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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1973
Page
5
County forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions tonight with lows in the upper 40s to low 50s and southerly winds 5 to 15 mph. Saturday brings partly cloudy skies and a slight chance of showers or thundershowers with highs in the 70s and a 20 percent rain probability. Highs 67 Thursday, 41 today, 77 low previous year, 49, record high 97 in 1943 and record low 34 in 1932.
Vice President Spiro Agnew's lawyers subpoenaed reporters from the Washington Star News Washington Post New York Times and New York Daily News and Time Magazine to produce records of conversations with sources about the probe. Judge Hoffman empowered the subpoenas and ordered presence at the Baltimore federal courthouse next Thursday. The Times pledged to oppose the move as a potential First Amendment violation.
AP reports two 15 and 16 year old youths charged with murder in the slaying of an elderly white fisherman who was stoned and stabbed by a band of blacks near a Dorchester housing project. A young woman died after being doused with gasoline and set afire in Roxbury days earlier. City officials stated arrests were imminent as fear spread through Dorchester and Roxbury amid school closures and clashes at a subway station.
Washington AP The nations unemployment rate stayed at 4.8 percent in September for the fourth straight month. Labor Department said more teens kept working rather than returning to school, offsetting declines in the work force and employed persons. Unemployed persons seeking work stayed at 4.3 million. Seasonal adjustment showed total employment up 700,000 and the work force up 750,000. The Nixon administration had predicted a drop to about 4.5 percent by year end.
About 1,000 residents are expected to participate in the Walk for Mankind sponsored by the Ottawa Jaycees to raise funds for Project Concern. Dan Kay says 2,500 residents have been reached, with last year’s turnout at 300. The 20 mile walk starts Sunday from Ottawa Junior High School between 7 am and 1 pm, with sponsor sheets, route maps, and checkpoint sheets provided.
Weekend shutdowns planned by service station operators in California Arizona and Nevada protest Phase 4 price controls on gasoline. About 1000 Los Angeles area retailers vote a three day closing beginning today while Sacramento San Joaquin Valley dealers plan to stay open amid talks with John T Dunlop. Nevada closures are scattered, Phoenix and Yuma plan shutdowns, and industry groups press for automatic pass through with legislation led by Sen Adlai Stevenson III.
St Louis Post Dispatch and Globe Democrat workers vote 180 to 5 to approve a three year contract raising pay by 1.10 per hour and settling dockhand use. Strike kept both papers off streets 44 days. Globe Democrat prints for Post and aims to resume Monday. Delivery driver welcomes return to work.
U S D 290 officials tentatively approve a staff development plan to begin late October or early November pending Board of Education approval. Superintendent Dan Neuenswander said the program, based on McREL Educational Laboratory ideas, aims to boost motivation and self image among teachers and students with oriented sessions, small discussion groups, and monthly follow ups.
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