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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jun 20, 1962

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Tiros V Watch May Aid Russian Weather

Tiros V weather satellite launched from Cape Canaveral studies cloud cover over a vast area including the USSR. The four month mission will send hundreds of images of weather systems to Soviet meteorologists if requested. An IBM pact in Geneva earlier this month spurred data sharing and potential broad mutual space research programs between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Cape Canaveral Fila America Tiros V United States Soviet Union Weather Watch Tiros Ussr National Aeronautics and Space Administration Geneva

Minister Will Form Cabinet After Narrow Canada Win

Prime Minister John Diefenbaker summoned his Conservative Cabinet for a post election meeting in Ottawa to plan governing without a majority. He returned from Saskatchewan after Monday's national vote showing the Conservatives with 118 seats, 15 short of a majority, yet he said they remain the government of Canada.

Toronto John Diefenbaker Ottawa Saskatchewan House of Common Diefenbaker Government of Canada

Court Honors Cleveland Redistricting Into 33 Wards

The Ohio Supreme Court ordered Cleveland to redraw city wards into 33 districts as nearly equal in population as possible. The mandamus action was brought by taxpayer Robert E. Scott, citing the 1945 city charter after censuses in 1950 and 1960.

Columbus Ohio Supreme Court Cleveland High Court Robert E. Scott Scott

New Jersey Legalizes Cap Pistols For July Fourth

Gov Hughes signed a bill 15 days before the holiday legalizing caps and cap pistols. This marks the first time in 25 years that New Jersey youths may shoot cap pistols on the Fourth of July.

Trenton N. J New Jersey Richard J Hughes

Ford UAW talks move to Cleveland amid strike at stamping plant

Detroit reports that Ford Motor Co and the United Auto Workers moved negotiations to Cleveland after issuing statements on sticking points in a strike at a major stamping plant.

Detroit Ford Motor Co United Auto Workers Union Cleveland

Dave Beck Begins Five Year Prison Term

Dave Beck 68 year old former Teamsters president reports to federal marshals in Seattle and will transfer to McNeil Island for a five year sentence for filing fraudulent tax returns. He vows not to stay down and remarks he must get up again after being knocked down. Beck was convicted on two tax related charges tied to the union Joint Council 28 Building Association in Seattle.

Seattle Dave Beck Teamsters’ Union Beck U. S. Marshal’s Tacoma McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary Puget Sound McNeil Island Joint Council 28 Building Association

DiSalle Sees Akron Slayer In Death Row

Gov. Michael V. DiSalle met with James Rodney Buck on death row in Columbus and said a decision on Buck's case would come soon. Buck, 25, was convicted of murdering patrolman Floyd Weatherholt Jr. during a March 1960 holdup and has five stays of execution.

Columbus Michael V. DiSalle Akron James Rodney Buck DiSalle Buck Ohio Penitentiary Electric Chair Floyd Weatherholt Jr

Race decided by 139 votes in Maine Democratic race

Maynard C Dolloff held a slim 139 vote lead for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination as late returns from Sidney near Waterville were corrected, trimming 180 votes from his edge over National Committeeman Richard J Dubord.

Portland Maine Maynard C. Dolloff Sidney Waterville Richard J. Dubord

Medicare Stall Continues Across Congress

Republicans promise a fight against any effort to force a Senate vote on President Kennedy's elderly health care plan. The bill would use Social Security financing for hospital and nursing home benefits but remains stalled in the House Ways and Means Committee. Senator Clinton P. Anderson threatens to attach the proposal as a rider on a House revenue bill, a move likely to fail in the House.

Washington Senate Kennedy House Ways and Means Clinton P. Anderson D-N.m

Bogus Ring Broken Up In New York

Secret Service agents and police in New York Detroit and Toronto arrested three Canadians and a Vermont man in a counterfeiting sweep. Authorities seized 17500 in counterfeit Canadian Pacific Railway money orders and 18100 in counterfeit drafts.

New York Secret Service Vermont Toronto Detroit

Truman Helps West Virginia Mark 99th Birthday

Former President Harry S. Truman attends a simple ceremony on the steps of the West Virginia state capitol to celebrate the state's 99th birthday. The event launches a drive to raise $1 million for the centennial celebration next year.

Charleston W. Va Harry S. Truman West Virginia

European unions threaten partition of western Algeria

In Algiers and Oran the Joint Committee of Labor Unions warned that autonomous zones must be created for Europeans or settlers will be urged to flee to prevent genocide. The move follows an ultimatum after the Secret Army Organization sought European integration into Moslem security forces.

