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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1962

Page

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Jackie Leaves Italy on Amalfi Coast Holiday

Jacqueline Kennedy and Caroline bade farewell to the Amalfi coast ending a 23 day Italian holiday. They depart Rome at 7 31 a.m. EST aboard Pan American for New York and proceed to Quonset Point Rhode Island. President Kennedy plans to join them for the Labor Day weekend at Hammersmith Farm Newport. The family engaged in swimming water skiing and yachting during their Amalfi sojourn.

Ravello Italy Jacqueline Kennedy Caroline Rome Pan American World Airways New York Kennedy Quonset Point Naval Station Rhode Island White House Washington Quonset Point Hammersmith Farm Newport

Plan Aims Nuclear Test Ban by 1963

The United States proposes continued talks among the three nuclear powers during the recess to seek a test ban by year end. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean said the American British and Soviet subcommittee could finish by November 1 to make a treaty effective by January 1, 1963. The conference recesses September 8 to November 12 as negotiators report to the UN General Assembly. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasili Kuznetsov said Moscow will study the proposal.

Geneva United States U. S Arthur H. Dean UN General Assembly Vasily Kuznetsov

Space Agency Launch Tests Heat Shield at Ocean Reentry Pace

Space Agency scientists launched a four stage Scout rocket from Wallops Island Virginia to study heat shields for high speed atmospheric reentry. The test reached about 80 miles high and was expected to land in the Atlantic near 100 miles east of Bermuda with no recovery attempt.

Wallops Island P—Space Agency Atlantic Bermuda

Firefighters Begin Mop Up Operations North of Los Angeles

Firefighters started mop up work on two mountain brush fires north of Los Angeles after containment of one and control of the other. Moist ocean winds aided crews as they gained the upper hand Thursday night.

Los Angeles

Rail Officials Seek End To Walkout In Mediation Talks

Chicago and North Western Railway leaders and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers met at a federal mediation session in a hotel dining room urged by Francis A. O Neill Jr. of the National Mediation Board to settle the strike that halted 1000 telegraphers and idled 16 500 workers, with little hope of quick resolution. The ghost carrier disruption affects the Midwestern network as negotiations continue.

S—W. Willard Wirtz Lower Chicago Adlai Stevenson Kennedy Arthur J. Goldberg United States Supreme Court Goldberg Richard Daley Chicago and Northwestern Felix Frankfurter Chicago —P Chicago and North Western Railway Francis A. O'Neill Jr National Mediation Board O’neill North Western

Nuclear Ship Narrowly Avoids Collision in Hampton Roads

The nuclear merchant ship Savannah skirted a crash with the destroyer Stickell by about two feet as both entered Hampton Roads on the Savannah's maiden voyage. A Navy spokesman said Stickell sounded emergency signals and backed away, one of seven destroyers in the narrow channel.

Norfolk Savannah Hampton Roads Stickell Navy

U S Appeals to NATO Allies on Cuban Shipments

Washington reports that American appeals to NATO allies to discourage Communist bloc shipments to Cuba have drawn limited but generally satisfactory replies. The United States raised the Cuban issue at NATO Council meetings in Paris and plans to again do so amid a new wave of Russian shipments.

Washington U. S NATO Cuba United States North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council Paris

John Glenn Day Highlight At Ohio State Fair

Ohio State Fair reaches day seven with John Glenn Day drawing crowds and awards. Astronaut John Glenn of New Concord arrives around 11 a.m. to view exhibits, deliver a youth message, and present prizes with Gov. DiSalle. Attendance so far tops 220,000, exceeding last year’s eight day total.

Columbus John Glenn New Concord Fairgrounds Glenn Oqohio Michael V. DiSalle DiSalle Ohio Fair Managers Association

Kennedy signs the communications satellite bill

President Kennedy signs the satellite bill creating a privately owned corporation to run a global messaging and picture network. He states safeguards protect public interest and no single entity will dominate the venture while promising wide access and lower cost communications worldwide.

Washington ——P Kennedy Congress

Guerrillas Shoot Down Hel icopters in South Viet Nam

Communist guerrillas shot down two U S Army helicopters in South Viet Nam’s central highlands wounding four American advisers who were evacuted after the incident. The men were not seriously hurt and their names were kept private.

