13 Feb 1964
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1964
Page
1
Dist. Judge Joe B Brown planned a ruling for 2 pm CST on Friday whether to relocate Jack Ruby murder trial away from Dallas. The hearing weighed publicity and fairness as defense sought a transfer while prosecutors argued Dallas can provide a fair proceeding.
Reports from Frankfurt and Limburg detail German Nazi war crime cases as Dr. Werner Heyde suicided in his prison cell and Friedrich Tillmann leaped from a building window amid pretrial talks. Concurrently at Ohio State University a mass student protest disrupted High Street, ending at police headquarters with some property damage and tickets issued for jaywalking.
Jack Ruby, grim and tight lipped, is escorted to his Dallas jail after a recess in the change of venue hearing. His murder trial for the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald is set to begin Monday in Dallas unless a transfer to another city is granted by District Judge Joe B. Brown.
Premier Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh announced a four million dollar pay raise for South Vietnamese soldiers at a foggy plateau outpost, boosting enlisted men by about 20 percent and affecting roughly 150000 troops. Khanh also said enlisted men would be represented in the ruling junta. Deputy Premier Nguyen Xuan Oanh, ex-Harvard economist, maps a broad economic revamp.
In Limassol Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots fought a five hour battle breaking a cease fire and drawing in British mediation. Five Turkish dead reported with Greek Cypriot casualties. British seek to shift policing to an international force as talks in Nicosia continue.
President Johnson and British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home met to discuss disarmament and long-term credits to Communist countries while addressing U S criticism of Britain’s Cuba bus sale. Both sides reported good rapport despite trade and policy differences and Britain’s stance on peaceful trade with Communist nations.
London AP reports Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home’s government unveiled a slightly higher defense budget for 1964-45 and announced a unified armed forces department effective April 1. The plan calls for $5.6 billion in military spending, up $450 million, with emphasis on maintaining Britain’s nuclear arsenal.
Veteran steelworkers start 13 weeks of paid vacations under the current steel labor contract. Many head to distant spots or stay home to tackle odd jobs, while some plan travel to visit friends or see new places. The plan covers 50 percent of workers on a companywide basis, five-year rotations, with five weeks per five-year period.
Doctors at Boston's Children's Medical Center advise parents to embrace the Beatles to ease teen idolizing. They say teens flip over the group because it is different and because parents are disturbed. Convince your children you think the Beatles are the realest. Then youngsters may decide the Beatles are square.
Geneva officials condemned Soviet charges as unfounded and unfriendly after Semyon Tsarapkin accused Western agents of provocations tied to Yuri Nosset, the Soviet defector. In a Salisbury NC report, a separate crash killed two infants and a mother, injuring six others as a station wagon collided with a parked truck on Long Street near East Spencer.
Four youths walking along the tracks discovered forty five sticks of dynamite wired to a rail near Cape Kennedy. They disarmed the charge minutes before a southbound freight train passed, avoiding disaster as the line faces labor tensions and recent sabotage elsewhere in the area. Authorities withheld the boys names and noted the dynamite would have blown the locomotive wheels.
In Bern Foreign Minister Friedrich Wahlen delivered a strong protest to Ambassador Alexander Loditchkov over Tsarapkin remarks. Helg said Nossenko waited 29 hours to alert Swiss police about his disappearance in Geneva. Police noted he slipped into France on Feb. 4 with unknown whereabouts. the U.S. State Department later said he sought political asylum in the United States. Western officials call the defection a serious embarrassment to the Soviet Union and expect possible clues on disarmament tactics.
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