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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1961
Page
5
Kansas City AP reports George Powell 36 fell from a barge at the River Rail elevator when a life jacket snagged. The jacket toppled him into the swift Missouri River current, carrying him more than two miles downstream before he could reach driftwood and haul himself to the bank.
Prince Charles aged 12, son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, returns to Cheam School after a summer at Balmoral Castle. Royal barber George Crisp says the cut was needed after hair hung over his ears, giving him a shaggy look before the trim.
Residents of Centerville heard bursts of gun fire Monday evening near Grand Marais Park. Police found Illinois National Guardsmen on maneuvers firing blanks, two squad cars dispatched to the scene.
An informed diplomat said Nathan Barnes of Liberia, president of the Security Council, arranged a private meeting of the ambassadors from Britain France the Soviet Union and the United States to discuss a stop-gap replacement for the late U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in New York.
Fair and warmer tonight with increasing cloudiness. Wednesday looks mild with highs in the upper 70s and a low tonight in the 50s to 58. The forecast calls for continued pleasant conditions and gradually rising temperatures.
Ottawa 1961 United Chest drive opened with an advance gifts breakfast at the North American Hotel attended by 30 workers. Co chairmen Robert S Hill and Dean Berlin outlined a $22 097 goal up about 1000 from last year and urged rapid pledges. General Chairman Lee Casida noted advance gifts usually reach over 65 percent of the total and urged quick effort. Cooperative organizations and contributions listed include Red Cross 5000 Boy Scouts 3300 Salvation Army 2000 Guidance Center 3000 Boys Club 2500 Teens Inc 1800 Girl Scouts 1350 School Welfare 150 Humane Welfare 500 Kansas Children's Service League 800 Well Child Clinic 547 United Cerebral Palsy 1000 Expenses 500.
Siegfried Naujocks of Overseas Weekly was found guilty in Augsburg Germany of slandering Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker. The court fined 1200 marks or 30 days in jail for claiming Walker had a brain tumor based on a purported medical report never produced in court. Army doctors testified no brain tumor existed and Walker sought remedy after the stories surfaced.
Masked gunmen staged the largest jewel robbery of the Riviera summer. Three suspects in blue jeans and scarves robbed Clerc jewelry shop opposite Monte Carlo Casino, forcing an elderly saleswoman to the floor and stealing jewels from display cases. Loot estimated at 500000 or more.
Santa Monica AP reports comedian Frank Fay aged 63 and former Broadway star died Monday night at St. John’s Hospital. He passed at 11:55 p.m. in a coma from a ruptured abdominal aorta with a doctor and nurse present at his side.
Charles Harvey Odom, 29, an ex convict from Wellington Kansas, faces trial November 6 in Joplin on charges of raping 13 year old Wichita girl Lisa Schuh who was kidnapped in Joplin July 23, beaten and raped. Schuh underwent brain surgery and remained in critical condition before recent Springfield hospital release. Defense attorneys Richard Webster of Carthage and Edward G. Farmer of Joplin were appointed by Judge Ray Watson.
Pentagon sources said the Joint Chiefs of Staff are united that nuclear weapons should be used if a military clash with the Soviet Union over Berlin becomes necessary. The Army Navy and Air Force chiefs have long agreed with Secretary McNamara on this policy stance.
President Kennedy signed a bill to create an arms control and disarmament agency in a New York signing ceremony. He named William C. Foster to head the new agency as Moscow radio reported the Soviet Union’s rejection of U S disarmament proposals.
President Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy landed at Quonset Point after their plane blew a tire on the main landing wheel at 2 53 p m in Newport. Five airport fire trucks followed the aircraft while a crowd of about 1000 waited under a hot sun for the Kennedys to proceed to Narragansett Bay by helicopter. The trip to Newport was planned to be by yacht but was changed to a helicopter flight.
Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman canceled six soil bank contracts tied to Wayne E. Tallman of Brandon Colorado. The contracts would have paid about $271,000 over ten years, but the landowner rented to six others who received roughly $108,000 in payments to date. Investigation data has been sent to the Justice Department for further action.
More than 40 people circulate petitions to require a vote on expanding Ottawa's electric power plant. Walter Robe says over 700 have signed against the city selling revenue bonds of 780000 dollars for a 3500 KW duel fuel engine. Calls to sign petitions are taken via CH 23435. Proponents must reach 937 names by Saturday noon to block the ordinance. about 1500 names are being sought.
Charles Erwin Wilson longtime GM head and Eisenhower era defense secretary died at his 4000 acre plantation near Norwood Louisiana around 2:30 am at age 71. He planned to leave for New York Oct. 1. Survivors include his widow Jessie Ann Curtis and six children. Wilson led GM for 11 years and steered it into war material production. He was known as Engine Charley in Washington and had a quick tongue and smile.
East Berlin court sentenced two California students Victor Searles Pankey and Gilbert Page Ferry, both 20, to two years each for attempting to smuggle a East Berlin girl to West Berlin. Other defendants received longer terms including 3% years and 18 months.
Eleven congressmen visiting Italy as part of a centennial celebration were left waiting on a sweltering Rome film set as Elizabeth Taylor failed to greet them. Only three remained long enough to meet Miss Taylor after nearly four hours. her husband Eddie Fisher complained she knew nothing of the delay.
A Topeka traffic death log notes counts by hour from 9 am Tuesday through September 4, 1961, showing 385 fatalities for the period and 353 for the prior 190- hour span. The report references Raney CH 2 3002 as a prescription matter.
Gen Robert L. Fichelberger, 75, led the U S Army in the Pacific in World War II and later headed West Point as superintendent. He guided the amphibious forces in the Philippines campaign, commanded Allied occupation in Japan, and served as secretary of the general staff under MacArthur and Craig. He graduated from West Point in 190.
AP reports the Kansas Corporate Commission will back Santa Fe in its bid to acquire control of Western Pacific Railroad. Santa Fe and Southern Pacific filed applications with the ICC for permission to take control, with Chairman Byrd stating Kansas shippers and config nees would benefit if Santa Fe wins.
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