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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1956
Page
9
Wellington auto dealer Bryan Packard became perhaps the first driver to run out of gas on the new Kansas turnpike. He stalled while awaiting entry at the Wellington interchange as toll gates opened at 10 am, his car coughing before reaching the ticket window and needing a push from a motorist friend.
In Kansas City and Ottawa the day’s news spans radio notes, voter registration drive, and the grand opening of the 236 mile Kansas Turnpike. TOPEKA witnesses a busy dawn as officials, actors Gene Autry and Annie Oakley, and crowds mark the toll road’s debut with ribbon cuttings and speeches.
A strong system swept the plains and western regions with rain snow and cool air. Gusts up to 55 mph were recorded by observer P. Kelsey. Temperatures fell as much as 30 degrees in Colorado and Nebraska with fresh snow in Akron Salt Lake City and Rock Springs. East of the Mississippi stayed mostly dry aside from light rain along the Middle Atlantic and southern Florida coasts.
Forecast calls for fair west and clearing, cooler in the east this afternoon, then fair and colder tonight with freezing or near freezing temperatures in much of the west. Friday to be near fair and warmer except extreme east, temperatures 25 to 30 at night, 45 southeast. highs 65 to 70. Yesterday’s high 82, low today 65, with earlier year-ago figures and record highs/lows listed. Hourly temps cover 24 hours ending 8 am today.
ADA Okla Dr Clyde C Morris 71 longtime pastor of First Baptist Church of Ada for 30 years and former president of the Oklahoma Broadcasters Assn died after a prolonged illness late last night in Ada Oklahoma He served as a community religious leader and broadcast association head for decades.
A pair of rare Basenji dogs owned by J. W. Nichols of Paola are boarded at the Ottawa Animal Shelter. Imported from Africa, Basenjis were favored by Egypt’s pharaohs and are known as bark ness dogs. They stand 16 or 17 inches high, have fawn coats with white markings, and are valued for intelligence and hunting instinct.
Vandals broke into two schools northwest of Ottawa in Douglas county after midnight, causing over 400 dollars in damage and forcing Enterprise school to cancel classes. Debris included toilets, a torn well pump, damaged goal posts and playground equipment, while Central school north of Worden stayed open despite sanitary facility damage. Marjorie Roeckers of Richmond's Berea Boosters 4-H Club has been named the state 4-H Girls Home Economics Champion, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Roeckers, a Kansas State College sophomore. She has nine years in 4-H with extensive projects and leadership, and will attend the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago after competing at Carp Miniwanca this summer.
UNICEF is the world’s largest effort to aid children and mothers. Ottawa churches collect pennies nickels and dimes during Halloween tricks or treats at 6 45 p m to fund UNICEF programs. The drive supports equipment vaccines insecticides and milk shipments and is aided by World Health Organization and FAO. It benefits millions of children and reaches over 39 500 000 this year. Quenemo federated churches sponsor the program similarly.
Pratt report cautions hunters as 14 whooping cranes move along the North Platte River toward the south. Kansas Forestry official Dave Leahy notes only 25 cranes remain in the country and they winter near Aransas Pass refuge on the Gulf Coast in Texas.
Mullinville Kansas county attorney Martin Aelmore says three men have admitted participation in the 1052 dollar robbery of the First State Bank. Statements were signed last night by Charles Willard Wade 25 Independence Missouri Willie Thomas Hendren 19 and Robert Lee Anderson 16 Kansas City Kansas. All but four or five dollars recovered. The trio forced cashier Robert James to accompany them from his home to the bank Tuesday night. Wade Hendren and Anderson were captured when a highway patrolman stopped a car for running a stop sign. Federal authorities assumed the case since bank deposits are insured by the FDIC. He may file state charges if federal prosecution is waived.
Ottawa Municipal Airport will gain a beacon light from Civil Aeronautics Authority. Runway lights ordered but not yet arrived. City commissioners discussed a $23,000 Cottonwood street paving and sewer bond project and hiring a local bank for sale. Parking ban on north side of 15th Street approved. Some airport land may join federal soil bank after January 1 for payments. Crack filling planned for streets. Lions club to use gas pipes for display at City Park Christmas trees and set up a tree mart. Sidewalk program to be planned with a list of owner requests.
The first snowstorm of the season hit northwest Kansas with snow in St. Francis totaling 1.4 inches and mixed precipitation elsewhere. Rain and snow raised moisture across the state aiding the 1957 wheat crop while winds up to 50 mph created dust and zero visibilities at times. Cooler air arrives tonight with freezing temps in the northwest and a warming trend tomorrow as highs ranged from 74 to 81 yesterday.
In Warsaw Gomulka and the Politburo moved to establish independent Communism after a Moscow sparked revolt. Aimed at widening youth government participation and easing party secrecy, the plan seeks free elections for officials while pledging loyalty to Polish decision making and keeping Soviet troops while NATO bases persist in West Germany. Demonstrators pressed Rokossovsky as defense minister amid anti Soviet sentiment.
Budapest radio quotes Premier Nagy appealing to student and worker rebels to lay down arms and support his new government. He says Soviet troops will be withdrawn once order is restored and negotiations with Moscow will begin to evacuate four to five Soviet divisions. Broadcasters report ongoing fighting with hundreds killed in Pest. Radio Budapest announces leadership shakeups including Janos Kadar replacing Erno Gero. Washington reports no American injuries or damage to the legation amid the Budapest unrest.
Warren W. Shaw, Republican candidate for governor, urged Secretary Benson to reopen the soil bank to farmers who cannot sign. He cited dust storms and drought in western Kansas, saying summer fallow ground must be considered in allotments as half of wheat land lies idle every other year.
The Kansas Republican party announced a campaign TV and radio talk series for Warren W. Shaw. Clifford Hope will open with a Hutchinson TV talk. Sen Frank Carlson, seeking re election, will begin a Wichita and Topeka TV radio run tonight with stops in Dodge City Garden City Great Bend October 29 30. Lloyd H Ruppenthal will speak from Hutchinson and appear in Wichita. Sen Andrew F Schoeppel has two TV appearances for Shaw from Kansas City October 30 and Wichita October 31.
George Docking urged Democratic workers in Wichita to enlist Republican friends to join in removing what he called the Republican old guard dominating the state political picture for many years.
Vienna reports that Czechoslovak Communists dispatched functionaries to explain the upheavals in Poland and Hungary to the public in mass meetings and via radio. The broadcasts urged resistance to Western subversion and loyalty to the Soviet Union while warning against unrest from Budapest reports.
Edward A. Louk of southeast of Garnett was injured fatally in a tractor accident under investigation by Anderson County Sheriff Sam Geer. Louk was brought to Garnett hospital after noon, though fatality confirmation remained pending.
The League of Women Voters hosts a registration party this evening for residents needing to register. For rides to city hall call 1691 with west side and 1267 W for north and east side locations, including 273 C 11.
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