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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1962
Page
1
President Kennedy ends his first year in office and looks toward a second term as he contemplates four more years. The AP report notes his certainty about three more years and hints at another bid for reelection, with a focus on events planned for the day.
Thousands of Democrats gathered in the National Guard Armory for a $100 a plate fund raising dinner with Kennedy as speaker. The President noted a New York stop and a meeting with U Thant and Adlai Stevenson as he toured venues before returning to Washington. He praised the UN and discussed funding bonds, then enjoyed a theater performance with Spalding and observed a joke about Jackie.
Washington Pentagon plans a special Reservist pool for advance notice recall to fill understrength units in future crises. McNamara testified to Congress outlining budget plans and a five year buildup to counter Soviet gains while noting no final decision on the pool. The aim is to avoid admin problems seen in the Berlin call up and select six month trained personnel eligible for immediate recall.
In Santo Domingo the new Council of State confronts a mountain of economic and social problems after decades of strongman rule. The face of political turmoil includes Balaguer and Rodriguez Echavarria, who were briefly ousted and then placed under watch as soldiers and the new civilian leadership seek justice and stability with anticipated U.S. aid.
Assistant Labor Secretary George L. P. Weaver, a Negro, was refused a room at the Shamrock Hilton in Houston after showing a reservation, with hotel officials citing a full house or clerical error. He spent the night at the Houston Negro Chamber of Commerce director’s home and continued to a speech at the Houston Chamber of Commerce inner.
Mrs John H Glenn Jr has added three more television sets to his Arlington home so all three networks can cover his space shot. The Glenn family plans to watch the flight together with his wife Anna 41 and children John David 16 Carolyn 14 plus Mrs Glenns parents Dr and Mrs H W Castor of New Concord Ohio. The home sits in a brick rambling neighborhood where neighbors drop in for visits as the countdown to Americas first manned orbital flight nears.
FBI breaks up an East Coast gambling ring with an early morning raid on a large dice game in Reading Pennsylvania. About 100 patrons were present and seven men were arrested. Over $25000 and gambling paraphernalia were seized while more than 100 participants were identified.
Western diplomats in Moscow sensed a quiet Kremlin as a possible major shift unfolds. They cited Khrushchev Molotov tensions, Molotov’s stalled Vienna post, and Pravda denouncing Molotov as indicators of ideological battle within the Soviet leadership. Dobrynin’s delayed posting and a paused US cultural accord added to the indecisive atmosphere.
U N planes hunted marauding Congolese troops blamed for overrunning a Roman Catholic mission and girls school at Sola near Kongolo. Aerial surveys showed houses in flames and the mission compound deserted. U N pilots saw soldiers near a church and two trucks, suggesting the attack and control of the mission.
UN reports progress in Dutch Indonesian dispute over West New Guinea as Indonesia plans to send Sudjarwo Tjondronegoro, Subandrio aide, to UN headquarters. Acting Secretary General U Thant seeks talks on a peaceful settlement with Dutch and Indonesian representatives. Netherlands accepts mediation and proposes UN observers at West New Guinea amid clashes.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk flies to Uruguay for an inter American foreign ministers conference on possible diplomatic and economic action against Cuba. The talks open Monday at Punta del Este with aims to secure compulsory sanctions within 60 days if Fidel Castro maintains ties with the Soviet bloc. The Dominican Republic’s political shakeup may aid U S negotiating leverage.
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. AP A fueling mishap with the Atlas booster delays the Ranger 3 moon mission by at least four days. Officials initially feared a month delay but reevaluated a possible Friday firing, though odds remain slim. The shot was to launch Monday during a five day window ending Friday with the next optimum period around February 2.
Sukardjo Wirjopraoto said Subandrio's aide was coming and noted "something in the air" without details. Jakarta sources say Sukarno replied to Thant's settlement proposal but kept contents secret. Thant met Sukarno after lunch with Kennedy, who backs talks and urges cooperation with the U N chief.
A humorous item notes a man described as a three degree figure who first earned a degree from Harvard, followed by Yale, and finally a third degree from the Bureau of Internal Revenue, in a lighthearted joke about expertise and taxation.
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