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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1961
Page
9
French Algerian peace talks in Evian near a crisis as negotiators weigh whether to continue. The session follows deadly violence, with Europeans and Moslems killed in Oran and Algiers and many wounded in Paris.
Mrs. Harriet Jennie Cakebrad 82 of Des Moines died when her car struck deep water then a flume on Highway Town Federation of Labor in Des Moines. Her companion LeMar bruised and possibly broken ankle. Edwyn D Cahon 35 of Stuart uninjured. Another driver Hartin 33 Maxwell escaped without injuries.
Jac wine Kennedy danced until 1 a.m. at a seafront night out near Athens enjoying a dinner and the evening of dancing with Manolis, wife of Greece's prime minister, amid a festive Gulf coast setting.
Considerable cloudiness with showers and thunderstorms Tuesday night and continuing in east and central Wednesday. Cooler Tuesday night with lows ranging to the lower Ms north to lower Ms south. Highs Wednesday in the 70s, near 0 south. Further outlook shows showers and thunderstorms extreme east, very cloudy and a little cooler west Thursday.
President Kennedy cancels a Washington luncheon address to allow back to improve. White House aide Pierre Salinger says the move shows no deterioration and that Kennedy expects to discard crutches soon.
President Kennedy exits a jet at Andrews Air Force Base using crutches and a power lift to ease his injured back. He resumes duties after four days of rest and treatment in Florida, remaining under medical care.
Ronald M. Stump, 21, a Phi Beta graduate of the State University of Iowa, is held without bond on a murder charge after the fatal shooting of Michael Daly, 22, in Des Moines. Leanna Skutlery identified Stump as Daly's assailant. preliminary hearing set for June 28.
Two new dynamite blasts toppled more electric pylons in Bolzano Italy injuring no one but killing deputy state attorney Leonardo D Alessandra during a pre dawn inspection. Over 300 pylons were toppled in a wave that cut power across the region amid pro Austrian blame.
President Kennedy urged Congress to broadly expand unemployment compensation by raising benefits and duration and increasing payroll taxes. The overhaul would be the most extensive since the New Deal, with most changes to take effect in years, some not until 1968, allowing time for review.
An explosion and fire at the Fastener Corp plant in Franklin Park near Chicago caused thousands of dollars in damage. Forty workers fled eight quonset huts housing manufacturing operations. six huts were destroyed and a seventh damaged. Cause of the blast was not immediately known.
Luther Hodges said a high British official complained about steps in the US campaign to reduce the gold dollar deficit. Hodges and Frederick Erroll discussed irritants described as buying and shipping American goods, as the US seeks to cut its balance of payments deficit.
The Soviet Union demands an inspection veto or transfer of talks to the general arms conference. The United States and Britain reject both options, saying they might study transfer but will not accept a veto. Soviet negotiator Tsarapkin says the stance is not an ultimatum and that meetings can continue in Geneva.
Lydia Sleeper, an Omo Indian listed at 108, died of natural causes Monday night in a Lakeport rest home. Lake County historian Henry Mauldin notes she had multiple marriages and claimed to have many great and great great grandchildren.
Gordon W. Brown 40 former director of the League of Iowa Municipalities and chairman of its large cities group died Tuesday in a Council Bluffs hospital after a 10 day pancreatic illness. He was mayor of Council Bluffs in 1959 and served on its City Council. He was chief clerk to the vp of the Union Pacific law department and secretary of the Methodist Church stewardship and finance committee. Survivors include his widow and four children. Services pending.
Mrs Merrill Nelson 22 of Atlantic is treated for cuts and bruises after a car accident on a county road eight miles northwest of town at 8 55 this morning. Authorities say a left front tire blew out causing loss of control and the car plunged into a ditch striking a telephone pole damaging the 1957 Oldsmobile about 450 dollars.
Kevin Wayne Smith aged 3 the son of an American embassy communications worker Samuel Smith died after falling from a fifth floor balcony outside the Des Moines Iowa apartment Sunday. Mrs McKee of Des Moines is the boy’s grandmother. YMCA league managers and ministers will meet at Sunnyside diamond Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Washington AP An American foreign service officer Irvin Chambers Scarbeck was arrested on charges of transmitting classified information to Poland from January through May this year. FBI and Justice Department officials said he served as second secretary at the U S Embassy in Warsaw and faced up to 10 years imprisonment or a $10 000 fine on conviction.
William J. Hitz of Polk City, president of the American Dairy Association, told the Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce agriculture committee that farmers must work together to avoid trouble. He praised dairy farmers and cooperatives for marketing progress and called dairy changes of the last decade revolutionary, predicting continued industry advancement.
The U S Tractors for Freedom Committee reached Havana at 6 24 a m on a prisoner exchange mission to trade 400 tractors for 1 200 captured invaders The group declares humanitarian aims and plans to return by Thursday amid opposition protests and Logan Act questions from a Miami critic.
Eric Ladd age 1, son of Mr and Mrs Floyd Ladd, drowned Monday at a Creston pool in the pools 12th season. He went missing about an hour after arriving with companions and the body was found at the bottom of the 12 foot deep section.
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