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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1953
Page
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Secretary of Labor Durkin said the Athens Logan Nelsonville area in Ohio has been moved from the substantial labor surplus list due to improved employment levels.
AP reports over 4000 North Korean and Chinese Reds attacked 11 Allied positions across Eastern and Central Korea. U.S. and South Korean troops repelled main-line assaults, with heavy fighting near the Eastern Front around the Lake Gook area and Anchor Hill. The 15th ROK Division and U.S. 45th Division repelled multiple assaults, while counterattacks continued on the Eastern Front and minor probes occurred on the Western Front.
President Eisenhower will appear in a televised address with Atty. Gen. Brownell Secretaries Humphrey Benson and Hobby present. The White House says the Batten agency will give only technical help. Dulles and Wilson not on the panel, suggesting a focus on domestic matters.
President Eisenhower accepted the resignations of Carl R. Gray Jr. as veteran administrator and Richard B. McIntire as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Gray cited ill health with June 30 as effective date. McIntire’s term was shortened for unspecified financial reasons.
Temperatures in Ohio are expected to average below normal for the five day period. Normal highs range from 76 to 81 and lows from 55 to 57. A warming trend arrives by Thursday followed by cooler temperatures Friday. Showers totaling one quarter to one half inch are likely Thursday night and Saturday.
Harvard University announced on Monday the selection of Dr. Nathan Marsh Pusey president of Lawrence College Appleton Wisconsin as successor to Dr James Conant who resigned last January to serve as U.S. high commissioner to Germany.
Seoul reports President Rhee vows to co operate with the United States at any cost while pressing for the withdrawal of Chinese forces from North Korea after an armistice. He cites a three point U S message stressing firmness on an honorable settlement and UN force security. Pyun Yung Tai denounces the UN Command as selling out to the Communists.
Several veterans on the House Ways and Means Committee said they were not convinced by Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey's argument for an extension of the excess profits tax on business. The first witness was F. E. Gray, president of Whirlpool Corp., St. Joseph, Michigan, who told lawmakers the tax stifles private enterprise and the firm sent a booklet detailing its claims.
In Gnadenhutten the Aluminwal Corp plant laid off about 200 workers after male employees in the CIO United Steelworkers Union refused to report for work. The stoppage began two months after the firm hired its first women.
In Columbus a frame building adjoining Children's Hospital exploded when oxygen tanks ruptured. Fire spread to the laundry but main hospital structure remained safe due to fireproof walls. 230 patients were moved to a nurses residence. no injuries to patients. Maintenance man Lewis Jacobs and three firemen were seriously hurt. Damage estimated in thousands.
The Ohio Fuel Gas Co says its wholesale customers and other Columbia Gas System subsidiaries will approve about 5509 space heating unit applications to meet a state utilities commission order. Ohio Fuel will process 2589 applications, Cincinnati Gas and Electric 1146, and Dayton Power and Light 1014. Cincinnati Gas and Dayton Power are wholesale customers of Ohio Fuel.
The French foreign office announced that the Western Big Three conference at Bermuda will be postponed to the latter part of the month.
Buckingham Palace announced that Col John Hunt led a 15 man British expedition to the summit on May 29. New Zealand beekeeper Edward Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tensing Bhutia reached the top with a final assault after multiple attempts. The palace called the news a coronation gift and London papers hailed a new Elizabethan era of British daring.
Britain crowned Elizabeth II in a grand coronation watched by millions. The 27 year old queen rode in the golden coach from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey amid rain and cheers, with Prince Charles nearby. The ceremony included the Archbishop of Canterbury placing the crown, anointing, and the crowd’s anthem God Save the Queen.
Senate debate splits along party lines over a rider that would block U S funds to the United Nations if it seats a country branded as an aggressor by the UN Red China. Senator Knowland argues allies may support action and warns of Korea risk Democrats see the rider as drastic and discuss it at policy meetings while the bill funds state justice and commerce for the coming year.
Secretary of the Navy Robert B. Anderson told a Senate panel that Navy and Marine air arms will more than double their jet powered aircraft in 30 months while total aircraft in service remains about 9,941. He said jets will rise from 16 percent to 37 percent by December 1955 as part of the Pentagon’s $36.1 million military appropriations for the coming year.
