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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1962
Page
1
In Oakham Mass the leaning elm was cut down during the bicentennial celebration as former resident Malcolm Foss who now lives in Barre perched a hammock 40 feet up the tree and vowed to stay. Town leaders and citizens watched the woodman begin the removal despite Foss’s chilly stand.
MECHANICSBURG Ohio AP Atty Gen Elect William L Sax ridicules Atty Gen Mark McElroy suit to dissolve seven corporations over Sunday business. Saxbe says McElroy acted last minute to gain name recognition and did not consult him. He predicts little result from enforcement and notes only chartered firms would be affected unless they bypass the Inc designation.
United Nations planes bombed Elisabethville and Kolwezi as fighting raged around the Katanga capital. U.N. forces surrounded Tshombe’s palace, with reports he may have fled toward Kipushi or Kolwezi. Casualties included an Ethiopian killed and multiple wounded among U.N. troops, while Katangan forces endured setbacks at key sites.
Washington reports indicate the United States will soon announce increased military support for the United Nations Congo mission. The plan centers on air protection for ground troops, with ten fighter planes highlighted as the urgent item to be flown to the Congo. The UN list, drafted by Indian air force commanders, was reviewed by Lt. Gen. Louis W. Truman’s fact finding team and sent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff after on site verification.
New York AP reports twenty two Americans including two women are believed held in Cuban prisons on charges ranging from spying to counterrevolutionary activity. State Department and Red Cross seek release as part of Bay of Pigs sequel while several names and fates remain unclear.
Washington AP notes a possible 20 million dollar tax loss to the U S Treasury from the 1960 ransom exchange that freed 1113 Bay of Pigs prisoners by sending food drugs and other supplies to Cuba. Rogovin notes the loss could be less and explains how charitable deductions could apply to manufacturers.
COLUMBUS Ohio AP The governor elect James A Rhodes expands his incoming cabinet with William O Walker a Cleveland Negro publisher and William R Morris named superintendent of insurance. Walker editor of the Cleveland Call and Post. Morris 47 from Upper Arlington has worked on Rhodes staff in the state auditor's office.
A humorous exchange features a modern father addressing his teenage son about the cold weather. He urges action with a light, ironic dig about digging through the snow, framing the moment as a casual, witty chat between generations.
A basement wall under construction at a Beltway Plaza store in suburban Maryland collapsed yesterday, crushing workers. Five were killed and 11 injured as earth timber and steel toppled. Three escaped by jumping clear during the fall.
Erie-Lackawanna investigators probed a Friday derailment one mile east of Kent Ohio when the Lake Cities Express passenger train struck a switch engine. Thirty-seven were injured, six hospitalized, 31 treated for minor injuries and released, 26 examined but not treated.
A mass of cold air moved into the North Central states on the last Saturday of 1962, driving temperatures below zero in many areas. Snow and rain dampened much of the country while Florida’s highs stayed near 70. Minot dropped 28 degrees to -10, Jamestown -3, International Falls -4, and Cut Bank recorded 6 as clouds lingered east of the Mississippi and a band of precip stretched from Illinois to the Atlantic Seaboard.
President Kennedy sent new budget director Kermit Gordon back to Washington to finish the bulky document after policy talks at the White House. Gordon returns after a 9% minute session with Kennedy as changes to the 1964 fiscal year budget loom. Kennedy will meet survivors of the 1961 Cuban invasion in Miami before New Year’s holiday.
Los Angeles police report a man named Alfred Lawless confessed to the 1957 killing of Chicago sisters Barbara 15 and Patricia 13. He described details, but autopsy shows they froze to death without sexual assault or beating. Authorities note discrepancies and will verify if he is a valid suspect.
Ohio’s outgoing finance director James H. Maloon will direct a study of higher education management problems. The project is sponsored by the Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions, the Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and the State Universities Association with offices in Ann Arbor Michigan.
Officials say President Kennedy will decide. They note Kennedy's concern over the Congo crisis and expect the UN to win its requests. The UN seeks a prefabricated steel bridge, air transport planes, and 2% ton trucks. Washington says no commitment yet on fighter planes. transport planes and trucks may be supplied, depending on others’ contributions to the UN force.
The Soviet government paid 23132.96 in back taxes on Killenworth estate in Glen Cove after refusing to acknowledge local tax liability. Mayor Joseph Reilly collected two checks from Chase Manhattan Bank at the United Nations Mission, noting the payment was made under protest. The town had earlier auctioned the 1960 tax liens but repurchased them as no bidders appeared. The Russians contend the estate is immune due to its use by U.N. delegates.
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