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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1963
Page
1
Eureka police restrained 54 year old Leland Lester Breshears after finding him intoxicated in a parked car. Breshears registered a 0.50 blood alcohol score, the highest ever in the city, while coroner W. Lloyd Wallace noted a 0.49 reading previously recorded before death.
Miami AP reports 292 Cuban children left Cuba on Friday 263 aboard the SS Shirley Lykes and 39 by plane on chartered flights. Parents cited Communist indoctrination in Cuban schools as motive while noting hardships like forced labor and loss of a family shop in Havana province. One 11 year old girl Milagros Hernandez arrived with two dolls.
The Associated Press reports brutal winter conditions across the country with new snow bands, freezing rain, and rising deaths. While some Midwest areas see milder temperatures, warnings persist from Missouri to the Carolinas. Subzero readings endure in the Plains and northern Midwest as Watertown reports 52 inches of snow.
Snow totals are forecast to reach four inches in Columbus Cleveland and other cities with two inches in Cincinnati as warmer air returns. Ice chunks clog the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Louisville raising navigation concerns while highways mostly stay open aside from northern snow drifts. A gas line break triggers five hours of traffic snarls in western Columbus and a Cleveland snow shoveler dies, bringing winter deaths to eleven. Cincinnati water works crews report 210 frozen meters removed, the most in 15 years.
Milder weather raised hopes Europe was thawing from a brutal cold snap but experts warned the lull would not last. Unofficial totals put the death toll near 250, with Britain tallying over 105 deaths from the severe winter. Other nations reported Belgium 14 Greece 18 Netherlands 20 Italy 35 Yugoslavia 33 France 4 Sweden 4 Norway 3 Turkey 6. Shipping remained paralyzed across many regions with rail and river traffic disrupted.
Longshoremen end a 34 day walkout in New York harbor and along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. About 60,000 workers resume unloading cargo as maintenance crews ready equipment. Some holdouts persist at Mobile Alabama over rain pay and at Norfolk Virginia over local disputes.
A mother in East St Louis and three of her children die as flames erupt from an oil stove in a first floor apartment. In Texas three children perish in a Rocky Springs fire while two Alaska youngsters die in a Spenard trailer blaze. A sister suffers severe burns and another is treated for smoke inhalation. The Simer children die in Spenard after a stove explosion. their mother is away at a coin laundry.
Clemson College in South Carolina braces for the registration of Harvey Gantt, the first Black student to gain admission to a white public college in the state. About 100 newsmen and photographers from Ebony and Afro-American will cover the event, with security coordinated by Clemson officials and law enforcement. Gantt, 20, from Charleston, will register under a court order, after transferring from Iowa State University, with campus movements to be announced in advance.
Columbus Ohio AP reports the 1962 traffic death toll reached 1,852, two more than first counted. The year shows a 10 percent rise from 1961 but remains 3 percent below 1960. The state highway safety department released the updated figures.
A quip notes that one path to learning is by driving a school bus. The line plays on the idea of practical experience as schooling and humorously links transportation work to education.
Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak argued that six nation talks on Britain’s membership could proceed despite France’s resistance. He proposed applying an empty seat policy against France, raising questions how a completed agreement would proceed without Paris under the Common Market treaty which allows a veto by any member.
Mrs Roy Campanella wife of the former Brooklyn Dodgers catcher collapsed and died yesterday while speaking on the telephone at their Glen Cove New York home. They had been separated since 1960 and their three children lived with her in Glen Cove.
Washington AP reports Senate preparedness subcommittee chair Sen. John Stennis ordered a closed-door inquiry into Soviet military buildup in Cuba. He cited claims of rapidly growing Castro forces becoming the hemisphere's second most powerful military power, with military and intelligence witnesses expected.
Former Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, now serving President Kennedy, opened talks in Brussels on trade between the United States and the European Common Market. He met with Walter Hallstein, with a communique saying the first session identified issues without fixed positions and that further talks were planned.
New York AP Mayor Robert Wagner to lead marathon talks at City Hall to break the 50 day blackout of nine major papers. Wagner will mediate with printers and publishers and be available constantly until a settlement is reached. Federal mediator Schlossberg and ILU chief Powers expect to attend if invited. In Cleveland, Mayor Locher halts talks after a two hour session with no progress.
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