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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1967
Page
7
Los Angeles AP reports UCLA Chancellor Franklin Murphy warns all 29 000 students about LSD and other drugs. He says there is no unusual campus problem but emphasizes penalties for use sale and possession and outlines university policies leading to possible dismissal.
Like A Fox MIAMI Florida AP a Cuban exile says he feigned sanity to avoid a Fidel Castro firing squad. Guilermo Julio Fernandez Valenzuela 32 claims he acted crazy and was jailed in a hospital. He says four men with him were executed after two years he was declared cured and sentenced to 30 years for anticastro activity. He escaped Taco Taco prison camp with two others and fled toward Las Villas Province then boarded a fishing boat headed for Miami.
Dr Ann Courtright of Colorado State Hospital Pueblo seeks $50 rental for a pinball machine to aid therapy for two months. State purchasing director Lew Middemist forwarded the request to Institutions Director David A Hamill who supports trying it. The device will be free to play with no payoff.
In Dania Florida Mayor Dick Marant who backs the police and City Commission candidate Robert Houston who criticizes the department both received illegal parking tickets for the same space in front of City Hall. The tickets were dismissed Monday by an impartial judge.
In Bridgeport Connecticut four American Indian boys aged 14 12 12 and 10 left their father's house with a neighbor 15 heading toward Tacoma Washington where their mother lives A note left by the group quoted they were unhappy and seeking happiness amid ongoing racial insults as police investigated their disappearance attributed to family tensions and possible intent to travel west.
In Atlantic City AP reports a USC Los Angeles professor says people who avoid dental visits suffer anxiety that exaggerates pain. Dr. R Quentin Royer presented to the American Society of Oral Surgeons at their annual meeting, highlighting dental visit avoidance.
In Lock Haven and surrounding towns police pursued motives after Leo Held fatally shot six at Hammermill Paper Co and wounded several others. Held drove to Piper Aircraft and shot a pool member, then at his Loganton home killed Floyd Quiggie and wounded his wife before police stopped him. Wounded and dead included paper mill staff and family, with investigators noting no clear motive.
A storm described as a tornado damaged several homes and at least three house trailers in Garden City Kansas. One man, Frank H Kennedy, was injured when his trailer flipped but he escaped serious harm as it caught on his car hood. Roofs and walls were torn from a new house. neighbors reported a funnel of debris seen at about 7 30 p m. Fires ignited by wind burned prairie near Garden City and in surrounding areas including Lakin. Weather bureau staff questioned the tornado claim while residents recalled the prior deadly twister last June.
The Subversive Activities Control Board faces House scrutiny after a Senate vote to extend its life to December 31, 1968. Supporters pledge it will publicly label Communist and front groups and apply 1950 act sanctions, including tax exemptions loss, if active.
Shirley Temple Black hosted a high ticket party at a Millbrae hotel near SFO to raise funds for her bid in the November 14 special election to succeed the late Congressman J Arthur Younger. The event featured patriotic decor, navy input on flag placement, and campaign slogan Let us work to create, to build, to inspire. One former opponent attended with his wife.
In Los Angeles a 74 year old man, Samuel Erali, was approached by two men offering a lucrative deal. They claimed three bars of Mexican gold were brass but worth $100,000 and proposed purchase for about $10,008. He went to meet them with police, and the bars turned out to be stolen from a nearby machine shop.
In Detroit AP reports 160000 United Auto Workers begin voting on a new Ford contract that would restore most workers to their jobs by weekend. The proposal promises guaranteed income starting December 1968 and broad protections, as the Ford Council and union leaders push ratification amid clashes with dissidents.
Hordes of workmen cleared a pentagon trash heap following a weekend antiwar protest that sparked 682 arrests. Congress members urged draft-board scrutiny of demonstrators with draft cards turned in, some proposing automatic induction for those who burned cards as officials review status.
In a Supreme Court challenge echoing the 1925 Scopes trial a Arkansas anti evolution statute is attacked by Susan Epperson and H H Blanchard. They argue the law improperly curbs scientific inquiry and violates the Constitution. The Arkansas law bans teaching evolution and imposes fines or firing for violators, a policy still upheld by the state supreme court.
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