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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1962
Page
1
A Thursday blast at Maumee Chemical Co in Toledo killed nine employees and injured 46. Fire crews searched charred debris for a missing worker as flames and colored smoke enveloped the downtown area near the Maumee River.
Senate Investigations subcommittee plans public hearings within a month into Billie Sol Estes and his ties to government officials. The inquiry probes Estes profits from farm program contracts and related acreage allotments, fertilizer sales, and storage contracts amid a broad federal probe.
Police stormed the University of Lisbon at dawn arresting 87 student hunger strikers and more than 900 sympathizers in a crackdown on demonstrators. Hunger leaders vow to continue fast until Salazar regime yields, as others are taken to police headquarters for interrogation.
The Power Commission has authorized the sale and transfer of the electric facilities of Ohio Midland Light and Power Co. The company will transfer Groveport and Obetz Junction properties to Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. in exchange for properties west of Circleville and near Ashville. Five day forecast calls for temperatures 4 to 8 degrees above normal with about one inch of rainfall in showers tonight and Saturday and again Tuesday or Wednesday.
Ohio University formally installed Vernon R. Alden as its 15th president. Gov. Michael V. DiSalle presented the key of office and charter at ceremonies. Alden, ex associate dean at Harvard Business School, assumed the post Jan 1 amid a history linking the Athens campus with Harvard. General Georges F. Doriot visited, noting Alden’s ties to alumni and associates.
Pro Communist Pathet Lao seized Houei Sai beyond the cease fire while Royal Lao troops fled across the Mekong into Thai soil. U.S. officials warned that American forces could be drawn in if the Reds advance to seize the entire country. The Vientiane government abandoned the last northwest outpost as the truce collapsed.
William Bucky Walters of Pearl Street was taken to Meigs General Hospital after an injury at his home Friday. He was listed in fair condition and authorities would not discuss the cause. Walters was driven to the hospital by a neighbor and I R Neal, a merchant police official. Police say they are not investigating the incident.
In Chicago a Black man sent north by Louisiana segregationists returns to New Orleans after deeming the free transport offer a mistake. Rezzie Moffett, 45, is on a bus heading back as part of the aborted migration scheme. In Algiers gunmen kill three veiled women and seven men in a new terrorism wave. In Jerusalem a Protestant minister visiting Eichmann says the condemned Nazi has not repented.
Hong Kong reports hundreds of soldiers and militia fleeing Communist China and crossing the border into the British colony. Officials avoided comment while newsmen were barred from the frontier as estimates placed 30 000 to 40 000 waiting to cross.
At Redstone Arsenal Alabama the Army Missile Command studies a laser that can punch through steel in a split second. Experts say a reliable anti missile use could emerge in twenty years or less. William B. McKnight directs the laser research describing coherent light emission.
President Betancourt's government in Caracas bans the Communist party and the MIR from political activity amid a swift response to last weekend's abortive leftist revolt. The regime accuses the groups of seeking a violent overthrow to install a Cuban-style regime.
The Treasury tightened import curbs on Cuban goods by prohibiting Americans from buying such items abroad and bringing them back in baggage, effective immediately.
Tulsa report follows 12 year old Pete Harpster who has traded since age eight with five El Paso Natural Gas shares. He blames President Kennedy for the fall as Dow Jones averages slide 7.47 points. Pete sees a recovery ahead but would wait to buy, noting a 3 4 per share loss in a space stock and gains from a gas and electric company holding.
Liberals and Labour delivered a strong setback to the Conservatives in local elections seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Macmillan's government. The results pointed to a national trend favoring opposition parties and signaled political volatility across the country.
A strike by the Stereotypers Union closed the Toledo Times building Thursday night with a picket line around the site. Uncertainty remained whether the Toledo Blade would publish the next edition.
The Kennedy administration moved to ease depreciation rules, with an upcoming order to liberalize tax write offs. Officials say the 1962 savings could total about 1.25 billion for businesses, with changes effective by July at latest.
U S leaders in Washington weigh the possibility of stronger forceful measures to stop Laos from tipping to pro Communist control if the crisis worsens. President Kennedy and top advisers met at the White House and State Department to review the alarming developments.
Cape Canaveral reports that the May 17 launch of astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter has been delayed. Informants say the delay will last several days to fix attitude control problems in the capsule atop the Atlas booster on launch pad 14, similar to issues in John Glenns February orbital flight.
Counsel for Mrs. Willie Mae Mallory filed notice of appeal with the Ohio Supreme Court to challenge extradition to North Carolina on kidnapping charges. The action aims to halt extradition while the case proceeds.
Seattle report notes astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. and cosmonaut Gherman Titov describe their views on religion in space. Glenn says his prayer is not small enough to see God in orbit while Titov says he saw no God or angels during his 17 orbits. Paris dispatch says France cuts military service from 27 to 18 months starting May 1, 1962.
Moscow reporters reported that the Soviet Union marked national railway day with a train wreck that officials attempted to hush up. The incident drew attention as authorities tried to downplay casualties and limit coverage of the disaster.
United States detonates its eighth atmospheric nuclear device in the current Pacific test series. Detroit's two daily newspapers resume publication after a month of idleness.
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