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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1966
Page
1
Soviet news agency Tass reports radio contact with Luna 9 on the Moon’s surface is reliable and transmissions on 183 538 megacycles. Instruments function normally with at least three additional trips planned.
CAPE KENNEDY Fla Officials hailed the Luna 9 soft moon landing as proof man can explore the moon safely. The achievement adds pressure on the US Surveyor program which aims for a May landing. Prior to Luna 9 scientists debated lunar surface support.
Space history list recounts Sputnik 1 to Luna 9 milestones. US and USSR rivalry highlights include first manned flights, space walks, and rendezvous attempts. Despite Soviet Luna 9 success, US leads in flight time and rendezvous as Apollo aims for 1970 landing.
Senate Democratic Leader Mansfield plans to file a cloture petition to end the union shop filibuster on the 14B Taft Hartley bill. If fails, another petition will trigger successive votes. last October cloture fell short 45 to 47. House supported the measure July 221 to 203 with President Johnson endorsing it.
Thomas Perschbacher, 68, of Carlsbad told police his accelerator jammed while backing from a driveway. The car struck a street sign, damaged a porch, tore a house corner, sliced a clothes line, toppled a carport support, breached a fence, pierced a wall and ended in a kitchen. No injuries or charges reported.
The State Department revoked the passports of seven individuals including Yale professor Staughton Lynd for an unauthorized December trip to North Viet Nam. Also affected were Lynds two companions, Herbert Aptheker and Thomas E. Hayden. Herbert J. Yates, retired Republic Pictures president, died at 85 after a stroke in Italy. New Mexico becomes the 17th state to ratify the presidential succession amendment.
Cleveland manager praises Dave Wickersham as a real fine pitcher. Logan Trade Club touts Southeast Ohio as the state's greatest growth potential. Athens digs out from winter’s worst snow. Messenger Snowphotos featured on page 2.
Meigs County soldier Pfc. Calvin C. Tolley Carpenter 21 was killed January 29 during a helicopter operation in Vietnam. He attended Albany High School and re enlisted for six years last fall. Survived by parents two sisters two brothers a stepbrother three stepsisters and several grandparents. Body to Bigony Funeral Home with funeral arrangements pending.
Hollywood reports Hedy Lamarr was dismissed from Picture Mommy Dead after collapsing from exhaustion and missing work. Producer Bert J. Gordon said she was not fired for a shoplifting arrest unrelated to the film. Zsa Zsa Gabor replaces her in the movie.
U S jets hit North Viet Nam amid rising losses as two American aircraft go missing and a Ranger air crew is listed as missing. Ground clashes in South Viet Nam reduce to light returns while Operation White Wing, led by the 1st Cavalry Air Mobile, reshapes the central coast campaign.
Christine Van Cleve 19 baked a sauerkraut cake for Governor James A. Rhodes to promote Ohio agricultural products. She mixed sauerkraut into a cake using a standard mix, baked it for longer than usual, and shared it with Rhodes and Development Director Fred Neuenschwander as photographers captured the moment.
Dr Gilbert H Grosvenor 90 chairman of the National Geographic Society died at his Baddeck Nova Scotia home. He had led the society since 1954 and served as editor of National Geographic from 1899 to 1954.
A three engine Boeing 727 operated by All Nippon Airways crashed into Tokyo Bay killing 133 people and leaving no survivors. All aboard were Japanese and the plane vanished six to eight miles from Tokyo International Airport during a 600 mile flight from Chitose. Debris and bodies were found by a lighthouse ship and rescue boats. The crash is the deadliest single plane accident world wide at the time. The report notes prior major crashes for comparison and cites witnesses of a pillar of fire.
Virgil Gordon of Port Clinton urged creation of county historian posts before a legislative study committee studying preservation of Ohio historical places. The proposal, heard by Rep. Clara Weisenborn’s committee, would help preserve records and documents at risk of deterioration, with Trumbull County Heritage Society backing it.
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