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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1962
Page
1
AP dispatch from Algiers describes daily tolls of dead and wounded from Moslem and European terrorists. Amid sirens and armored car patrols, officials read the toll, while newsmen debate victims’ causes and witnesses contrast violence with celebration in cafes and clubs. Mixed sentiment on the rebels’ fate.
Floyd Pair Jr., a 2 Sacramento milkman, recounted a Sunday dive near the Farallon Islands when a 14 foot brown shark attacked him from the right, tearing his leg and buttock. He crawled back to the New Merrimac with two divers and was airlifted to Franklin Hospital in serious but non crippling condition.
In Hanaylas valley Peru compulsory inoculations begin to avert a typhoid outbreak after a deadly avalanche left 3,500 to 3,800 feared dead and a polluted water supply. U S ambassador Loeb arranges purifier drops from Panama as 100 bodies recovered amid deep rock and mud.
A Reno tailor shop displays a sign inviting customers to have their clothes cleaned while they visit. The message promotes additional service as a convenient add on and reflects practical local commerce of the period.
BRUSSELS AP United States and the European Common Market plan a sweeping tariff cutting accord on many industrial products to be signed Tuesday afternoon by Howard Peterson and Jean Rey. French reservations over chemical imports noted but expected to be resolved. The pact envisions up to 29 percent cuts for hundreds of tariffs benefiting the six member market more than the United States. An agriculture program clears a past obstacle, with US farm protection arrangements to be included. The agreement follows a sequence of expert meetings and aims to expand Kennedy’s reciprocal trade authority for broader tariff reductions.
In New Orleans a 17 year old high school senior Richard C Stoltz was killed on his first hunting trip after slipping into a mudhole and pulling on a companion's shotgun barrel. The weapon discharged injuring Stoltz as he sought help.
In Leopoldville the Congo Parliament censured Antoine Gizenga by 67 votes to one with one abstention after he agreed to end his self-imposed exile. He was encircled at his Stanleyville residence by U.N. and Congolese forces as his bodyguard surrendered, prompting return to Leopoldville by Saturday.
The Weather Bureau forecasts a fresh snow cover replacing last weekend's melted layer. Tonight's accumulation near an inch with heavier amounts later. Snow to begin this afternoon or evening with more light snow tomorrow under partly cloudy skies. Yesterday's official high in Middletown was 3 at 4 PM and this morning's low 36 at 2:30. Rainfall from 11:15 last night to 8 this morning measured 0.8 inch.
In Morriston Arkansas a predawn blaze swept a two story frame house killing ten people including eight children aged 3 to 12. Sheriff Marlin Hawkins identified the victims as Mr and Mrs Andy Paladino and their children. The fire spread quickly aided by strong wind before a neighbor found the flames.
A speeding bus left the road in Jhelum district and plunged into a deep canal, killing 32 people and injuring others. Police and rescue teams recovered victims and were investigating the cause of the crash.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP A huge space balloon named Big Shot broke apart hundreds of miles above the Atlantic while inflating to the size of a 13 story building. NASA said the balloon separated from the Thor booster and began to inflate but soon split. the cause was unknown. Crews planned to study TV film from a camera and recover a 16mm movie camera ejected into the sea. The debris shower provided observers a brilliant Pacific sunlit display as pieces fell into the ocean about 600 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral.
Republicans are tightening lines in the election year making it harder for President Kennedy to secure GOP votes for new proposals. Senate leader Mansfield says he counts on Republican support for some programs, while Kuchel notes near unity against tax cuts and farm programs. Goldwater argues for a clearer GOP line and criticizes faction labels within the party.
The Associated Press reports heavy wet snow blankets the Midwest. Northern Missouri to southeastern Wisconsin and western lower Michigan receive up to six inches, Muskegon and Chicago totaling 15 and 11 inches respectively, with depths reaching 8 to 15 inches and hazardous driving conditions. At least three traffic deaths and several heart attacks tied to shoveling occur as air travel slows in Kansas City and Chicago. Central regions south of the belt face heavy rains as a warming trend emerges in the Southeast.
An armed guard was posted at the old Indian mounds north of St. Petersburg after intruders last week took three skeletons, possibly 3,000 years old. Dr. William Sears, associate curator of the Florida State Museum, said amateur diggers caused irreparable damage to the sole existing record of the people whose remains were in the mound.
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