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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1962
Page
1
The United States presented a 35 page draft at the 17 nation disarmament conference proposing a spot check system to verify arms reductions. Inspectors would sample one district per power to estimate total military strength, aiming to freeze positions near their start.
Moscow broadbands attack the European Common Market and the U S backed Alliance for Progress in Latin America. Soviet outlets label the Latin America aid plan an alliance for plunder while warning of threats to Western integration and Communist expansion.
A North Derby special parliamentary election yielded a Labour win with Liberal gains pushing the Conservative candidate to third. The result echoes five recent special-election defeats for Macmillan's party, with Conservative defections leaning Liberal and prompting warnings from the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph that Liberals threaten a split in the next general election.
Ohio State agronomist reports severe winter weather has destroyed much winter wheat in the state, with the northwest hardest hit. In other items two Russians who fled to the West say they will return home after being approached as spies, Seaway officials set the St. Lawrence Seaway opening to April 24, and President Kennedy and family depart for Easter vacation in Palm Beach Florida.
In NEW ORLEANS Bernard Gaillot requests Archbishop Rummel grant him excommunication after his wife, 41, was excommunicated for opposing desegregation of parochial schools. She pleaded for mercy, insisting God demands segregation, while the archbishop continued a prayer vigil with a pilgrimage group.
In Tunis the Moslem nationalist rebels grow impatient as European right wing terrorists in Algeria’s major cities persist in killings to provoke a Moslem backlash. Rebels largely observe the cease-fire while France forms a provisional government and prepares a self-determination referendum from Rocher Noir near Algiers.
European Economic Community ministers fail to extend economic unity into politics as Belgium and the Netherlands insist Britain join talks. Spaak and Luns blocked plans after six nations agreed political association should be sent to London for comment.
For the tenth straight year an anonymous taxpayer signs as "1" and sends cash totaling 641 dollars to the Richmond IRS office with a postmark. The accompanying note reads simply: Apply to my income tax. XYZ.
Detroit is to have mediation today over a long running labor dispute that halted weekday editions of the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Police Commissioner George Edwards will preside as mediator after the agreement was finalized by the Detroit Newspaper Publishers Association and the Teamsters Union. Edwards is a former Michigan Supreme Court chief justice and ex United Auto Workers organizer.
Lake Village Arkansas James Weir loses 944 acre farm over federal crop allotment dispute Auction notes 125 area farmers attend sale Tuesday L J Warren of Lake Providence Louisiana buys farm for 60000 Weir valued the farm at 300000 Government seeks 16972 for overplanting 1959 rice allotment Weir contends allotments unconstitutional Judge J Smith Henley upheld the program and issued a judgment over 22000 February 12.
Gainesville report identifies a skull found along a Florida highway as John C. Jackson 20 of North College Hill Ohio. Jackson’s stepfather John A. Cooper of North College Hill said he killed him with a hammer on January 21. Cooper is jailed in Cincinnati on manslaughter and mutilating a body charges. other body parts were found along Georgia and Florida roads.
Western Electric officials testified they paid the government 3 million to rent factory space and recouped the money with a 290000 profit through the Nike missile contract. They said profits on the Nike system reached about 169 million, or 13 percent of invested capital, a figure questioned by subcommittee chair John L. McClellan as high. The panel described the arrangement as recovering costs plus profit on each Nike contract, with rent folded into the bill.
Branden burg Kentucky reports four explosions at the Olin Mathieson Chemical plant after a defective valve mixed ammonia with ethylene oxide. The blasts damaged 10 buildings, caused about 8 million dollars in damage, and left 3 of 29 injured in serious condition. The firm planned limited production in the organic chemical section with most operations resuming Thursday.
Kent State University students at Lake and Dunbar halls report 14 days of continuous telephone talk beating Western Michigan University’s record and aiming for the national mark set by California Polytechnic Institute.
President Kennedy seeks amicable steel relations after talks with Roger M. Blough of U S Steel. He emphasizes free enterprise and minimal government role while protecting public interests and preventing inflationary spiral.
Wiesbaden Germany court martial convicts Air Force Captain Joseph P. Kauffman of 20 years hard labor and dismissal for supplying East German intelligence with U S base data and officer information. Sentence to be reviewed by higher authorities. Kauffman led away to stockade after brief attorney consultation.
Washington The Estes fraud investigation prompts the resignation of Alice Morris, a part time secretary in Rep. Ed Edmondson's office. Morris is wife of William Morris, a $14 380 a year aide to the Agriculture credit director who was fired for not appearing to discuss Estes. Morris had been writing a question and answer column from Washington for a Pecos Texas newspaper reportedly owned by Estes.
Washington President Kennedy's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity barred two firms from further government contracts until they correct questioned racial policies.
Three East Germans rammed a gravel filled truck through a bar rier into West Berlin. The driver was killed by Red fire and a companion wounded during the incident.
Washington officials report the Air Line Pilots Association postponed indefinitely a 1400 pilot walkout at Pan American amid a crew dispute. Secretary Goldberg will deliver final word on the matter today as the strike deadline nears. In California, Natalie Wood filed for divorce from Robert Wagner after long marriage.
In California voters on June 5 face a Birch Society test as three candidates seek Republican nomination for Congress. Incumbents with varying experience are favored for renomination while Rep. John H. Rousselot, 32, a Birch member and Nixon ally, draws close scrutiny in the 25th District. In Washington, private housing starts surged last month prompting forecasts of 1.4 million starts for the year.
In a Rome feature titled Cowboy in Italy a gun slinger born in Italy returns from America to fight for his land and family. The outlaw clashes with a tenant farmer landlord, faces a fatal family tragedy, and forms a gang before a fatal brawl with the attorney’s sister. Filming starts in May.
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