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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1958
Page
8
Numerous Wellsville residents hosted friends and relatives from Pittsburg, Paola, Washington DC, and Des Moines while others relocated locally. Notable items include births in Germany, moves to Wellsville, and travels of families to Topeka, Garden City, and Santa Fe area, with military assignments and university enrollments noted.
Washington AP Kansas led wheat states with 93,537,000 bushels of the 1958 crop stored under price supports through Aug 195, the Agriculture Department reported yesterday. The total for all states is 237,545,000 bushels stored. Other states and their storage under supports included Oklahoma 50,065,000 bushels, Texas 6,356,000 and Missouri 4,146,000.
In Fort Collins Colorado an 18 year old stenographer Marjorie Schneider was killed after being held at gunpoint and shot multiple times. Floyd Robertson confessed he abducted her from a lovers lane and fired while she tried to flee. Her body was found in Cache La Poudre Canyon as authorities prepare an inquest.
NASA lays out earth satellite program for the coming year with 16 experiments. Seven small satellites between 100 and 120 pounds will orbit about 300 miles high for geodetic, cloud, aurora and air density studies. A 100 pound inflatable satellite aims to aid communications and radar research before next July. Some missions will carry living yeast organisms into space.
It Works Fort Worth AP reports two men robbed a filling station and fled into a hedge maze built by the Park Department two years ago. A pursuing group followed through the labyrinth as authorities triangulated the escape route and searched the area.
A fragmentary police report notes that the robbers “got lost” and were not located by officers, leaving investigators unable to identify or arrest the suspects based on the available details. The brief text implies an unresolved crime scene and ongoing search.
Kansas City report quotes Rep. Errett Scrivner saying Russia drives heavy U S military funding. He asserts the nation can destroy any target and warns spending waste is inevitable but weapons are essential to avoid being caught short. About 40 members of the Women’s Chamber of Commerce attended.
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