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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1967
Page
1
Cincinnati reports James R. Hoffa seeks a stay of prison terms as the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hears arguments on his motion for a new trial after a jury tampering charge.
The Ohio Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today on the states new apportionment system and decide if the State Apportionment Board acted legally in 1965 when it apportioned the state for legislators elected last November.
Tiny Talitha Harris, the smallest of four surviving Harris quintuplets, died today of cardiac arrest from pneumonia. Two sisters and a brother were reported in good condition. The quints were born last Wednesday in Brooklyn. a fifth infant died at birth.
An old Hocking real estate volume recovered in the courthouse attic surfaces a radar system purchase discussed at the Pomeroy council meeting. Ames Bern tops Class A basketball in Ohio. Voter registration extended to residents in Athens County with several area towns listed for polling details.
A major blizzard from a South Carolina storm center shuts New York City schools, disrupts traffic, and dumps heavy snow along the Eastern Seaboard. Snow depths reach six to eight inches in many areas as gusty winds drift streets and trigger state emergency plans. In Ohio, an 86 year old man and five others die from storm related shoveling incidents as Cleveland sees five inches of snow.
London AP reporting no shift in Soviet stance on Vietnam after three hour private talks between Prime Ministers Kosygin and Wilson at No 10 Downing Street. Kosygin pressed US bombing pause while Wilson urged a prolonged pause for new peace moves amid protests outside the hotel and heavy security by Scotland Yard. British hopes focus on expanding trade and tech exchanges with the Soviets.
Viet Cong shelled four airfields as a four day cease fire nears, with 143 Communist soldiers killed in ground fighting. U S and South Vietnamese forces halt offensive actions for four days, while Viet Cong declares a seven day truce. Air war persists in North Vietnam as weather limits strikes. A U S Air Force plane was shot down and a rescue helicopter downed. others rescued. Allied forces pull back to defensive positions as Tet begins.
Washington AP Chairman Richard B Russell of the Senate Armed Services Committee said the military is guilty of great derelictions in security in guarding U S air fields and ammunition dumps in Vietnam. He cited the Pentagon announcement doubling the publicly acknowledged toll of U S aircraft in Southeast Asia as evidence of a security gap and said operating conditions at airfields are not good.
Senator Kennedy told President Johnson after a White House briefing that he did not bring peace feelers from Europe. He noted French President de Gaulle urged a US withdrawal timetable for any talks, while lower French officials showed more flexibility contact Hanoi envoys.
In Columbus, GOP leaders pressed for a Senate vote on the legislative apportionment plan and laid out a strategy to place it on a statewide May primary ballot. The bond bill and district plan require voter approval, with the bond bill pending in the House. Senate hearings on a special elections bill could offer May or June ballot options at an estimated cost of 2.5 million.
Power officials in Watertown South Dakota schedule a major test linking United States and Canada through the Bureau of Reclamation Missouri River Basin Project. The effort ties 209 public and private power systems via 265000 miles of lines and 245 million kilowatts capacity, centered at a 15000 resident substation.
Zanesville Ohio barber Ralph Ditter, 40, says a flying saucer hovered over his house as he carried a Polaroid camera on November 13. He displayed the images to friends, then involved Dr Benjamin Gilliotte, a physician connected to the National Investigating Committee for Aerial Phenomena, who shared the photos with UFO investigators at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Ditter said he took the shots while walking to photograph new furniture near his Roseville home.
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