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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Sep 11, 1961

Page

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Texas Towns Brace for Carla's Destructive Force

Hurricane Carla neared the Texas coast with winds up to 150 mph and tides rising, flooding cities along 200 miles of shore. Port O’Connor and Corpus Christi reported fierce conditions as Galveston endured 114 mph gusts and waterlogged streets.

Galveston Tex Carla Texas Louisiana Port O’connor Corpus Christi Port O'Connor Matagorda Bay Corpus Cameron Lake Charles

Paar Blasts At Senators On Berlin TV Film

New York Jack Paar says he received no undue cooperation from U S Army personnel during filming on Berlin's tense Fast Week border. He blames reporters for the furor and says Congress should focus on unfinished Hoffa matters. NBC says the Berlin sequence will air Tuesday night.

New York Jack Paar Berlin Congress James Hoffa Hoffa Teamsters Union National Broadcasting Co Paar

Communist MP Blames Soviet Test for Election Loss

Gotfred Hølvold, a Communist MP from Nordland, says the Barents Sea Soviet nuclear test reported by the United States destroyed his chance to win re election. Norway votes today in a high stakes parliamentary contest.

Svolvaer Norway Barents Sea United States Storting Gotfred Hoelvold

Local Talks Hit Snag As Union Strikes GM

Detroit reports UAW members began striking GM plants at 10 a m and the company may shut down by tonight. The IUE extended their contract deadline to midnight Thursday. UAW cites noneconomic stalemate over relief time for workers and backs a Lansing Oldsmobile plan with a 24 minute daily relief provision.

Detroit United Auto Workers Union General Motors Corp International Union of Electrical Workers IUE UAW

Assassin Captured In De Gaulle Plot

Interior Minister Roger Frey announced the arrest of Martial de Villemandy a 30 year old former radio announcer in Saigon for a failed assassination attempt on President Charles de Gaulle. Frey said he confessed and the OAS organized the plot with Raoul Salan as a supervisor. At least four other organizers remain at large.

Secret Army Organization OAS Charles de Gaulle Roger Frey de Gaulle Martial de Villemandy Saigon South Viet Nam de Villemandy Raoul Salan Frey

Character Actor Leo Carillo Dies at 81

Santa Monica California Leo Carillo 81 movie star whose career spanned three decades died Sunday of cancer He worked in vaudeville and on Broadway before Hollywood where he specialized in Spanish and Italian roles He was born in Los Angeles

Leo Carillo Santa Monica Calif I—P Carillo Hollywood Los Angeles

Pope Pleads for Peace in Emotive Vatican Appeal

Pope John XXIII urged world rulers to negotiate to avert a third world war. In a dramatic Castel Gandolfo address, the pontiff recalled echoes of earlier messages and urged leaders to face squarely the responsibilities they bear and resist false provocations.

Castel Gandolfo Italy John XXIII

Two Nuclear Blasts by Soviet Union Surpass Earlier Tests

Washington reports two new Soviet atmospheric nuclear explosions on the same Arctic island. The first blast was described as several megatons and the second in the low to intermediate kilotons. Earlier tests ranged from Hiroshima cesium to 150 200 kilotons. Officials say fallout risk remains low for now but ongoing atmospheric testing raises radiation concerns.

Washington Soviet Union Atomic Energy Commission Khrushchev Arctic United States Hiroshima U.S Central Pacific Khrush

Monza Grand Prix Tragedy Claims Von Trips and 13

At Monza Italy Baron Wolfgang Von Trips dies when his Ferrari crashes through a guardrail on the second lap of the Grand Prix of Italy. The accident kills 13 spectators and injures 25 others prompting calls for an automobile racing ban. The toll surpasses the 1957 Mille Miglia disaster linked to Marquis de Portago.

Monza Italy Baron Wolfgang von Trips von Trips Marquis de Portago de Portago

Japan protests Soviet rocket test impact area

The Foreign Office protested the Soviet Union's designation of an impact area in the central Pacific for rocket tests beginning Wednesday. The central Pacific is a major Japanese fishing area.

Tokyo Foreign Office Japan Soviet Union Central Pacific

Berlin Talks Start as Western Diplomats Meet in Washington

High ranking diplomats gather in Washington to lay groundwork for Thursday's Western Big Four foreign ministers conference on Berlin. The American, British, French and West German strategists meet amid doubt about a quick peaceful settlement of the German crisis. Soviet tests continue. Khrushchev hints at talks but warns of war danger and forecasts negotiations on Berlin.

Washington Berlin Chev West Europe Stalingrad Moscow India Nehru

U.S. Leads Russia In Farm Production

The Agriculture Department reports the United States still tops the Soviet Union in farm production by about 60 percent, based largely on 1960 output, despite Communist efforts to surpass this country.

Washington United States Soviet Union Agriculture Department

Rain rise linked to Soviet nuclear tests in Japan

The Japan Meteorological Agency reported a slight increase in rainfall across stations in Japan, believed to be caused by recent Soviet nuclear explosions.

Tokyo Japan Meterological Agency Japan

Five Day Forecast With Cooler Short Term Rain Expected

Temperatures will run two to four degrees below normal with a normal high of 79 and low of 56. Rainfall totals average about half to one inch, with locally heavier amounts possible. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected about midweek as cooler air moves in.

