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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1957
Page
1
The National Safety Council reported Independence Day travel deaths lower than its four day forecast. Through Sunday midnight the toll reached 406 with 223 traffic deaths, 131 drownings, and 52 from other causes as drivers ease back home.
Gov. C William O Neill appealed to Ohio motorists and law enforcement to increase caution after an Associated Press tally showed 22 accidental deaths in Ohio since 6 p m Wednesday. The toll includes 16 traffic fatalities, three drownings, and other causes on the holiday period.
A 140-foot pagoda in Ueno Park Tokyo, a historic Buddhist landmark beside Temboji Temple, was destroyed by fire. Police recovered two bodies in the remains and suspect a deliberately set blaze by a couple. Residents crowded the park as flames consumed the structure.
Senate maneuvering over civil rights could yield a compromise the South can live with by mid August. Mundt says the settlement may include right to vote guarantees for Negroes and other minorities and other moderating features. He expects an Eisenhower victory in part, with Southern gains beyond the core voting rights.
Washington news: the U S Court of Appeals ruled the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee acted prematurely in seeking court immunity orders to compel testimony. The decision reversed District Judge Pine and left unresolved if Congress can use the 1954 immunity law to force testimony after refusals, amid national security probes.
Fifteen year old Robert Earl Mayfield told officers he shot a 56 year old man in a rage after the victim, Hampton, had only four cents. The youth admitted taking a revolver and gin from cars and said he would likely be sent back to Gatesville School for Boys.
Dragging operations continued for two crewmen believed drowned when a Norfolk Southern freight train from Morrison yards to Norfolk plunged through a trestle over Albermarle Sound. The two diesel engines and a boxcar sank with divers finding no sign of either missing man inside.
A Brooklyn grocer hidden money in a trash can night deposit. Francisco Gopez stored $1,500 in receipts in a paper bag then forgot it until a sanitation worker called. He and 11 others recovered the cash after a 90 minute search at a sanitation pier.
London dispatch reports Moscow Radio declaring the Kremlin shakeup will not alter the Soviet Union's peace loving foreign policy. It asserts Khrushchev’s leadership remains aimed at peaceful coexistence and improved Soviet U S relations despite purges of Molotov and others.
Althea Gibson of New York becomes the first Black player to win Wimbledon by defeating Darlene Hard of Montebello California in straight sets 63 62 in the women's final at Wimbledon England.
The government replies to defense claims that allowing Japanese courts to try Army Specialist William S. Girard is unprecedented and unimaginable. The brief precedes Supreme Court arguments on constitutionality and the status-of-forces pact governing servicemen tried off duty, with Girard now in Army custody in Japan after marrying his Japanese partner Haru.
In London the U S plan to end the atomic race is weighed against Soviet study of it. Valerian Zorin declines comment as Harold E Stassen urges phased dismantling of H bombs for peaceful use once both sides halt production under strict inspection. The U S offers a 53 47 split of fissionable material with conditions.
BELLE PLAINE Iowa a holiday weekend auto accident killed Harold W Duncan 59 president of Duncan Morris Co hardware makers his wife about 50 and Mrs Lawrence E With 46 of Des Moines Des Moines woman also died three others were injured in the collision ten miles northwest of Belle Plaine on Friday authorities said
The Coast Guard rescued three boys from Corbett Island in the Maumee River Friday night after a firecracker blown a hole in their row boat. The youths are identified as Jim Thomas 14 of Rossford Gale Langlois 14 of Toledo and Melvin Bowser 12 of Toledo. They said the firecracker was tossed from a passing boat.
Atomic test officials report the biggest explosion of six year Nevada tests, plan a July 12 fizzle device test and a July 19 air to air rocket with atomic warhead. Fallout is minor. Groom mine reports some window damage. Dr. G. M. Johnson says the blast exceeds previous local records by three to four times.
The column riffs on a bride entering the church with humorous lines about the aisle, altar, and hymn. It playfully contrasts serious ceremony with common thoughts, reflecting a lighthearted wedding moment.
Buenos Aires reports indicate a near breaking point in the dispute over exiled Juan Peron with Gen. Pedro Aramburu’s regime demanding his expulsion and Venezuela led by Marcos Perez Jimenez standing by asylum. Venezuela orders its Buenos Aires ambassador home. embassy to stay open with a secretary.
Harry S. Truman turns over a 21 million dollar monument to the government as the Truman Library and Museum in Independence Missouri is dedicated. The crescent shaped Indiana limestone building holds 342 million documents and personal mementoes from nearly eight years as president.
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