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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jun 20, 1961

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Ikeda Arrives to Discuss Commerce with Kennedy

Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda arrived in Washington for three days of talks with President Kennedy on commerce and prosperity. Ikeda and his wife accompanied by officials, were greeted with full military honors and driven to Blair House for the start of discussions.

Washington Hayato Ikeda Kennedy Los Angeles Lyndon B. Johnson Dean Rusk Rusk Potomac River Pennsylvania Avenue White House Ikeda America Johnson Blair House

Kennedy weighs Taylor as White House military adviser

New York Times reports President Kennedy seriously considers General Maxwell D. Taylor for the White House military adviser post. An announcement could come this week reviving the personal chief of staff role once held by Leahy. Taylor, 59, heads the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York and previously served as Army chief of staff 1955 to 1959.

New York Kennedy Maxwell D. Taylor White House New York Times Washington Fleet William D. Leahy Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Taylor Lincoln Center For the Performing Arts New York City Army

Mrs Kennedy Substitutes at Banquet

Mrs Kennedy fills in for President Kennedy at a banquet with women reporters as he stays home to nurse a back injury on Monday night.

Washington Kennedy

Eichmann Begins Defense In Israeli Trial

Adolf Eichmann testified he did not realize the Nazi plan against Jews when joining in 1932 and said he was powerless to stop the extermination as the defense opened. He criticized Israel for kidnapping him in Argentina and claimed the Nazi system bore responsibility for the pogroms.

Jerusalem Adolf Eichmann Nazi Party Eichmann Gestapo Cused Israel Argentina

Needle in Haystack Hunt Ties Bombing Suspects to Tower Attacks

FBI traced two men Bernard Jerome Brous and Dale Chris Jensen from Wilmington California to Ensenada Mexico after three AT&T towers in Nevada and Utah were bombed on May 28. The pair, linked to a group calling itself the American Republican Army, were arrested aboard a yacht and turned over to federal authorities.

Bernard Jerome Brous American Republican Army Dale Chris Jensen Ensenada FBI Los Angeles American Telephone & Telegraph Co Nevada Utah U. S Brous Jensen John Brown Harpers Ferry Wilmington Robert Hill Mexico

Adlai Stevenson Heads to Bogota for Defense Talks

Adlai Stevenson moves on to Bogota as the final stop on his South American tour for talks with President Alberto Lleras Camargo on hemisphere defense against communism and other anti-Democratic movements.

Quito Ecuador Adlai Stevenson Bogota Alberto Lleras Camargo

Whites Panic Sell Homes United to Halt Integration

In Hempstead New York panic selling by white residents in the Lakeview area prompts a campaign by Black residents led by Lincoln Lynch. The effort aims to deter further Black purchases and maintain the current roughly eight whites per one Black resident ratio, signaling a push to prevent a de facto segregated neighborhood.

Hempstead N. Y Lakeview Lincoln Lynch

Girls Staters Battle In Primary Election

Twelve young feminine politicians at Buckeye Girls' State compete in a morning primary to earn two gubernatorial candidacies one for the Federalist and one for the Nationalist party. The winners will face off this afternoon in the mock government election.

Columbus Buckeye Girls’ State

Panel Discussions Set At SEO Council Session

Two panel discussions and a dinner speech will highlight a SEORC recreation and industrial meeting June 29 at Lake Hope Lodge. Speakers include Charles Heath moderating, Walter Myers delivering the dinner address, and panelists from Chillicothe, Columbus, and Steubenville areas.

Upper Ohio Valley Southeastern Ohio Regional Council Lake Hope Lodge Joe Saltz McArthur Charles Heath Evans and Wolfe Realtors Columbus Heath Department of Industrial and Economic Development Walter Myers Upper Ohio Valley Development Council Steubenville Richard E. Midden Chillicothe Chamber of Commerce Chamber

Court limits union dues used for politics in landmark ruling

The Supreme Court held that workers in union shops cannot have their dues spent on political causes without consent, a 5-4 decision affecting railroad labor cases. The term also barred use of illegally obtained evidence in state courts, overturning earlier precedents, and upheld Ohio law permitting evidence from unlawful searches in some cases.

Washington Supreme Court Missouri Mrs. Mapp Ohio Ohio Supreme Court State Supreme Court

Committee Gives Castro Ultimatum

Detroit dispatch reports Fidel Castro is given until noon Friday to accept 500 heavy duty tractors for 1214 prisoners or the deal ends. The Tractors for Freedom Committee, led by Milton Eisenhower Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter Reuther, seeks $28 million value in tractors for humanitarian aims.

Detroit Mich Cuba Fidel Castro Tractors-for- Freedom Committee Castro White House Milton Eisenhower Eleanor Roosevelt Walter P. Reuther Tractors-for-Freedom Committee

Hefty 17 Measures On Ohio House Agenda

The first day-before calendar of the current session brings 17 bills to the Ohio House for action while the Senate handles 10. A House bill to create a 16 member Expositions Commission aims to run the state fair and fair grounds in Columbus and is expected to pass easily. The general appropriations bill funds state government from July 1, 1962 to June 30, 1963 with Senate action due by next Tuesday. The GOP led body also overrode Governor DiSalle’s veto on a tax cut reducing corporate franchise tax on open and investment firms from three tenths to one tenth of a penny.

Senate Columbus 104Th General Assembly Michael V. DiSalle

Tiny space scholar lands library card in New Jersey

Florence Jacobs, two percent years old, defies age rules to gain library card No 4536 after a mayoral exemption. She has read to the seven grade level and names space topics, planets, satellites, and all fifty states, impressing skeptics with her cosmic knowledge.

Dollree Mapp Cleveland West New York N.J Florence Jacobs Florence Johrn J. Armellini Marie Jacobs Jerome Alan Shepard Jr United States

Director Seeks 30 Percent Pay Cut in Cleveland Heights

Louis S. Belkin safety service director asks Cleveland Heights city council to reduce his salary from 3600 to 2600 dollars annually citing less time required and no need for the money. Council to refer proposal to finance committee for review.

Council Cleveland Louis S. Belkin Cleveland Heights Belkin

Fire Chief Needed

Shawnee seeks a new fire chief after Fred Mu resigns. Assistant Billy Williams cannot assume the role, and Mayor William Schuster asks firefighters to aid in securing a successor.

New Lexington Fred Musick Shawnee Billy Williams William Schuster

Congo Sets Parliament Reassembly At Lovanium June 25

Kongolese rival regimes led by Kasavubu and Gizenga announce a unified plan to reconvene Parliament at Lovanium University on June 25. Delegates agree a U.N. guarded arms warehouse and closed housing for MPs with no outside contact during the session.

Congo Lovanium University Leopoldville Stanleyville U.N Lovanium

Tribunal May Study Czechoslovak Spy Case

The dispute over a Czechoslovak spy case may go to a special arbitration tribunal. Miroslav Nadavac of the Czech mission to the United Nations was refused expulsion after claiming U S intelligence agents tried to recruit him as a spy. Washington countered that he spied for his Red government and demanded his departure.

United Nations N.Y Czechoslovakia U.S Miroslav Nadavac Czech Washington

Princes Hit Snag In Laotian Conference

Zurich reports a conference of rival Laotian princes stalls on forming a coalition government. The snag centers on Prince Souvanna Phouma insisting that Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, leader of the pro Western royal government in Vientiane, be removed from the army to hold any national unity post.

Zurich Switzerland Souvanna Phouma Phoumi Nosavan Vientiane

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