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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1961
Page
1
LAUDEKUALE BY THE SEA voters approve a ban on catching sharks barracuda and stingrays to prevent frightening tourists. Mayor G H Golnot defends the rule while Ray Norton of the Broward Anglers Club criticizes it as asinine and questions how anglers would inform sea life not to bite.
SANTIAGO Chile AP Adlai B Stevenson carries Kennedy alliance for progress to Bolivia on 18 day tour visiting Peru Ecuador and Colombia. He says program restores US confidence and notes leftist protests in Santiago. Stevenson to discuss Inter American Economic and Social Council meetings in Uruguay next month.
Cole County notes mention Dr Price citing 14 to 23 injections per patient and a new serum vaccine reducing fatalities from reactions. He claims no state deaths with the new vaccine while the old Pasteur method caused several deaths. The report also notes political changes in local offices and surveyor succession.
In Jackson Mass on June 7 NAACP executive secretary Rey Wilkins defended Freedom Rides as a tactic. He said shock troops and sacrifice are necessary and affirmed that legal moves are essential to build a lawful foundation for action.
Mrs Anaya Hunt of Egerton Missouri was acquitted of first degree murder in the death of her husband Elton Hunt 32. The trial lasted about three and a half hours in Dade County Circuit Court. Funeral arrangements for the husband were noted and church connections listed.
A Fort Leonard Wood soldier’s death linked to rabies marks Pulaski County’s latest fatal case. The county noted the 1952 rabies death as a prior instance and said no extraordinary measures were taken. The veterinary clinic ran out of vaccine as more residents sought treatment. A similar clinic is planned for Richland today and another for Dixon on June 24.
Lee Ernest Duss Sr., 25, of 208 West McCarty Street, died today at Memorial Hospital after six weeks as a patient. Born December 28, 1825 in New Cambria, he was a banker there for 30 years, married Hazel Womack in 1918, and moved to Jefferson City in 1950 to work at the State Penitentiary until retirement in 1987. Survivors include his wife, three sons Robert Duss, Charles L. Duss, Lee Duss Jr., a daughter M. Riley, two sisters, and seven grandchildren. Funeral set for 9:30 a.m. Saturday at a local funeral home with burial in New Cambria Cemetery.
A 1 percent group tested in Savannah and planned Tallahassee trips to probe interstate travel facilities. Spokesman Rev. E. T. Tillman of Daytona Beach said the Florida NAACP designated the fact finding mission to report to the Interstate Commerce Commission and other agencies. The two groups of seven spent Wednesday night in Charleston and aimed to stay in Jacksonville Thursday before extending the Florida tour toward Tampa.
France will keep its unilateral cease-fire in Algeria despite more rebel hit and run attacks and a suspension of peace talks. Paris ordered its 500,000-strong Algerian force to halt self-defense actions since May 20, when Evian talks began. Rebels refused to halt, accusing France of propaganda gains as attacks rose while talks paused.
In Dixon two children Marilyn Doyle 18 months and Larry Schwartz 4 died when lightning struck a TV antenna ground wire in a rain soaked yard. The tragedy occurred at the Doyle home while relatives gathered. Coroner Clarence Moss said the Schwartz boy may have touched the wire or stood nearby. Survivors include extended family in Dixon and Fenton. A Cabinet spokesman provided no details on a stalled peace effort.
Mrs. Kennedy is to arrive in New York on the Caroline after a transatlantic crossing to Greece and a sightseeing trip. She learned of her husband’s back strain from the papers and planned to cut vacation short, but was urged to continue her trip.
Alvin J. Carmody is appointed Red Cross field representative for 28 Missouri counties and will serve as state representative in Jefferson City. He will work from his Edgewood Drive home until an office is ready, coordinating with county chapters and state agencies in welfare education and defense. Carmody is a retired Marine with 20 years of service and has been with the Red Cross for about a decade.
President Kennedy invited Richard Nixon and family to Los Angeles but officials said he and wife Patricia would not attend due to illness. The Nixons will relocate from Washington to Beverly Hills with Checkers and their pets. The move follows Nixon's 1957 push for a people to people exchange to bolster a sister city concept.
The Sister City program and the effort to promote goodwill across oceans dominate the opening of the World Conference of Local Governments. Eight hundred forty-one mayors and city officials from fifty-one nations gathered at the State Department building for a five day session.
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