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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1958
Page
1
President Eisenhower asserts economy can lick the recession in 1958 and fund growth without inflation. He outlines a 42 point home-front program, warns wage and price increases could delay recovery, and notes defense spending lifting activity while inflation policy eases.
President Eisenhower marks six years in office with a nationwide GOP push for Congress. A $100-a-plate Chicago dinner hosts the president and First Lady with a televised address. Speeches by Nixon and other leaders accompany the event as the nation tunes in.
Algerian rebels suspected of seeking arms from Communist sources as French authorities seize 150 tons of weapons and ammunition from the Yugoslav ship Slovenija after shifting the vessel to Oran. The value is estimated at two million dollars. most passengers were Americans and the ship had halted at Casablanca before continuing to New York.
Henry W. Rose a 95 year old recluse was found dying of starvation in his shabby quarters in St. Petersburg Florida. He had about $40 000 in his personal belongings. Police found a written instruction directing $3000 to five youth organizations and the Salvation Army. The rest goes to relatives.
Ohto Tuesday rain changes to flurries and colder conditions with a low around 36. West Virginia sees rain mixing with snow and sleet tonight. Five day outlook shows temperatures roughly four degrees below normal with continued cold through Friday and Saturday, snow or rain tonight and Tuesday, plus snow flurries Wednesday and Thursday along Lake Erie.
Vice President Nixon, 45, keeps a strenuous schedule with eight formal appearances in a typical week. He attends Cabinet and National Security Council meetings and chairs the Antidiscrimination Committee on Government Contracts while promoting the administration’s foreign aid program.
Ohio parole violator Rush Butts 37 from Inez Kentucky voluntarily surrendered to a newspaperman in Huntington West Virginia. He said he was tired of running and preferred facing two years in prison and possible help. Butts had been sentenced to 120 years in 1955 for auto theft after a drunken outing with a companion.
The Ohio Department of Highways reports all state highways open and in normal condition with only a few icy spots near Gallipolis and some fog in the Jackson area.
A frontiersman statue at the base of the Brigham Young statue in downtown Salt Lake City received a grim nearby display when an unknown person tied a brace of freshly killed rabbits to the long rifle at the figure's side.
The Rt. Rev. J. B. Mosley Episcopal bishop of Delaware says the church should be concerned with politics to proclaim and preserve the basic principles of Christian freedom.
NEW YORK The United Negro College Fund received 1 934 407 for its 31 member institutions last year, down from 2 084 841 in 1956.
Sheriff Malcolm McLeod seeks a grand jury indictment against Rev. James Cole for inciting to riot after a Klan rally near Lumbee Indian lands was disrupted by gunfire from armed Indians. Four wounded, none serious, amid tense Robeson County race clashes with cross burnings fueling anger.
James Maxwell Jr a 32 year old attorney from Whitehall announced from city prison his candidacy for the Republican nomination to the Ohio House of Representatives. He was released on bond and faces municipal court on tax charge for non payment of the city income tax while employed at the statehouse. He alleges that non residents employed at the capitol are exempt. His two plank platform seeks to end city income taxes and curb use of cognovit notes by businesses.
Washington hearing opens on science information flows as Dr. Lloyd D. Berkner calls for more government sharing of Russian findings. He notes translations lag and some public Soviet articles are kept secret, while others are retranslated by several groups.
Clayton W. Snyder aged 38 of Zanesville was found dead in his car three miles south of town on Ohio 77. The county coroner ruled carbon monoxide poisoning but delayed an official verdict pending further investigation.
AF expands hunt to about 50 000 square miles as 10 crewmen vanish while tracking a typhoon. Faint SOS signals heard from Guam Hawaii Anchorage and Adak complicate efforts to pinpoint the source.
Hamilton court set a hearing for Shirley Edward Campbell 20 a hospital orderly accused of pushing a young Black student nurse from a Mercy Hospital roof Marrs says Campbell signed a written confession admitting the fall occurred during an attempted assault against the nurse on the fifth floor roof of the hospital
The Senate preparedness committee opens final week of hearings on Navy submarine and missile programs with Adm. Burke and Rear Adm. Raborn among witnesses. Senators discuss funding for jet bombers, missiles, and subs, a cabinet science bill, ARPA coordination, space and missile tests, and rocket fuel advances.
Unofficial returns from 94 of Guatemala Citys 183 polling places show Gen. Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes leading with 18 393 votes and Mario Montez Montenegro 13 811 in a race seen as unsettled with rural results still awaited. Col Jose Luis Cruz Salazar is third with 6861 and Enrique Arden trailed. Voting was quiet and the Army prepared to back Congress in official canvass to choose if no candidate wins a majority.
West Virginia Senator Matthew Neely dies of cancer prompting a Senate vacancy to be filled by Governor Cecil Underwood. Underwood delays naming a successor until after Neely’s funeral at First Presbyterian Church, while Chapman Revercomb becomes senior senator for the ensuing two years.
A chicken crossing U S 220 led to a multi-vehicle incident near High Point. James Mabe swerved to avoid the fowl, James Robert Ricks, a High Point pastor, swerved to avoid Mabe, and Marvin Seagroves of Wilmington ran his truck off the road to avoid collisions. The truck jackknife damaged two cars and an embankment. total damage pegged at 10 000 dollars.
Columbus secretary of state filing shows Clingan Jackson as the first Democrat to submit petitions for the May primary. He was the initial candidate among nine announced Dem aspirants to file with Secretary Ted W. Brown before the February 5 deadline.
State liquor agents and police raided a plush after hours speakeasy hidden behind a kitchen panel at Capri's pizzeria in Cleveland at 3 a.m. Sunday. Three arrested, one escaped, 15 patrons routed. two patrons, a policewoman and an agent, remained with drinks saved for evidence.
Dr. Vivian Fuchs and 12 Britons reached the South Pole and announced plans to press on to Scott Base for the first overland crossing of Antarctica. Hillary and Durek greeted the party as supporters expected weather delays could stretch the journey. The expedition retraces Amundsen’s pole route, with depots staged from Scott Base to supply the crossing.
Second Lt. John A. Cable, 22, of Dayton Ohio, an air national guardman, parachuted to safety Sunday when the engine of his F 100 Sabre Jet caught fire northeast of Troy Ohio.
A thunderous explosion at the United Rubber and Chemical Co plant near Baytown Texas killed three men and injured six others, with flames shooting 100 feet high. Investigators blamed butadiene gas from the synthetic rubber process as two workers remained buried in debris. Fire crews suppressed the blaze after about ninety minutes.
About 230 members of the Ohio State Council of Machinists met in Columbus and unanimously adopted a resolution condemning right to work laws. IAM leaders described a proposed constitutional amendment as a law to work without rights, aiming to ban compulsory union membership to retain employment in union shop agreements.
Twelve people died on Ohio highways over the weekend, and additional accidents including a plane crash and a fire brought the total fatalities to eighteen. Local authorities recorded multiple incidents across several counties.
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