Saigon South Viet Nam U. S

Remarkable Girl Defies Odds Relearning to Swim

Dell Derrien of Sheboygan, paralyzed and deaf seven years ago, has regained most faculties and learned to swim. Her aunt Mrs. Lorren Friedrichs described her recovery at a New York conference, noting Derrien now walks with a wheelchair, reads lips, and works part time as a photo retoucher while awaiting her brother Dermis’s Navy release in mid September.

Sheboygan Wis Dell Derrien New York American Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Lorren Friedrichs Miss _ Derrien Della Dermis

Steel firms defy Senate subpoenas in Kefauver probe

Top executives of four large steel companies did not appear before the Senate Anti trust subcommittee, refusing to provide data on production costs. Senator Estes Kefauver called the move willful contempt and urged citing the executives for contempt as the panel prepared to meet in closed session.

Washington Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Sen. Estes Kefauver Dtenn Congress

Guard Units Are Settled On Himalayan Frontier

Reports from the Indian protected border state of Sikkim say the Communist Chinese army is settling farmer guards along the Himalayan frontier to secure the Tibetan border. The guards sometimes are families and are tasked with converting Tibetans to communism and promoting Chinese life ways. Also Havana radio announced six Cuban counter revolutionaries sentenced to a firing squad for killing four militiamen in Matanzas Province.

Gangtok Sikkim Key West Fla Havana Radio Matanzas

Fresno flight lands after hydraulic leak forces Gov Brown to abort

A plane carrying Governor Edmund G. Brown and his wife landed in Fresno after a hydraulic fluid leak sprayed the cabin. No injuries were reported. In Hong Kong, Typhoon Wanda nears as rains hoped to alleviate water shortages in the British colony’s refugee camps.

Fresno Calif Edmund G. Brown Hong Kong Wanda

Peace Corps Volunteers Complete Training At OU

Forty volunteers finished an eight week Peace Corps training at Ohio University and received graduation certificates at Baker Center dinner. Ambassador Jacques Kuoh Moukouri and his family attended from Washington with greetings from Cameroon where the volunteers will serve two years. Dr. Joseph F. Kauffman spoke on the program’s benefits beyond teaching and development and noted 1300 volunteers overseas and 2500 more trained this summer.

Peace Corps Ohio University Joseph Zasloff Jacques Kuoh Moukouri Cameroon Joseph Kauffman Roy Fairfield U. S. Peace Corps Baker Center Repre Federal Republic of Kuoh Washington, D.C Bassador Kuoh Cameroons Joseph F. Kauffman Kauffman America Sargent Shriver Singapore

Sophia Loren Marriage Voided in Mexican Court

A Mexican court voided the proxy marriage of film star Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti, potentially averting an Italian bigamy trial. Loren’s Mexican attorney said a decree would be announced today, with Milan and Juarez authorities confirming the nullification.

Milan Italy Sophia Loren Carlo Ponti Juarez Mexico Antonio

Transfer of 2.3 Million for State Relief Match

The Controlling Board approved moving 2.3 million dollars to enable Ohio to match county poor relief expenditures for July. Welfare Director Mary Gorman led the transfer from fourth quarter funds to the first quarter of the new fiscal year starting July 1. House Speaker Roger Cloud supported the move, citing the state obligation to match despite questions about high relief costs.

Columbus Mary Gorman Roger Cloud R-Logan

VP Dances With Turkish Girls in Nicosia Streets

In Nicosia Cyprus the U S vice president Lyndon B Johnson and his wife danced in the Turkish quarter amid cheering crowds during a 24 hour state visit. A separate item notes a Alaska crash near Seldovia killing five aboard a twin engine plane en route to Homer. A Columbus report says Highway Safety Director J Grant Keys will resign September 15 to campaign for the 13th district Democrat candidate.

Nicosia Cyprus P—U. S Lyndon B. Johnson Seldovia Alaska Kenai Peninsula Homer Seattle Columbus J. Grant Keys

Ulbricht Leaves Moscow for East Berlin

Walter Ulbricht, leader of East German communist party and government, departed Moscow today for East Berlin signaling a high level political move amid Cold War tensions.

Moscow Walter Ulbricht East Berlin

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