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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1959
Page
6
A Herald reader recalls Auld Lang Syne from 25 years ago noting the Athletics were seventh in the American League standings, mocking current position with a wink. The item sits among diverse clippings spanning jokes, minor incidents, and a Leipzig fair gimmick.
The Wichita Beacon filed suit in Wichita seeking a permanent injunction and 4.863 million dollars in damages against publishers and officials of the Wichita Eagle. The action follows a Justice Department consent decree against the Eagle in June 1934 alleging advertising and circulation violations. The Beacon charges contracts with advertisers since 1933 restrained competition and alleges a forced monopoly subscription practice for both morning and evening editions. Treble damages are sought based on 1.621 million dollars in actual damages.
Clear to partly cloudy through Saturday with widely scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. No significant temperature change. Highs near 80s, overnight lows in the 60s, Saturday highs in the 80s.
High winds battered Riverton Kansas causing roof loss at a grocery, a metal sign snapped, a trailer home shifted seven feet off its foundation and communications briefly disrupted. Rain totaled .61 inches. No injuries were reported.
Sacred Heart plans its annual Labor Day Fall Festival Bar-B-Q and chicken dinner Monday from 3 to 8 p.m. at Forest Park. Father Charles Brink says rides, songs, bazaar, trapshoot, and entertainment by the Four-Gottens will draw crowds with donations benefiting Benedictine, Xavier, and Ursuline sisters. rain moves event to the armory.
Samuel L. McLaughlin faced a new murder charge as he was arraigned before Judge Floyd H. Coffman in county court. District Court prelim hearing set for Sept 9 after county court murder charge was dismissed and McLaughlin was briefly released.
Winners at the Wellsville fair 4 H judging were announced with grand champion fat steer to Raymond Wiesman and reserve honors in breeding gilt and fat barrow classes. Roger Thorn, 16, Wellsville, earned reserve champion fat steer and champion Holstein in dairy. Lyle Kindred and Judy Wiesman earned other top awards in cattle and dairy, with champions in lambs goats and other breeds listed. The event featured a dairy parade led by the fair queen and a forthcoming Baby show slated for 7 PM.
The Laotian delegation at the United Nations urged Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to mobilize a U.N. emergency force to defend Laos from Communist battalions and North Vietnamese intervention. The request faces Security Council veto risks and Assembly delays, with the only active U.N. force in the Middle East limited to frontier monitoring.
The House approved the labor controls bill 214 138 sending it to President Eisenhower who is expected to sign. It tightens union finances elections and officer conduct and tightens Taft Hartley limits on boycotts and picketing. Senate opposition was narrow with Morse and Langer dissenting. JFK noted the bill went further than he preferred but called it the only feasible measure.
Milo Randall of Pomona drove a rock truck owned by Gene Hinshaw hauling gravel from Clark's quarry to a Quenemo school job when cattle appeared on a county road east of Appanoose. He swerved to miss them, struck the northeast corner of a steel truss bridge over North Appanoose Creek, buckling supports and bending the span. Randall escaped injury. 8 tons of rock fell from the rear, the axle broke, and county crews blocked the bridge for repairs.
A $50,000 shipment of Salk vaccine stolen by masked gunmen from the University of Montreal lab was recovered in an East Montreal apartment raid. The 10,000 vials, enough for 75,000 eye treatments, were found in a fridge and boxes. tests on monkeys would take six to eight weeks before use. The investigation continues as authorities assess the structure and possible recovery paths.
Conditions favor scattered thundershowers today across Kansas as a weather front moves in. Yesterday some showers occurred in extreme west and north central regions with a low today around 62 and Ottawa reporting a high near 88.
Brighton post sergeant Alvin Knight disappeared after questioning a break in at a tool plant. State troopers found Knight's Cadillac and arrested Alvin Knight at a northern Michigan cottage. they recovered Albert Souden's Eisenhower pistol but found no trace of the missing trooper. The House considered a large public works bill with broad river and flood control funding, trimming projects by 24 percent to fit the budget.
NEW YORK AP Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell says negotiations in the 52 day old steel strike have reached a critical stage and he accuses both industry and union of being derelict in their responsibility. Governors of eight states hardest hit appeal for a conference with President Eisenhower to end the walkout as both sides expand bargaining teams next week and twelve subcommittees will be formed to negotiate contract provisions and local issues. Mitchell, Eisenhower's fact finder, hopes the next days determine settlement progress. A telegram from the eight Democratic governors was released in Harrisburg. the action sought no specific presidential move.
Washington AP report states President Eisenhower vetoed the second housing bill worth 1.05 billion dollars. The Senate upheld the veto, ending the matter as the first chamber had done previously. The president said the measure, like the prior bill, went too far.
Kansas City dispatch reports 12 children aged 8 years to one month were rescued from a smoke filled apartment in the Watkins development. Firefighters and residents aided as Willie Banks Roosevelt Goldsby and Ollie Gates helped evacuate the youngsters to safety. The incident followed veto remarks on a housing measure and calls to enact a sound bill, with the White House pushing for action.
Plans discussed in Olathe for opening Interstate 35 from Kansas City to Ottawa on Oct 1. Kansas City, Kas., Lenexa, Merriam, Mission, Olathe, Wellsville and Ottawa chambers arrange a caravan to gather in Ottawa for a noon luncheon at the Armory before a 3 p.m. dedication in Olathe. Gov. Docking likely attends. B. D. Tall may address.
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