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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1959
Page
5
Miss Nell Barnaby says starting June 1 the library hours change. The adult section operates Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with Thursday closed all day. Evening hours run Monday to 9 p.m. The children's room opens afternoons from 2 p.m. to ? p.m. and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to noon, with Thursday closed.
Petersburg Indiana AP reports that a 30 foot bridge over an unbridged stream was cut into about three tons of high grade steel by thieves using a cutting torch. Sheriff Wilmer Whitehead said the loss was discovered by a coal miner Wednesday, narrowly avoiding a road collapse.
Saginaw Michigan launched a jaywalking crackdown with City Councilman Richard Snyder among the first ticketed. Snyder crossed a street on a red light Wednesday and faces a one dollar fine.
The weather bureau warns parts of north central and northeast Kansas face possible severe weather this afternoon and tonight from 2 to 10 p.m. A line from southwest of Grand Island to north of Des Moines marks the area. Scattered thunderstorms are expected in western and central Kansas, spreading east tonight, with Friday partly cloudy and scattered showers or thunderstorms mainly in the north.
Partly cloudy and warm this afternoon with scattered thunder storms this evening. Otherwise partly cloudy tonight. Friday partly cloudy with scattered showers or thunderstorms over the area. Northern counties cooler. High today 85 to 90. Low tonight 65 to 70. High Friday 75 in north to upper 80s in south.
TOPEKA AP Southwestern Bell seeks a 5.8 million dollar annual general rate increase in Kansas the first since 1952. The firm serves 486 000 customers and cites inflation. Residential basic rates would rise 75 to 85 cents monthly party lines 25 to 75 cents business lines 1 to 1 75 and extensions 25 to 50 cents with 24 exchanges facing different adjustments.
Jack Morrisey of Southwestern Bell in Ottawa explains proposed rate increases: one party residence 75 cents, two party 50 cents, one party business 1.50, rural residence 75 cents, with higher brackets adding 25 cents. The plan shifts 5.8 million in total revenue, netting 2.7 million after taxes, funding local salaries. no changes to long distance, service connections, or color phones. The Kansas Corporation Commission will take months to decide, with hearings possible in July or August.
President Eisenhower told Andrei Gromyko a measure of progress at Geneva is needed for a summit. The 30 minute White House talk included the four foreign ministers. Gromyko called the session pleasant and useful. Hagerty conveyed Eisenhower hope for peaceful German questions and a fruitful return to Geneva.
Superintendent J J Scott reported continued consolidation of districts this week. Five sections in Anderson County petitioned into Williamsburg High School district, south of Burg, and the land joins the district bond indebtedness free. Williamsburg now has 15 sections this year. Christian Ridge Common School District 19 near Lane voted to attach to Lane district, with the one room school closed and pupils now attending Lane.
The House Appropriations Committee recommended 38.848 billion dollars for the Defense Department for the year starting July 1, trimming 399.861 million from Eisenhower's request. It sides with the Army in missile funding, cuts Air Force programs, and boosts Strategic Air Command and submarine warfare, while rejecting Navy carrier funding and preserving active manpower figures.
Two monkeys completed a space flight and returned alive, while a Kansas polit ical clash over a 68119 emergency grant for the State Grain Inspection Department intensified. Gov Docking and Lt Gov Henke push a memorandum to fund the department to June 30, amid GOP reluctance to sign. Council meetings argued as Lauterbach and Taylor refuse. If funds aren’t received by June 15 the department could shut until July. Circulation of memoranda among council members has precedent.
Ottawa High seniors in grey caps and gowns mark their 84th commencement at Memorial Auditorium. Miss War da May Vinson of the Kays and Kayettes delivers the address Dont Park, with Henry A. Parker introducing and Dr. Arvid Berglund presenting diplomas. The program includes processional pomp and circumstance, an invocation, choir numbers, No Man Is An Island and Give Me Your Tired Your Poor, Alma Mater singalongs, and benediction by Rev. Thomas Ingle.
Two monkeys, Able and Baker, survived a 15 minute space flight in the nose cone of an Army Jupiter rocket launched from Cape Canaveral. The capsule reached 300 miles altitude and 10,000 mph, landing near Antigua Island. Medical tests showed minor stress, with Able and Baker reported perfect by Maj. Champlin.
Anderson in Ottawa said he expects a trooper with the memorandum this afternoon but will not sign it. He added he will travel to Topeka on June 5 to inquire into the grain department fund problem.
City commissioners granted permission to the Junior Chamber of Commerce to use part of Forest Park from June 8 to June 13 for carnival purposes. The group had initially requested May 25 onward for several days.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled the 11 mile Frisco Railroad branch between Opolis Kansas and Carl Junction Missouri carries too little traffic to justify continued operation and authorized its abandonment.
Dolores Gray the lead in Destry Rides Again kept singing as flames touched a theater curtain during a matinee at the Imperial Theater in New York. About 1,500 attended. curtain smoke spread, back-stage noises rose, but the cast kept audience calm and the fire was put out before firefighters arrived.
The White House said Dr. James R. Killian Jr. resigns as special assistant to the President for science and technology and returns to MIT as president. President Eisenhower names Dr. George Bogdan Kistiakowsky of Harvard to replace him. Kistiakowsky is a Kiev native.
In Kansas City AP report mothers rush to host May Play Day at Notre Dame de Lion as a teamsters strike delays furniture supply. Despite rain mid program, mothers and fathers moved 175 tables and 750 chairs themselves to complete the event and the ballet Alive in Any Land proceeds.
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