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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1959
Page
1
Army missilemen set Juno I for a lunar probe launch but scrubbed due to a power failure. Mission seeks to place Pioneer payload over half a million miles above Earth to study two radiation bands. a retry was possible tonight or midweek as the moon aligned favorably.
Commonwealth Telephone crews repaired a lead covered two inch cable cut during Sunday night strike activity at the Poston generating plant of Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. The break shut down all telephones at the plant, with discovery at 1:30 a.m. Monday. Local 1466 and 832 of the IBEW are striking 57 C and SOE installations.
Albert "Albie" Booth, a celebrated Yale football star, died at 51 from a heart attack early Sunday in New York after attending a Broadway play with his wife. The death echoes his famed athletic feats and place in college sports lore.
West Virginia tonight fair with low 25 to 32 in the east and 33 to 38 in the west. Tuesday brings variable clouds, scattered showers, and warmer air with a colder afternoon. Ohio sees cloudy showers and warmer tonight, low 38 to 42, then a cloudy Tuesday with showers and a cooler high 44 to 48. The five day forecast calls for average temperatures about 3 degrees above normal with a colder Tuesday and a rising trend Wednesday and Thursday. Precipitation expected at less than half an inch on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. City reports list additional conditions for Albany clouded, Chicago cloudy, Cleveland cloudy, Fort Worth clear, Indianapolis clear, Los Angeles cloudy, Memphis mild, Milwaukee cloudy, Oklahoma City clear, Pittsburgh clear, Richmond cloudy, Seattle clear, Tampa clear.
Municipal legislation required for six villages to obtain water from Lake Burr Oak may delay the pipeline to Glouster Trimble Jacksonville Murray City New Straitsville and Shawnee. Col Herbert Eagon reports the 965000 appropriation may need reappropriation if formalities miss the June 30 fiscal year end.
The Red Cross flood relief program in Ohio Pennsylvania Indiana New York and West Virginia is nearing its end after distributing emergency food shelter and clothing and repairing flood damaged homes. In Ohio 6533 of 8712 applicants have received all needed aid with about 1.395 million dollars spent in the state.
New York Mack Gordon 54 a noted lyric writer died Saturday after a brief illness. He penned words for hits including Time On My Hands Did You Ever See A Dream Walking Chattanooga Choo Choo Love Thy Neighbor and Stay As Sweet As You Are.
Philippine navy ordered to escort five Soviet trawlers to a naval base after their appearance off Luzon Island triggers a police inquiry. Authorities probe the vessels’ origins and purpose amid tense maritime interactions in the Pacific.
NEW YORK The trans atlantic telephone system of AT&T Co. is back in normal operation after repair of a cable break that had caused an international incident.
From Fort Bragg North Carolina the status of General George C Marshall was reported unchanged today. The bulletin notes no new developments in his condition and provides no specific medical details.
Gov. Michael V. DiSalle plans to present his State operating budget this week to a Democrat-controlled Legislature. Lawmakers return from weekend adjournment facing questions on the tax program to finance the budget. He may defend the budget in a Q and A session if Cabinet members back him. The budget message is described as the most important in two decades. Several bills are set for floor votes, including pay equity for women, quail hunting on state lands, and abolition of scooter licenses for teens. A major push is a DiSalle backed end to capital punishment and other hearings on unemployment, vaccination, minimum wage, voting age, and news-source disclosure.
Four year old Joseph A Sottosanti Jr died after an injury at Larrys Carry Out in Gallipolis Ohio. Officials confirmed an ongoing investigation led by Sheriff Robert Hartenbach Middleport Police Chief Herbert Gilkey and Prosecuting Attorney James B O Brien with London Prison Farm agent. Store operator Laurence Gavin is detained in Meigs County jail for investigation.
Meigs County Sheriff reports John Brogan 41 of Rutland Route 1 injured by shotgun blast at Carroll Darst home after an argument in the yard. Brogan hospitalized at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis. Darst 51 confined in Meigs County jail for investigation.
