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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1963
Page
1
A column recalls a 1699 Chautauquan symposium on education. It highlights Hadley and Hale views on breadth of view, cross‑age experience, and lifelong access to information, noting the lasting value of available knowledge and libraries.
Washington Secretary of State Rusk pressed Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin to honor the Geneva Laos peace framework and warned of a U S protest against NATO force plans. The talk followed a Rusk Dobrynin meeting amid Berlin talks and ongoing Red attacks in Laos.
In Olathe Kansas Christmas decorations remained in the city square for months due to a dispute over responsibility for removal between the Chamber of Commerce which owns the lights and the city which provides electricity. A new city administration took over Tuesday and the Christmas lights were removed Thursday at the city's expense.
A Bandung Jakarta express train plunged 250 feet into a ravine killing at least 23 passengers and injuring 35. Antara news agency reported the Friday catastrophe with cause not disclosed by officials.
A crude fire bomb shattered a home where Rep. Charles C. Diggs was staying in Clarksdale Mississippi. Two white youths Theodore A. Carr and Luther Aubrey Cauthen admitted the arson and were jailed on $10,000 bonds. Diggs condemned the incident while noting the court should determine intent.
The FDA warned six cities of possible botulism linked to a tainted tuna product from Washington Packing Corp of San Francisco. Dagim brand kosher tuna from cans last month may have caused illness, with 148 cans sold in Cleveland and a couple of cases identified in Lakewood New Jersey.
Sacramento area men were held on obscene literature charges in a federal probe into a wife swapping ring. David Thompson and Charles Meininger were arrested for mailing obscene material. Thompson posted bail, Meininger held on bail. Meininger’s wife was arrested but released after charges were dropped.
Gov. Brown signed an emergency bill dedicating 5.5 million dollars to California counties damaged by recent storms. Funds allow immediate repairs to public property damaged between Oct. 1, 1962 and July 1, 1963. The act, tied to the budget, would not have been available until July 1 without the signature.
State Superintendent Max Rafferty praised California teachers for keeping class sizes low amid migration and fostering self reliance and civic virtues. He attacked education legislation favoring first class teachers as administrators and urged passage of Assembly Bill 888 to boost state aid by 96 million dollars and 25 million from county tax shares.
United Nations Secretary General U Thant presented to the Economic and Social Council a nearly two million plan aimed at wiping out illiteracy among an estimated 320 million adults worldwide. The proposal outlines education programs, funding, and international collaboration to reduce illiteracy rates over a multi year horizon.
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