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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1959
Page
1
In Los Angeles sixty Civil Defense leaders urged building backyard shelters. A show of hands for government-approved shelters drew no raises, signaling limited private adoption.
A California dentist Dr Reed Quesnell and companions recount the Madison Canyon quake and Hebgen Dam slide. He contests a dam water theory, saying the quake toppled the mountain then a flood followed injuring many. He names nurse Toadie Green who aided the injured until rescue.
A humorous remark defines an American as someone who knows baseball team lineups and roughly half of the Star Spangled Banner words, highlighting familiar sports knowledge and patriotic lyrics.
West Yellowstone AP reports a large search effort resumes in southwestern Montana to find more quake victims. Landslides threaten Hebgen Dam area as ground parties from Civil Defense sheriff’s office U S Forest Service and volunteers search above and below the landslide. Coroner and survivors recount harrowing scenes while authorities warn more bodies may be recovered from Hebgen Lake Madison River and the surrounding debris.
London AP reports Lord Mountbatten chief of the British defense staff departed for the United States and Canada to confer with defense officials on security and military matters.
The government report on the steel strike shows profits prices and wages rising while urging both sides to negotiate. Mitchell declined to recommend concessions noting responsibility lies with management and labor. Union and industry leaders hailed or disputed findings as talks continue in New York.
Alabama lawmakers renewed a 767000 two year grant to Tuskegee Institute amid plans to test public funds for private segregated schools. The move, seen as potentially saving 385000 annually if challenged, could shape laws on school integration and funding while prompting a Supreme Court test on public support for private white schools.
In Washington the presidents special foreign aid committee called for increased arms assistance funds amid reluctance in Congress and the administration. In Laos communist rebels pressed through six provinces toward the border with South Vietnam as government forces prepared for a potential all-out offensive.
Forest Park Pennsylvania AFL-CIO resolves to dedicate the 1959 Labor Day event on September 7 to sympathy and support for about 500000 steel workers striking. In Washington, a top AFL-CIO official threatens backers of labor control legislation with electoral retaliation, sending identical letters to House members supporting the Landrum Griffin bill.
The Miami Valley remains hot as warm moist air from the south drives high temperatures toward 92 today and 70 tonight. Forecast calls for hot humid weather into Friday with possible afternoon showers and a high near 95. Middletown records a Wednesday high of 92 and a low of 69.
Louis Charatz, returning from the bank with a $2,600 payroll, faced a gunman who demanded cash. After a struggle in the chamber, Charatz used a bag of feathers to strike the thief, who fled amid a shower of bright green plumage.
A maddened temple elephant charged a crowd of about 200000 during the Perahera festival in Kandy Sri Lanka. Twenty were killed and thousands injured as panicked revelers sought shelter amid shops walls and trees. Police shot the animal after it caused more destruction near the Temple of the Sacred Tooth. A similar incident injured about 100 near Colombo five days earlier.
About 400 enlisted scientists and professionals at the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood Maryland were ordered to fall out in civilian clothes to help civilian witnesses identify roughly 60 men who attended a beer party the previous Thursday night. Reports note complaints of obscene songs and Army disparagement, recalling a similar incident 11 months earlier that led to 11 court martial convictions for drunk and disorderly conduct linked to the rebels against military discipline.
A recovery team from Hawaii plans to catch a small parachute capsule from the Discoverer VI satellite as it drops toward the Pacific. Air Force C119 Flying Boxcars with recovery nets will pursue the capsule in an almost certain challenging operation after radio failure doomed last week’s attempt. The mission aims to solve space return techniques while Discoverer VI remains in orbit, 138 to 537 miles from Earth.
Van Wert Ohio teen Anita Tanner says at a communist youth rally in Vienna she promoted the Republican Party while handing out material for the Department of Agriculture. She claimed about 90 of the 350 US delegates were at least pro Communist and that she was nearly expelled when mentioning Republican victories in Hawaii.
Fulgencio Batista leaves Ciudad Trujillo destined for Portugal's Madeira Islands as U S authorities blocked his US admission. He travels with 17 associates, after fleeing Cuba last New Year's Day to escape Fidel Castro. Portugal reportedly grants political asylum. Havana reports mention Eleuterio Pedraza's alleged role and Dominican tensions over a failed invasion plot.
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