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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1956
Page
1
Police linked Morales, a recent immigrant, to a fatal incident at Daniel's Manhattan apartment. The victim, Miss Smith from Lebanon Pennsylvania, aged around twenty, had dated Daniel since last June with hopes of a fashion design career. Morales reportedly did not report the death as required by law.
Ohio University reduced its requested state funding for building needs to 1.7523 million dollars, joining other state schools in scaled down estimates. The bond issue and state planning board consider these requests as part of a broader push for public school construction and university capital improvements.
In Chicago 5078 high school seniors will sit second exams on Saturday to trim about 60 000 initial contenders to 2500 for four year National Merit Scholarships next fall. At least 445 and up to 500 will receive full college scholarships with living allowances based on need. The Ford Foundation funded the program with major corporations pledging increases. Results will be announced in about five weeks.
The FTC charged three agreements involving six firms were illegal. The deals saw oil companies collect commissions on tire products sold at their filling stations, with social commissions not paid to the station operators.
Senator Aiken and Senator Ellender push a new farm law feature a soil bank program paying farmers up to 400 million dollars this year to retire land from crop production and plant to pasture and trees. Cash or commodities from surpluses would fund the subsidies as Congress prepares a policy to curb oversupply.
Youngstown in state Board of Education President Manchester said at least 218 Ohio school districts are in bad shape financially. He noted 369 districts applied for aid forms, 151未 completed, with building funds short by more than 11 million dollars if taxed at max.
In Zanesville Judge Clarence J. Cross orders the parents of two adopted sisters to appear next Friday to show cause why the children should not be returned to their real mother Rosebel Masters. The writ of habeas corpus was issued while Masters, who was in a state mental hospital when the adoptions occurred, contends the Finks refused to surrender the girls Mary Elizabeth 3 and Barbara 2 despite a prior appellate ruling awarding custody to the mother.
FBI identifies 11 suspects in the $1.218 million Brink's heist. Six principals were arrested in Greater Boston as Hoover reveals the scam details. Prosecutors plan trial after grand jury actions. one suspect died, others at large, and loot largely unrecovered.
Senator Bridges indicates he will run as a delegate candidate if a slate favors a non Ike option in New Hampshire. He opposes any slate tied to a candidate Eisenhower might not back. Bridges stresses the NH delegation should be loyal to the president if he seeks a second term.
Solon MIAMI BEACH report shows Representative McGregor argues for rapid construction of multi lane highways to meet demand and reduce traffic deaths. He cites economic losses but emphasizes lives and injuries as primary concerns while noting Eisenhower era Federal Aid Highway Act support and private enterprise factors.
Police in Sacramento arrest 25 year old Donald Eby on a complaint of peeping. At the station he denies the charge saying he is burglarizing for the old lady to bed and can steal her car.
The Atomic Energy Commission and Defense Department announced that the United States will proceed with a series of nuclear tests in the Pacific this spring, at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands, tempering blasts to blunt international protests. Officials rejected calls for a blanket halt by major powers.
Chief United Nations delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. will speak at Memorial Auditorium in Athens next Thursday at 3 49 p m on The United States in the United Nations He will attend a 12 30 p m luncheon at the Columbus Athletic Club hosted by Fred H Johnson OU graduate and trustee Introduced by OU President John C Baker Lodge will address the convocation after the luncheon before flying to his next engagement
A jury trial set for March 5 will decide if John Gilbert Graham was sane on November 1 when accused of dynamiting a passenger plane that killed his mother and 43 others. Defense attorneys dispute four psychiatrists' sanity findings and seek tests. if sane, he faces murder trial. If insane, commitment to state hospital is possible. Federal officials cite a signed confession from November 14 claiming he planted the bomb, which he later repudiates.
The State Utilities Commission ruled the New York Central Railway may cease operations at Millfield and three small stations Athens County Langdraf Seneca County Peerless Morrow Hatton Wood after hearings. Nearby NYC stations will provide adequate service and no protests were raised.
Champaign County Fair officials discussed granting youth a voice in fair operations at the 1957 Ohio Fair Managers Association convention. A proposal to test livestock for steers paralleled that for dairy cattle, with a plan for a junior representatives group to attend fairs as a permanent advisory body. The convention also noted a Common Pleas Court ruling limiting county fair boards power over fairground sites.
A Columbus State Hospital employee, Harmon Potter, 20, is held for investigation in the death of Myrtle Lane, 27, found nude with teeth marks in a cornfield near the Ohio River at Athalia. Autopsy cites alcoholism and exposure. odor of sweet wine noted. Potter claims drinking with Lane Wednesday. says he cannot recall events. Officials say case is under criminal inquiry.
In the Ecuadorian jungle near the Benlstonian Andes a ground search team recovered bodies believed to be four of five missing American missionaries. An Air Force helicopter at the scene relayed word of the find but did not identify the individuals.
At the United Nations the Soviet plan to make Israel pay damages for the December attack on Syria drew support from two smaller Security Council powers, with Yugoslavia and Iran backing the compensation demand while Western sponsors dropped the payment clause as no mechanism existed. The council opened a second debate on rival resolutions condemning the raid on Syrian outposts near the Sea of Galilee.
William Byers, 19, was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing for the murder of his friend’s mother. Theresa Gresh, then 15, was convicted of helping kill Anna Gresh and is serving 20 years to life in prison. Berlin reports British authorities pressed East German border forces in Berlin today as tensions rose.
Temperatures stay near normal with highs around 35 in the north and 0 in the south, and lows near 20 to 23. A warmer spell comes Sunday through Tuesday, followed by a turn to cooler conditions by Wednesday. Weekend looks clear and dry with light snow flurries possible Tuesday or Wednesday.
In Short Creek Utah a frail wife pledges to regain custody of seven of her eight children after state welfare took them. Mrs Vera Black, 42, refuses to swear in writing to stop polygamy and to practice it herself, insisting she will fight for every drop of blood to keep her children. The case follows Leonard Black and other Short Creek men convicted of unlawful cohabitation two years earlier.
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