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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1960
Page
1
A teen confessed to stabbing and killing a 17 year old at a city high school amid gang tensions among colored youths. Investigators traced leads to Wilson, who had left Newark and a troubled family background. Police note no clear racial motive, dismissing claims of racial tensions as the sole cause.
A press report from Washington notes that stomach cancer cases and deaths in the United States have fallen sharply in recent years, with the decline most pronounced in men. Lung cancer has increased, offsetting overall cancer rates, while survival rates show a modest rise and researchers push toward drug-based cures.
Margaret Whitehead, 59, died early today at McKeesport Hospital after being revived Monday when her heart stopped en route from Elizabeth to the hospital. Surgeons treated her in the emergency room for 20 minutes of ear massage and 25 minutes more before she was placed in an iron lung.
Dr. Tibor Chikes will speak on Problems in Christian Homes at Marion Center Methodist Church Friday night March 25 at 7 30. He holds degrees from Debrecen Cluj and Strasbourg and studied in Philadelphia. He authored Psychology of Adolescents and That I May See Lord and lectured at the University of Pennsylvania. He formerly led Phoenixville Evangelical and Reformed Church for ten years and did further work at UPenn and in Haddonfield counseling roles.
Vice President Nixon works on a broader farm program diverging from Ezra Taft Benson. He consults former Rep. Clifford Hope and Senator Milton Young, seeks ideas from Iowa and California delegates, and may push crop control based reform after the next election.
Police officials and photographers weighed a photograph outline amid a triple murder case near a recreation area 90 miles southwest of Chicago. Victims Frances Murphy 47 Mildred Lindquist 50 and Lillian Oetting 50 lived in Riverside. Suspects questioned included two Chicago burglars. Authorities disagreed on the image’s meaning.
A train collided with a school bus en route to a consolidated grammar school near Coy Alabama. Six students aged about 10 to 18 died. The wreck injured others, including a student bus driver who escaped serious injury. Wreck occurred during rain on the St Louis San Francisco Line. Deputy Sheriff Warren Tate noted the weather conditions.
Two American pilots Rundquist and Shergales were shot at while landing on a highway near Mantanzas and Varadero Beach. Cuban authorities arrested Lazaro Montesinos and relatives. The incident is used by pro-government stations to portray U.S. aggression as Havana tensions rise with Washington.
Jules Moch of France told the disarmament conference that a mere pledge to renounce nuclear weapons would be meaningless without enforceable international controls. He outlined four controllable elements of disarmament and warned that two others are mere wishes if pursued in isolation.
Reports from the American Academy of General Practice highlight new approaches for paralyzing and sometimes fatal diseases. Tulane doctors describe a perfusion method targeting malignant melanomas with restricted drug delivery, yielding quiescent cases. a cerebral palsy drug, carisoprodol, may boost rehabilitation.
The nationalist government faces international shock as riots surge over pass laws. Police fire on 20,000 protesters in Sharpeville and Langa, killing 56 and wounding 162, with many buildings burned. Sobukwe and Pan African leaders are arrested. whites bolster security nationwide.
Howard W. Felton of Washington County becomes state highways maintenance superintendent at 64716 annually, succeeding Anthony DeBlasio who resigned last January. Stephen J. Rohr of Avella named assistant superintendent at 5007 dollars per year, after serving as maintenance foreman since 1955.
The aircraft wreckage near Kure Beach an explosion tore out the plane’s right front side and killed Julian Frank. Autopsies and tissue findings, including foreign particles, are expected to shape evidence at the inquiry with testimony focused on an in cabin dynamite blast.
Western powers and the Soviet Union clash over timetables for nuclear disarmament. Moscow suggests placing disarmament first with safeguards while the West worries the proposal seeks a ban without protections. Soviet envoy Valerian Zorin says Moscow is willing to reverse its plan order to accommodate the West.
A Martin Co test flight bomber crashed near Baltimore as it failed to control at 35,000 feet. Pilot Air Force Capt. William F. Smith survived with serious injuries including a fractured pelvis, while debris and glass injured several schoolchildren but none required hospitalization. Dover investigators will analyze the wreckage.
New York AP Jay De Young forty two won two thousand dollars after selecting three winners at Aqueduct opening day. Three strangers offered a ride home from a Manhattan tavern celebration around two a m today and relieved him of his winnings.
Obituary notices from Louisville to Blairsville honor Clark Alexander Moore and others. Items mention Mrs Antonia R Johnson Sagamore and Elizabeth Cunningham Shields of Los Angeles, plus Margaret Liben Good Gamble in Blairsville with service details and family ties. The mix includes court case blurbs and public notices about funerals and survivors.
Senator Joseph S Clark of Pennsylvania urges a Defense Department probe into how names of new servicemen and their parents were obtained for life insurance solicitations. He cites a Mercury report from Pottsville, noting letters from Texas signed by retired Air Force officers. Representative La Fore questions feasibility of an investigation and cites parental concern over sons’ status amid the solicitations.
Wintry weather hit the eastern half of the nation with snow and gusty winds. Early spring snow dumped 1 to several inches in West Virginia and North Carolina, while Michigan and western Pennsylvania saw heavy flurries. Blustery conditions and cold arctic air lowered readings near zero in some spots.
A San Francisco high school senior, Thomas L. Ayatch, 17, sues for 30000 after being expelled for allegedly using abusive language to a teacher. He seeks reinstatement and claims the conduct was similar to that of most Galileo High School students.
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