01 Feb 1960
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1960
Page
1
Two clusters of parked trucks used by Portland newspapers were blown up late Sunday night with dynamite. Four trucks in Portland and six in Oregon City were damaged, police said.
Nobel chemist Linus Pauling spent 24 cold hours on a blue shale ledge high above the Pacific 80 miles south of Monterey before rescue. He stayed put to avoid danger, using a map for warmth and entertaining himself with a mock chemistry lecture to the surf.
An armed man robbed the Piketon branch of the First National Bank of Waverly and fled with an undetermined amount of cash in a paper sack. Branch manager John Stratton said he was alone when the robber entered, produced a revolver, and ordered him to fill the sack with currency.
A teenage boy walked into a southeast Portland precinct with two charges of dynamite claimed to be found by a fence miles from blast sites. Police questioned him after noting one charge had three sticks and the other four. The strikes by the Stereotypers Union caused the widest violence since the labor action began as about 950 workers were idled. Some union staff returned to work and newspapers printed a joint edition with non union and supervisory staff alongside union members.
The Oregonian said it plans to buy a new casting machine to crew the strike's proposed operations. Neither the newspapers nor the inter-union strike committee had any immediate comment on the explosions.
Ohio report says search found no trace of a helicopter that reportedly landed in fog near Delta Sunday night. The craft with a man and a woman allegedly bouned off railroad tracks into a field as a freight train crew observed an emergency landing a mile southwest of Delta.
In Painesville Ohio a 33 car fast freight derailed on Sunday tearing up 1200 feet of New York Central track. The official estimated total damage to cars and track reached 200000 dollars with freight losses at about 100000 dollars. No injuries were reported.
Witness William R. Clark described the train wreck as an 8 car freight derailment where a tank car slid off and 32 cars piled up. Alexander blamed a broken bolster while crews worked to clear the track. Several related derailments were reported on New York Central lines and others in the region with injuries and fatalities.
A cartoon caption shows a lonely chick inspecting an electric incubator failing to hatch eggs. The chick jokes that it will be an only child as the mother hens blow a fuse. The light humor reflects lighthearted domestic mishap in a rural setting.
James Duke a 60 year old highway worker was buried for over 26 hours by a slide 14 miles from the Alberta British Columbia border. Rescuers reached him Sunday after fears he had perished. He survived in an air pocket and later described his ordeal while hospitalized in Win Rimme r.
Burglars cut through two steel vault doors at the Wauseon Ohio post office stealing between 20 000 and 30 000 in stamps cash and money orders. Sheriff Loran Loder says the crime occurred Saturday night and was found Sunday by a janitor. An audit will determine the exact loss.
Thieves used acetylene torches to cut vault doors and a safe inside the post office. The vault contained stamps cash and money orders, with Sheriff Yoder noting stamps alone typically total 20 000 to 25 000.
The sheriff said the burglars were well prepared and used gas masks to counter tear gas. They blew gas into the post office workroom, pried open a basement door, then unhinged a first floor door to access the vault. A C I technician failed to lift prints on doors and a fire extinguisher but made plaster casts of footprints.
Rebel chief La Gaillarde led about 300 insurgents from Algiers University as they abandoned the barricades and headed for a village west of Algiers. French troops stood by as crowds cheered the surrender amid talks of military honors and no sanctions.
In Batesville Arkansas a four-year-old boy named Terry Pierce clung to a city bus bumper for five blocks Sunday before he was crushed. Police say the child gripped the bumper to avoid being run over as the bus started. he was pulled under the wheels when the bus turned a corner. Driver Lloyd Pierce, unrelated, cried when told of the tragedy by a motorist and police.
An early morning mine explosion near Yubari on Hokkaido leaves over 25 Japanese miners dead or missing. Rescue teams search amid collapsing tunnels and rising hazards as crews confirm casualties and continue probing the site.
A ragged group of Lagaillarde's men appeared in varied attire with some uniforms and partial gear. A steel helmeted subset and paratroop beret wearers were noted as a blood smeared French tricolor fluttered above the insurgent position at 12:18 p.m.
Moscow announced the Soviet Union fired a second powerful rocket, ending the tests. The 44000 square mile Pacific target area set Jan 8 remained open to ships and planes. The first rocket on Jan 20 flew 7,760 miles, missing by 1.24 miles. The second rocket likely launched from Caspian sites. The firing coincided with a high level Communist meeting in Moscow.
Army holds the insurgents under control but vows no mercy for rebel leaders Lagaillarde and Ortiz if law is followed. Algiers morning papers face heavy censorship as protests spread. A one hour general strike supports De Gaulle while barricaded strongholds shrink as troops tighten the harbor. About 2,000 defenders remain with 300 men defecting or surrendering identity cards to paratroopers.
Eight members of a Kansas City family found honey dripping from their ceiling after bees stored the product in a space between the kitchen ceiling and an upstairs floor. The first drop appeared in Alvin Satterly's kitchen days ago, followed by more drips and plaster fallout. The family plans cleanup and replastering while enjoying the unusual harvest.
Territorial home guards were mobilized by army order on Saturday to report by 4 p.m. as hundreds remained behind barricades around Algiers University. Radio Algiers urged insurgents to come home in appeals from families.
Rescue teams discovered 25 bodies after a gas explosion at the Yubari coal mine in Hokkaido Japan. Eighteen miners remained trapped 3600 feet underground as crews battled a four hour blaze and rescued ten others. The mine’s owner is Hokkaido Colliery and Steamship Co. Families waited in freezing conditions outside the entrance.
Police say gold swastikas were painted on windows of B'nai Israel and a crude black swastika was drawn on the front door of B'nai Jacob in Toledo. Police Chief Anthony A. Bosch called the act hoodlums’ work, not an organized group.
A cold front moves in but should not greatly affect Miami Valley weather. An official forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a high near 45 today and a low around 26 tonight. Tuesday brings mostly cloudy, slightly cooler weather with a high near 40. Middletown's Sunday high reached 46 at 4 p.m. and the morning low was 24.
CINCINNATI AP The First District Court of Appeals today affirmed the first degree murder conviction and death sentence of Edythe Klumpp 42 living with four children. She admitted burning the body of Louise Bergen 32 but later blamed Bergen husband William. She is held at the Ohio Women’s Reformatory in Marysville.
The court rejected Hopkins's appeal arguing the state failed to present Mrs. Klumpp's statement, read into evidence, as a confession. It held the statement was not involuntary merely for being to an officer and could support self defense if believed. The ruling also covered voluntary action and the police leading her to fear manslaughter charges.
In Birmingham Alabama six white men reportedly pulled a Black man and his white female companion from their car at a filling station. The victims were taken away in another car with red and white plates. No suspects or missing persons could be confirmed. Investigator C B Goldman described limited details and speed of the incident.
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