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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1955
Page
8
Washington reports Kansas has 1 011 000 acres of farm woodlands mainly along streams and in windbreaks. There are 45 000 woodland owning farms averaging 22 acres each. In five years 7 387 acres were planted in trees, including 1 480 acres in 1954. Kansas is not in federal tree planting or forest fire programs yet but interest exists.
Kansans and Missourians gathered for the two day annual meeting of the joint Newspaper Mechanical Officials. Registration reached 367, marking one of the nation’s largest. Paul Payton of Bucklin was elected president of the Kansas conference with Lowell Baird of Kansas City as vice president and Larry Miller of Topeka as secretary. Missouri president James C. Kirkpatrick of Windsor presided as others including George Rasp of St. Louis as vice president and William A. Bray of Columbia as secretary were named.
Missouri coach Don Faurot says the opening game against Maryland will test his inexperienced lineup as Missouri eyes an upset. He notes Maryland’s recent dominance and praises emerging players including Sonny Springer Bill Rice and Jimmy Hunter while outlining likely starters at tackle and backfield as Big Seven teams begin Saturday play.
In Moscow during a luncheon with Soviet leaders, Nikita Khrushchev reportedly struggled with a German cherry brandy from the Black Forest known as Kirschwasser. A German envoy quoted him saying the drink burned his throat and was “for oxen.”
Ex-champions Tony Demarco Johnny Saxton and Willie Pep join top contenders Nino Valdes and Don Cockell on this week’s boxing slate. Demarco returns Wednesday at Boston Garden facing Chico Vejar while Saxton meets Joe Shaw in Portland Thursday. Pep headlines a flood relief benefit in Hartford Tuesday, and Valdes fights Don Cockell in a 10 round bout at London White City Stadium Tuesday night.
Isaac Logart of Cuba fights Ab Wilson of Englewood in a 10 round welterweight bout at New York’s St Nicholas Arena on Dumont TV at 8 p.m. CST. A separate Friday night NBC telecast features Frankie Ruff of New York vs Joey Lopes of Sacramento in a 10 round lightweight bout at the Detroit Olympia with radio and TV coverage at 8 p.m. CST.
Lawrence Kansas University of Kansas starts its 90th year with a traditional convocation in Hoch Auditorium. Chancellor Franklin D Murphy will speak along with Rev Harold G Barr Laurel Everette Anderson university organist Roy Hamlin Johnson Ronald Barnes and KU band directed by Russell L Wiley.
The Ministry of Supply announced Britain will conduct its third atomic weapons test next April in the Monte Bella Islands off the northwest Australian coast. The fourth test is planned later in 1956 at the Maralinga proving ground in central Australia.
Memphis Tennessee Mayor Frank T. Tobey aged 64 died yesterday before launching a reelection campaign. His plan to halt the Dixon-Yates power plant and push a municipal generating plant faced criticism from opponent former Mayor S. Watkins Overton. Tobey suffered a heart attack last Wednesday, slipped into a coma Saturday, and never recovered. Tobey began in city government in 1924 as chief of an engineering survey party.
Secretary Donald A. Quarles said the Air Force will neither stiffen nor ease its prisoner of war survival training. Reports on simulated brain washing at Stead Air Force Base Nevada last week drew criticism, but Quarles told CBS the program is justified.
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