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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1964
Page
2
Two Moscow cancer specialists said the government controlled press has not published the U.S. report on smoking and lung cancer. They noted general agreement with conclusions but stressed air pollution as a major contributing factor alongside cigarette smoking.
Secretary McNamara discusses potential 71 000 defense job cuts saving 440 million yearly while visiting Mare Island and Hunters Point shipyards. He notes no immediate changes, seeks three-year gradual reductions, and pledges job relocation support. East Coast yards in Portsmouth Boston Philadelphia New York may face cuts if no military need.
Lepers at the Summer Sanitarium in southern Buenos Aires Province walked out today to back higher wages. They sent a letter to President Arturo Illia requesting intervention. Patients receive 35 to 55 cents daily for chores, funds aiding food and medicine costs.
Tokyo AP reports President Johnson fears jungle fighting in Borneo could erupt into a major war within two months prompting Attorney General Kennedy to Tokyo on a peace mission. Kennedy pressed Sukarno for a three-way Malaysia crisis talks and plans later talks with Ikeda, Macapagal, and Abdul Rahman. He met Sukarno in Imperial Hotel suite and seeks to avert open warfare while warning of Indonesian Malaysian clashes and US aid limits.
Harvard professor Elso Barghoorn was reported safe aboard a ship in Panama by his brother in New Haven. Yale professor Frederick Barghoorn said he received a letter and expected his brother to arrive in New York Monday. Barghoorn had gone to Panama December 19 with three assistants to collect rock core samples. the expedition was to return January 8, the day before rioting began.
UPI reports a Friday rehearsal at Boston's St. Patrick's Cathedral for Sunday's memorial Mass for the late President Kennedy. Mrs Kennedy and her sister Princess Lee Radziwill are set to attend and arrive with the Kennedy party.
Appeals of both sides in an antitrust suit over the Haverhill Gazette and Union Leader Corp. were taken under advisement after a 3 day hearing. Judge Wyzanski previously awarded $88.32 treble damages to the Gazette and $60,000 in legal fees plus $8,800 in expenses for the Union Leader. The Gazette sought much higher damages, originally asking $3 million. The Union Leader argued fees were excessive and the wider market issue had not been tried.
A Rockefeller aide says Nelson Rockefeller narrows the lead of Barry Goldwater in New Hampshire. A late poll shows Rockefeller seven to eight in voter support, with Goldwater nine to eight favoring the Arizona senator and the gap shrinking from two months ago.
A polecat, a European relative of the ferret, attacked a housewife in ILOMANTSI Finland, bit off her shoe and tore part of her clothing. She chased and killed the animal with her other shoe, noting that in the United States a polecat would be a skunk.
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