Ohio representatives were urged to aid in fighting army worm invasion reported by Rep. D O Taber. The pests have reached 14 counties including Gallia Franklin Butler Hamilton Warren Brown Fairfield Licking Noble Belmont Jackson Morgan Pickaway and Athens threatening crops and pastures. He asked members to inspect counties and inform the state emergency board if funds are needed.
Secretary of State Dulles, back from a 20 000 mile trip through 12 countries, warned that the Near East and South Asia face possible Communist domination. He urged Western unity, self government, technical aid, and a Middle East defense effort to ease tensions with Israel and Arab states.
Rep. Jenkins of Ohio asks the Civil Aeronautics Administration to earmark 300 000 or 400 000 for a Scioto County Ohio airfield near a new atomic plant. The Senate Appropriations Committee recommends 12 percent of federal aid for airport work next year. Jenkins says the airport would serve over a million people within 75 miles if built.
U S Marshal William A Carroll announced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg will be executed at 10 p m EST June 13 at Sing Sing after a conference with Warden Wilfred Denno. Defense attorney Emanuel H Bloch pressed further appeals to halt the electric chair.
A Lebanon native who arrived in 1931 and prospered as a lawyer and businessman constructed a three room plush bomb shelter in the basement of his Ranch style home. The shelter stores food beds books and other items for a bombing raid while an artesian well is piped into the house.
Fifty nine year old Charles E Howard collapsed and died Monday night after being stung by bees from two hives he was removing honey from behind his Blue Ash home.
A nine year old boy from Berea named Jack Black slipped from the outside ledge of a railroad bridge over the Rocky River and died Monday night. Three companions witnessed the fall and alerted authorities.
New York NBC and CBS contend to televise coronation films first in the United States. NBC used a British Canberra jet bomber carrying films two hours ahead of a Royal Air Force jet for both networks and CBC. The CBS jet, piloted by Capt J W Hackett, returned to London due to a defective fuel tank, while NBC still had Canberra films en route to Goose Bay.
Queen Elizabeth II starts coronation day with tea and a prayer. She wakes at 7:30 a.m. and finds a sun posy and a note reading with every possible good wish today and always from Mac and Smith. Her maid Mary MacDonald and undermaid Helen Smith sign the note. Eight Tudor garbed yeomen guard Westminster Abbey jewels with pikes and revolvers for added safety.
Mrs. Maggie Port, a 77-year-old Montreal charwoman, arrives with a double mission. She hopes to see the Queen today and then travels through Britain to find her daughter, unseen for twenty years.
A Plymouth statue of Sir Francis Drake was vandalized with red, white and blue paint. The incident follows reports of a slap and run art act targeting historical monuments.
Barbara Bond a 23 year old from Baltimore brought a bottle of champagne to toast a coronation aboard the liner Queen Mary. She waved it as she left the ship at Southampton and it slipped from her hand shattering on the quay.
A late surge for the remaining seats pushed prices up with back row stands at 75 pounds. An image at the subway shows a full general in ceremonial dress, seen riding the train.
In Paris, the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson watched Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation by television at Margaret Thompson Biddle’s Paris home. About 100 guests saw the London proceedings. The Duke had abdicated the throne in 1936 after 11 months as king.
A predawn atomic test near Las Vegas has been postponed 48 hours due to unfavorable pretest conditions and probable radiation hazard assessments.
Belgrade reports a man named Ceda Pavlovic awoke in a cemetery coffin after a bad day. He had been declared dead and buried in an ice vault beneath the chapel. He climbed out when the lid moved and shouted for release before being freed by a guard. His wife fainted upon hearing the tale.
Mrs. Thomas Phillips 35 fell 25 feet into an abandoned coal mine when a sidewalk collapsed in Martins Ferry Ohio. Firemen rescued her after 45 minutes using a ladder. Her daughter Nancy Sue 5 reported the incident and ran to a neighbor for help.
Governor Frank J. Lausche says he will let the liquor permit ban lift become law without his signature. The statute recently passed a bill ending the private club ban for veterans groups and fraternal organizations, effective 3.
A Lake Michigan tidal wave battered Harbor Springs Michigan Friday night and Saturday ripping 20 cabin cruisers at a local boat works. The sudden surge caused extensive damage to vessels and prompted emergency assessments by harbor officials.
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