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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1957
Page
4
Ottawa businessman Jack Goss recalls a Northwest trip where he boarded a brand new airliner in Seattle. Crew members checked the ship with flashlights before takeoff. At 21 000 feet the captain announced it was the plane's first flight with passengers. He wonders how a passenger should feel in such a moment.
Ottawa Elks plan a 500 pound beef barbecue at Forest Park shelter house for members and families starting tomorrow afternoon with serving at 4 p.m. Former Police Chief C L Hough will be remembered in a school safety manual distributed by the police department, featuring his name and portrait. Distribution date not yet decided.
Mrs Roselyn Whirley will assume the Franklin County treasurer post next week, replacing Elisabeth Briggs as Briggs completes her second two year term. Whirley has served as deputy treasurer for nearly four years after being elected last fall.
Partly cloudy to cloudy conditions continue this afternoon tonight and Sunday with scattered light showers tonight and Sunday no significant temperature changes through Sunday Weather outlook emphasizes gradual conditions across the weekend.
Franklin County offers scenic autumn color drives through timbered river valleys and rolling farmland. Readable routes include westward trips from Ottawa along K-68 to Richter Corner, Cedar Hills to Homewood, and a Garnett loop via US 59 to Williamsburg and Linn and Miami counties, with color-rich maples in Garnett and nearby routes toward Lawrence and Baldwin.
Ottawa Fire Chief Harry Gilliland announced National Fire Prevention Week will be observed locally with programs such as fire safety inspections school visits and exhibits. Three fire trucks will be on South Main for public inspection Wednesday at 7 30 pm. He urged home fire prevention including removing fire hazards disposing of paint rags cans checking electrical systems and proper handling of flammables. The observance runs Oct 6 to 12 with a plea for year round safety.
Doll clothes made to order. Phone 1156, 255-¢-2t.
Italian police ended a week long blockade of San Marino to allow Asian flu medicine and food into the strife torn republic. Rival Communist and anti Communist governments faced off as flu spread through the damp foggy country. Police kept mail blocked but allowed vegetables and butter from Italy. Supplies were so low that one public market closed.
Singer Allan Jones aged 50 and his estranged wife Irene Hervey 48 of Santa Monica California have reached a temporary alimony and child support agreement. Jones will pay 1200 dollars monthly for alimony and support for their son John Allan Jones 19 until the divorce trial. Hervey cites extreme cruelty and notes they separated on August 15 after 21 years of marriage.
Ottawa High School Cyclones were blanked 18 0 by Highland Park Scotties in Topeka. Ottawa University heads to Newton for a 7 30 p.m. Kansas Conference game against Bethel. Quenemo lost 18 0 to Lamont in a six man county game of the week. Details on Page 6.
Secretary of State Dulles meets Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at Dulles home in Washington to discuss the Middle East disarmament German reunification and broader Soviet American relations. Officials say the aim is to test lines on policy and seek possible de tension while warning against Soviet power spread.
In Boston last night about 40 officers faced roughly 1,000 people in a racial clash at a dance hall, spreading to a street and subway station. Twenty three arrested, four teenagers among them, all charged with inciting a riot and disturbing an assembly. A white youth was later found critically beaten and said he was jumped by six Black youths.
Kansas State College President James A. McCain will return from Europe on Oct. 10 aboard the Queen Mary and arrive in time for homecoming on Oct. 19. He has spent six months abroad as an Eisenhower exchange fellow and will meet with K-State alumni in New York on Oct. 15.
A Soviet launched artificial moon orbits every 95 minutes at 560 miles altitude as scientists hail it as a step in space exploration. Meanwhile NATO ships near the Arctic Circle rehearse atomic-attack drills aboard Forrestal with subsurface and airburst scenarios and shipwide emergency responses.
Milwaukee crowds pack County Stadium for Game Three of the World Series. Bob Buhl faces Whitey Turley in a pivotal matchup as analysts note past third-game winners often clinch the series. Nearby, observers track the Soviet satellite and Vanguard rocket plans amid IGY discussions.
Warsaw reports a calm scene outside the Polytechnic School as students gathered while militia and heavy police detachments remained on alert. Police trucks from other cities and internal security corps patrols were seen in the capital after two nights of clashes over censorship and police tactics.
Kansas Accident Records Section shows 24 hour toll zero. Year to date 1957 totals 404 fatalities, while the same period in 1956 recorded 503.
SREMSKA MITROVICA Yugoslavia former vice president Milovan Djilas was sentenced to seven additional years for hostile propaganda against communism abroad. He already serves three years and the court merged the sentences into nine. The New Class by Djilas, published in New York, sparked the case as a challenge to Yugoslav system.
The week of October 6 1957 is designated Fire Prevention Week by Mayor K E Andrews of Ottawa Kansas. The proclamation urges citizens to observe and participate in fire prevention efforts, stressing saving lives and protecting property amid rising fire losses. City Clerk Donald R Capper authenticates the notice dated October 2 1957.
Cooler weather moved into northwest Kansas today but appeared to have stalled there. The weather bureau said except for the northwest, little change in temperatures is expected through Sunday. A few showers were forecast for the northwestern portion this evening and tonight with scattered light amounts of precipitation over the state tomorrow.
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