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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1960
Page
1
Campaigning peaks in Wisconsin as voters prepare to vote in the crucial presidential primary. Officials expect up to a million or more citizens to cast ballots on Tuesday, shaping the race.
Merchants in Marshall Texas moved to counter a threatened boycott by integration seeking Negroes amid sit in demonstrations in Greensboro activists urge adults to act. Negro protesters were arrested and released on bond as the boycott talk surfaced.
Police and troops used clubs and raids to break a native stay-at-home movement in Cape Town as shootings were heard in Nyanga East. Reports said two killed and three wounded, with further injuries as demonstrations continued near Durban and other areas across South Africa.
Washington leaders pushed to speed the long Senate civil rights fight now in its eighth week. A compromise repealed a proposed requirement for public hearings by court appointed voting referees protesting Negro voting rights, clearing a major roadblock as other amendments were merged into the House bill.
Larry Earl Rodman 24 of Canton, a trusty who fled Mansfield Reformatory camp, surrendered to police at a South Amherst roadblock after a chase on Ohio 61 at 100 mph. The pursuit began in Norwalk where state patrol spotted him late Sunday night.
Premier Khrushchev said the Soviet Union would push for a German peace treaty on terms acceptable to the West. He reiterated support for separate pacts with East and West Germany, a plan the West repeatedly rejected. He criticized Adenauer for seeking a cold war coalition to block a treaty.
Toronto engagement ends as Sammy Davis Jr. and 22 year old Toronto singer Joan Stuart part ways. Stuart cites Davis debts and his commitments making the match impractical, ending the relationship in Toronto.
Joseph R. Dischine a Lee High civics teacher pleaded guilty to bigamy in Lee District Court and faced $700 bail. He admitted two marriages and four children kept in homes eight miles apart for seven months. The first wife Mary and the second wife Margaret Burnhop lived in separate homes while Dischine worked at a South Lee resort to explain absences.
A first look at Project Ozma begins as Dr. Frank Drake and team install a radio telescope at Green Bank West Virginia to listen for intelligent signals from nearby stars and potential planets. The effort aims to catch messages from distant life with an 85 foot dish and planned month long listening period.
Police seek a man who checked into two Boston hotels over the weekend leaving a dead woman in each room. Autopsies show no injury, chemical tests planned to probe possible poison. The suspect used a false Norwood address. victims are Anna Kennedy 74 of South End and Joan Pelechowicz 24 of Roxbury.
Four boys aged 16 to 17 escaped from Zaleski Youth Camp Sunday around 9 p.m. They have not been found. Authorities and camp staff conducted an overnight search with no trace. Investigations indicate the escape had been planned for some time. The camp, with about 45 boys from 315, runs on an honor system.
Republicans gear up for a pivotal North Dakota special election on June 28 with Barry Goldwater predicting outcomes will influence the national race. He urges Richard Nixon to address farm issues in the state as protests against Ezra Taft Benson policies stir GOP defections. Nelson Rockefeller plans a two day North Dakota tour.
The Daily Mail reports from Hong Kong that Joan Chase Hinton, 39, a former University of Chicago student and welfare worker since 1948, aided Chinese Communists in developing their first atomic bomb and that they planned a June or July detonation. Her mother ran the Putney School in Vermont.
Dr Harold Raymond Nelson age 55 longtime manager of the physics department at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus and notable figure in atomic energy died Sunday in the British West Indies from injuries suffered in a boating accident.
The Mississippi River breached a levee near Meyer Illinois flooding about 30 000 acres of corn and wheatland. The river reached 24 02 feet at Quincy prompting evacuations for Meyer War saw Alexandria and Canton and Alexdria Missouri. Red Cross tallies 28 000 affected with damage running into millions.
The Ohio River has risen to crest at Gallipolis about 7 a.m. Sunday at 44.6 feet, five feet below flood stage, with all downstream crests expected below flood thresholds. Rain across Ohio Sunday did not create new concerns. traffic between Gallipolis and Chesapeake over Route 7 was flooded and detoured, while Point Pleasant saw a crest just above flood stage.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur is out of Lenox Hill Hospital and says he feels fine. The 84 year old general left the hospital Sunday after an operation on March 19 to remove his prostate gland following a January 29 admission.
Rexford Willard Carmichael, an escapee from a 1941 road gang, confesses to Police Chief Engleman that he served time for a 1989 Parkersburg burglary. A Sumner County delegation plans to urge Gov. Buford Ellington to help, citing 19 years of quiet life in Gallatin and family ties. He says he used his own name and chose not to flee again.
Gov. Michael V. DiSalle pledged prompt state help to Geauga County Engineer Clyde Pomeroy to salvage the county roads after about 1.25 inches of rain left 400 miles of unpaved roads impassable. West Geauga schools canceled bus service and declared this week a vacation, while county officials plan for the standard spring break next week for other districts.
Toledo police say weekend investigation yielded no clues in the death of 59 year old Marguerette Nape found in her home Friday. She was strangled and shot with a .22 caliber pistol, a stocking around her neck.
Rep Wayne L Hayes of Ohio will deliver the keynote for the Democratic mock convention at Kent State University on Friday evening. Hayes sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and will speak Friday.
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