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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1962
Page
1
FBI data show nearly 400 hoax bomb reports over six years. Most perpetrators were mature adults linked to business, described as perverted jokers acting from warped humor or liquor. Cases include a Fall River partner fined 250, a lawyer jailed and fined 1000, and a Denver man given four months for false bomb alerts.
Washington Daily News shows Tom Kelly’s left eye after a punch from Edwin A. Walker the former general. Kelly sought to question Walker about Rockwell and received a right jab. The Army provided Walker’s height and weight: 6 feet, 200 pounds. Kelly is 5 feet 6, 155 pounds.
In Courmayeur Italy snow slides buried bunkhouses as workers slept three bodies recovered and three others injured in the Mt Blanc tunnel project near completion of the 7.2 mile route linking Courmayeur to Chamonix. A search continues for further casualties as the project nears opening to traffic next year.
President Kennedy proposes sweeping transport reforms with rate cuts and tax changes. House committees must act first, with leaders split over timeline. Ways and Means eyes quick action on Korea tax extension to July 1. Repeal of 10 percent surface ticket tax and 5 percent airline tax favored, but full passage unlikely this year.
Cuban authorities report seven North American citizens described as apparently frogmen were arrested on the northern coast of Oriente Province. They were detained after a 5 am pickup and are under investigation for their presence. Miami reports speculation they were treasure hunters sailing from Pompano Beach, Florida. The Coast Guard issued an alert for the overdue motorboat Pisces, linked to the seven divers.
Cairo sources report President Gamal Abdel Nasser opposes a tight Syria Egypt merger after last year’s bitter split. The upheaval in Syria continues without signs of a revival of the previous Syrian Egyptian partnership.
Damascus Radio on Thursday announced a new ruling military command forming to lead with a goal of unity among liberated Arab powers. The statement stressed that unity must be on a sound basis while maintaining each nation’s identity.
Cairo struggles to define Syria's future amid mixed signals from officials and press. Gen Assassa gains influence as factions suspect a plot to derail the unity with Nasser's UAR while a planned plebiscite on Syria's ties is awaited.
Washington Asto naut John H Glenn Jr urged ham sandwiches for orbiting spacemen noting his own experience with tube fed foods like apple sauce. The NASA report on his triple earth orbit praised the mission as a major milestone and confirmed his health was normal aside from minor knuckle injuries from the capsule hatch.
Biomedical experts reveal that John H. Glenn Jr. carried four automatic self injectors in his survival kit for pain shock motion sickness and a stimulant. He did not use them during or after the February three orbit mission.
A 36-year-old former prisoner paroled Wednesday from Ohio Penitentiary collapsed and died at breakfast in Columbus city jail. Detectives identified him as John E. Stinson of Phoenix City Alabama and said he probably died of natural causes.
An old Want Ads notice reports a chrome kitchen sink sale that drew three call inquiries. A Millfield buyer acted on the item, and the ad urged others to call LY 3-1242 to list surplus furniture and appliances for fast cash.
Dr. George A. Bowman of Kent State University defended a student telephone marathon amid criticism by State Rep James Thorpe. He argued the activity channels spring energy in an orderly way rather than destructively as the Michigan record for continuous calls in a dorm talkathon nears 14 days.
Ohio River barge engineer Stanley Epling, 57, of Point Pleasant, was reported missing and feared drowned after being last seen at 8 30 p m Wednesday aboard an Epling Ohio River Sand and Gravel Co barge near the Vanadium Corp plant at Graham Station West Virginia He was greasing a clamshell when last seen and a search by Middleport emergency squad followed.
LOS ANGELES The murder and conspiracy case against ex gambler Mickey Cohen and four associates went to a Superior Court jury of 11 women and 1 man. Deliberations lasted two hours before the panel was locked in for the night. defendants LoCigno De Carlo Perry and Leonard faced charges of conspiring to kill Jack Whalen and carrying out the plan on December 2, 1959.
Columbus police vice squad arrested five people including a Newark woman in a numbers raid at a Brunson Avenue residence. They seized more than 3000 dollars in numbers tickets and cash.
The Senate backed Kennedy’s bid to extend 100 million in aid to the United Nations with a 70 to 22 vote. The plan allows a loan on flexible terms or bonds with 2 percent interest repayable over 25 years, with a matching pledge by other UN members for loans above 25 million.
Two Army generals testified that all U S soldiers and officers now undergo special training and indoctrination on Communist tactics. They said the aim is to prevent scenarios like wartime prisoner collusion and to guide behavior if captured.
Justice Felix Frankfurter, 79, the oldest on the Supreme Court bench, was taken by ambulance to George Washington University Hospital in Washington after collapsing at his desk. A hospital spokesman said he rested comfortably and appeared in very satisfactory condition, with tests to follow. His secretary said he was doing fine and had not suffered a heart attack.
Ohio's two Democratic senators Stephen M. Young and Frank Lausche backed the United Nations financing bill which passed the Senate 70 to 22 Thursday night.
The Army plans to disband about 824 small Reserve Guard units nationwide, cutting Guard strength by 58,000 men. The move would reduce the number of lesser outfits by about 10 percent of the 8800 in the Guard and Reserve, according to informed sources.
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