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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1960
Page
1
Dallas wife of ex convict Robert V Spears says he could help clear up the Nov 16 Gulf of Mexico airliner crash death toll of 42. Spears has admitted disappearing for life insurance and is jailed in Phoenix as federal agents pursue a bomber theory.
The Senate set a record for a near continuous session of 85 hours and 24 minutes in a bid to break a filibuster over the civil rights bill. The session included a single 15 minute recess.
The five day outlook shows temperatures 12 to 18 degrees below normal with highs 41 to 46 and lows 25 to 28. Precipitation limited to a quarter inch or less, but Lake Erie snow flurries may increase locally east of Cleveland with more snow possible Sunday or Monday.
Governor Edmund Brown pledges a renewed push in the 1961 California Legislature to outlaw capital punishment if the current session rejects it. Hope for repeal is slim as the issue links to the Caryl Chessman case, with Brown promising a strong, prioritized abolition program. The Legislature recessed until Monday.
Mrs Barbara Armonas and her son John travel from Moscow to reunite with family in Wickliffe Ohio after a 20 year separation. They flew via Stockholm Copenhagen with arrival in Denmark planned for a family reunion prompted by Donna Armonas' appeal to Premier Khrushchev during his U.S. visit.
Athens County Sheriff Harold Shields announced ongoing work to link Burl F. Kirkpatrick to the Bartlett Farmers Bank robbery. A recent lineup prompted further investigation while Kirkpatrick, held on 20 bad checks and a stolen car case, requests a lie detector test at the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation in London.
Austin Fuller, 63, of Athalia in Lawrence County, collapsed and died in his car on Ohio 7 near Marietta Thursday night after returning to the vehicle from checking tire chains. No cause of death was given by the Highway Patrol. A passenger reported he was stricken just after getting back in.
A passenger bus plunged off a 100 foot cliff near Chunkok about 40 miles north of Seoul, killing 20 Koreans and injuring 13 others, some critically, according to national police.
Los Angeles defense for Carole Tregoff and Dr. R Bernard Finch urges a mistrial citing a connection to the Rattlesnake James case. The judge denied the motion and ordered jurors to disregard references to the prior crime.
Ohio primary and secondary roads remain partly snow covered and slippery, with heavier drifting in the northeast. The Ohio Turnpike is partly snow covered and slippery and a 40 mph speed limit is being enforced.
Columbus highway director Everett S. Preston said the snow control work in the last 24 hours cost the department 328000 for labor and equipment. He noted snow fell in parts of Ohio every day since February 14 and that highway maintenance cost about 998000 in that period with 528 crews active by 8:30 am.
Santa Fe Railway sues Oglesby Brothers Trucking Co alleging negligence after a truck carrying 7,500 gallons of oil crossed in front of the eastbound San Francisco Chief passenger train, causing a collision that killed 14. The suit was filed here on Thursday.
In suburban Grosse Pointe a dentist says his ex wife left their former home in disarray. He notes moving to a larger $40,000 house worsened the mess claiming she blamed the space and the result was a bigger mess.
Billy Joe Schaffer, on trial for first degree murder in Emma Remy’s death, shouted and had to be restrained after a deputy testified he said he “used my hands on that old lady.” The case includes arson charges and testimonies from two teenage witnesses.
Cleveland Alliance industrialist Paul W. Lang 47 owner of Lang Manufacturing and Machine Co was indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts of evading 9734.91 in income taxes for 1953 1954 and 1955 He allegedly reported 75735.96 in income and 20897.94 in taxes while the government says 97232.51 and 30632.50 were due Lang a former sales manager at Schnell Tool and Die Co of Salem.
Arden K. Wier, 26, told Circuit Judge Alton H. Noe that her husband Edmund, 30, spent three or more nights weekly with a quartet from his barber shop. She said he never spoke of anything but his singing. The judge granted a divorce Thursday in Mount Clemens, Michigan.
Mrs. Effie Neely, 101, a Jackson, Ohio native and one of the few survivors of the 1876 Ashtabula train wreck that killed 92, died Wednesday in a Troy Ohio rest home. Born in 1858, she lived decades beyond the disaster.
A brutal storm system battered the Northeast and spread a deep freeze to the South. New York City logged 14.2 inches of snow and 21 degrees while Florida saw 50 in Fort Myers and Jacksonville near freezing. temperatures plunged across Kentucky Tennessee Ohio and beyond with lows to near zero in several spots.
Clarence McMullen was restored to the county home superintendent post by a board of review of the Ohio Civil Service Commission. The board reduced a 91 day suspension without pay, retroactive to December 1, when he was fired after a series of accidents involving county vehicles.
Dr George H Mickey LSU Graduate School dean asserts he was wrongly linked to the murder of Dr Margaret McMillan a 38 year old biology professor found slain near Baton Rouge The grand jury deadlocked after three weeks of investigation leaving the indictment open for possible future action while Mickey remains free on a 10000 bond and has refused to answer questions.
France will air lift about 800 political refugees to Corsican and other island hotels for nearly a month to head off hostility during Nikita Khrushchev's Paris visit. Ten planes started the operation. the first group totaled 74 people. Refugees, mostly from Eastern Europe, will receive government-paid lodging daily allowances and job protection.
James Waite a 50 year old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad fireman died in Mansfield when snow and hot tires in his car sparked a fire after he started the vehicle in the yard. Police said a seizure or medical event may have preceded the crash and it may be impossible to determine the exact cause of death.
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