10 Feb 1964
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1964
Page
1
In Saigon Pershing Field two 20 pound bombs exploded under bleachers during a softball game. Two U.S. servicemen died and 23 others injured, with three women slightly hurt and an American family also affected. Police arrested three suspects as Viet Cong terrorism is denounced by the State Department.
Investigators seek saboteurs after blasts damaged a 91 car freight train and a work train derrick of the Florida East Coast Railway. No injuries reported. Estimated damage tops $250000. Union negotiator George Leighty said he knows nothing and warned members against violence. The railroad chief officer W L Thornton stressed it was sabotage but did not blame unions.
Florida East Coast Railway received authorization to move freight trains into the Merritt Island moonport. Striking railroad workers formed picket lines at all entrances to Cape Kennedy and the moonport.
The sabotage along the 577 mile Jacksonville to Florida City route marks the worst since the 1963 nonoperating union strike. Officials report 146 incidents as about 1,200 union workers walked out, idling 800 others who sought a 10.28 cent hourly raise aligned with most Class One railroads. Florida East Coast says it cannot afford the raise and pursues separate bargaining. Passenger service remains halted, while freight has risen to four trains daily under supervisory and non union crews, with a total workforce near 700.
Conferees from the Senate and House begin work on revising the tax cut bill with about 1530 differences to settle. The plan aims for an $11.1 to $11.6 billion reduction retroactive to Jan 1, with goals to sign into law within three weeks before Washington’s Birthday.
In Tuskegee Notasulga High faced desegregation pressure as white students boycotted. Shorter High, integrated, was shut for the day after a bomb threat with six Negro pupils already attending under federal court orders. only one white pupil appeared at Notasulga before leaving. Mayor James Rea barred Negroes citing overcrowding.
In Washington civil rights forces push to finish a 10 part antidiscrimination bill with the employment section still in doubt. Southern opposition plants time consuming amendments while Republicans, aiming to stay for Lincoln Day rallies, fail to extend the session and lose key votes on delaying adjournment.
Harold Macmillan announces retirement from politics on his 70th birthday in a letter to Bromley Conservative officials. He cites inability to undertake full duties after 40 years in the House of Commons and will not stand for Parliament this year. He plans to focus on family book publishing and writing.
In Geneva a Soviet disarmament adviser Yuri Nossenko vanished last Tuesday and may have defected to the West. Soviet sources say he was a member of the legal department with disarmament expertise and had access to classified papers. Western officials pledged no knowledge of his disappearance as Tsarapkin delayed police notification.
In The Hague Crown Princess Beatrix and Premier Vic Marijnen ended Princess Irene’s throne dispute by insisting on the royal line’s security. Irene renounced throne rights in a Saturday night session. Beatrix pressed for unity, and Marijnen declared the cabinet crisis resolved at 6 am Sunday.
Mrs Marguerite Oswald says she will present new documents and letters to the Warren commission to support her claim that Lee Harvey Oswald did not shoot President Kennedy. She expects to contradict Marina Oswald's testimony and argues she can offer evidence not previously disclosed.
Lawyers for Jack Ruby press to move his trial from Dallas arguing local prejudice after the Oswald shooting. District Attorney Henry Wade vows to keep the trial in Dallas, with defense calling 176 civic leaders to testify.
Washington reports a high Latin American source claiming a 1962 pledge to renegotiate the Panama Canal treaty, but the State Department rejects any secret agreement. The Inter-American Peace Committee had heard of a memorandum dated 1920s asserting renegotiation, while rioting on the Canal Zone border blocked talks and the OAS committee probes U.S. aggressor charges.
President Sukarno lashed his supreme advisory council for criticizing the government and urged concrete programs to relieve critical food shortages in Indonesia. He spoke on the Indonesian Journalist's Association broadcast, noting widespread malnutrition in central Java and other dense regions.
A brief quip notes that people who claim ease in distinguishing men and boys are labeled as women. The line plays on gendered phrasing for humorous effect.
Snow accumulations of up to four inches are forecast for this area this afternoon and tonight. Look for colder temperatures with a low around 22 degrees. Yesterday's snowfall reached about one and a half inches locally and the trend continues.
U S Undersecretary George Ball led talks in Athens after conferences in London as part of a drive to back a modified international peace force for Cyprus. Greece reportedly accepted while Turkey had reservations, with Archbishop Makarios demanding UN Security Council oversight. Ball faced a Wednesday White House review with Britain to decide on a 10,000 strong NATO force and its mandate.
Ball's Athens and Ankara talks sought a plan to satisfy Makarios and the Turkish-speaking minority on Cyprus. Makarios supports an international peace force under Security Council control, a position Moscow backs. Washington opposes, fearing Soviet veto power in the Cypriot settlement.
In Chattanooga Tennessee Attorney General Robert Kennedy and FBI Director J Edgar Hoover may be summoned to testify at a defense motion in the James R Hoffa jury fixing trial. Judge Frank Wilson will decide if Kennedy Hoover and Assistant Attorney General Herbert Miller can be subpoenaed for a hearing on spying charges against the defendants.
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