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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1959
Page
1
Ohio legislators recover from a frenzied week featuring a record budget and a flood of 1589 introduced bills. Next week committees sift through them as Gov. DiSalle weighs a broad program from 1123 House and 466 Senate measures.
Negotiations to resume today between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. in the six day old strike that idles 1300 workers across 23 counties. Federal mediators arranged the Columbus session as wage issues center on linemen revaluation. Supervisors from the Columbus office fixed a Grove City blackout while crews man the installations.
Morgantown reports grim view of West Virginia’s job crisis with 15 percent unemployment, 45,000 exhausted benefits, and rising crime and desertion. Senator Jennings Randolph warns mechanization and fuel competition threaten hunger and deprivation in the state’s coal regions.
The Hotel Gary blaze in Hazleton Pennsylvania killed five people after Howard Deitch 53 died in hospital. His wife perished earlier and Mrs Mary McAlarney remains unaccounted for. A man and a woman were in serious condition with thirteen others injured. seven hospitalized. Investigators probe the blaze that climbed the elevator shaft.
A 14 year old girl in Hamilton Ohio is accused by police of using a pistol to demand an auto ride from near Auburn. She will appear in juvenile court for a Saturday hearing on the case.
Leonard H. Wilson and his wife both head downtown for a minor matter and end up in the same traffic court hours later. Wilson quips he could not keep a secret for 32 years as they face charges of minor violations.
A radio signal from Pioneer IV was received at General Electric's Schenectady station, estimated at nearly 400000 miles from Earth. Roy Anderson said the signal was a strong, essentially unchanged contact, marking a record for distance. Earlier, Jodrell Bank in England picked up the signal as Pioneer neared 380000 miles.
In Columbus two Lancaster men Russell Kost aged 53 and Clarence P Straits 46 of H E Quick Lunch waived hearing before U S Commissioner Robert W Newton and were bound over to U S District Court. They are charged with possessing numbers slips and running a tip ticket at 133 N Columbus St and with failing to file wagering tax returns and pay a $50 gambling stamp. Internal Revenue agents also seized a pinball machine.
Cincinnati reports union and company negotiators continue talks today on a new contract for about 450 clerical workers at five Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co plants. The old three year pact expired Thursday but workers stay on the job while talks proceed.
Columbus traffic engineer James V. Musick will assume leadership of the State Highway Department Bureau of Traffic on March 16. He succeeds to the post and will direct traffic policy and administration for the state agency.
French troops hunted in western Algeria for nationalist rebels who ambushed and killed American Homer Flint Kellems and German interpreter Airele Raimund Allen, and wounded American William Hobbs. Kellems was 65 from Siloam Springs Arkansas and brother of Vivien Kellems. Hobbs, 27, was treated after being shot in the chest and abdomen.
Representatives of Quincy High School appealed the revocation of the school's temporary charter in Logan County today.
Weather bulletin reports cloudy windy and colder conditions across Ohio and West Virginia with low temperatures around the mid twenties. Saturday sees little temperature change with highs near mid forties and partly cloudy skies. The five day forecast notes above normal temperatures in parts of the region, chances of snow near Lake Erie and possible rain in the southeast and midweek.
Rebellious Indigenous groups in Six Nations Reserve seize control of Oshweken, overthrow the 11 member council, and declare independence. Aging Chief Joseph Logan Sr. fires off telegrams to Prime Minister Diefenbaker and Queen Elizabeth II, calling for formal recognition and a Washington parley on March 19 to discuss treaties with the United States.
Winter blasted the midwest with a late winter blizzard sweeping from Colorado and Wyoming into Nebraska Iowa Missouri Wisconsin Kansas Oklahoma Minnesota and Michigan. Drifts blocked highways schools closed and air travel grounded with at least ten deaths in Iowa and one in Wisconsin.
President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will begin talks on the Berlin crisis and Khrushchev’s demands with foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd accompanying Macmillan. The discussions start March 20 and extend into the weekend, as Macmillan seeks concessions before a possible summit.
Elbert Carreker 32 was found guilty of first degree manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Albert Reed 29 during a street corner argument in Columbus on September 26. He faces a 120 year sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary.
Grace Tealon Brown, famed for drawing headlines in 1901 after leaping from 4000 feet over Dayton Ohio, died Thursday night at age 77 in Seattle. Her parachute stunt made headlines and she remained a noted pioneer in aerial spectacle.
A Vickers Viscount operated by TACA International Airlines crashed after takeoff from Managua killing 14. Four Americans died including pilot Capt. Albert M. Vine and copilot M. S. Dalen with two passengers Joseph Rhodes of New Orleans and Kenneth Kilpatrick of Lockney Texas. Survivors included an American and a Canadian stewardess. The plane was bound for New Orleans and witnesses reported engine failure near the runway.
Smiling and relaxed actress Debbie Reynolds departs for Spain to begin filming a new movie. The trip comes as Reynolds prepares for the accompanying publicity tour and screen appearances.
Twenty five inmates from Junction City branch prison will donate blood at Glouster High School on Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. to aid 12 year old David Lowery who is hospitalized in Columbus needing frequent transfusions. Warden Ralph Alvis approved the Red Cross appeal and 75 residents have pledged to donate in Lowery’s name.
A Northwest Airlines DC6B bound for Chicago with 76 aboard dived 4000 feet in rough air near Chicago on Thursday night. At least 12 injured, mostly slightly. two stewardesses and one passenger hospitalized. Nine treated for minor injuries after landing at Midway in a rain storm.
Max Conrad landed at Ciampino Airport Rome after a 34 hour 3 minute nonstop flight from Chicago. The 50th transatlantic crossing by a small plane in a Piper Comanche did not set a record, which remains with M. L. Boling at 6856 miles in a Beechcraft Bonanza last year.
Negotiators for a striking pressmen's union meet again in Columbus after fruitless talks Thursday. Representatives from the three Columbus newspapers, just newly launched, have not published for eight days.
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