Protest Delivered to U S Ambassador Over Nuclear Tests

A national women's group delivered a protest to U S Ambassador Edwin O Reis chauer in Tokyo against Washington plans to resume nuclear testing.

Tokyo Today U. S Edwin O. Reischauer Washington

Catholics in Cuba clash as parade turned violent

In Havana police and militia broke up a 4000 strong Our Lady of Charity procession after the Interior Ministry banned the march. Shots were fired, one man died and three were wounded as demonstrators shouted Cuba yes, Russian ties, during the unrest following the Communist regime’s crackdown on religious activity.

Havana Cuba Yes Our Lady of Charity Cuba Interior Ministry

Soviet Astronaut Expected for Interplanetary Flight

A Bulgarian Otetschestwen Front report quoted in Vienna says a Soviet astronaut will soon undertake an interplanetary flight but provides no further details.

Vienna Austria Otetschestwen Front

Akron University breaks ground for new College of Education

Ground was broken Sunday for Akron University's new College of Education building valued at 1,100,000 dollars. Construction will add classroom and faculty space to the campus saga, with officials citing expanded facilities and long term academic benefits.

AKRON Akron University College of Education

Shelters in Nuclear Era Question How to Prepare

AP analyst Sam Dawson reports Americans ask if home shelters are worthwhile how they can be financed and how to avoid being fleeced. Officials and business leaders discuss community shelters supplies and timing for learning fallout danger amid public apathy.

Sam Dawson AP Business News Sider

Warning devices being made but civil defense

Officials report inquiries about shelter choices surge nationwide from handymen and communities. The Fed Housing Admin has approved 265 loans for individual shelters, mainly midsize Midwest projects. Congress may consider tax incentives. Corporations test shelter foods and new alarms for home use, with a NEAR device by General Motors and plans for fallout measurement tools for telecom customers.

Disaster stuns Shannon as DC6B crash kills 83 aboard

Rescue teams dig in mud for more bodies after the President Air Lines DC6B Theodore Roosevelt plunges into the Shannon estuary killing 83 passengers and crew. The liner had left Duesseldorf and refueled before a fatal Atlantic hop. Among the victims were Austrian and German farming families on a U.S. crop tour.

Shannon Ireland President Air Lines Theodore Roosevelt U.S Atlantic Duesseldor West Germany U.S. Army U.S. Air Force London Midwest

Khrushchev Touts Hopes for Berlin Crisis Peace

In Stalingrad Khrushchev spoke of encouraging rays of hope for settling the Berlin German crisis peacefully and predicted negotiations. He warned a nuclear war would devastate the Soviet Union and said imperialists would be wiped out.

Stalingrad U.ss.r Khrushchev Soviet Union Nehru India Moscow Pacific Washington

Debbie to miss U S as hurricane tracks offshore

A storm-tossed Dutch ship reported Hurricane Debbie following Betsy up the Atlantic and likely posing no threat to the United States. Debbies center was about 1350 miles east-northeast of San Juan with peak winds near 85 mph.

Miami Fla Debbie Atlantic United States Africa Kermin Weather Bureau San Juan P. R Derbie

Nehru Wariness Eases After Moscow Talks

Prime Minister Nehru, returning from Moscow, Belgrade, and Yugoslavia, said the world situation seemed a little less tense though still difficult. He warned that anything can happen amid ongoing global strains.

New Delhi India Nehru Moscow Belgrade Yugoslavia Soviet Union

Czechoslovakia Extends 40 Million Credit To Cuba

Prague reports Ceteka that since 1959 Cuba receives 40 million dollars in credits from Czechoslovakia. In return Havana ships ores tobacco hides fruits and artificial fibers to Prague.

Prague Czechoslovakia Cuba Fidel Castro Ceteka

Sabin Plans Three Week Lecture Tour in Japan

Dr Albert Sabin developer of a live virus polio vaccine will begin a three week lecture tour of Japan on Thursday The trip follows 13 million children who tried his vaccine last July in Japan and marks a major public health outreach by Sabin aboard the international tour

Cincinnati Albert Sabin Japan

DiSalle Plans Special Session For September Twenty Second

Governor Michael V. DiSalle indicated a special session of the Ohio legislature will be called for September 22. He said the call should go out this week and that agreement on a 43.5 million capital improvements bill is likely. The measure funds school construction, state building rehab, and a new hospital at the Ohio Rehabilitation Center.

Columbus Michael V. DiSalle Disalle James H. Maloon Ohio Rehabilitation Center

Kennedy backs education aid as Congress nears adjournment

President Kennedy urges action on a full education aid program but faces House opposition and a Senate battle. With both chambers closing in on final legislation before adjournment next week, prospects for school construction and teacher salary aid in 1962 fade.

Washington Kennedy Congress Senate House

Historic Petersburg Inn Destroyed by Fire

Firemen blame faulty wiring for a Sunday blaze that leveled the historic Petersburg Inn, a 160 year old former stagecoach stop between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The loss is estimated at $35,000.

Youngstown Petersburg Inn Cleveland Pittsburgh

Cleveland gifts top million for John Carroll library

Gifts to John Carroll University for the year ending June 30 totaled 1,176,986, the first time over 1 million. Contributions for the new library reached just under 1,990,000, marking a record fundraising year.

Cleveland John Carroll University

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