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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1960
Page
1
President Eisenhower launches a dangerous two week 23 000 mile Far East tour amid mob protests in Tokyo and Communist pressure. He defends the trip as a free world duty to further peace despite warnings from lawmakers and dangers to his safety.
A Tokyo source says the Communist party has seized control of anti U S Japan Security Treaty protests surrounding President Eisenhowers visit. Socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma warns of violence and increased security plans, with 25 000 police to guard a 15 mile route to the Imperial Palace.
President Eisenhower arrives at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage after a nonstop flight from Washington. In a brief greeting, he praises Alaska as no longer an arctic frontier and speaks of statehood, while greeting Gov. William Egan and locals including Eskimo girls Helen and Stella Mosquito.
A hotel blaze in Gary Indiana left one man dead and another feared missing. Firemen recovered James Ennis 70 from a second floor doorway as crews fought the flames and searched the rubble for a second victim. Fire Chief John Massa said two walls were knocked down to allow access and the loss was estimated at 150000 dollars.
Eastern Air Lines says about one third of its flights in the New York area were canceled from midnight to noon Sunday due to a pilots strike. Fifty three flights operated at LaGuardia Newark and Kennedy airports, while 29 were canceled with similar numbers of arrivals also canceled. Most pilots did not report in Miami Beach and Boston as the strike began Friday at midnight over FAA inspector placement behind the captain.
Senate Appropriations Committee recommends 83.8 million extra to accelerate unmanned Samos satellites, aiming for an initial operational capability by 1963. The plan includes transfers and emergency funds to push three military satellite projects, including Discoverer and Midas, toward early deployment and global reconnaissance.
Federal mediator reports slow but steady progress in negotiations between 27 000 Convair machinists and Convair a General Dynamics division. IAM continues walkouts at Atlas projects Cape Canaveral Vandenberg AFB with scattered San Diego plant disruptions. Union seeks seven percent wage increase with improved fringe benefits while details of new offer remain undisclosed.
Police dispersed a large gathering of Sikhs at a temple in New Delhi with tear gas as they attempted a procession to demand a separate Punjabi speaking state, defying an official ban. The march aimed to create a new political status with Sikhs as a minority in the proposed state.
Oliver Powers father of imprisoned US pilot Francis Powers flew into Washington and refused to discuss the visit while stating a passport arrangement may be needed. He might visit Moscow to see his son held on spy charges after his plane was downed May 1 in the Soviet Union. Accompanied by his wife and Sol Cury Norton adviser, Powers wavered on the trip.
Adlai E Stevenson and Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller insisted they are not candidates for the presidential nomination. Stevenson said he will not seek the Democratic nomination, and Rockefeller reiterated he is not a candidate while opposing Nixon and urging debate on national issues before the Republican convention.
Argentine Ambassador Rodolfo Garcia Arias leaves for Buenos Aires report on the Eichmann case. Israel delays reply to Argentina amid a planned UN discussion and a possible Meir meeting in New York. Eichmann, a wartime SS colonel, is accused of complicity in the Holocaust.
Juan de Ribera, a Spanish Catholic archbishop who died in Valencia in 1611, was canonized by Pope John XXIII at St. Peter's Basilica. He founded churches and colleges including Corpus Christi and was the fourth to be proclaimed a saint by the pope. His memory will be celebrated annually on January 6, the date of his death.
A 42 year old Tazewell County man killed his estranged wife Helen Asbury 41 of Swords Creek Va with a 38 revolver then shot himself. He was seriously injured and hospitalized. The couple's eight children aged from months to 30 years survived. The tragedy followed domestic trouble and an argument at the home of Helen's brother Kenneth Stevens in Raven. Funeral arrangements are pending.
A giant Navy balloon, launched a week ago from Brunswick Georgia to collect cosmic ray data, remains stationary hundreds of miles over the Pacific, hovering 3 000 to 60 000 feet up north of the coast as a Navy plane monitors its position. Weather winds could send it back toward land if it descends below 59 000 feet.
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