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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1958
Page
1
Cape Canaveral reports the Atlas 100 ton ICBM achieved a 3000 mile suborbital flight with precise bull’s eye targeting. The test featured a radio commanded guidance system and marked the second straight successful Atlas launch, following a July test.
U S congressman James G Fulton reports U S has developed moon based electronic equipment to monitor the entire earth from the moon. The system bounces waves off the moon using ion emission detection to sense explosions or rocket launches and could track intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The guidance command ensures on target accuracy and allows continuous ground control during powered flight. If signals show deviation, an automatic correction is applied immediately. The latest success occurred 13 months after the U S ICBM program began, with six Atlas tests deemed successful and five ending in explosions after liftoff. The first full range Atlas flight of 6,000 miles is expected this fall.
Deputies will stand by as Negro students are admitted today at Springer and Graham schools in Carter County, with officials predicting no violence. An Aug. 4 Springer incident led Sheriff Enoch Watterson to worry, after a Springer school board meeting sparked a fracas and rioting charges. Six patrons were arrested and later released on bond.
Charlotte Sheffield, Miss United States of 1957, begins a new career as a teacher of speech and dramatic arts at Canton High School after a collision killed A Pettit, 23, Thursday night in Salt Lake City, AP report.
The Supreme Court postponed a ruling on Little Rock Central High School integration for at least two weeks after a lengthy argument. Justices scheduled a new hearing for September 11 to decide whether there should be a 22 year pause in resuming racial mixing, as Thurgood Marshall urged immediate reentry for seven Negro pupils.
Gov. Faubus signed a resolution extending the Arkansas special session to January 10, keeping anti integration bills in play. He plans to avoid signing them until needed, to dodge immediate court challenges while awaiting a Supreme Court ruling expected after September 11.
Norfolk School Board complies with a federal order ending segregation by enrolling 17 Negro pupils in white schools for the new term starting Sept 8 after reconsidering 151 prior applications. The move follows court interpretation and raises potential state action concerns amid Virginia's massive resistance policy.
Hurricanes Daisy moved northeast along the New England coast with land impact largely minimal and offshore danger limited near Cape Cod. The Boston Weather Bureau reported decreasing intensity and reduced threat to land as the storm center stood about 70 miles south of Nantucket by midmorning amid occasional heavy rain and gale winds under 50 miles per hour.
A West German court sentenced 10 wartime Nazi SS officers and men to prison terms from 3 to 15 years for the murder of 5,202 Lithuanian Jews in 1941. The mass killings occurred near the German Lithuanian border as Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union. two SS majors received 15 year terms.
AMSTERDAM AP A man made satellite orbiting around the sun was proposed by Dr IR P Haviland of Philadelphia. He said it is feasible now with present equipment to place it as close to the sun as Mercury and could approach within four to five million miles with greater power. The cone shaped craft would carry instruments to study the sun’s atmosphere and would telemeter data back to Earth.
The Chinese Communists fired 7120 shells in one hour on the Tan islets near Amoy Bay, threatening Nationalist positions. Quemoy faced 783 rounds in four hours, with Nationalist guns returning fire and destroying three artillery positions and a loudspeaker. US reaction hinted at possible intervention if a landing occurred. Formosa security measures included pre dawn identity checks and arrests.
London AP report says detectives will file no charges after resolving the Diana Dors cash disappearance. The star reported 11 000 pounds vanished from a London department store safe deposit box and her manager Tommy Yeardye also disappeared before reappearing to hand over the funds. A detective and attorney retrieved the money from another box and returned it to Dors.
Aldermen in Minneapolis approve a stadium enlarging bond to invite the Washington Senators to relocate here. In nearby St Paul the City Council makes a multi million dollar bid for an American League franchise.
London and Moscow report two space dogs landed safely after a rocket reached 281 miles. The one stage gyro rocket carried 3,725 pounds of dogs and equipment, studied upper atmosphere for the International Geophysical Year. The flight followed earlier Soviet and U S space animal tests.
The Ohio Highway Patrol will deploy every available officer to patrol state highways as Labor Day weekend begins. Col. Fred Moritz aims to keep fatalities under last year’s 23. He cites a decline in 1958 traffic deaths through July but warns against complacency after 21 deaths at July 4 and 18 at Memorial Day.
American officials warned Peiping’s latest threat will influence any decision to send U S forces to defend Quemoy and Formosa. The State Department issued a hands off warning to the Chinese Communists after their statement.
The Navy announced that the aircraft carrier Midway and the heavy cruiser Los Angeles are sailing to bolster the 7th Fleet in the Western Pacific amid the war threat.
The article notes the U S treaty obligation to defend Formosa and nearby islands and that Congress left it to President Eisenhower to decide if a Red Chinese attack on Quemoy and Matsu would justify action by the 7th Fleet. Peiping radio urged surrender as bombardment continued and warned of an imminent landing. US officials deem the threat among the strongest statements from Beijing on the Taiwan Strait crisis.
The President would order American forces if he accepts the Reds aim to seize Quemoy as a step toward conquering Formosa. The 7th Fleet is on alert and has been conducting war games with Chiang Kai-shek's forces, underscoring U S support stressed in recent days.
Senate hearings opened into election corruption at the St Louis Teamsters Joint Council No. 13 where Harold J. Gibbons defeated rival E. E. Walla is accusing votes from a Tampa local of doctored records that helped Gibbons clinch the presidency. Senator McClellan questioned rank and file complicity as witnesses described rigged procedures in delegate seating.
A lighthearted note urges readers to keep smiling as it brightens others and sparks curiosity about what people have been up to.
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