American fundraisers to buy tractors for 1,200 Cuban prisoners in a bid to secure their release. Fidel Castro has yet to respond to a telegram from the Reuther Roosevelt Eisenhower group seeking assurances, while 10 released prisoners head back to Havana with a tractor aid promise.
Bonnie Peak, aged 10, found dynamite in her father Arthur Peak's car in Pittsburgh. The explosives were wired to detonate when the lights were switched on. Peak, a city refuse worker, drove with the girl for about an hour before discovery and then took the car to police to disconnect the dynamite. He could not explain the source of the explosives.
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