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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1960
Page
1
Nixon delivers a Pacific coast speech accepting the Republican nomination and attacking Kennedy's platform. He frames the contest as a battle of freedom over tyranny and pledges leadership to combat world poverty and disease. He praises Lodge for VP and ridicules the Democrats while promising American renewal.
In a major potential development, Kennedy accepts an invitation to a televised debate with Nixon. Sarnoff and CBS propose nine weeks of prime time, four joint discussion programs, and four panel questions, contingent on easing Section 315 rules.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon accepts the Republican presidential nomination at the GOP convention and vows to build a better America. He appeals for unity and mobilizes party workers as he begins the campaign, calling the moment the greatest of his life.
More than 2000 angry Koreans seized and burned ballots at a counting place near Masan as power was cut in the building. A Lib eral Party candidate led the effort amid national assembly election tension.
President Eisenhower sent a telegram to Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge at the Chicago convention predicting a tough campaign but GOP victory in November. He noted Nixon as the presidential nominee and Lodge as running mate and stressed experience in government as the campaign theme.
The United States launched an unmanned Project Mercury capsule aboard an Atlas booster from Cape Canaveral but lost radio contact 65 seconds after liftoff. The test aimed to prove reentry survivability as preparations for a manned flight and possible orbit in 1961 proceed.
Senators John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson planned a Hyannisport meeting to chart defense spending. Averell Harriman urged a two billion dollar extra appropriation to push back on Khrushchev insults and strengthen U S military spending.
Two trains returning peasants and militiamen from a celebration in the Oriente Mountains collided near Camaguey Cuba. At least seven people were killed and 65 injured in the crash.
Hong Kong United Press International reporter Bill Yim, 26, returned to Hong Kong after serving a one year sentence in a Chinese Communist jail on espionage charges.
Columbus Atty. Gen. Mark McElroy holds that a child committed to a state institution is entitled to free education in the school district where the institution is located. The ruling clarifies funding responsibility for students in state care.
Sources say U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers will not be allowed American lawyers at his espionage trial set for August 17 in Moscow. A Soviet court will hear the case amid international tension.
In Groton Connecticut the Navy announced that the USS Scorpion a nuclear powered submarine has joined the fleet marking a milestone for its status and readiness. The crew and base officials celebrated the achievement as a major step for the submarine program.
Ohio Republicans vote to back Henry Cabot Lodge for the No 2 slot on the 1960 Republican ticket with Richard Nixon. Robert Taft Jr. supports Lodge, while some Taft allies chafe over Lodge's role in 1952 Eisenhower nominating campaign.
Henry Cabot Lodge, a Boston aristocrat and UN chief, accepted the Republican vice presidential nomination beside Richard Nixon. He pledged full effort for victory and planned to resign from the UN post next month. Lodge, 58, noted for his 1952 Eisenhower campaign work, stressed the fight against Communism and praised Nixon as best suited to lead in world politics.
The Tudor Arms hotel built in 1926 at a cost around two million dollars could be converted into a graduate student dormitory for Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology.
David Spreng 23, Ohio University graduate, left Athens June 15 on a 1200 mile pole boat journey down the Hocking Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He now plans to paddle to New Orleans with two New York adventurers and his dog Lord Duncan. He began in Memphis joined by wife Mrs Spreng 21 who later returned to Cleveland.
Western Reserve University in Cleveland receives a $241 485 grant from the National Institute of Health in Washington to study health characteristics of the aging process.
Oxford Ohio announces William T. Hollingsworth the current dean of students at Berry College Georgia joins Miami University as the new dean of men.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrived in Paris to meet President Charles de Gaulle for talks on West European cooperation and the impact of a changing political scene in the United States amid ongoing Soviet postures.
Geral Ryan deputy Franklin County recorder and Joe Ashley, Democratic chairman of Lorain County, are named co chairs to head the 1960 Democratic registration effort in Ohio.
Dallas delegates gathered to nominate candidates for president and vice president at a Southern origin strongly conservative convention.
Ohio forecasts show average highs around 86 and lows near 44 with small daily changes. Rainfall expected about a quarter to a half inch, varying by area, with thunderstorms likely across the period mainly in the afternoons.
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