20 Aug 1962
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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1962
Page
1
Fair through tomorrow except for a rain tag near the ocean extending inland in the morning. Tonight's low will range from six to seven as winds are westerly at 0 to 20 miles per hour.
Associated Press reports fair conditions statewide through Tuesday with coastal fog inland and afternoon clouds over the Sierra. Highs range from the 60s to the 100s across regions including San Francisco 70 and Monterey Bay 63-71, with light to moderate northwest winds and mild temperature changes planned for most areas.
Incomplete OCR shows stray place names and temperatures from a regional weather note. Contains garbled words and missing data, preventing a coherent forecast. The legible items reference Southern Alameda County regions and nearby cities, but no specific readings or dates are recoverable.
Tide tables for August 21 show sunrise at early morning and high tides later in the day. Low tides accompany the expected sunlit hours with light winds noted and routing details for local coastal areas.
Harvard's Harold Hunt urges a new national plan to shape United States education through a commission of lay and professional reg ulators. He notes current $2 billion annual spending across 300 programs is insufficient and calls for a coordinated policy to meet future needs. Hunt, a former Chicago school official and U.S. undersecretary of education, spoke at the American Federation of Teachers convention.
A clown bandit escaped from Playland amusement park Sunday with thirty five thousand dollars of the day’s rental. Four employees were herded into a vault at gunpoint. Police describe the suspect as wearing a heavy beard and mustache with a painted look, a derby hat, and a distinctive roving manner.
Viet Cong guerrillas in southern swamps have withstood a four day government offensive. Government troops with U S support hunted about 2 000 guerrillas through Ga Mau Pe and adjacent waterways, while helicopters and river craft operated in the effort.
Vania Verstak, Miss International Beauty, declines lucrative film offers to return to Australia as a welfare worker helping refugees and others fleeing communism. The 21 year old, born in China to White Russian parents, plans English and Chinese study and to fund her father’s building business with her prize money.
Senator Howard W Cannon warns the United States remains defenseless against orbital attacks. He says civilian space efforts risk ceding a strategic military edge to the Soviet Union and questions progress on interceptors and other defenses. Cannon notes civilian delays and stresses urgency of military space capability.
Associated Press reports showers dampened scattered sections in the eastern hill country while warmth persisted across the central Plains Mississippi Valley and eastern Ohio Valley. Gulf air pushed north to Nebraska Iowa Virginia and the Ohio Valley with highs near 105 in St. Louis and records in Little Rock. Kansas City and Springfield also saw hot readings.
In Moscow the two cosmonauts, Nikolayev and Popovich, prepared to meet Western reporters after a historic mission. They spent about four days in space totaling 64 orbits while Khrushchev guided the scene and officials emphasized the need for restraint with NATO.
Almanac notes for Monday August 20, 1962 the 232nd day with 143 to follow. Moon near last quarter. Evening sky features Jupiter Saturn and Venus. On this day in history Vitus Bering discovers Alaska in 1741 and George Washington eludes the British in 1776. In 1960 Russia retrieves living creatures from a two day orbital flight. Einstein quote on power and war.
A 9 year old girl slipped into a sewer during a San Francisco event. Dwight Hinsley, 10, called for help as water ran eight feet deep. Firefighters rescued him after a 90 minute search. he sang songs while waiting. Both children were treated and sent home unharmed.
John Birch editor Thomas M. Storke of the Santa Barbara News-Press receives the Elijah Parish Lovejoy award for jour nalism at Colby College. He earlier won the Pat Patriot Prize for his Ket Society activism and the Lauterbach prize for civil liberties work.
Economy Minister Alvaral Alsogaray launches a national bond drive as part of a sweeping program to revive Argentina's crisis ridden economy with a new issue aimed at stabilizing markets and boosting confidence.
Hungary's former dictator Rakosi and 24 Stalinist followers were expelled from the Communist party in a purge announced after a Central Committee meeting. Karoly Kiss, a leading Stalinist figure, was demoted, while ex-premier Janos Kadar presided. The move follows six years after the 1956 revolt and targets those blamed for undermining the postwar government and misuses of justice.
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