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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1963
Page
1
The city will sound sirens between 8 a.m. and noon for a civil defense drill. Citizens are asked to continue normal activities unless downtown, where streets will be cleared during the eight minute exercise. Continuous five minute blasts precede a take cover signal of short blasts.
Longshoremen accepted a labor board package ending the Maine-to-Texas dock tie up and a strike could end if ship owners and stevedoring firms sign on. Separately, ship owners delayed action until Tuesday as negotiations continue over a package offering wage increases totaling 24 cents an hour over two years. The nationwide stoppage has idled thousands and cost near 600 million dollars in losses.
A Reading Railroad local rear ended another at 10th and Spring Garden Street station. Early reports put 70 hurt at one hospital and 30 at another with two women trapped in a car. Officials cited mixed injury details while some passengers needed only first aid. The crash involved a Chestnut Hill line train and a special Jenkintown shuttle due to a transport strike.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Waters known as Minnie dies aged 101 in Columbus after abandoning school early due to health. At her 100th birthday Oct 5 1961 she received visits from Ohio State coach Woody Hayes and the 1961 Buckeye co captains. She followed Ohio State football for over 20 years. her husband Charles Waters died in 1925.
West Berlin police reported hearing an explosion early today from East Berlin. The blast occurred in the Pankow district across from the French sector in West Berlin, with a policeman describing it as of medium strength and unable to pinpoint the exact location.
Rancher Bethel Frei drove a herd of 550 black Angus overland to market through bitter cold and icy winds in Highmore South Dakota. The auction yielded 133000 dollars for the central South Dakota sale on Saturday.
The Middletown area endures a deep cold spell with zero and subzero readings in outlying areas. An approaching low pressure system is expected to bring cloudy skies and more zero temperatures with scattered snow flurries. Yesterday’s high was 21 and the low 19, making today the coldest day of the winter.
Bitter cold and snow swept the nation with lows well below zero in the north and near zero in Kentucky and Ohio Valley. Freezing rain threatened citrus in the Rio Grande Valley while Southern California faced a ninth day of cold with millions in crop damage. A Lake Erie snowstorm snarled New York traffic as drifts and near zero visibility paralyzed routes. Severe winds lashed Georgia and Alabama with property damage, and temperatures plunged into the teens in Tennessee and northern Alabama with a prospect of continued cold through the Southeast.
Freezing winds and heavy snow cripple Britain in one of its worst winters on record. More than 100 major highways blocked, the Thames freezes to Kingston, and three men are feared dead in the Pennines as flights canceled and trains run late. Italy endures cold with deaths, frozen lagoons, and disrupted travel across the peninsula.
UN forces moved peacefully into Kolwezi ending the Katanga reintegration drive. Brig. Reginald Noronha welcomed by President Moise Tshombe as the last secessionist stronghold capitulated with gendarmes disbanding. Bunche said the occupation would wind down the 19000-strong mission and spur a vast aid effort to unify the Congo.
The Senate enters a second week of wrangling over a strengthened anti filibuster rule. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen will move to table the proposals, aiming to halt debate. A successful motion would end the effort. failure could extend debate indefinitely. Southern senators pledge a last ditch push to preserve the two thirds rule.
London AP report: Cardinal William Godfrey, 73, had a fair night but his general condition is unchanged after a mild heart attack Saturday night. A spokesman for the Roman Catholic archbishopric announced the update today.
President Kennedy urged Congress to enact a $13.5 billion tax cut plan with $3.5 billion in revenue-raising revisions, arguing tax relief will boost consumer income by about $8.5 billion annually, lift output by $16 billion, and spur investment while maintaining balance as unemployment edges down. He warned delaying cuts risks a deeper deficit and slower growth.
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