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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1964
Page
1
Ottawa University football opens practice with two a day drills led by coach Dick Peters. The session began around 7 a.m. as players endured grueling conditioning and hard contact, with Peters demanding peak fitness and warning of mile runs after drills.
A meeting to explain the 1965 wheat program will be held in the Co-Op meeting room Thursday September 3 at 8 p.m. All interested wheat producers may attend. Signup for the 1965 program is at the county ASCS office with a participation deadline of October 2. The 1964 crop wheat certificate program will apply to 1965 with minor adjustments to be reviewed at the meeting. Over 500 Franklin county farmers participated in 1964 and most certificate payments are now completed.
In Washington Kennedy seeks the New York Democratic senatorial nomination as party leaders brace for his first bid for elective office. Michigan Republicans and Democrats clash in a Detroit area 16th District primary testing white backlash amid reapportionment and Civil Rights Act votes. Kennedy’s unlikely rise follows a move from Virginia to New York.
Berlin observes the 25th anniversary of Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland with ceremonies on both sides of the wall. West Berlin honors Allied war dead, while East Berlin head Walter Ulbricht pushes for full international recognition and UN admission. Warsaw rallies and memorials mark the outbreak of World War II.
Senator John J. Williams charged that $25,000 from a Philadelphia contractor went through Bobby Baker to the Kennedy Johnson 1960 campaign fund in an alleged illegal scheme. He urged the Senate to reopen the Baker investigation, citing new evidence from Don B. Reynolds, and warned of a political whitewash.
Partly cloudy through Wednesday with scattered thundershowers likely this evening. High Wednesday around 90 and a low near 70. Comparison figures include today's high 74 and low 64, year-ago high 82 and low 65, with a record high of 106 in 1922 and record low 43 in 1903. Precipitation for the last 24 hours ended 7 am totals 1.27 inches. Hourly temperatures complete at 8 am.
Chester Wiggins 67 and Barbara 65, learning by doing in Arequipa Peru, returned from a 20 month Peace Corps assignment. They helped build a school, water tanks, cess pools, homes, and bathrooms, and lived in a barriada with 75 children. They report making more friends than aid provided.
Democratic leaders report optimism on President Johnson’s one billion dollar Appalachian development bill aimed at ten states. Most funds would go to highways with support for vocational education health facilities water and timber projects. Congress eyes swift action as Johnson campaigns on welfare measures and a new food stamp law was signed into effect.
Detroit AP reports rumblings that a Chrysler UAW deal may be near but UAW President Walter Reuther dismissed the speculation as imagination. He said no movement by Chrysler risks a strike and dismissed Labor Day timing as irrelevant to negotiations.
Miller, born in Lockport fifty years ago in a middle class neighborhood, was hailed as a self made man as he nears a Republican vice presidential nomination. Residents note his rise from local attorney to political figure while concerns grow over a potential automobile industry strike impacting Lockport’s GM radiator plant and city economy.
Ottawa high school senior Terry Wollen earned the Danforth Award and was named to the National Board of Youth of America's Mission Board, with duties starting in 1964 68. He plans Baker University for pre medical mission work while balancing study and social life.
Missouri Attorney General Thomas F. Eagleton told the Congress of Correction that relying solely on custodial care fails to cut crime. He cited Missouri’s 1836 penitentiary housing about 1900 inmates, noting only about 300 need maximum security and urging broader reform beyond bricks and mortar.
Dr. Raymond Ewell of SUNY Buffalo warned at the American Chemical Society that a worldwide famine could strike hundreds of millions or billions, with Asia Africa and South America at risk by the 1970s and 1980s. He urged immediate aid in fertilizers from the United States and Europe and said birth control remains essential to slow population growth.
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