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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1961
Page
1
President Kennedy in his inaugural address urges a new era of cooperation with the Communist world and calls for world leaders to formulate precise arms control proposals. He pledges aid to underdeveloped nations and urges citizens to ask what they can do for their country.
A Aeronaves de Mexico DC8B jet crashed after takeoff in a snowstorm near Idlewild Airport. Of 106 aboard 102 escaped with at least 26 injured. four crew members believed dead. The craft struck a wire fence, flames engulfed the front section, and investigators from the Civil Aeronautics Board and FAA began on site inquiries.
A single passenger light plane piloted by Joseph Wolbert 25 of Warren Ohio crashed in a wooded area near Franklin Pa Thursday night. He escaped with minor cuts and bruises.
Temperatures will average 10 to 15 degrees below normal across the region. Normal highs range from 35 in the north to 88 in the south, with lows around 20 to 23. Cold weather dominates with minor daily changes and frequent snow flurries or light snow in the north and punctuated flurries in the south on Saturday and Tuesday.
When Dr H B Boles reported his missing collie shepard he placed a Lost Ad in The Messenger Classifieds Ten minutes after the paper hit the street he received a call from the person who had found the dog The doctor cancelled the ad praising the Messenger Want Ad service and urging others to call for results
Fidel Castro's firing squads executed two Cubans in Havana's La Cubana prison after 20 days of alert against a feared invasion that failed to materialize. Seven other defendants received 30-year terms, with total unofficial executions reaching 587 since 1959. Castro planned a speech to welcome demobilized civilian militiamen amid anti invasion rhetoric.
The fast moving snowstorm slowed inaugural events in Washington and crippled activity in New York City and other eastern cities. Snow piled beyond a foot in some areas with winds up to 47 mph and blizzard like conditions along the coast from Philadelphia to southern New England. Thousands of cars were stranded and air travel was curtailed or canceled. Harrisburg reported 18 inches with Philadelphia around seven inches and Pittsburgh similar. Projections forecast 8 inches in southern New England and 3 to 6 inches in northern parts.
Charles Smith aged 20 and Daniel Lanham aged 19 from Toledo were sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to general homicide for the shotgun killing of a Springfield tavern owner.
New York Central reports a freight derailment at New Carlyle Indiana amid Buffalo terminal picketing, worsening delays. The incident disrupts operations and raises transit concerns for the railroad.
New York report surveys Americans who reject the nation’s top job despite its pay pension and prestige. Many cite heavy responsibility the need to please diverse groups and the risk of war as reasons for avoiding the presidency. John F Kennedy is noted as taking the post.
Cleveland attorney John Max Ladutko Jr., 31, pleaded innocent to two counts of first degree murder in the shotgun deaths of his estranged wife Nancy Ladutko, 29, and Charles D. Johnson, 42, a partner in Baker Hostetler Patterson. Ladutko, who surrendered after a 38 hour flight, claimed he acted in a rage after seeing Johnson and his wife together.
snow and cold cripple rail service as 11 day strike halts 100000 commuters between New York and New England. Governor Rockefeller chairs round the clock mediation as negotiations recessed with no progress toward settlement.
A head on collision on Ohio 82 in Ravenna took the lives of Victor H. Delong 47 Windham and Elvin Montgomery 37 Aurora. A third man was critically injured.
An examiner’s report calls the handling of receipts in the Bureau of Support of the Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction deplorable up to last June 10. A department spokesman says corrective steps have since been taken.
Swift and Co will end livestock dressing and meat processing in Cleveland on March 4, costing about 500 packing plant workers their jobs.
Ann Trumbo from Broadway Virginia is named Ohio State University 1961 Makio Queen in Columbus.
John F. Kennedy becomes president at 12 30 p m in a windy cold Washington ceremony. Chief Justice Earl Warren administers the oath as Eisenhower joins Kennedy for a coffee at the White House before the inaugural events.
Lyndon Baines Johnson takes the oath as vice president in a brief preliminary ceremony in Washington. Richard Nixon becomes a private citizen and senior statesman, planning a vacation in Nassau with his wife Pat before joining a Los Angeles law firm.
About 3500 delegates from all Ohio districts will discuss school problems from first grade to beyond high school at the Statehouse Conference on Education in Columbus on January 26.
The Commercial Solvents Corp of New York has filed suit against Chemical and Industrial Corp of Cincinnati alleging breach of contract and seeking about 250 000 in damages.
Utility Workers Union Local 349 began a strike in Toledo against Ohio Fuel Gas Co. over terms of a new contract. The walkout marks a confrontation as negotiations continue.
Seven people were killed Thursday in a rebel ambush near Algiers. The attack occurred as unidentified fighters opened fire on a moving convoy prompting emergency response and investigations.
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