14 May 1960
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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1960
Page
1
A final plant start is scheduled despite Western Electric work at Lee's Summit. The project timelines indicate work will begin on Monday and proceed with planned commissioning and production milestones.
The Western Electric 25 million plant at Lee's Summit is set to begin work Monday after unions Laborers Local 264 Ironworkers Local 10 and Hoisting Engineers Local 101 signed retroactive wage and welfare agreements with contractor Huber Hunt Nichols. Groundbreaking was April 28 and the project aims to finish substructure by October with 5000 jobs and a 25 million annual payroll.
The Navy contested Castro's claim that U S warships violated Cuban waters stating the Sea Poacher was probably fired on by a Cuban vessel but its crew did not know guns were being fired and was not chased. Logs show May 6 route from Guantanamo to Key West and a safe five mile distance from Cuban shores.
George David Wilson, 56, jailed for five days for drunken driving, stayed six extra days due to a clerical error. He seeks $20 a day for the overtime, claiming $120 in total. His release on Christmas Day followed attempts by his wife and attorney, with the county board of supervisors taking the claim under advisement.
Judge Vincent Carroll of the common pleas court recommends a whipping post to reform young hoodlums. He says a public degrading act would deter offenders, as three gang members were sentenced to terms up to 14 years.
Mary C Connolly a 29 year old Massachusetts state policewoman testified in a municipal courtroom over an immoral show at Club Zara. The judge Francis X Morrissey fined 11 defendants 6900 and jailed 10. Irving Marmer of Lynn faced the heaviest penalty with 1500 fine and six months jail.
Warren Waterhouse, a leading Oregon pollster, told a Republican group Nixon would fail in November unless Republicans heal schisms and mobilize. Oregon Democrats hold a 55,000 voter-registration edge over Republicans, illustrating the state’s divided outlook ahead of the election.
At a reception two women discuss a tall blond man who grew distant. The second woman reveals she is his wife, suggesting the man saw her arrival and altered his behavior.
Police search for Robert Q. Dutton 35 after he claimed to hold a bomb and threatened his wife and three children. He was last seen at the Tulsa bus depot at midnight, then let out in the southern business district. Officials treated the claim as credible until proven otherwise.
A cool front arrives around sunset with a slim chance of thunder, then temperatures fall after today’s warmth. Partly cloudy tomorrow with a high near 70 and tonight’s low around 53, about eight degrees cooler than last night.
High school students advocate for moral rights of the United States to conduct espionage in a special article on the youth pages. Other items criticize schools for weak writing skills and discuss insurance for young drivers. A newcomer’s memorial may be financed on budget terms.
Union members from Local 93 at the Fisher Body plant may reject or accept a tentative agreement as talks continue. Emil Talley aims to provide precise reports for about 2,000 idled workers before a Monday meeting at Painters hall. Negotiations paused over weekend. over 1,000 members authorized a strike vote if needed.
Michael Krasner in Memphis used a window wired micro switch that broadcast a signal to his ham radio in car and home. Police arrested Jessie Ash by monitoring the alert. Krasner set the device after a string of robberies at his father Harry Krasner's store targeting valuable electrical equipment through the same window.
The piece extols an atomic powered Triton voyage as a distant civilian option for world travel by submarine. It highlights boredom as a major crew issue and jokes that travelers will return with nothing to show, no tours or costumed luaus, and unchanged tastes, despite exotic locales.
Reports from Burbank California say a four engine airliner with 92 people aboard landed safely at Lockheed after flying 250 miles with one engine feathered. In Bern the Soviet government charged Switzerland expelled two Russian diplomats as spies to divert opinion over the U 2 incident. In Indianapolis Jim Rathmann set a new speedway qualifying record at 146.915 mph for the 500 mile race. In New York pro and anti Castro Cubans clashed outside the Cuban consulate with injuries and 15 detained. In Orange New Jersey four people died in a rooming house fire. In Johannesburg over 20 youths were arrested at city hall protests tied to parents’ arrests under emergency laws. In Moscow Russia warned against possible frontier violations during five days of air defense maneuvers starting today.
Labor secretary James P. Mitchell says without Vice-President Nixon the steel strike could not have been settled. He notes Nixon used presidential prestige to pressure management and asserts Americans should be reassured by the spy flight over Russia as proof of long standing vigilance.
An all male jury convicted Jon Mattox of the coat hanger slaying of 31 year old Gene Cain Tate. The 20 year old Mississippi State university junior was sentenced to the state penitentiary for natural life at hard labor.
The Red Premier, first of the Big Four, lands in Paris ahead of a summit and refers obliquely to a spy plane. The arrival is described in restrained terms with attention to diplomatic signaling and security.
Premier Khrushchev arrived for the Big Four summit in Paris and accused influential circles of stoking the cold war. He pledged to push disarmament and a peace treaty with Germany, while talks of a pre-summit Eisenhower meeting surface amid the U-2 controversy.
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with a chance of a thundershower tonight. Cooler tomorrow with a high near 70. Low tonight 53. Humidity 54 percent at 6 am, 45 percent at 1 pm. Barometer 29.67 inches at 6 am, 29.71 at 1 pm. River stage 8.1 feet, down 0.2 foot. No precipitation in the 24 hours ending 6 am.
San Francisco officers tally 130 strong on duty at city hall barricades as authorities manage access and security around the hall.
A car plunged about 150 feet from a bridge onto railroad tracks in Dona hue near Greensburg killing two people and injuring three others when struck by a Pennsylvania freight train.
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