Coast Guard investigators opened a collision inquiry after the American Export liner Constitution cut a gash in its bow while the Norwegian tanker Jalanta had its bow sheared off but stayed afloat. Both vessels reached port on Sunday outside New York harbor without aid.
Brief notices show two cases dismissed and two appeals filed as part of ongoing legal actions.
Washington notes Texan Lyndon B. Johnson emerges as a leading force in shaping the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. A recent $100-a-plate dinner drew 2479 attendees and about $185,000 as Johnson and Sam Rayburn spoke. Analysts say Johnson could command a substantial delegate bloc at the Los Angeles convention, backed by Southern states and broad secondary support.
The Legion executive committee revoked the charters of Linwood Sheridan No. 579 Cincinnati Mentor On Lake No. 664 and Batan Post No. 509 Cleveland for insufficient membership. The posts may appeal.
Fitchburg Massachusetts James R Snopley Jr 37 was due in District Court today on a charge of cultivating and growing marijuana in a window box in his apartment Police Sergeant Warren Wade quoted Snopley as saying he tried smoking the plant in his pipe but only got a sore throat
A strike against the Columbus-based CELOE moves into a second day as negotiations falter. 13 hundred workers across 57 installations walked out after a contract expired, with locals of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers seeking a 10 percent wage rise and a 10 cent raise for linemen. J L McNealey of CELOE pledged continued power service, stating supervisors would run plants and lines to keep operations going.
Ohio capital endures four days without local newspapers as striking pressmen halt work. Residents buy out-of-town papers from Cleveland and Cincinnati for up to a dollar. Federal mediator George H. Bell seeks resumed talks this week amid a dispute over Saturday night pay.
Stamford Connecticut reports playwright Maxwell Anderson died in Stamford hospital at age seventy following a stroke. He embraced playwriting late in life and pursued it as a religious experience, producing works with meticulous craft until days before his death.
Moscow proposed a foreign ministers conference on Germany in April in Vienna or Geneva only if it leads to a summit of government heads. The note was handed to US Britain France and West Germany with Macmillan returning from Leningrad. Khrushchev favored a heads of government meeting to address Berlin. The U.S. opposes a summit without a premeeting agreement.
Arch bishop Makarios arrived in Nicosia to a hero’s welcome from over 150000 Greek Cypriots after three years in exile. He urged cooperation with Turkish minorities and independence talks with British officials, praising EOKA while calling for unity.
Representatives of Ohio Bell Telephone Co and the Communications Workers of America met again to negotiate a wage agreement for 17 000 Ohio Bell employees. CWA members continued working without a contract and no strike was threatened. Negotiations extended into Sunday morning after the contract expired at midnight. A brief Sunday session yielded no decisions, a company spokesman said.
Joseph M. White 67 a singer in early radio known as the silver masked tenor died Saturday from a cerebral hemorrhage in New York City.
Anna Sensenbrenner, 83 mother of Columbus mayor Maynard E. Sensenbrenner, died Sunday at Berger Hospital Circleville.
An Associated Press survey shows 11 people died accidentally in Ohio between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight Sunday, a small decline from prior counts.
A second atomic station in London is delivering electricity into Britain’s national power network, expanding atomic energy’s role in the country’s energy supply.
Sporadic signals sensed by Edwards Anette and Vandenberg tracking stations suggest Discoverer I may be in orbit, with a tentative 96 minute Earth circuit. Initial radio data and faint signals from a Navy ship supported the orbit possibility after launch from Vandenberg AFB. Further checks were planned as officials evaluated trajectory and beacon readings.
About 125 residents evacuated from Geneva Kentucky after a freight train derailed carrying highly inflammable but non radioactive chemicals. Explosions from the crash set fires in 28 derailed cars. Two railroad workers and five firefighters were treated for chemical exposure and exhaustion.
Algerian Nationalist rebels escalated activity over the weekend. They ambushed a military supply convoy, blew up two trains, fired mortar rounds on a town, and held 10 members of an Italian immigrant family against their will.
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