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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1962
Page
1
Senate ready to shelve administration voter literacy test bill after Majority Leader Mansfield asks to set it aside. If approved, civil rights legislation for the 87th Congress ends, with Southern filibustering seen as killing the bill and both parties blaming the other.
Milovan Djilas, once Tito's protégé and critic of communism, is imprisoned for eight years and eight months for disclosing state secrets and parole violation. A three judge panel convicted him after a closed one day trial. He received five years for divulging secrets in Conversations with Stalin and three years eight months to cover an unexpired nine year term.
Fire discovered about 1 30 p m Monday swept the downtown area. The blaze centered in Reliable Furniture Co on Market Street near Fourth damaging adjoining shops. Firemen from six units and volunteers from Vienna and Belpre fought the flames, using air hammers to reach the fire through a concrete floor.
In today’s Messenger classified pages merchandise is organized under its classification heading for easy locating in the broad circulation area. The notice suggests buyers and sellers meet, with a prompt to call today.
More than 1000 OSU faculty members backed President Novice G. Fawcett in a vote of confidence amid a campus controversy over inviting speakers. The meeting drew about 1500 faculty and 1000 students watched from a balcony as cheers and jeers echoed through the hall.
Dr. John T. Everett former Ohio University government department faculty received Texas Christian University's Alpha Chi award for the professor who contributed most to TCU's intellectual growth in 1962. Everett has been associate professor at TCU since 1959 after leaving Ohio U.
Algiers reports 19 Muslim men and a woman killed and nine wounded by European Secret Army forces in the Dussein Dey district. Oran also sees Muslim deaths as the conflict spreads. One European was killed and another wounded as authorities struggle to quell the violence.
President Kennedy ordered 1800 US Marines into Thailand to bolster forces at Bangkok and support a 1000 man Army battalion already there. The move, by 7th Fleet units, aims to deter Laos border threats and is framed as defensive under the UN charter.
Cape Canaveral Fla Mercury control center staged a simulated Aurora 7 mission with Malcolm Scott Carpenter aboard would not have reached three orbits. Problems struck on the second orbit as altitude control failed heat shield danger inverter overheated medical pulse monitor clock drifted delaying rocket firing and forcing an early splashdown in the Atlantic 45 miles from recovery ship.
Talks between U S Ambassador Dowling and Chancellor Adenauer reported full agreement on essential points with further discussions on details. Disagreements persist over East German representation on a 13 nation authority controlling access routes to West Berlin.
A. S. Glossbrenner of Youngstown Sheet and Tube urged Congress to fund 200000 to begin immediate construction of the Lake Erie Waterway as part of a study completion. John C. Bane opposed, representing railroad interests via the Upper Ohio Valley Association.
Senate investigators pursue Billie Sol Estes case as Republicans file new charges of finagling and call for Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman to resign. Senator John L. McClellan says he will meet with subcommittee investigators who questioned Estes in Texas. counsel Donald O'Donnell and Paul E. Kamerrick provided details.
Rocket expert Wernher von Braun says the $20 billion U. S. push to reach the moon is worth the cost for the knowledge gained rather than strategic value. He agrees the United States can land a man on the moon within ten years, forecasting success within a decade.
Indonesian transport planes aided by two Mitchell bombers dropped troops and supplies into West New Guinea to reinforce encircled guerrillas. A communique said bombers were driven off but two C47 planes dropped at least 40 paratroops, with another two planes delivering supplies to about 50 paratroopers 16 miles north of Fakfak.
Autopsies on six men pulled from barracuda infested waters show they drowned before the fish attacked. Deputy Coroner Eugene Miller disclosed findings after previously suggesting shark bites could be a factor. The search for three other fishing companions aboard a 25 foot cabin cruiser continued four miles off Newport Beach. In New Lexington Ohio residents will pay one cent more per thousand cubic feet of natural gas starting June 1 per Ohio Fuel Gas Co.
Ex General Raoul Salan stands trial in Paris on treason charges for leading the Secret Army Organization in Algeria. authorities tight around the Palace of Justice to thwart any attempt to free him. Salan, 62, was arrested in Algiers April 20 with his wife and daughter for taking part in the 1961 revots and directing the underground terror campaign.
The New Orleans School Board voted under federal pressure to end racial bars for first grade this fall. A federal court order enforces desegregation through sixth grade, while an appeal seeks a new trial. Beginning September, children may choose white or black schools for first grade, dropping the pupil placement plan only for that grade.
Governor Michael V. DiSalle urged more education funding in Ohio. Speaking to Xavier University students, he noted over two million public school students last year and about 400000 more projected in five years, proposing new revenues from excise taxes.
William L. Justice, 56, of Cheshire Route 2, severely injured when his semi tractor trailer collided with a train at the B and O crossing on State Route 124 five miles east of Jackson. He was hospitalized with fractured ribs and pelvis. engineer Clarence Caldwell, 61, of Chillicothe, and the trailer load of brick from Moore and Fletcher Co. Jackson, were involved. Route 124 blocked for six hours.
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