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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1961
Page
1
Cape Canaveral reports forecast squalls in the Atlantic cast doubt on astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. reaching space this week. Space scientists now target Friday for the man in space attempt after Tuesday's weather delay.
The Ander son Urban League announced Dr. Lester B. Granger cannot address the 35th Anniversary Banquet on May 11 at Linder's. Julius A. Thomas will replace him as principal speaker. Granger due to duties in Washington and retirement later this year.
A Titan missile emerged from its underground lair at Vandenberg AFB in a successful first test of a hardened ICBM launch system. After withstanding two stress periods, the missile was intentionally destroyed about 40 miles down the Pacific range. The system promises a 5,000 mile plus range and a resilient reply to atomic attack.
Congress approves a two stage plan to raise the federal minimum wage from $1 to $1.15 within four months and to $1.25 two years later, extending wage hours coverage to 3.6 million workers. The House 230-196 and Senate 64-28 votes advance the measure to President Kennedy for signature.
At a public port site hearing in Indianapolis about 100 witnesses urged a solution that would give Indiana a Lake Michigan seaport while preserving dunes lands. The plan centers on a revised save-the-dunes bill in Congress by Sen. Paul Douglas and a Burns Ditch site in Porter County. Governors and port officials voiced cautious support, stressing economic growth and dune protection.
Federal and state officers seized distillery equipment at the home of Brian Lake near Clinton Indiana after Lake, 55, was arrested for selling untaxed whisky. Lake said the gear was for hog feed. He appeared before U S Commissioner Robert Duffy in Terre Haute on a charge of possessing selling and transporting untaxed liquor and was released on $1000 bond.
Washington UPI reports a quip about Interior Secretary Stewart Udall provoking Rep. Earl Wilson to joke that the era shows no difference between Eisenhower and Kennedy. The verse compares UDs to the U2 affair and critiques the oilmen’s lobbying climate.
A meeting of interested women formed plans for an Anderson Christian Center Auxiliary drawn from area church groups. The group aims to support the Center’s work aiding alcoholics and parolees while promoting adult education, crafts, and community service through future street socials and fundraisers.
Twenty nine Madison County residents were honored for scholastic achievements at Indiana University's Founders Day Convocation marking IU’s 141st anniversary. The event featured Dean Maynard Hine speaking, Deans Lists and honors, a scene from The Scarlet Letter, and an outdoor concert plus a pilgrimage to Andrew Wylie’s grave. Local honorees span Alexandria, Anderson, Chesterfield, Elwood, Lapel, Middletown, and Summitville with students listed by town.
A large barn at the Charles Emel farm on Rt. 2 burned to the ground as Anderson and Alexandria fire crews battled the blaze. Firefighters said the fire started near two corn cribs and spread to the barn. the Moonville area farm suffered the loss with no damage estimate available. Firefighters also handled a Davenport fire on Sherman Street and a smoking fluorescent light at Seventh Street School.
Rebel Laotian forces launch heavy new attacks in southern Laos despite appeals for a cease-fire. Pathet Lao units violate a local truce near Vientiane as Prince Souvanna Phouma calls for tri partite talks. Reports describe refugees fleeing Nam Tha and Muong Phalane as fighting widens near Viet Nam border.
A 93 ton sailing school brigantine Albatross sank in a Gulf storm with 19 aboard. six dead, 13 survivors including captain and 10 students. Coast Guard teams searched 125 miles west of the Dry Tortugas finding oil slicks but no more survivors. The vessel was en route from Progreso Mexico to Nassau with plans to reach Tampa.
President Kennedy names Dr. James R. Killian Jr. to lead a permanent board monitoring the CIA and U.S. intelligence. Killian, MIT president and former Eisenhower science adviser, succeeds Maj. Gen. Hull as chair. The board, reconstituted, will provide independent evaluations to the President as congressional scrutiny grows.
Julia Turnquist of Madison Heights High School Nathan C Martin of Anderson High School Eric L Michael and Arlene Modlin of Lapel High School won medals in finals of the 47th annual state high school contests in Latin mathematics Spanish and English at Indiana University Saturday Competing were 1200 regional winners from 36 Indiana cities Forty one students earned first place gold medals ninety second place silvers and 172 third place bronzes Turnquist won gold in English Martin bronze in geometry Michael silver in comprehensive mathematics and Modlin bronze in Latin I
The Associated Press reports Indiana remaining chilly with temperatures up to eight degrees below normal. Readings reached 30 at Shoals, 32 at Spencer, and 33 in Indianapolis, breaking the old May 3 cold record. Forecasters predict showers in southern and central Indiana, with rivers Wabash and White nearing or cresting flood stages.
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