Algiers Algeria Eet Ceee Cees Joint Committee of Labor Unions Oran Secret Army Sidi Bel Abbes Mostaganem Arzew Perregaux Youssef Ben Khedda Jean-Jacques Susini Chewki Mostefai National Liberation Front FLN Susini-Mostefai

More Cash Requested For Lake Erie Ohio River Canal Study

Army engineers asked Congress for 220000 more to complete the 103 mile canal study linking Lake Erie at Ashtabula with the upper Ohio near Pittsburgh. Congress has allocated 280000 so far. mapping and economic studies continue. design will follow foundation work. support from Rep. Kirwan cites St. Lawrence Seaway context.

Army Congress Jackson Graham Ohio River Division House Public Works Appropriations Subcommittee Lake Erie Ashtabula Upper Ohio River Pittsburgh Ohio Democratic Michael Kirwan St. Lawrence Seaway

Negotiations Help To Delay Engineers Strike

Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg said progress was made toward settling the dispute between the Flight Engineers Union and Trans World Airlines. He spoke as talks paused at the union’s request to confer with local chapters, amid a government proposal aimed at preventing a strike before the 2 pm deadline.

Washington — (P Arthur J. Goldberg Flight Engineers Union Trans World Airlines Goldberg Marathon Airline and Flight Engineers International Association TWA

Escape Plan Revealed for Alcatraz Breakout

Evidence mounted that the trio who escaped from Alcatraz last week were among the best prepared of 38 attempts. A federal prison official in Washington, Fred T Wilkinson, said the convicts had a secret workshop in a ventilator shaft behind and above their cell block.

San Francisco Alcatraz Washington Fred T Wilkinson

Veteran actor Will Wright dies after cancer battle

HOLLYWOOD reports Will Wright aged 68 a veteran actor known for grizzled Western roles in film and on TV died Tuesday from cancer CLEVELAND notes Louise Erickson of Oxford elected president of the Ohio Music Teachers Association at the association s annual convention Tuesday

Hollywood Will Wright Cleveland Louise Erickson Oxford Ohio Music Teachers Association Association

Rusk Delivers Caution on French Nuclear Plan in Paris

Secretary of State Dean Rusk met with President Charles de Gaulle in Paris to discuss French American differences and NATO issues. He argued that an independent French nuclear strike force would be dangerous and ineffective as a deterrent and reportedly offered no sharing of nuclear secrets.

America Western Europe Deak Rusk Maurice Couve de Murville Paris Charles de Gaulle Dean Rusk North Atlantic Treaty Organization Rusk Atlantic Alliance Permanent Council NATO Dirk A. Stikker de Gaulle Elysee Palace Britain United States

Four Jets Crash In Germany Involving U S Starfighters

A collision during a Cologne area rehearsal killed four pilots including Capt. Jon G. Speer 29 of Los Angeles. The F104 Starfighters formed a box when the top pair hit the lower two after a low level flyover. Speer was an instructor with the West German air force.

Cologne Germany Jon G. Speer Los Angeles

Steel Could Raise Prices In September

The Iron Age reports that clashes with President Kennedy rule out a steel price increase before September. The earliest possibility would be September and would be selective, following a new labor contract adding about $2 a ton to the cost starting July 1. Steel orders are currently at about 50 percent capacity.

NEW York Kennedy Iron Age Metalworking Weekly

Thor missile malfunction ends high altitude nuclear test near Johnston Island

The United States aborted a megaton class Thor device test and destroyed the nuclear payload in flight over the Pacific after a tracking system failure. No detonation occurred, but thousands in Hawaii hoped to witness the event.

Honolulu United States Johnston Island Pacific Test Site Joint Task Force 8 Thor Arthur Sylvester Johnston

Committee To Check On Walt Rostow

Washington reports Senate Foreign Relations Committee will scrutinize a new survey of U S foreign policies led by Walt Rostow head of the State Department Policy Planning Council. The paper has been sent to the White House for review.

Washington Walt W. Rostow Senate Foreign Relations Committee U. S Rostow State Department

Gibson Faces Budget Battle At Buckeye Boys State

Governor Gibson plans a 6769 dollar budget proposal to run the state as 800 imaginary dollars are allotted by Nationalist legislature in the Ohio University camp exercise. Gov. Gibson appointed department directors and organized National Guard and Naval Reserve units for the week long self government event with FBI agent Don Hanning as a guest speaker.

Gibson David Gibson Warren Tim Dix Kent General Assembly American Legion Ohio University John Harris Oberlin Albert Moyer Garfield Heights William Perry Vickery Frank Wilson Lima Steve Newell National Guard Naval Reserve Adj Alan Sawyer Louisville James Mason Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

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