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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1967
Page
1
U S motorists faced a deadly spring weekend as Ohio recorded its highest nonholiday death toll since autumn with at least 23 fatalities between Friday evening and Sunday night. In Cincinnati Western Hills High School suffered extensive vandalism with 60 classrooms damaged, 93 windows broken, six aquariums smashed, and many microscopes destroyed.
Secretary of State Rusk cites four star North Vietnamese General Nguyen Chi Thanh giving political and military orders in South Vietnam. He is the only North Vietnamese general besides Vo Nguyen Giap. Ramsey Clark says 38 wiretaps are active under national security criteria. Svetlana Stalin seeks privacy in Switzerland after visa grant. Indira Gandhi is sworn in as India's prime minister with Morarji Desai as deputy PM and finance minister. Gary Lewis and Jinky Suzara wed in Los Angeles. reception attended by Jerry Lewis.
Actor Gregory Peck and retired Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax are named as possible Democratic Senate candidates in California for next year. Also mentioned is former Gov. Edmund G. Brown in a television interview with national committeeman Eugene I. Wyman, as incumbent Sen. Thomas R. Kuchel seeks re election next year.
Columbus Linden and Cleveland East Tech are highlighted as early favorites for the Class AA basketball title while other items note negotiations on a new contract at a Carborun dum plant as a deadline nears.
U S war planes carried their heaviest strikes in four months against the Viet Tri power complex 32 miles northwest of Hanoi. American bombers from Thailand dropped tons of bombs, sending smoke high into the sky as 128 missions were flown. A two man RF4C crew was listed missing after one jet was lost. Ground fighting and guerrilla attacks persisted in central highlands as weather slowly improved for further raids on supply lines and Viet Cong targets in the south.
James H Meredith withdrew from the special election contest against deposed Harlem congressman Adam Clayton Powell citing broken GOP promises of money and campaign help. He said political expediency guided his decision, spoke at an 8 am sidewalk news conference, and left open whether he will back Powell. Civil rights leaders urged unity, noting Meredith would be the white man’s candidate if he stayed in.
Severe weather spanned the nation with baseball sized hail near Evansville Indiana and Norman Oklahoma. Tornadoes struck near Holly Hill and Timmonsville South Carolina and near Evansville Indiana. Flooding forced evacuations in southern Indiana and closed four state highways amid a three year high Ohio River flood.
A U S Air Force helicopter unit of about 25 aircraft has been withdrawn from Thailand after transferring airlift duties to Thai pilots. The move ends American crewed flights ferrying Thai troops in counterinsurgency operations while U S trainers continue to build Thai piloting capacity at Fort Rucker and Shepard Air Force Base. The program includes 50 H34 helicopters supplied to Thailand and 22 for the Thai national police, with crews limited to noncombat rear-to-forward transport during the transition.
Ohio University President Vernon R. Alden gains faculty backing as a nine day strike by non academic staff nears a crucial Columbus meeting with trustees and Attorney General William Saxbe. A growing petition at Copeland Hall now exceeds 200 signers while Faculty Senate had earlier voiced support.
Sergeant Ronald Manley, 22, of Middleport is reported killed in Vietnam. He entered the Army in 1966 and is survived by wife Cheryl Little and an infant son, plus parents and siblings. Funeral arrangements by Rawlings Coats. Also a five day forecast notes near normal temperatures with showers and possible snow flurries.
The Supreme Court ruled the right to a speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment is binding on the states. Chief Justice Warren announced the decision in a case involving a Duke University biology professor in North Carolina. Seven justices supported the result with the other two agreeing on the outcome in the case.
In Taipei the Ohio Trade Mission left Bangkok for home without Governor James A. Rhodes. He cut short the Far East tour due to urgent but undisclosed business. Aide John McElroy said Rhodes likely returns to Columbus to handle pressing matters and begin campaigning for the Ohio Bond Commission.
In Huntington West Virginia a late night shooting at the Trade Wind Tavern on Sixth Avenue left Greg Sayre 19 dead on arrival at C O R Hospital. Three Marshall University students were wounded including Roger Pancake 20 Edward Martin 30 and Steven Goodman 20. A bar patron identified as the shooter then killed himself.
Sen. Thomas J. Dodd said he used virtually all of the 170000 raised at four testimonial events to pay political debts and some for personal use. He claimed testimonial money was a personal gift he could spend as he saw fit, ahead of an ethics hearing. He conceded 5000 was mistakenly deposited in a testimonial account two years ago.
Paris AP French voters damaged President Charles de Gaulle s government Sunday leaving Gaullist seats at 243 244 with 487 total and opposition at 241 242. Key ministers lost amid a pact between the Communist party and non Communist leftists shaping the result.
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