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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1962
Page
1
President Kennedy's tax reform bill cleared the House 219 to 196 in a near party line vote. Support came mainly from Democrats with 218 Democrats and one Republican backing final passage, while Republicans and some Democrats opposed key provisions.
President Kennedy reportedly narrowing a successor to retiring Justice Charles Evans Whittaker. Cabinet figures Abraham Ribicoff and Arthur Goldberg discussed, while scholars Paul Freund and Eugene Rostow were also speculated candidates. Debate over whether a Black nominee would be chosen first persisted.
Democratic gubernatorial rivals plan a 5 p.m. April 8 radio and television debate from Columbus. The event will feature Gov. Michael V. DiSalle and Attorney General Mark McElroy as they vie for the nomination. Rollo L. Tedford, known for quartz crystal radios, died Thursday at Christ Hospital.
Yuri Gagarin promised a future Soviet space flight would surprise the world and be strictly scientific. Moscow Radio quoted him at a Komsomol conference as saying the achievement would again win worldwide applause. In the United States the National Safety Council said February traffic deaths rose 7 percent from a year earlier to 2440.
Investigators in Ohio state they are confident the Georgia and Florida fragments belong to John C. Jackson 20 whose stepfather John A. Cooper 41 revised his confession outlining a hammer death January 20. Cooper faces first degree manslaughter charges claiming Jackson attacked him during a dispute over a planned trip. Authorities doubt the head and fingers were placed as described though arms and legs and the torso locations are pinpointed. The head and fingers remain missing.
The House refused to strike two key Kennedy tax bill provisions by 225 to 190. Democrats for Cook Feighan Hays Vanik. Democrats against Ashley Kirwan Moeller. Republicans for Ashbrook Ayers Betts Bolton Bow Brown Clancy Devine Harsha McCulloch Minshall Moorehead Mosher Schenck Scherer.
Pittsburgh reports say United Steelworkers union committees will join President David J. McDonald on Saturday as a contract proposal nears ratification by the Wage Policy Committee. Top negotiators held seven hours Thursday and an hour long session. Observers note a settlement may be near and Chief negotiator R. Conrad Cooper declined to confirm reports of a heads of 11 major producers meeting.
Thirty three B&O freight cars derailed in Wheeling casting coal slag over a wide area. Cause not determined. In Hamilton, five beer distributors vote 32 to 11 to stay with Teamsters Local 100 instead of joining United Brewery Workers.
Washington reports show enthusiastic Democrats backing President Kennedy in California as he pursues anti Nixon campaigning. Mrs Kennedy returns from India and Pakistan with insights while Edward M Kennedy reveals he left Harvard in 1951 for a friend taking a exam, later earning his degree in 1956.
A stone house being moved struck a brick church in Memphis causing about $10 in damage. Truck driver Odell Nathaniel, 26, was charged with striking a fixed object during the incident. In Ohio, John F. Koontz Sr. aged 59, longtime Licking County sheriff's office member since 1947, was named county sheriff following the death of William McElroy. In Toledo, a plan to let the University of Toledo acquire Rossford Ordnance Depot facilities to handle a growing student body was outlined.
The administration announced that from September 1963 federal aid to segregated schools serving children on federal property will end. Secretary Abra ham A. Ribicoff told a House subcommittee the move covers construction and operating grants to districts with large numbers of children, seeking legal clarity on funding segregation.
In Geneva the United States objects to a Soviet bid to steamroll a draft treaty through. U S Ambassador Arthur H. Dean says no line by line talks until real disarmament issues see agreement. Soviet Deputy Valerian Zorin contends the draft provides a solid basis for discussion. Indian and Brazilian delegates urge cochairmen Dean and Zorin to chart a workable path forward. Temperature outlook shows five day forecast around normal highs and lows with showers and rain likely this weekend.
The Department of Agriculture proposes producing 75 million sterile screwworm flies weekly to eliminate the pest costing cattlemen about 125 million dollars annually. The plan would create a fly curtain along the Rio Grande to intercept migrating females from Mexico, with initial 50 mile corridors and a three year timeline.
Argentina's military leaders announced Jose Maria Guido would be installed as president in a public ceremony at midday. The communique implied Guido accepted six military demands limiting his powers and curbing Peronists Communists and labor unions.
Charles H. Harris longtime Messenger editor and columnist died at Sheltering Arms Hospital following a brief illness. He served 40 years as managing editor, contributed Old Homes and From Memory's Well pieces, helped publish The Harris History, taught at Ohio University, and led Ohio's Blue Pencil Club. He owned a large Currier and Ives print collection. Funeral by Jagers and Sons.
Havana’s three morning papers report that more than 1100 prisoners have admitted invasion charges. George Arfeld notes the disclosure appears in all papers with consistent figures.
News Index prisoners admit guilt in a trial for participating in the crushed Cuban invasion. Judge Augusto Martinez Sanchez presides as the tribunal meets in a prison basketball court with Western reporters barred.
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