21 Apr 1962
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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1962
Page
1
Fir skies and warmer temperatures are forecast with light to moderate winds. Low temperatures will range around mid forties to mid fifties, while highs reach the seventies. Bayward readings show yesterday’s high and today’s low with minor variations.
Northern and central California fair today and Sunday with coastal fog locally. Warmer inland Sunday. San Francisco Bay Area fair with mild coastal fog and light northwest winds. Sacramento Valley fair with warmer highs Sunday. San Joaquin Livermore Salinas valleys fair with highs 75 to 85. Mt Shasta Siskiyou and Sierra Nevada fair with warmer conditions. Santa Clara Valley fair with gentle winds. Monterey Bay and Santa Maria San Luis regions fair with coastal fog patches Monterey Bay high 63 to 70. northwest winds 10 to 20 knots.
Tide tables list daily high and low times with sunrise sunset. The fragment mentions Ft. Point and computed data, but text is garbled with misread numbers and stray phrases.
OCR text lists multiple city weather snippets with terms like clear cloudy and temperatures around 60s to 80s. Some entries show misread city names and inconsistent punctuation, reflecting a damaged page segment. The overall record captures terse forecasts and conditions for numerous locales rather than a single event.
Barbara Powers, wife of U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, regained consciousness at University Hospital after an overdose of sleeping tablets. A hospital spokesman said she woke about 1 a.m. Friday night and was responding well with satisfactory general condition. No diagnosis was released as doctors continue to determine the case.
Police alert issued as highway thieves remove two freshly tacktopped sections of County Line Road in northwestern St Joseph County. The culprit crew scooped up the road and hauled it away in trucks overnight leaving visible shovel marks.
Former French general Raoul Salan, leader of a secret anti Algerian group, was captured and faced a military trial with a probable death sentence. His Algerian campaign backers reeled as observers warned the arrest could cripple the underground. Salan, one of France’s most decorated soldiers, was a central figure in the movement.
Albertson, NAV resident Mead, 23, recounts a three year lie and a terrifying hijacking ordeal aboard a February flight by two men who forced him to help film at Miami Beach. He describes a 3,000 foot over Atlantic escape, threats at gunpoint, and the passengers’ arrest a week later for kidnapping, smuggling, and hijacking.
In Los Angeles, a comic's wife wins a divorce amid a chaotic report detailing a jailed Cuban air incident, military questioning, and later coverage of European tensions. The piece intertwines personal split with conflicts in Cuba and Algeria, noting officials and observers.
A balmy, unsettled Easter weekend brings clear skies in much of the East and mild to warm readings in the central states. Showers and thunder possible in the north, with late-season cool spells in the West and light snow in portions of the Northwest and interior Northwest.
Unclear OCR text records a newspaper item listing The Daily Review staff including Floyd Snarks Prestisal and Publisher witlam Cnilcote with various roles. Mentions subscription rates and multiple city office references, but many words garbled.
East Bay grocers vow to use every legal means to block a proposed milk price hike by the State Bureau of Milk Stabilization. Growers protest the plan as the bureau held a meeting in Concord, contending the increase ends price parity between grocery stores and milk drive-ins run by milk professors.
A 4 year old girl wandered the Baraboo business district during a police search for Sarah Steel, claiming she was Easter shopping. In Philadelphia, the Democratic committee pallbearer resigned as party leaders disputed the survey findings on organizational backing.
Mountain View fire chief Leslie K. Coon 35 was arrested and charged with grand theft after an $800 shortage in bicycle license funds. city manager cites strain from rehabilitation efforts. San Jose treasurer Robert D. Callison 61 pleaded innocent to stealing about $80,000 in coins from parking meters over 10 years. both cases prompt audit and city council actions.
Almanac today notes April 21 1962 as the 111th day with 254 remaining. Evening star Venus and planets Jupiter and Saturn visible. On this date Gen Sam Houston defeated Santa Ana near Galveston in 1836. Mark Twain died in 1910. Roosevelt and MacDonald met in 1938 to discuss world economy. Berlin reached by Russian troops in 1945. A thought from Disraeli on circumstances.
Federal officials investigated a near collision at Washington National Airport as two airliners converged on Runway 36. Halaby credited an alert Northwest Airlines pilot and ground controller for preventing disaster. Eastern Air Lines Electra from Louisville and United Viscount from Huntsville separately maneuvered to avoid a midair clash amid conflicting precedence claims.
A global Easter mood fills homes, streets, and platforms as worshippers gather at basilicas in Rome and Jerusalem, while Moscow churches schedule special services and millions observe sunrise prayers. From Madrid to New York, pilgrims, families, and quakers join vigils and pageants, with processions, broadcasts, and park dramatizations across cities and nations.
A wide sweep of horse drives is described from Punchbowl Crater to Memorial Coliseum in Marian Indiana and the Red Rocks in Denver Colorado. Runners march in California Hollywood Bowl and Yosemite area as drives spread to Brookline Massachusetts and Lakeside near San Diego with thousands of riders and a grand procession at Death Valley National Monument. Local efforts feature a Pawhuska Oklahoma bail drive revival and a sunrise service atop Hot Springs Mountain, Arkansas, while authorities in Liberty Texas and other locales watch for sales and dispersals.
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