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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1961
Page
1
President Kennedy proclaims a national emergency and orders rapid bolstering of U S military defenses including faster Polaris submarine construction and missile development. He vows arms control goals and cooperation with other nations while warning of a tough 1961 economic outlook.
Washington report on Kennedy administration test in the House as the plan to enlarge the Rules Committee advances. Speaker Rayburn rejects compromise, aiming to shift power away from conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats who block social welfare bills. Key aim is to push New Frontier measures through Congress.
In New Orleans Louisiana a clerk defies a boycott by sending his nine year old son to McDonough No 10 School with U S marshals. Gregory Thompson accompanied by officers walked into the school as about 35 angry residents gathered shouting jeers. Police kept the crowd back and restricted access to the neutral ground during the tense scene the largest since anti integration protests began.
Six Americans accused of conspiring against Fidel Castro face a Havana military tribunal that could deport them, jail them, or sentence them to death. The trial follows speculation it might echo Khrushchev’s gesture toward the Kennedy administration. The men, who say they arrived in January in a stolen boat after US Cuba diplomatic rupture, await the outcome.
The United States reports a large and varied nuclear arsenal that deters aggression. The AEC notes obsolescent models are being retired and stresses further testing could enable dramatic advances and implicit threats if testing continues to be unpoliced.
A new furniture pad fell from John s on Mill Street and a Lost ad ran in The Messenger. St. Paul s Church and Johnson Furniture were noted with contact LY 3 1735. The owner received the call soon after delivery. Lost and Found ads prove effective with prompt placement and response.
In Topeka Kansas an Air Force officer on the Pentagon staff said Capts John R McKone and Freeman B Olmstead do not know what happened to three RB47 crewmen still listed as missing after the Barents Sea crash last July. The two captains who were in a Soviet prison camp are under orders not to give interviews. LT Col Robert Eby who accompanied them said they do not know the fate of the three missing men.
A Mes senger feature by Dr Leslie Nason promotes better marks through subject by subject techniques. The expert explains reading for meaning, organizing papers, improving handwriting, listening, solving math, and test preparation.
In Point Pleasant the prosecution will not seek the death penalty for Mrs Barbara Morgan who goes on trial for murder in Circuit Court. She is charged with killing her husband Edward Jason Morgan at their home on November 19. Prosecutor Cecil Dean told a jury of seven women and five men he would waive the death penalty.
The Weather Bureau reports the Ohio River is iced over near locks and dams from McMechen West Virginia to Louisville Kentucky. Weather conditions have slowed river traffic along the stretch reported today.
Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr of New York asserts the time is long overdue to implement his stalled proposal to halt federal funding to schools that discriminate against Black students.
Harold C. Thomas of Canton was elected one of three vice presidents of the Lutheran Laymen's Movement for Stewardship of the United Lutheran Church in America a New York area unit.
Ohio Republicans and Democrats face a slow session in Columbus with no clear progress after five weeks. Gov. DiSalle plans to push a $2.1 billion two year appropriations bill, trimmed by $75 million, with hearings likely to run 10 weeks to three months. He also seeks a conflict of interest law and program upgrades in mental health welfare education and highway safety.
U S Admiral Allen E Smith Jr to meet rebel captain Henrique Galvao at dawn Tuesday on the high seas off Recife Brazil to arrange release of 588 passengers aboard the liner Santa Maria. Smith plans rendezvous about 35 miles off Recife aboard the destroyer Gearing as three other destroyers approach.
Ice jams and heavy ice slowed navigation on major waterways across the eastern half of the United States. The Hudson River traffic stalled between Albany and New York while the Mississippi near Cairo, Illinois faced a massive ice jam. Ohio River conditions worsened the impact as Maryland warns of disrupted coastal waterways threatening waterfowl. Temperatures remained well below freezing in the Midwest and Northeast.
The UN announced 164 American missionaries and their families were evacuated from the Orientale Province over the weekend. An armed clash was reported between rebel forces and Kasavubu loyalists at Basonko near the Congo River, about 100 miles from Stanleyville. The missionaries, from Inland African Mission, were escorted by Ethiopian UN troops into Uganda after roving patrols transferred them to Mahagi near the Uganda border.
Vern H. Vorhes 89 of 179 W Washington St died at Mount St Mary Hospital after a week’s admission. He built for Floodwood Power Plant Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co and supervised the Sylvania Building and Pico Warehouse. He was active in First Presbyterian Church and local lodges. Survived by two children. wife Minnie died 1952 and daughter Marjorie in 1955. Funeral arrangements by Warren Funeral Homes.
Ambassador to Leopoldville Clare H Timberlake will travel to Washington to participate in a re appraisal of U S policy in the Congo as ordered by President Kennedy. He will attend high level meetings in the White House and State Department.
The forecast shows temperatures 2 to 8 degrees below normal across the state with highs from 34 to 38 and lows from 19 to 23. A slow warmup is expected Tuesday and Wednesday, with possible cooling again later in the week, and light snow bringing about one tenth inch north and one quarter inch south around Wednesday or Thursday and again toward week’s end.
Kennedy orders repaint of the oval office from green to off white and replaces Washington likenesses with naval battle images. His desk hosts Eisenhower era bookends bearing gold eagles and five stars, a Bible, a world Almanac, and Kennedy authored volumes. A coconut shell memento and dagger paperweights hint at a compact cluttered workspace.
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