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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1961
Page
1
Washington sees a theater like moment as Kennedy takes office with promises to move things forward. Analysts note a smoother transition than 1953 and expect greater sacrifices from the public amid Cuba and Laos tensions, while Congress appears cooperative and optimism grows for new horizons.
Havana announced it is holding six Americans seized after sailing from Marathon Key to join anti Castro forces. The men faced execution risk and had trained at Rolando Masferrer’s Florida camp, while Cuba also issued decrees on permits for base workers and dissolved the Cuban American Cultural Institute.
New York AP reports Ohio ranked 21st in national voter turnout for the 1960s presidential elections. The American Heritage Foundation notes Ohio’s voting percentage at 71.34, while Idaho led with 80.7 percent of its voting age residents casting ballots under liberal registration procedures.
The Teamsters Union and about 7,000 midwestern trucking firms reached wage increases for roughly 200,000 workers. New contracts lift pay 28 to 32 cents an hour over three years, ending three months of talks. Hoffa said members will vote by Jan 22 to ratify, with changes effective Feb 1 after current contracts end. management must approve.
A humorous exchange marks a 25th anniversary as a wife asks how they will celebrate and the husband jokes about five minutes of silence as the plan.
President Eisenhower and President elect Kennedy held a 3 hour 15 minute pre inauguration conference at the White House. They discussed foreign policy issues including the Far East Africa Western Europe and the Caribbean and touched on gold outflow. Kennedy said the talks would ease the transition to a Democratic administration and that no specific post presidency mission was discussed.
Plymouth man James T. Joyner, 37, bolted from police in Ypsilanti after a burglary stop. Wash tenaw County deputy Chester A. Wilson, 34, chased nearly a mile through underbrush and captured him. Joyner claimed athletic past as Wilson quipped they both were track stars and sent him to jail.
Eight years after standing as a camera girl for the Washington Times-Herald at Eisenhower’s inauguration parade, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy will occupy the reviewing stand chair once used by Mrs. Eisenhower as the new First Lady, reflecting a change in Washington.
John Max Ladutko Jr. a 31 year old attorney sought in shotgun slayings of his wife and another attorney surrendered at Cleveland central police station at about 945 a.m. today and began questioning by homicide detectives.
Dr. Thomas Dooley, 34, famed for aid to Laos refugees, died in his sleep at Memorial Hospital one day after his birthday. A Navy veteran and author of Deliver Us From Evil, Dooley led a small Nam Tha hospital and earned the Legion of Merit and the National Order of Vietnam. He planned to continue his hospital work despite cancer, with Cardinal Spellman visiting him and a presidential message praising his humanitarian career. He will be buried beside his father and brother in Calvary Cemetery.
An intensive manhunt followed a deadly shooting at UC Berkeley. Stephen Mann Thomas, 29, a teaching assistant and Ukiah native, died after a sawed-off shotgun blast. Professor Thomas F. Parkinson, 40, was wounded in the face as he sat at his desk in Dwinelle Hall. A gunman, described as stocky with bushy hair, fled after threatening two professors. Police pursued leads but offered no motive. Thomas had graduate studies in English and fine arts.
Washington AP reports Dean Rusk received unanimous approval from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for secretary of state in the new Cabinet. The committee vote sets stage for full Senate confirmation and the start of his diplomatic role.
Washington AP reports preparations for John F Kennedy 1961 inauguration gathering an all star turnout. Notables including Truman Eisenhower Hoover expected. celebrities such as Sinatra Belafonte Kelly Durante King Cole Bernstein and Ella Fitzgerald slated to donate services for the gala fund raising event likely saving hundreds of thousands in costs.
Snow flurries and cold air are moving through the Cincinnati region with a low near 20 tonight and highs in the 80s expected Friday and Saturday. A delayed snow event was reported, and within a 150 mile radius rain or snow was widespread last night. The city measured a 6 am snow start with yesterday’s high 44 and low 28.
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