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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1953
Page
3
Secretary Benson pledged to implement the strict marketing quotas for the 1953 wheat crop in an equitable, constructive way after preliminary results showed 361,392 farmers voting for controls and 53,252 opposing. The 87.2 percent favoring the plan exceeds the two thirds required, with final counts expected to mirror the margin.
A powerful Pacific typhoon neared Okinawa causing alarm at NAHA base. Lt. Jim Wolff said the storm, one of the Western Pacific’s worst, veered south late Saturday and remained about 200 miles away at 3 p.m. Winds reached 138 mph as it moved northwest toward Wenchow. The center was expected to miss Formosa, sparing the island.
Paris reports a waning wave of French strikes with no new walkouts announced on Friday. A few partial breaks appear in the strikers front as workers prepare to return after Assumption Day weekend, the main test coming Monday and Tuesday.
In Columbus Ohio farmers narrowly rejected a plan to set quotas on the 1954 wheat crop. Unofficial tallies show about 66.4 percent voting in favor would have approved, but turnout fell short of the required two thirds. County results listed include Athens Gallia Jackson Meigs Morgan Muskingum Pike Washington Perry and others with mixed supports.
The second hurricane of the season stayed about 206 miles offshore and moved northeast at 27 mph. It passed within 20 miles of Nantucket Island at 4:30 am, delivering 160 mph winds that battered the island and lashed Cape Cod to the north as crowds sought summer refuge.
President Eisenhower appoints Vice President Nixon John Rooseg Negra attorney Wilkins to a new committee tasked with preventing hiring and land filing discrimination in plants with federal contracts.
The Gypsy ceremony, dating to the 14th century, is said to occur annually by harvest moon along the Po River Valley near Gonzaga. Locals report campfires and guitar songs but no confirmed witness to the moonlight dance as skeptics doubt the ancient rite will occur this year.
A Pennsylvanian, Jim Domer, 21, swam for over four hours in the Ohio River at Middleport. He crossed river sections toward West Virginia, resisted arrest, was handcuffed after landing, and jailed as onlookers watched the lengthy water ordeal. Fire crews and authorities coordinated during the event.
Ten people died and 58 were injured after two speeding commuter trains collided head on on a viaduct in Manchester England at 7 40 am. The Bury Manchester electric and Manchester Bacup steam trains derailed and one electric coach fell into the Irk River. Rescue workers found a family of five among the victims and a mother among the dead.
Giuseppe Pella, veteran budget minister, accepts Italy’s premiership and names a new cabinet. De Gasperi is left out of the Foreign Ministry as Pella takes prime minister role and foreign affairs post. Ministers to be sworn in Monday as the crisis tests in the Senate and Chamber.
The VA said it weighs recovery claims individually. It notes Col. William H. Abbott of Ozark Ohio was reported killed in action in January 1951 but released by Communist forces. Abbott’s parents were paid $10,000 under government insurance. a VA committee will review whether repayment is required before any demand.
One man died when a 20 foot span section of the Roscoe Bridge collapsed into the Tuscarawas River at Coshocton. Edgar Redman of Mount Vernon died in the crash. his semi trailer fell 20 feet into five feet of water. A following passenger car landed atop the coal truck. two vehicle occupants were injured.
Four bodies were pulled from the Niagara River over Thursday and Friday, listed as personal crisis reports. Officials note the typical summer total averages about one body per week in the vicinity of the falls resort area.
John Waddell, a 30 year old Baltimore man, jailed without charge in Grafton West Virginia, questioned over possible links to two truck driver killings and a wounding along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. FBI agents planned to arrive from Pittsburgh to examine connections as police describe the shootings as the work of a lone maniac. Waddell was arrested at a truck stop on U S 50 west of Grafton after reports of suspicious behavior by other truckers.
President Elpidio Quirino of the Philippines left Baltimore Saturday bound for home via Washington and San Francisco after a three week stay at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He underwent two stomach operations and doctors pronounced him fit to resume the campaign for re election upon his return.
