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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1960
Page
7
The New York Yankees crushed Pittsburgh 12-0 behind Whitey Ford to even the World Series at three games apiece. Ford and Howard led a dominant pitching performance as the decisive seventh game was set for Forbes Field on Thursday.
The county forecast calls for scattered afternoon and tonight showers with diminishing cloudiness and mild temperatures. In baseball, the Yankees and Pirates offered a tense game with late inning action and several players named in play by play, including Berra and Kengart, as rosters and substitutions shaped the contest.
Lavinia Robertson, 63, of Joplin, injured fatally Tuesday in a crash seven miles south of Nevada Missouri while attempting to avoid a rabbit on the US highway. Her car lost control and overturned, authorities said.
Ralph L. Gray, chair of Armstrong Steel Corp, told the American Society of Civil Engineers the industry shows a breather and may pick up before year end. He warns tariffs and global competition press steel prices and urges higher productivity per man hour to combat foreign mills.
Investigation into the city inch water main under the river east of Main found a cracked two foot pipe section caused during cement pouring and wooden shoring. Cement sealed the crack until excavation jarred the line, prompting replacement and re cementing. Officials expect repairs finish and flushing complete by Thursday with possible cost responsibility discussions with the contractor and city.
Merlin Lioyd Hershberger, 31, Cannon, Ohio, charged with second degree arson for the December 5, 1954 fire at the Tally Theater. He was bound over to district court for trial in January after an Oct 7 arrest. Also held was Earl Morse, 19, Boston, Mass, arrested with Hershberger. Morse to be arraigned in district court with a preliminary hearing pending. Both were returned from Davenport by county officials.
NBC announced Ottawa on TV will appear Friday on the Dave Garroway Today show from about 7:45 to 9 a.m. Sequences shot here last Saturday by Paul Cunningham feature interviews about the farm problem and show Ottawa and Franklin County locations with possible last minute schedule changes.
Los Angeles AP report states President Richard Nixon and his wife Pal were aboard a motorcade that halted on the Hollywood Freeway Tuesday night when the car overheated or broke down. Motorcycle cops diverted traffic as Nixon and Mrs. Nixon transferred to a second vehicle.
A early Wednesday report details a traffic fatality with toll rising in the Kansas area. Authorities note a 9 a.m. incident involving a person identified as Daring Lowe, aged 367, with一periods and numbers indicating a 1939 context.
New York AP report says Soviet Premier Khrushchev may cancel a Cuba visit due to fears of Latin American backlash and personal safety concerns amid anti-Communist sentiment. He planned to address the Soviet public in Moscow after a UN run, with Castro in Cuba and Lumumba’s Congo crisis looming.
Premier Khrushchev faced fresh defeat at the United Nations General Assembly as he pressed for discussion of US aggression over U2 and reconnaissance flights. The Soviet leader, subdued by a heavy disarmament vote, warned of war but held out hope to stay in New York if progress on disarmament stalled.
In Leopoldville crowds angered by Lumumba supporters barred from visiting the deposed premier attacked white motorists with stones near his guarded villa. Soldiers and a Ghanaian unit protected Lumumba as government leaders pressed plans to arrest him, threatening an army uprising if U N forces did not hand over Lumumba.
RELOIT Kan AP Larry Nicholson aged 13 ran into the road to retrieve a football and was struck by a truck Monday night near his home. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Nicholson who live on a farm just south of Glen Elder. The accident occurred near their home.
Police identify Mary Dustin and her four daughters Annette six Dawn four Denice and Dorothy two as victims of an early morning house fire in Buffalo New York. Two sons from a former marriage escaped.
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