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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1961
Page
1
Western airlines Pan American British European Airways and Air France worry over Soviet backed East German threats to control Berlin air corridors. Officials warn loss of radio navigation or safety center personnel could turn Berlin’s airspace into a hazard, forcing flights to cease or seek alternative routes.
Brazil’s air force rebels threaten to shoot down Joao Goulart’s plane as he attempted to reach Brasilia for inauguration. Acting President Mazzilli warned of uncertain safety, while military chiefs shift power toward a parliamentary system with a prime minister.
A young American tourist described as a student in West Berlin was arrested in the Soviet Ukraine on charges of spying. Tass said Marvin William MacKinnon photographed military installations July 27 and will be tried as a spy with the death penalty possible. The State Department notes he is from Chessell Michigan and was enlisted by U S intelligence to go to the Soviet Union.
President Kennedy arrived in Washington from Cape Cod and immediately ordered a White House meeting with Defense Secretary McNamara and AEC Chairman Seaborg to discuss U S nuclear policy after the Soviet nuclear test.
Monrovia reports the death of Charles Dunbar Burgess King at 89 after several weeks of illness. King led Liberia through the 1920s and served as foreign minister, signing the 1919 Treaty of Versailles on behalf of Liberia.
Paris President Charles de Gaulle told a news conference that the Western Allies must hold their positions in free Berlin and retain all communications, even by force if necessary, to counter Soviet pressures while avoiding a wider war with modern weapons.
William Z. Foster, veteran U S Communist leader and three time presidential candidate, lies in state in the Hall of Columns at Moscow's Trade Union House. Foster died Friday in a Moscow sanitarium at age 80. Burial plans have not been announced.
The Labor Day weekend saw booze fueled youth disturbances across six states. Police arrested hundreds with help from hoses and dogs. Hyannis, Ocean City, Falmouth and other coastal towns reported mass incidents. Ocean City led with 2000 teens in a beach party.
The Imperial Oil Hamilton lay crippled in the St. Clair River after a gasoline vapor explosion. Five crewmen were hospitalized as the tanker burned for about two hours. Foam battled the flames to prevent spread to the refinery docks. The 250-foot vessel was loading gasoline when the blast hit its stern section.
A truck carrying federal power commission workers crashed into a storefront in Huamantla on Monday killing 20 people. Police said the fatal accident occurred as the vehicle collided with the building.
Florida Georgia and Texas schools begin integration with police guard in Dallas Galveston Daytona Beach and New Orleans where lessons resume amid measured calm. 48 Negroes enter Central and Hall high schools in Little Rock as 60 marshals join police in New Orleans and 1100 officers secure six schools with public officials hopeful for orderly transition.
President Kennedy kept the door open for Soviet acceptance of a ban on atmospheric nuclear tests after the Soviet Union detonated a nuclear device. Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, AEC chairman, announced the latest test from central Asia with a force in the low kilotons.
Belgrade reports the 25 nation nonaligned conference drafting a joint appeal to Kennedy and Khrushchev urging urgent steps to ease the cold war. Nehru has been delegated to seek Soviet agreement to a proposed nuclear test ban with the U.S. and Britain.
A segregation rally by the Ku Klux Klan in West Atlanta drew about 300 people. They jeered and surrounded a car carrying Police Chief Herbert Jenkins and reporter Keeler McCartney, shouting to pull them out, suspecting Jenkins as an FBI agent. Officers cleared the crowd as the chief and reporter left. A separate group protested the arrest of Roy E Frankhauser Jr of Reading Pa on assaulting an officer and disturbing the peace.
A 5000 strong force fights fires for a fourth day across California as 150000 acres burn in 170 blazes from San Diego to Guerneville. Millions in damage expected with 150 structures lost including a high school gym. Five dead from fire related causes including two motorists and a bombing pilot.
Moscow Radio denounces Kennedy and Macmillan call to ban atmospheric nuclear tests as a maneuver to justify underground tests. The home service broadcast was the first to inform Soviet people of the appeal by the Western leaders.
A coastal trader Vencedor capsized off Colombia's Pacific coast after overloading. A police agent and passengers blame the incident on passengers crowding to one side to watch passing vessels while the captain cites the same imbalance as a cause.
Ohio counted 15 traffic fatalities over the 78 hour Labor Day weekend from 6 p m Friday to midnight Monday A P tabulation and the Ohio Highway Patrol show the holiday total down from six year averages since 1956 national toll may reach under 400 with belated reports possible.
Washington bills on appropriations totaling billions, school aid and other subjects fill House and Senate dockets. With adjournment fever looming, Congress aims to finish more work this week than in any full month of this session, triggering extended debates on several controversial measures.
A tropical storm named Carla menaces northern Honduras and northeastern Guatemala while Betsy spins harmlessly in the North Atlantic under satellite monitoring by Tiros.
Former Cuban President Carlos Prío Socarrás announced a government in exile will be formed this month in Miami to carry war against Fidel Castro. The move signals intensified opposition from Cuban exiles abroad.
Western diplo mats at the Geneva test ban conference fear the Soviet Union may unleash a campaign of nuclear terror to intimidate uncommitted nations. Monday's meeting left little hope that the Kremlin will accept the US Britain proposal to ban all atmospheric explosions without control machinery.
Jerold Fink of Dayton Saul Wachs of Columbus and Thomas Lajecik of Cincinnati share the Ohio men's chess championship after a deadlock on points.
UAW president Walter Reuther warned of a strike at 10 a.m. Wednesday if General Motors does not present a new contract offer. GM negotiator Louis Seaton indicated no new offer was in the room, with talks expected to continue for about 25 hours. Reuther said nothing significant had been achieved since negotiations began June 28 and pressed GM to match benefits from the American Motors settlement.
Dr Fay Cooper Cole a renowned anthropologist and educator died Sunday in Santa Barbara California He was professor emeritus at the University of Chicago where he founded the anthropology department His death marks the loss of a prominent scholar and educator in the field.
A million New Yorkers watched 200000 union members march up Fifth Avenue for Labor Day. The parade, the largest in history, featured placards on rights won and goals ahead. U S Labor Secretary Arthur J Goldberg, former President Truman, Gov Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor Wagner attended from the reviewing stand. Goldberg called it the greatest Labor Day parade of the labor movement in America.
Dr John F Latimer of George Washington University compares ancient Greek civic service Leitourgia to the Peace Corps. He notes wealthy youths funded public service, religious festivals, and missions to sacred sites, while women had little role and some duties served war or competition rather than peace.
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