Princess Anne marks her third birthday with a picnic cake and a tricycle race beside Balmoral Castle. Prince Charles joins the celebration as grouse hunters across the estate add noise while Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Princess Margaret attend with the royal family.
Mason County soldier Sgt. Herbert G. Sayre is reported by communists to have died in Korean prison camps. Sayre, a 24th Infantry Division member from Point Pleasant, was missing since December 1950 and is survived by his parents and three brothers. Also listed as prison camp casualties are Ronald Huffman of Lashmeet and Satai C Thomas Holley of Madison.
Meigs County reports an all time polio surge with two infant victims. Berdel Dwaine Johnson seven months old and Patricia Stethem fifteen months old received treatment at Camden-Clark hospital Parkersburg and Columbus Children’s Hospital respectively.
The Defense Department released names of 33 Americans allegedly “purported” by communist forces to have escaped while in custody in Korean prison camps. The department stressed that none of the reports has been verified. Ohioans identified include Peares Identz, 21, of Brilliant, and Cpl. Joseph C. Brown of Briggsdale.
Two motorists from Detroit, Leslie Warden and his wife Eilen, were injured when their car swerved from Route 17 near Winfield and hit a ditch then a bank. Leslie was not admitted, Eilen was treated for fractured ribs and contusions and kept for observation. Sheriff Martin Wade and Deputy G L Colben investigated.
In Casablanca Moroccan Berber chieftains announce Moulay Mohammed Ben Arafa 712 as leader of the faithful, a Moslem title held by Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef 44, his nephew. French officials hope the move avoids a protectorate civil war.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles convention elected Robert W. Hanson of Milwaukee as president Carl J. McGriff of South Bend as vice president and William G. Watson of Zanesville Ohio as secretary at the Indianapolis gathering
Operation Big Switch reaches halfway with Allies returning 2400 North Koreans and 412 Allied prisoners promised by Reds. Nine Americans hurt by flying glass as South Korean civilians stone Red POWs. 311 Reds injured. By start of exchange, 91824 Reds and 4790 Allies handed over, with 31 percent of Americans repatriated. An Air Force flight landed 9 Americans at Travis, and Gen W F L, with 457 aboard, heads to either San Francisco or Seattle.
Lancaster report says Elizabeth Rhodeback, held without charge, was accused after coroner findings linked Byron Rhodeback’s death to blunt force trauma from a bottle during a homicide. Authorities described multiple injuries including skull fractures and hemorrhage.
A severe flash flood near Kyoto caused at least 143 to 146 deaths with 150 injured and many missing. A dam east of Ide village overflowed flooding homes and washing away half the southern suburb. Torrential rains began Friday night according to Japanese police.
Athens reports the SS Franklin D Roosevelt joins the international relief fleet off Argos to serve as a floating base for air relief missions after the Ionian quake. The U S ship anchors with seven sapper vessels to aid the islands of Ithaca and Zakynthos as casualties exceed 100. Vice Admiral Cassady says the situation remains serious but relief operations proceed smoothly and temperatures rise.
Common Pleas Judge Clifford L. Bell sentenced four Barnesville Manufacturing Co. workers to 20 days in jail and fined over 300 dollars for contempt of a temporary restraining order. The defendants Esther Johnson Ruth Baker Martha Jewell and Joseph F E Walker violated the order. Walker is Pittsburgh district board representative of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. The restraining order was issued on a petition by Schrank Co of Bridgton New Jersey.
Cedar Point Ohio reports a second attempt by a grandfather to swim Lake Erie ended when waves overwhelmed him. He gave up after more than an hour, having reached about two thirds of the 30 mile distance before the swim was called off. William Sadile was said to have planned the feat.
Dr Charles Abbott, 61, former Smithsonian secretary and solar radiation expert, predicts a prolonged drought in the Southwest and a hotter, drier year ahead. He bases forecasts on 22 1/2 year climate cycles and envisions future maps predicting weather a decade in advance for farmers and industries.
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